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I've been really active with making music lately. It's definitely motivation from the recent change of mood that I've been in. I've been really happy lately, with many things happening recently that I'm really proud of. Hopefully things continue to work out, as I have more dedication put into my work all around when I'm happy.


As far as the song goes, this is a project that I honestly just started yesterday. I only put 4 hours into this project! Most of that was structure, while about a quarter of the time went into trying new techniques with mastering. Before finalizing the song, I tested this song with my car's audio system and it sounded phenomenal, as far as bass goes. I still have some work to do with my mastering techniques.


This song could definitely be better had I changed up the melody a bit and perhaps transitioned the drums differently and giving them different sounds in parts of the song. My tiredness and excitement to publish this left me wanting to do so as soon as possible.


Please leave a review that explains what you do or don't like about the song, especially if you vote under 3/5. All constructive criticism is appreciated! Please listen to the whole song before reviewing so that your review is on the whole song and not just one part. Last of all, please enjoy!


Carl565

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Good composition but it all sounds so flat. I really like the way the melody progresses but there isn't enough in terms of bass. I've got a full 7.1 setup here and there's barely any bass on the kick and there's no sub bass anywhere as a bassline in the song. The intro feels a little murky and doesn't really flow as well as the middle and end sections of the song. The progression is really great and the song definitely goes places but as a whole it seems like it was glued together messily with some Elmer's Glue the way the sections are pieced together. Overall I enjoyed the tune but the mixing needs a little work. Good effort though!

carl565 responds:

You're very correct with the intro. I really am not the best at making intros for songs. I have improved so much on composition in the past 7 years of making music, but intros are one thing I just cannot do. I suppose I've gotten better, but it's still not par.

The kick and the bass line do have compression on them, so perhaps that's the reason why they aren't so clear. I tuned the song completely with the use of some cheap Razer Kraken Pros, and they just don't work exactly the way I want them to. Nonetheless, I must have my subwoofer in my car tuned a certain way that picks up the bass more than your system, but it definitely does hit hard, and the bass line does the song a lot of justice with my system. But I love the info on that! I'll have to test it out more in the future.

The progression to me seems pretty damn good, but obviously that's my opinion, haha. I respect yours. You are also correct when you say it's like it was glued together. Using FL Studio with the way that it tries to get you to simply just use patterns has always blinded me. I suppose I take the easy way and don't do too much variation with the melody, as I probably should have. Instruments just come in, exit maybe for a bit, and then all come back together in the end. The way I see it, it's just my style. Each and every artist will have a different style for progression. I could try to work on that as well, because my style is pretty bland, now that you open my eyes to that.

Thank you so much for such a detailed review! They are so rare to come by now on Newgrounds. I hope to hear from you again in the future.

Credits & Info

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Downloads
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Score
Waiting for 3 more votes

Uploaded
Mar 7, 2015
12:40 AM EST
Genre
Trance
File Info
Song
8.9 MB
3 min 53 sec

Licensing Terms

Please contact me if you would like to use this in a project. We can discuss the details.