Dissonance can be a good way to make your listeners uncomfortable, but doing it with more and progressively louder synths for half the track...all the way to the end, no less,would not have been my choice. Try resolving the dissonance sooner, but without coming back to your "home" chord, for instance. Or even start a different chord progression with an off-site in each one.
I can understand the idea you were going for, but by the end it felt like you were beating a dead horse.
thank you for the advice! i will try to implement that to my future tracks :D
It's all 'round pretty good. I really like the synths you used for the melody, and I thought it was a pretty cool break beat.
Still, I think the master volume's too high, and your drums could use a bit less compression. I'd also like to hear the bass a bit more clearly (maybe tweak its volume up a tad and then lower the master?).
So, all around, I'd say great riff/melody and well-looped. It's a really seamless transition. Just fix the EQ a bit, and I'd give it an easy 5.
It's a bird! It's a plane! No wait, it's 0:37 seconds of wicked adventure intro!
Dude, purely as an intro, that was [several expletives deleted]ing phenomenal. Flawless levels across the board, great melody, and some really awesome staccato strings. Just great.
Just too bad it was over faster than... a speeding bullet
Thank you very much for the kind words T-Rebel. I might possibly add on to this one.
I think your 2 and 4 count hits are clipping. You should bring the volume to come down a bit on those. Loved the bass, and the guitar melodies. Also a very cool intro. Honestly, this felt more like smooth jazz to me than hip hop at times, but either way I gotta say I liked it. And that last section that went all out Radiohead Kid A was pretty impressive too. So basically my only qualms are about the beat. First, that it was a bit too minimalist for the rest of the instrumentation, and second that I think your 2-4 is a bit loud. Otherwise this might be one of the better tracks I've heard on here.
Thanks for the review! I definitely agree with you about the drums. I was in the process of moving files over from one computer to another, so I didn't have all my drum samples on me at the time I put this track together, so I did a beatbox and chopped it up so it'd go rhythmically, but it doesn't really have enough oomph to carry the track. And rooting out the source of the clipping was also a bit of a pain. I thought it was the bassline and turned that way down, but I guess it could be the snares too...
Glad you dug the reverse part. I took the chord progression and melody in FL Studio, used Horizontal Flip on them, and played that with my guitar so when I'd reverse it, it would have the same progression as in the rest of the track, except backwards. It took some time to line up the pieces correctly, but I think it sounds purty cool.
Again, thanks for the review!
Pretty awesome intro, but that guitar synth comes in so loud and so abruptly I think I'd tone that back a bit. Especially after the subtle and quiet intro, I found it a bit jarring. Also, I think I'd add a bit more complete rhythm section; I felt like I couldn't tell whether you were going for a 1-3 or a 2-4. Personally, I would have liked a consistent hit on the 2 and 4 counts, but I mean it is ambient music so take it as a matter of personal taste if you like. Great work all 'round if you ask me. I'd like to see a longer version with a few more variations in the guitar's melody, if you're still working on it.
I think you could have flat out cut the first 15 seconds of this track. Otherwise, I thought it was great. Lots of variety in the melody and (even though I hate kick-clap beats) I thought you did enough to vary the beat that I didn't even mind the simple 1-3 all the way through. Also a really nice fade into super compression at 2:30. I think though, that after that section, when you went back to the chorus you should have brought in some open hats or crashes on the 1-3, instead of just a closed hat. Makes for a more grandiose kind of outro, you know?
Thank you for detailed review, i really appreciate it :D
Awesome track. I would suggest one thing, though: instead of using just 2 leads throughout, I would split the lead into different synths for the various melodies you used, and layer them a bit more. The mastering is, well, masterful, and the beat you used was pretty damn flawless (though I felt like the hats were a bit over-used, but that's maybe just my taste). I'd also consider adding a big crash of sorts at the end of sections, where you execute otherwise flawless build-ups (for example at 0:19).
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