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The War Hawks

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-Created using Reason
-Wanted just to keep it simple: Guitar, Bass, and Drums
-I Probably will come back to edit this so please comment

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Play-by-play:

0:00-Nice intro, you set it up with a nice sounding riff which has a fair bit of promise to it.
0:25ish-Guitar sounds very muddy, lacked the puch I was expecting and so gets drowned out a little by the drums, which come with a relatively higher dynamic.
Drums in the 'chorus' lines is nice and inventive, but in the 'verses' with just the bass gets repetitive, fast. If you had a few guitar chords or just palm-muting there to fill the gap a little more it would have been nice, because the texture feels over-sparse with just the simple bass and drums. Makes me feel like this song was made to have a vocal line over it (Which would work well, must be said)
1:31-Nice change in chords, I was about to worry that it'd be the same riff throughout, but the transition works well.
1:52-Nice bass variation from the guitar, but here you really start hearing bad quality of rhythm guitar as it plays the same chord over and over and you hear very well that it doesn't have the smoothness of a real guitar.
2:00ish-Nice lead guitar sound, but drowns everything with how loud it is. If the rhythm guitar before was at this dynamic, I think the drums before would have made more sense, but as it is here the lead feels very loud, to the point where it sounds very quiet when it cuts out at 2:32. Nice and manic as a solo, though; very well-written, just needs to be turned down or the rest turned up.
2:41-Machine gun drums, same thing at 2:55. You need to space the drum beats between other drums, or find a decent drumroll sound, because as it stands the frantic pace of the beat on the snare doesn't seem realistic. You need another guitar in there just to stop it just being a frentic drum solo, because it feels out of place; like you have the section with all the instruments, then a section for the lead guitar, and then a section for the drums.

In all, you've got a lot of good riffs and the mix is generally there, but there needs to be a little more cohesion between the lead and drum solos and the rest of the track jsut to pull it together a little more.

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MixyRecords responds:

Very in-depth review. I greatly appreciate it. As I said before I am going to go through and remix the track. Now that I have some feedback I'm going to begin work on a new mix. I hear what you are talking about with the muddy guitar sound. I think adjusting the frequencies on it should help. I know what I need to do with the lead guitar part too. It's true that the lead was very overpowering in the mix. I know that rapid fire drum thing at the end was pretty ridiculous.I'm just going to change that rapid fire thing into something else but I'll leave the solo in there. I just need a better transition into it. Once again thanks. I'll update you with the improved mix

Review

-I loved the simplicity of the track in the beginning. Just letting the basic melody repeat a couple of times to get you into things.

-At 1:08 it changed a little but it made it seem darker and deeper. Followed up by the increase in speed about fourty seconds later. It really helped get you out of the monotone beat that you started to get into.

-The drums were overused in my opinion. Just way too much percussion compared to the guitars being used. Especially towards the end of the song. You can keep the drum solo if you had less drums being used in the entire whole of the song.

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MixyRecords responds:

Sorry, I normally try to reply right away but I didn't notice the reviews..
I greatly appreciate the feedback. As I said I'm going to back and remix the song. I will definitely subdue the drum parts toward the end. I see what you are talking about. I will send you the updated version once I'm done (should be soon).

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Uploaded
May 15, 2010
1:38 AM EDT
Genre
Grunge
File Info
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3 MB
3 min 21 sec

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