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[F.y.e Loud!---review!]

Well done my friend :D

I like :D

Pro's
-Nice loud bass
-The arping instruments sound awesome
-The strings sound really well done
-The trance at 3:03 sound good as well
-You use a lot of good and well implemented sound effects

Con's
-The instrument at 2:36 almost hurts my ears, It's way to high pitch.
-I don't like the sound of the lead up snare drum
-I also don't like the sound of the hats, and the crash sound a bit like "stock" fruity loops samples.

Overall, wicked song, generally nice mixing and nice sounding samples. Well done my friend :D

Anima

Dj-MilK responds:

thank you very much for the review...totaly agree with everything said above...room for improvement is there...
thanks again
keep on mixing
dj-milk

[Astral Eclipse (better)]

Pro's and Con's :D

Hey dude :D

Lets start this review off with a little "Pro's" and "Con's"

Pro's
-The opening sounded awesome, with all the intro effects.
-The basic tune was good, I really liked it.
-The lead instrument sounds quite good as well.
-The percussion is quite well done as well, the parts where a double kick plays sounds nice.
-The tempo change at 2:06 is a nice concept.

Con's
-The drums though well composed, sound average, due to the crappy samples.
-You have a lot clipping problems, and this tends to be seen at the end of the song.
-There really is no no bass line.
-The tom fill at 1:55 doesn't fit to well, and could have been done better.
-The instrument at 0:24 second is good, but you should have made it sound a bit different to the preset.
-A string, or at least it sounds like one, enters at 1:29 and sound out of key or something.
-The loud explosion noise, I think called "Deep" from memory, is a good noise to use, I have used it many times, but you should have EQed it a little so its sound a bit more real...or at least different.

So thats my review, overall the song, though had some parts which needs to be worked on, is good. The tune is nice, the drums are well composed. The only thing is the lack of good samples, effects, and general EQing. The bass line stood out to me the most which needs to be fixed. You need to make it deeper but not interact with the other instruments if you know what I mean. You already have a lot of instrument up in the mid range and high range frequencies, you don't want a bass line cluttering up that space, or it'll end up sounding bad.

However, well done on a nice song, 9/10 and 5/5 from me, hope to see more of your stuff in the future. If you do submit anything else, send me a PM and I'll review, otherwise I'll forget to look you up :P

Good luck man :D

Your friend, Anima

Joobles responds:

Wow! Thanks! Now that's what I'm talking about. The bassline was something I kind of threw in to fill the sound, and fucked it up majorly. But I was just to lazy to fix it. Funny enough, this song was my failed attempt (and my first attempt at FL) to do an experimental remix of Paul Winter's "And the Earth Spins". Oh well. Anyways, thanks for the great review! I'm probably going to try and redo this song in the near future, making sure to fix all those cons. But until then, piece out.

[Another Day cover]

You sound like me :D

Woah, your voice sounds almost like mine :P

Nice song by the way, the piano was nice and moody. The vocals were warm, a bit too quiet though, and maybe should be sung at a higher octave.

A nice deep bass line would add heaps of ambiance to this song. I don't think drums would work though.

Other than that, awesome song, well done :D

Anima

InsaneSmilie responds:

Thanks for the advise, will definately put more volume on the vocals, I don't know if really could do an octive higher on the vocals. I've never really had that much luck singing above the tenor range.

As for the drums this song is just made to go with drum, check out the origenal and you'll see what I mean (I <3 Mike Portney)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUPgSO wTIAA

Thanks for the reviewing.

[{pbj}waiting For You(wip){pbj}]

Nice

Lets get down to business shall we?

-Pro's-
- I like the almost Ska strumming you have for the first guitar, nice and clean as well, adds a lot to the musics overall ambiance.
- The drums just being a snare roll fill fit the music nicely in most parts.
- The third guitar (comes in at 1:23) had a very nice melody to it.
- I like the subtleties in some of the instruments.
- The timing in this song is near perfect, I can't hear any problems. I know when I mix music with real bass and Guitar it's bloody hard to get all of the instruments to mix perfectly.
- Its overall mixing was good, no low bass clipping, no high irritating frequencies.
- Its an overall relaxing song, I quite like the mood it sets.

