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[Joobles- The Deep]

Well Composed....

Ok :D

The problems as I see it are; You seem to have A LOT of clipping problems. That explosion noise needs to have is midrange tuned down. The bass line needs its midrange turned down as well, to give it a nice deep hum. You really need to put some more effects on the instruments other than what i think is a reverb and delay. Like a multiband compressor. An effect called a soft clipper should be put on your master channel. I think the Rave instrument needs a flange or a chorus effect. I really dislike the stock FL clap :P. The lead bell instrument around 1:40 needs a filter put on it to stop the really high frequencies from blowing your ears to pieces when played at high volumes :P I think....In general, the mid range frequencies of this song need to be brought down, to stop clipping, and all the instruments, other than the bass, need to have A LOT less bass. I also think the cymbals at the end of the song need to be quieter.

Now :D

The good points; As far as I can see, the tune is friggen awesome and the movement from different "feels" or "ambiance" in this song is really well implemented. I like how it changes from a happy mood to more of a dark one. The selection of instruments is nice and fits the song nicely. The reverse clap thing you have going on sound magnificent. Overall the song is composed very well. The percussion is great and doesn't stay boring, the lead instruments vary a lot, but work very well with this song. All of the intruments flow together very well.

So in short, well composed, poorly mastered :P

If you concentrate on your mastering skills and work those up, you'll be a VERY good artist my friend. Hope to hear more from you :D

Your friend,

Anima

P.S If you could do a short review on my later stuff it would be appreciated :D

Joobles responds:

Well, hell, of course I'll review your later stuff. And thanks, once again, for the review. I'll definately try to fix all those thindgs, that's exactly what I needed.

[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

[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!

[(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 :(

[Abandoned Carnival]

Sound Scary

Thats good man, It sound like it would be on Silent Hill :P

I think you should have used a different string, myself, but thats my opinion.

Other than that

A good song

Well done

Anima

DSMagnum responds:

Heh, I was thinking about submitting this to the VG Portal originally, but I didn't think it would fit as well. I guess it could've.

I chose this set of strings over any others because they seemed to make a darker sound. I was thinking about making them a little more out of tune to make it even darker, but by doing that it started to sound bad. The string choice was just my personal liking.

Thanks for reviewing!

[Multiplyed]

This song is AWESOME

I am a bass player, and that bass line is hell funky :P

Not the most complex riff ever invented, but pretty damn cool

The mixing was good, the only downside I can see is the fact that there is only one riff, therefore being repetative is a certainty.

Other than that, a very nicely composed song

5 for you ^_^

Anima-Theory

amanda-usa responds:

Thanks, your music was pretty good too.