Reviews for Swerve - Rip

[Haggard]

Very simple

A very simple beat and a simple melody. Too bad there's not that much diversity in here, the intro sounds very promising.

I think this song needs some breaks here and there, to get away from the main beat which is annoying after one has to listen to it for a few minutes.
Also, some more melodies that get stuck in the head would be nice to have. Also, the meldoies should be a bit louder than the beat. Right now the main beat is the sound that is most present here. Another thing that makes this song boring after a while.

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[Denn-C]

My opinion;D

HMM! Nice =D
It has a nice overall feeling but there are alot of things you could work on:P
the intro is nice.. but the fact u used the same samples as in your main beat isn't very good in my opinion.. I think you could be more creative with the breakbeat too.. it doesnt fit with a huge strong kick which you used:P
there is this noisy cracky sound through the whole song.. Get rid of it :$ I don't like it:P The beat was nice, but still quite simple if i hear that right:P But for 4 hours of work, pretty good song:D
I understand that you don't want to make things repetetive but this changing bassline sort of thing is bothering me.. Try keeping in one bassline, but adding more synths, and make the beat complicated.. just ayou told me.. now try for yourself too then:P
The end was good, the perc thingy, i loved it:D
The bass was very nice:D I think this'd be pure electro sound though.. It doesn't have alot of aspects of real electro house in it:P i can send you some cool songs to listen to to what i think is real electrohous:D
these swirly pads throughout the song were pretty cool, not to abrupt and stuff, good work:D
I take my words back on the mixing, it sounds pretty fucking good, it all matches well, and i can hear everything clearly:D
It was a pretty good song, though i somehow know that you could do way better..
in my opinion, buildup is your weak point..
This sounds good, though i doesnt give me the feeling of a full song-like.
I want to help you with that if i may, and if ur not mad at me now for my criticism..
I liked it, don't get me wrong, these chords were gr8, the bass was fucking awesome, but there are so many things you could learn, i know i'm not that good.. but i think i still have the rights to tell you these things:$
so!
Keep it up, you'll get there :D
i somehow think that we are both born to make music:P Look how early we started, and what we've become.. we are both still into this shit:P

NICENEZZ!
4/5 tbh
8/10

G'day m8!
Denn-C

Swerve responds:

I don't hear a crackling noise.. Hmm. Well, to be honest this is sort of a joke/test thing, I just wipped this up in like 4 hours. The beat was supposed to be simple, that is called a minimal beat lol. But you might be right, if I would be taking this track for a proper revisit, then I might add to the beat. But not too much. Less is more, as they say. Complicated beats ain't always the shit.
Changing bassline? You mean the different patterns for the bass? Well that was intentional, as the song mostly centers around the cardboard bassline, so I tried to keep my main element varied, if you understand. It has some DnB influences in bass-terms, so it has to be "changing".
Build-Up indeed is one of my weaker points.. I'm not too good at that hehe. Ah well.. I'm improving there tho, I'm not fading everything in and out anymore.
Well it does not have the feeling of a full song, because it is not a full song, lol.
Yeah, starting with eJay at age five lol, and still going strong.
Have a good one, and thanks for the review mate!

Swerve.

[la-yinn]

Quite decent, it lacks some drive though.

At first I was going to write that the percussion in the start was off, since it has an usual time structure, but after listening to it a few times it starts to fit more. What really helps is when the kick comes in, that gives the track some more power.

I'm not at all a fan of the strange bass that comes in around 0:15. It sounds so lo-fi and distorted in a bad way. Think I recognize the preset from somewhere aswell. ~.~ But nevermind that if you didn't use a preset, hehe. :P

I think you should remove the bass. Instead, have a slightly distorted bass and add some sinewaved subbass for the feel together with the 4x4 kicks.

Good use of Rig's samplepack, though I'm not really a fan of the scraping cardboard sounds. ._. But that's my taste I suppose.

7.4/10
4/5

Pretty nice outcome for a quickie. ;) If you're planning on continuing with this track, I would suggest that you throw in some more percussion that's panned all over the place when the melody comes in. The percussion as it is right now is just *slightly* lacking.

~ La_Yinn, --'

Swerve responds:

Thanks for your review!
That strange bass there is a really basic reese thrown together in like 10 seconds. It's not a preset though! ;) I only use presets as a starting point to edit further. I never use them raw. But this one was synthesized with 3xOsc.
I don't know if I'm gonna continue it.. I don't know if it has potential enough to make into a full fledged song. Ah well, I'm gonna try atleast. Thanks for the tips n review.

Swerve.