Hey, Housemasta.
Just decided to drop off some helpful critism.
This song seems unsteady... you've got, quite honestly, an awkward arrangment of synths. Saw melody, seriously bassy kick, noise hi hats, and... I dunno, soft strings (I guess that'd be what you'd call em XD). Not saying that the song is bad, I like the general idea of it. But its the arrangement and the choice of synths that bugged me.
Try to work on making more of a 'progression' feel. When something new in the drum line breaks in, make sure that theres a huge drum break, and that theres a drum line that fullfills that need for power that you had goin' on. Same goes for synths.
That one arping synth you have going in the backround is simply following one of the melodies that you already have going on one synth... maybe make melodic, instead of following note for note? That might add to the 'trance' feel.
In the beginning, and throughout the song, when you had fade ins/outs, there was some clipping. That leads me to believe that you didn't compress this? :( If you did, then you must have done a real quick job or something :P Spend more time on mastering.
Good work though, just need to work out the kinks and soon it'll be a shiny piece of metal that everyone will want to buy at the local Co-op or Canadian Tire XD
Aye, but all above is all nice comments and stuff. More of a personal review. Lets get a little harsher, and look over the scores... please don't take any of this personally. I'm just trying to make your music that much more enjoyable :)
Originality sits at a low 4, because of the arping filtering out and in synths, 4 kick, and the offbeat hats. The FL samples really didn't help to your cause of being original, either. Original because of the noise hats... don't hear those too much anymore, and the stuttery arrangment. That arrangement wasn't nessecarily enjoyable, but it was original none the less.
Diversity has walked over to 6, because even though have many breaks, you have things following each other. It all revolves around those 5 or 6 notes you used. That soft string riff doesn't seem to change either.
Clarity is 7, because the song wasn't distorting all the time. Its not an 8+ because of the filter resonance being a little high. The synths aren't muddled though, so thats nice. But you have this snare break happen a few times in the song, which really kind of bugs me. You make it go down one or two octaves, makig it kind of hard to hear?
Effort is an 8 because of the non-solid arrangment job.
Overall is a 7. Well, its not something I'd wanna listen to, me being a techno-junkie and all that, and I am getting sick of hearing the FL preset samples in music, even if it is only one or two samples, it seems like those samples slap me in the face and scream at me 'look, im a horrible sample and I'm ruining a good song...' lol.
So, clean up your mastering, arrangment, and more melodics would be just snazzy.
Keep it up!
-zenon
