Reviews for Violin_Liberation [Box-Killa]

[FairSquare]

Cool song!

Well, my review will not be as long as Quarl's review, but i can hope i pick some things out that could've been better or that i wanted to hear a bit different.
But before i do that, i want to say that Quarl made some very good points, especially about the dynamics. You did play around with it, i can hear that, but not enough i think.
Now, the only advice i can give you that isn't mentioned in Quarl's review, is as follows.
The section from 00:55 to 01:12 is good, but could be more humanized. The notes are too perfectly timed, if you know what i mean. Some little adjusting of the timing of those notes, so that they are not timed perfectly, could be easier on the ear. It could also be that i'm completely wrong, but you can always try, right? :p
And now, i'm going to compare this song to something and at this moment i have no idea what that's going to be. Let me listen again.. hmm.. yes.. aha!
It's like a huge cake. It looks perfect. On the sides are candles and they are all burning. But the cake is pretty high and on top there's 1 candle that isn't burning. Someone grabs a ladder and puts it next to the cake. He climbs the ladder, but because the cake is so wide, he can't reach the candle with his lighter. He is very close though. If he had reached the last candle, the cake (your song) would have been perfect. But it doesn't really matter anyway, the cake still looks very nice and doesn't taste worse because one stupid candle is not burning.
While i was writing this review, the song played about 4 or 5 times and i didn't have the urge to click the stop button. That's a good thing :-)
Great job on this song!
10/10
5/5
MH16

Box-Killa responds:

Lol yeah I dont really have the time to perfect this top 100% awesomeness, but I suppose when I finished exams I can make something perfect lol. Its still pretty kick ass though :D

[Quarl]

nice!

Hey hey, really cool song. Just a few things I would have done differently if I found myself doing a classical song starting with the dynamics. Real instruments change their dynamics over time expressively. Dynamics is just a fancy word for amplification over time. There were a few crechendos in here, so I know you what's good. Just playing with the note velocities would create a good amount of terraced dynamics, but I find that it's more effective to automate shifts in dynamics instead. Of course you could go on to say that a song about a tyrant works better with terraced dynamics to give off a sort of marching dictation to it but I find that rhythm has a better effect than dynamics at expressing that kind of vibe. You're probably familiar with Nobuo Uematsu's One Winged Angel theme but go look that track up and really listen to how the instruments effectively change their amplifications over time to create tension. Sometimes the composer even uses syncopations that really create tension. Such a good fucking song.

Panning: I have trouble telling where there's panning if it's not really obvious, so I'm sorry if you did have some panning in there, but perhaps more pronounced stereo imaging would have been effective. Stereo imaging emulates live acoustics so it can help eliminate the digital burden of a mono mix. It also creates the illusion that things are louder than they actually are so you can turn the levels down on everything and have a cleaner mix in general.

Harpsichord: I'm really anal about that instrument. There wasn't anything wrong with using it. I'm just not a fan... you also used it in conjunction with a piano. Nothing wrong with that either. Like I said, I'm just really anal about it and in a typical classical piece, the two instruments would not have been heard together. This review could have gone without this harpsichord tirade :P

All in all, this song will work great in a flash and it's really cool man! The melodies are all really interesting and the harmonies work well together. Keep at classical composition, you definitely got some skill here :)

Box-Killa responds:

Yeah Man, I sort of forgot about panning and amplifications, I did a little bit but no much.

The harpsichord was just inside another instrument i wanted to use, so I couldn't get rid of it, but It does add a little bit of flair so its all good.

[NateTheGreatt]

Killer dude!

Awesome composition. The word tyrant comes to mind when I listen to this. Very well done :D

[UndergroundSound]

Wowzer!

I really like this. The composition is great, and your melody along with the rhythm and harmony are done very well.

I will admit, if I could do flash half decently I would use this. I do music for Leafworthy and PDAF for their animations.

But this is excellent. Very well done my good sir!!

5/5

Peace
Tony

(BTW, thanks for the review of my Dreamstates song. When you can, check em all out, leave reviews if you'd like, in return I'll check out your music and review as much as possible)

[xsnrgman]

It's got an epic RPG feel to it. Perhaps.....

a bit like Final Fantasy sort of? I'm feeling that. Nobuo was and still is the master of video game music. Unless he influenced you to make music it certainly reminds me. I can only nitpick slightly at the end and felt that it needed punctuation on the piano. Just needed that one last note! Good classical sound.