Powerful
Hey, this track rocks!
Those are the crunchiest loops I've heard for a while. They seem to have quite a bit of overdrive on them, but they stay clear and it dosent become muddy.
The vocal is delicously lo-fi, you could easily imagine this in a club. Add a badass siren and you're in business I'd say.
Top stuff.
Nice
I really enjoyed the strings in this one!
The flanged percussion part after was nice, it really felt like something ominous was coming.
I think when the beat and bass comes back after that it needs to be harder. It felt like you were holding back the kick and the bass in the song. If there was a time to unleash them, it was at that point.
Great filtered pulse sound at the start, but just overall, I think the kick needs some more strength, and the bass is cool, but not cutting enough. TS-404 acid maybe would do the trick. Cool slides, distortion, you know how it goes.
I guess it depends on your aim for the song though, maybe you don't want it to be 'in your face'. In which case, ignore my review!
Stay cool.
What I was trying to do was make a some what eerie track that made you feel like you were in it for the ride. this piece isn't finished yet which is why the file name is Xic2. Xic 1 had a different beat to it and it sounded retarded to me. the aim of this piece was to put you in the mind of Alice... but just as a figure of speech... so you play the role of someone who is in an area unknown to him. then toward the end things get weird. the wacky drumloop toward the end resembles the person having strange thoughts, and fear of which is unknown to him.
Keep trying
I think you're trying to put too many ideas in this song.
You need to take it back to basics. For starters, the hats at the start were actually quite cool, but the kick and snare loop you've got going on are buried WAY too low in the mix.
In techno, you absolutely have to have a strong, powerful kick.
Don't try and get too fancy with chords and harmonies. Simplify your song and give it a consistent, strong bassline.
Try just using two different notes in a simple 1 bar bass loop. You'll find it turns out far better to just keep things simple and direct.
Good luck on future productions!
Yeah, I'm not particularly proud of this one.
Good work
This is a well-produced song.
The drum loop was awesome as were the fills you added and the cool timing, sounds like 24th or 12th notes or something at times!
In my opinion you need to lose the acid stab that comes in on the off-beat as it makes the whole production seem a little dated. Sounds a little weedy, no offence.
You need a filthy, rolling bass to shake the floor! Or if you want to use a stab kind of sequence, running it through the waveshaper or any distortion fx you have might give the necessary d 'n' b grit we all love!
A sub-bass stab every now and then would give the song something extra as well.
Nice strings as well, could stand to be louder possibly? The arp that runs through the song sounds great, I like the chord progression a lot, but a bit more variation wouldn't go astray. Or even just repeat one chord for a build-up to create suspense?
Overall, nice effort and keep it up!
Thanks man for taking the time to review this. I agree, I shoulda put more effort into a more 'extreme' bass!
Good going
This is some good music an inch away from being an effective track.
The beats are really good. The kick seems a little bit too 'clicky' for my liking.
I liked what you did with the bass, but I think you need something a bit more continuous. In the second part of the song, it only pops up every now and then. Some TS-404 bubbling away might do the trick? With some sliding action maybe? If you haven't used slides with the TS-404 yet you're in for some fun.
Also the lead part gets a little repetitive. You change up the melody in the second part and the melody is good, but maybe some effects could get added to it over time?
The ending is abrupt! Putting some delay on the end would make it sound more classy, and maybe rethink that clash at the end.
Keep working at it.
If these are really your first songs, you are doing really well, let me tell you.
Sweden rocks.
I hate to sound nasty, but this track really rubbed me the wrong way.
Top mixing though, you've got quite some ability there.
Firstly, the off-beat bassline ceased becoming a credible element in a dance track in about 2001 or so. Try something new, at least for your own excitement anyway.
You've stuck some kind of general midi choir hit or something on the off-beat as well during the first part of the track.
This got stale, fast. As did the tinkly, bell kind of arp that ran through the track without variation from start to finish.. Although they didn't poke out of the mix uncomfortably, which was good. Once again, the overall mix was very adept.
And there's so many great effects around, many free, for messing with audio, there's really no excuse for having just dry, preset leads.
It just seems like you're creating 'Trance by numbers', when you could be creating 'Trance by BOUNC3'.
All the best BOUNC3, and well done on your popularity.
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Hey,
This is awesome.
This belongs as the soundtrack in a musical montage of some British soccer hooligans hitting the town.
DJ Shadow would be proud of you.
MMmm..scratching.
Nice
Sounds like a pretty authentic underground club song!
The hits you used sound like Mortal Kombat a little bit.
There was some slight inaccuracies with the timing sometimes, but hey, it's still a great song.
The kick could perhaps use some nice overdrive or extra distortion to make it extra evil?
Keep it up Music_Creater, I can feel your close to getting really good. There's a world of difference between your recent stuff and your earliest work!
cool thanx yea dose remind me of mortal combat =p.
yea some of timing were of bit of when changing the synth or the beat.
yea i could have made it a lower kick base sound mabye next version if i ever cuntinue it. and thank u for the tipes a bit u to will be vry good at making music also gona chke out ur stuff now keep it V
I predict that...
this song will be very popular on Newgrounds.
Personally, I think it's cheese.
It's well produced however, nothing is out of place and the overall structure is very commendable, although nothing new.
It's just so formulaic though, you can imagine it as the preset trance song for a new synthesizer or something, which is not want you want if you want more respect than just from the simple- minded pre-teens on Newgrounds.
However, if thats your target market, then awesome work dude!
Good luck in the future Dimrain.
Meh, I really don't care how well it does. I kind of forgot about this song, and I found it on my .mp3 player and was like "Ooooh yeeah..." and I uploaded what I had done of it.
Like I said, this isn't finished. I planned on making it like a 10 min long kind of low-dance track, but I never finished it and kind of got uninterested in it.
And yes, I realize the synths are old, but that is because this was written back in the days of "The Prototype" and "Revolutions" (As well as "The Ring's Tide", which no one on NG has heard because the file size is over the allowed capacity of 4.00 mb for uploading.)
I kinda just thought you all might want something to confirm I'm not done here, and I'm not gone or anything. You'd be surprised how many e-mails I get asking "OMG WHY DON'T YOU WRITE MUSIC ANYMORE?!?!??!?!"
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Yep
It's a little random.
Take it back to basics. The bass and the beats are pretty solid. But all that random synth work on top just pretty much ruins all your good work with the bass and beats.
Strip it down and rethink it.
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