Reviews for +The Broken God+

[Haggard]

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A very good track with lots of variations in it. I especially liked the beginning. The effect you used here does sound as if the whole song would wow and flutter.

Throughout the song you had various breaks and variations from the main beat, which made the song very interesting. It's much more joyful to listen to a song where actually is something happening than to the same boring beat for about 5 minutes. ^^

If you want to extend this over 10 minutes you have to make sure to offer the same variety you offer here in this "short" version, or else it would get boring very quickly.

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WritersBlock responds:

Yeah, I think it's up over 6 minutes now, and the additions are completely different to the already existing material. New synths, some traditional instruments, so I'd like to mess with that a whole bunch and change around with those instruments, and I'm thinking about putting another set of instruments in there after that to get a large variety.
Thanks for the review and 10. I'm glad you like it, I've always been a bit unsure how the end result would be on electronica tracks, but I guess I'm starting to find more of a flow.

[MacGuges]

great potential here

Though it may be a little too harsh and somewhat more repetitive than I like, I do enjoy this track. Does it make me think of a 'broken god'? Not being a theist myself I'm not quite sure, but maybe that doesn't matter! It has that trance-quality that's appropriate to existential musings today, and I sense a wounded machine inside a mess of red electric colors.

But I'm no music geek, so I feel inadequate to recommend improvements to your synth work. I figure it could be better, but I can't say for sure what's wrong.
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WritersBlock responds:

Thanks for the review!
The "broken god" thought is specific to the novel it refers to, as a universal feeling for a god is hard to define musically, let alone a broken one. The book kind of represents gods like computers. In a prequel, one human becomes a god by linking his mind to a computer and accessing knowledge only a god could know.

I appreciate the effort put into your review, despite your inability to define technical issues. As you've said, there's potential. And I would like to work it more to get more of the precision sound I was looking for.
Cheers.

[ObviousTroll]

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I can see what you mean by bad EQ, some sounds in there were a little muddy, and also a bit harsh on the ear, but I'm guessing you were meant to do that?

I think the structure and composition of this track is great, flows well and isn't *too* repetitive. There's also some great riffs in there.

The only thing I could suggest is eqing (of course) and the kick needs to be sharper and punchier, right now it's just too rounded and soft and maybe you could add a little side-chaining in there to bring the kick out a bit and make it more .. rythmic or danceable, if you know what I mean?

Anyways, good luck on future tracks :3

WritersBlock responds:

Yeah, the synths are quite gritty and when they're all together, they're kinda interfering with eachother and I think it gets way too loud at some points.
I messed about with that kick so damn much. It's got a little delay on it that's barely noticeable that has a cool effect. I might bring that out a bit more, and play around with it a bit, like you said, sharper sound and a sidechain would be cool.
Thanks for the review and encouragement.

[alix1]

Wow...

That was crazy...
You should be the next Daft Punk.
'Discovery' really is their best album too!

WritersBlock responds:

Aerodynamic
<3
Thanks for the 10.