-Cons-
- Some bars go for a bit too long.
- The drums could be a little louder.
- The bass line also could be a more "spicy" and also doesn't really sound like a bass, if its a synth, I don't think it works as well as a bass guitar could.
- The distorted guitar, I think, should have a little less distortion on it.

Those are all of the pro's and con's I can see with your song man, and its obvious that the pro's far out weigh the con's.

Well done on a very nice track.

Also, to Chronamut, I think the "peaks" in his strumming are meant to be there.

Again, well done

Anima

pitbulljones responds:

thanks for the review. I' wouldn't have thought of ska sound, but yea i hear it which is cool. I wanted the clean rhythm for contrast with some of the more distorted guitars. Drums are EZdrummer, couple of loops but i wanted that 'driving on' rhytmn more than variation, with 'live' music you tend to have less developed beats compared to Computer music. Third guitar noted. Yea the only problems i had with timing were the latency kept getting longer and longer with each track, ue to my shitty guitar sound card but it's as close as. theres a couple of bassy notes that need notching up and some of the lead is a couple of ms out but maybe it adds rather than detreacts.

And yea i had a nightmare mixing the guitars overall five different guitars on this track, i'd forgotten how hard it was to mix it well, seems i did alright.. Good stuff regarding mix and tone.

The bars may feel a bit long as they are now, but when the tracks has it's vocals it'll all come clear, the vocals come in when the first riff comes in, theres a mini bridge on the first two bars when the second riff comes in mini veres leading into chorus. it will work trust me. Noted on drums. Haven't got a bass guitar, been a major problem just uing my electric as mentioned in chrons resonse i have some frequencies jumling out of my soeakers on the d note, but i shall trust you's on it. Distorted guitar yup i'll notch filter some of the higher frequencies and tame it a little.

Thanks very much for the review.

pitters

[Melissa]

OOOOOOH

You just made me man cream :P

This song is awesome, almost sounds like a final level of a sonic game.

I like the bassline, best part of the song I'd say

Well done ol Buddy

Anima

[Battle Above the Clouds[Surge]]

This is good man

Well done on this track.

I particularly liked the nice smooth bass line. It wasn't "In your face" like some can be, nice and mellow, and sets a nice mood. Well done.

The Hits sounded very good as well, and added a nice presence to the song. Made the song sound more powerful.

The guitar work was good to, did you use slayer 2?

The drums were mixed well, not to fancy though, so they could have had come work done to them. But this is almost negligible.

Overall, well done.

Hope to see more of your music in the future.

Your friend

Anima

CyrusOfNaias responds:

^_^ I am honoured! Thanks I will keep up with you too!

[Carnival--_--(goa Trance)]

I hate you

Your so awesome :(

Could you have a look at one of my songs called "Grey Lullaby"

Also, how do you do that insane acid intrument, it starts at 2:55.

Anyways down to the review

Negatives:
The things I don't like about this, is the fact that it ends prematurely, and the lead instrument sound a bit 16bit, oh and also, that little interlud part at 54 seconds sounded a bit, newbish. The bassline could have been a bit more creative. That's all I think

Positives:
The Drums sounded hell funky and original, and the acid intrument sound crazy, and the thing with voice sound heaps cool, I have no Idea how you did that :P, The generally tune was good aswell.

Overall dude, a very nice song

Thanks man

Anima

[(delusion)]

Wow

You are a very good artist

What program do you use?

PM me with your answer please

Nyth-Pinank responds:

Thanks, I appreciate everything you said =) Check your pm's

[[[=In A Trance=]]]

This is your first trance song?

This is awesome for a first trance song. I have never heard anything this awesome for a first try. Well done. The only problem I can see with it, is the fact that the kick drum clips a lot, as does the big "BOOM". But those are only minor problems.

Well done on a very nice track.

Anima-Theory

Nostrap responds:

ehhh clipping. guess my mastering skillz arent what they used to be :(