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Necrostatic - Zombie Jam

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This is my newest track called "Zombie Jam".

Hope you enjoy it!

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Nimble

2013-08-09 08:04:14

you have the right idea about what a dubstep song should sound like compared to what you hear, so that's a big plus. however, there are a couple things i want to address;

The music stayed at a near constant volume. This is probably the biggest problem since ALL types of music have their highs and their lows, their softs and their louds. A lot of (arguably mainstream) dubstep starts out very soft, with a piano sample or something of that nature, and continually grows larger and larger until the drop- here it wasn't the case. it was a consistent volume the entire time and stayed that way, even towards the end. dynamic volume is critical in keeping an audience interested in your music.

There was variation- enough of it to keep me listening, so you did well on that part. what i didn't feel though, was the filling out of a track. you know how some music sounds like there's only like 3 people playing and there's really a million different things going on at once and vice versa, where a jazz combo of just Piano Drums and Bass can easily make a track sound like it's alive- this track was more on the side of the former rather than the latter. I would say that by using more, different synths with the ones you use and just having a kind of background sound (whether it be chords or what have you) will fill up the track more and not make the vocal samples sound like their talking- it'll make it sound like an actual sample.

I hope this feedback helps, even if just a little :)

Necrostatic responds:

Thank you for your review.

About the constant volume: I made it that way, because of fearing overcompression or clipping. I heard several new artists, which just slammed vsts all over the place causing great volume distortion, where IÂ´ve seen people on the other hand sidechaining so much that they overcompressed their VstÂ´s, resulting in an unwanted change of volume. It was just safer for me to do it that way. But I will keep an eye out for that and try to lessen the volume of buildups and boost the volume, when going into the mainpart.

Dubstep: I choose that genre, because it mostly describes the way it sounds. Newgrounds lacks a secondary genre, or a tertiary genre. It was a little bit out of the genre as it was supposed to give it more my touch and to not stay stringent to the dubstep genre.

VSTÂ´s: I will try to add more VSTÂ´s to it. It is just difficult to come across good ones. Most of them are just muddy and I donÂ´t like it. But I have access to a few good VSTÂ´s, so I will try to add them.

Background sound: I always wanted to do that. But whenever I tried to do that, it sounded out of place. Maybe you can get me some input on that one.

Drums & Bass: There should be more of them and more variation to that. I simply didnÂ´t notice it, because of the many synths going on. I will try to lessen the VST side a little and put more drums into it + variation.

Vocal: Yeah that was from a text to speech program. I wanted to try, whether it works or not. I thought it was OK on some parts, but maybe I have overused it a little. If you mean the part, where someone talks over a period of time, then I have to say that it was meant to be so. A singing voice wasnÂ´t needed there. That would have destroyed the rhytm of the song and the beat. Singing was not an option. This part was meant to be like this :).

Next track: The next track is in the works. There are real vocals and they fit quiet nicely in that mix. I will try to use your feedback on my next song.

Thanks a lot for the review!