Superb
While I think the drums are overpowering, the melodic sections of this song were absolutely superb. The ending part of the melody actually reminds me of Golden Sun's battle theme. I will never understand how you can possibly master songs this well xD
It was a similar style to Chaoz Fantasy, but that song is still my definition of the greatest song every composed. Sorry :P
Inspiring
My only gripe about this song is its excessive volume and harsh choice of synth. However, the melody is truly amazing and its one of those songs that can conjure an emotion out of thin air.
9/10
5/5
Well, despite your "gripe", I'm glad you found it inspiring.
Thanks for the review, Blackhole!
So close
The reason this song hasn't done as well as it should have is because you had a seriously awesome idea at 0:27 and then threw it away, never to use it again. Had you gone into the break and then returned to that idea plus an upper melodic embellishment, the song would be absolutely godly. As it stands, the song starts with pure awesomeness and then just... dies.
Either way, very good job 8D
8/10
5/5
I'm pretty sure I know wat you mean, ill have to try that. thx for the review man.
Intro too slow
The intro is nice, but too slow, empty and long. Also, the synth you have there seems to override the other ones a bit... but i'm on laptop speakers so I won't judge on that. The drums are getting better on this one, your melodies are now enjoyable to listen to, although I'm not sure if they're earworm material quite yet. This song is still, unfortunately, extremely repetative (and really long). It'dork better if you have more stuff going on. It's _boring_. Good trance is repetative and NOT BORING, which is very difficult to do, which is why people get paid money to do it :P Try working more towards that.
7/10
4/5
REPETITIVE!
I still like it though. The baseline is brilliant, and you have some great melodies even if the mixing is absolutely horrid. The synths are surprisingly good though and accompany each other well... of course that could just be because you don't know how to make any other kind of synth <_<
This could be an excellent song if it had proper production and an additional idea to break it up.
7/10
5/5 because 0 bombers suck
No.
I'm sorry, but no. This song has a few isolated good parts, but its ridiculously repetitive and the percussion is horrific. Without a steady rhythm to normalize against, the beat becomes blurred. That said, 1:19 is REALLY cool, but it only lasts for like, 2 measures! The rest of the song is just blurred beyond recognition and has far too much crap going on.
There is no outro and the intro is extremely lacking. The song jumps into the main melody and then stays there the entire song. This never works. The mastering is impressive given simply the fact that you can hear the bass over all the other crap you've managed to fill the song with, but other then that the frequencies levels are completely unbalanced and skewed to the upper and lower ends. The song _feels_ heavily compressed, which is never good.
All you did the entire song was take the melody and go through a bunch of synths. While its a fun exercise, this is anything but ear candy and almost sounds worse then some of your earlier songs simply because its so freaking repetitive. One can argue that stylistically but when your main melody has barely any variation in it in the first place, repeating it over and over for 2 minutes straight is not enjoyable in the least. You've got to have an obvious countermelody or SOMETHING.
3/5
6/10
:(
NO U
Superb
The intro here is simply pure awesomeness, although it is a common motif for epic scenes. The only real problems I have with this is the mono drums - they would sound so very much better with panning and a touch of reverb. Other then that, it's got delicious amounts of variation, a crazy good beat, unique instrument choice, and some really nice melodies. A couple of the synths sounded a bit cheesy, but I generally don't rate down for that.
At 4:25 you have an explosion of stereo-ness, the song would be so much better if that was extended to the entire song.
5/5
9/10
Thanks for the good review man! I'm glad you like the ideas in this. Yeah I agree with you, a couple of the synths could have been a bit more innovative :) I was thinking of including a couple of synths that I had previously made in sytrus, thanks to the help from your guide!
Yeah, some of the percussion sounds could have been panned a bit better indeed, I know I did some panning on the second tabla and shakers in the interlude, but twas should be brought out more. As for reverb, I wanted some the drums to sound close in comparison with the distant, reverbed strings, piano, and a few of the synths. ^^
I might recreate the stereo atmosphere more throughout, it was mainly that thickly chorused string pad in the end.
anyways, thanks a lot for the review man!
NEEDS MORE FLUB >C
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COMPRESSION?!
I consider your megamix to be some of the greatest dance music I've ever heard, but as you got closer to episode 7, the mix started getting louder... and louder... and now the compression is literally taking away from the epicness of this song. Just reduce the volume by a couple of dB and I would give this a 10/10.
That said, the melody is beautiful, the modulation is brilliant, and you are a musical genius. Just don't fall into the loudness wars trap!
Also the "we believe" is obviously done through a cheap mic and sounds cheezy :\ Nice idea though.
9/10
5/5
P.S. I like this series so much I edited all the songs into one giant mp3 :P
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