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Reviews for "{dj-N} Perfect Sunset"

Part two.

Picking up where I left off:

As a MAC submission, I can't see this winning either. It's just too energetic, and personally the picture given is a much more tranquil scene than your track is.

Too many corners were cut in making this track for it to deserve anything higher than a 6, by my standards for an artist at your level, who I believe is capable of a lot more - but only if you actually think about making your tracks new and creative, rather than this almost cookie-cutter form you've made for yourself. Songs like Intercept, now that's creative - and you seem to have stopped with that style because the crowd doesn't like it. Eh, the crowd's why I personally stopped submitting here - they'll praise tracks like Guitar vs. Piano 1.2 the same way they'll praise yours, mine, or a track that somebody could get signed with. Regardless, my advice to you is to make music first for yourself, and second for your audience. I think it's easily possible for you to continue building a sizable fanbase in any EDM style you'd like to choose, if only you'd take it to the next level and spend more time being original! Why listen to your tracks if I, or anyone else, can instead listen to someone out of the hundreds who make the same style, but better, and more often than you, and also gives it away for free? As I'm almost certain there's someone like that out there.

Try harder next time.

dj-Nate responds:

This right away, hit me hard: "First thing, I hear that Nexus piano". (I use a piano sound font called Piannisism.) How am I supposed to make a piano sound unique? Throw a Fruity Chorus on there and EQ the bass out? Well, friend, it isn't piano.

Second, for the FX kick, I layered different kicks and samples.. I'm unsure how you hear a raw sample with no effects. This is what I did. Load up VEC1 BD ReverbFX 08, VEC2 Bassdrums Clubby 023, and VEC2 Cymbals Crash 07 (These will all hit simultaneously). Add Fruity Delay 1 (and change the delay to 4 steps) and Fruity Reverb with 25% reverb to the ReverbFX 08. EQ about one fourth of the 20 HZ bar on the Parametric EQ on the master channel effect, and add what you took out from the master effect and put it on the FX kick. How is the above a "raw" VEC sample?

And finally sir.. Corner cutting? I make my songs by how I feel. If I feel that a song needs an offbeat bass every 4th, then that's what I'm going to add. I appreciate you attempting to "get me original" but this is what I enjoy. I enjoy making house, I enjoy making UK Hardcore, I enjoy making Dnb, I enjoy it all. I don't need someone like you to tell me I need more effort. I put more emotion into this song, and all my songs, than you can even comprehend, and honestly, Karco, I couldn't give two squirts of piss what you think. I'm not in it to get popular. I'm in it for the love of the music. This style is my love.

Please kindly and politely,
Fuck off

-Nate