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Reviews for "Whales, Whales, Whales"

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At first I thought that this is going to be a very repititve song, but after those guitars set in, I had to change my mind. ^^

I like the melody you created with the guitars, it sounds very interesting.
Also, the rest of the instruments really fit into there.

I think that the snyth that starts at aorund 0:52 gets a bit too prominent during the song, maybe you can turn down the volume of that part a little bit.

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MusicIsBliss responds:

I agree with the synth being too strong, basically my goal for this song was to see how loud of a song I could make (take that dynamic range), but yeah, my fear kept being that it would be too repeditive, i'm glad it isn't

Interesting, I must review this song

Nice upbeat melody in the main body of the song. The intro was simply smashing. Then you used the gate effect and the guitar starts in. That was pretty kool. Then after the third instrument somes in the songs creates a more mysterious feeling. Overall a very good song.

Suggestiongs: I think some of the instruments are clashing. I'm not entirely sure. But other than that this was a pretty awesome song.

MusicIsBliss responds:

thanks for the review.
I usually make my songs happy, but my main focus with drums is to make them sound less happy because it is always TOO upbeat.
and yeah, the gating was one of my favourite parts.

instruments are clashing a bit, i tried to avoid it as much as i could, but at some point in the song, all 3 instruments are leads, so it was hard to make them all stand out in their own way, the struggle i shall continue fighting forever.

Why Whales?

A very nice tune that I think is nice to listen to in the background of whatever you care to be doing. It's busy, but not in an overly distracting way and it has some nice variation in, to keep it from being monotonous.

The other tool of variation that you've used nicely is the different instruments and even tempos that you've used. It brings a whole new level of performance to the tune, as some parts are playing slower, but blending in just a nice with the rest.

I'd have had a part in the middle, where you fade out the main melody and had just the backing beat, for example, as you did it the other way around and that workied nicely. Maybe a minute later, you just stop the melody and the counter melody and leave us with the beat. Everyone needs a solo ;)

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MusicIsBliss responds:

thanks for the awesome reveiw.
first off, have you ever played bubble bobble. There are these whales that fly around, this idea then mixed with the falling whale from hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. Now the idea turned into whales flying around the air, shooting machine guns and missles like a WWII dogfight, and that is what this song made me randomly think about at some point.

I usually try to make my songs not repeditive, but i usually have the issue of not being able to go from a verse to a chorus and so forth, i dont know why, but it is my biggest music problem, I also never change tempo and rarely change key, i really need to work on this. A soft part would have probably been a good idea, but i was pretty power hungry when I made this song, there are about 4 muli-band compressers, 7 regular compessors and limiters, and rediculous amounts of EQ sidechaining. ever since guitar hero In have wanted to make a guitar solo and a drum solo, but lack the skills to write one.

Good, but not great.

Good overall presentation. I liked the sound at 00:57, and the echoes at 01:16, and the ending. What would have made this song better in my opinion would be some metal guitar. Also some good drums would take this to the next level. Once again good, but not great.

Work on it a bit :)

-URCRAZY

MusicIsBliss responds:

i have tried a million times to get good metal guitar, both real and fake, but i can never get a good sound.

drums are slowly improving about the same speed as mixing.

Quite good

lt is an intresting experiment, and it went out quite well.....it could be better, of course, but it was enjoyable...

[RRC]

MusicIsBliss responds:

i will always work to be better