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Cisc

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The name Cisc is just something randomly came up with.


I tried to use some simple song structure for this song, but I'm not sure i did it very well. The structure goes like this: Intro, Verse, (Pre), Chorus, Verse, (Pre), Chorus, Bridge/Break, Chorus, Chorus, Outro.


I know there are many problems with my musical skills, but I cannot identify them with my noobish experience. If you would not mind, giving a brutally honest critique would be greatly appreciated.

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Your brutal review.

It's too god damn loud. Right off the bat. You start so high in level you have nowhere to go.

Your compressor is pumping to your bass kick, each kick drags the level down. Multiband it, the pumping effect is horrible.

Tone wise it's fine, saws, sines, tri's. Melody is good. There is an interesting tune here if you took more time in balancing the mix. Lower all the levels. Thin the parts, pan.

Resolve the comp pump.

5 as always

knightspear responds:

Good grief, you're totally right about it being too loud! I didn't notice that until you pointed it out. Its good to have a fresh pair of ears.

Thanks so much! You have given me many things to work on.

To me the part you named "(pre)" was too short and (while by itself sounded cool) distracted me from the rest of the song... but by the second time I listened I got used to it (though I'd suggest making that part longer, at least twice as long as is now)
I found the melody of the "verse" more catchy than the "chorus" one... maybe it wasn't that memorable to me because you didn't change the lead instrument for the melody at any point (and that can became quite stale)
During the brigde/break, those notes felt meaningless and didn't add to anything overall

Everything else sounded perfectly fine, no complain nor noteworth comment
(JUST a warning that I know little about audio stuff like mixing or mastering so I can't help you with that... And my opinion is just an opinion of a stranger on the internet, if it added anything to you, good, otherwise don't worry about it)

knightspear responds:

I agree with you about the (Pre). I was trying to follow a song structure that said to make it 4 bars. Now I know to make it longer if it needs it.

Good idea! I never thought to change the melody instrument. That has great potential, thank you!

Yes, the bridge/break does need something more, or less to it. I will have to experiment more.

Thank you for your review! I have much to learn.

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Score
4.57 / 5.00

Uploaded
Sep 30, 2019
1:46 PM EDT
Genre
Experimental
File Info
Song
4.9 MB
2 min 41 sec
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Software
  • Garage Band

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