Amazing.
The song has a MUCH better intro than the last. As it goes further into the song the buildup was great and so much was happening it all worked so well. :D.
About at 1:40 in the song I thought it was getting repeatitive than SHAZAM! It slapped me in the face with a new part of the song. Overall I think that the song is again, Amazing. :D
Wow, thanks for the review! Glad you enjoyed the song. I know what you mean by 1:40, I kept it going for too long and I was trying to get out of that melody without making it sound weird. I suppose I did then xD.
Really glad you liked this, worked really hard on it. Thanks for reviewing :D.
Too Much for words, nah who am I kiddin'
Simply Amazing, a smash, brilliant and out of this world, This is an amazing Song and very fun to listen to. The intro and outtro were spectacular and I loved the percusiion you made because it's tranc-y, futuristic and simply put, Awesome.
The instruments, were, as they say, Tha Bomb, and the transitions were fantastic, i have no complaints on this.
10/10
5/5
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You rock :D.
Well
Like many of the folks here, I'm gonna 'try' to make a long, rediculous and nonsense review! First, to make it look long...I like pinecones. Those are the longest author comments I've ever seen. This song is cool. Hey wait, it's Supersteph54! I seriously didn't realise till then >.>.
Now that's out of the way, I really like the intro. The fade in with the hats sound really good. However, I think it would have sounded better if there was something else before that. Maybe a piano or a pad (or both :D) to accompany it for about 20 secs to make it sound more full/epic.
The melody, like a lot of other people here, reminds me of Chaoz Fantasy. The note's rhythm (is that spelt right? =\) is almost exactly the same as CF. The sound of the instrument playing the melody though, made it more interesting than it would be otherwise. If it was a saw, I can imagine it being less interesting.
The kick imo, has too much high on it. It's just personal opinion, but I like the kicks that have more OOMPH to them. If you take a look at a few of my recent songs, I have used Maximus to lower the high and meds on basically all my kicks. Yeah they're not powerful, damn. >.> That's enough of my kicks. I feel a bit show-offy now that I mentioned myself...
The snare/clap (which one?) went well with the kick I guess, since it is also pretty high. There's not much else to say here, so I'm not gonna pretend to be smart and just stop here.
For some reason, the kick at 1:00 sounded much stronger than before. Maybe it's just the EQ'ing or the other instruments drowning out the lows of the kick (which I <3 :D)
1:39, the windy sound that is playing actually sounds very good there. Maybe it's just the rhythm, but normally I would have been very annoyed by it. It made a would-be-annoying sound into a great transition.\
At 1:48, I can hear a lot of variation melody-wise, so I think you can keep that part going for a bit longer than you did. That was one of the 'good' moments in the song where many things come together.
The breakdown is amazing! That piano had a great melody to it, and the choir accompanying it just fit perfectly. The higher piano had an even better melody, and when combined with the kick+snare/clap and hatst, it's just a killer. That was one of my favourite parts of the song.
The outro fadeout was actually unexpected, which is always good because it throws the listener off balance and he/she has to listen to it again :P. At the very end, it is not completely silent. Is it supposed to loop?
Anyways, this is near the end of my longest review EVAR!!111oneone. Time to conclude everything.
This song has a very professional sound to it and the effects (which I started to pay attention to after my 6th listen) are extremely well planned and composed. I envy your skill at FX and transitions (which I will never be good at :S) Also, as an afterthought, the clap in the break sounded very good, it should be played more maybe in a longer intro? Just an idea.
And that concludes my rediculously long review. I am actually typing fast so that I can see how long it is :P. Also, after reading previous comments, I am VERY sorry that you are deaf in one ear. I just can't imagine being deaf in one ear and still composing pieces like this. You have earned some respect and envy from me, and rightly so.
Keep making masterpieces like these and maybe I will take the time (32 mins -.-) and effort to make another review like this. 528 characters remaining O_o.
Good luck. If you respond, I'll be sure to read it ;)
Oh my God, man, that is the longest review I've ever received. SBB cuts a close second, but dude, this is definitely the most helpful review and it's a real honour getting a review this big (and getting your 100th review), which took you a whole half an hour to write O.O. Thanks SO MUCH! :D.
I'll definitely take my time to respond with my usual monster wall of text, because this review deserves it more than any other review I've ever responded to.
To start with, haha probably anything which is written in unnecessarily thick detail with unorganised paragraphs is probably written by me xD. It's pretty weird that I have so many reviews which are unsurprisingly long for this song, although I'm definitely not complaining; this is my best song and I'm really glad that there are so many helpful reviews.
I'm glad you liked the intro, although your idea of starting it with pads is a genius idea. I can definitely imagine a great ambient intro for this, since it'll definitely make the current intro sound even more epic when it fades in. Thanks a LOT for the excellent idea, if I revisit this song (I probably will), I'll definitely try and add pads at the beginning.
Yeah the only difference of the rhythm in this melody from CF's is that the last two notes are different in rhythm, but I can assure you it was unintentional xD. I definitely agree with you that saw waves are probably too uninteresting due to the fact that they're used so much.
About your comments on the percussion, I totally agree with you. When I made this I knew nothing of compression and rarely EQ'd my kicks properly. Instead I just layered around 10 kicks :P. As for the snare/clap (it's both a snare and a clap [layered] lol xP) I think I might turn up the low end a bit more on them too. You're not the first one to point out that this song is too rough on the high end.
As for the kick at 1:00, that's just me increasing it's velocity more than I should have xP. Haha, to be honest, there are a lot of things in this song which sound professionally done, yet are just me unintentionally doing something random, and being lucky enough for it to turn out good xD.
Heh, the wind sound is a badly filtered sweep. Again, I'm lucky to have it sounding half decent :D...
As for 1:48, I didn't feel like continuing it since by then, the FLP file was sticking so much that I didn't want to do anything, unless it was EXTREMELY necessary. It's why I made the piano part in a separate FLP xD.
Regarding the piano part, it's weird actually. It's your favourite part but a friend of mine who listened to it said the piano part was his least favourite part. Still, you can't please everyone I guess. Glad you like the piano part!
Lol, if you heard my song Speeding Through Infinity (which is a much older version of this) you'd expect the fade out, but I suppose it's pretty cool that the listener will want to listen to it again after hearing the ending xP. It's not really supposed to loop, I only timed it right so it could loop, but it's still a bad loop :3. I've actually made an HQ looped version which will be used in a game in the future :D.
Heh, I'm glad you think this has a professional sound. Like I said, it's me being lucky. Transitions are actually something I'm good at. When I'm composing, I think 'alright, what will sound epic if played after that bar' and an idea comes to my head easily, therefore making a good transition. My problem is thinking of song ideas, but once I've thought of a good one, it's plain sailing from then on, usually.
The FX was because as I said in the Author's Comments, on my way to and from school, people around me were listening to professional trance songs with volumes high enough for me to hear them even when wearing headphones, so I learnt a few tricks.
Thanks a lot for all the support about the deaf ear and all :).
...And obviously thanks for the really EPIC review. This is surely my favourite review, and I'll be going back to it again and again as reference when I revisit this song. Thanks a LOT! :D.
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BlargMuffins.
Can't compare to that last review xD. I lack the will and the audio knowledge to write anything as... excellent. I'm an FL noob. I bought it... I just suck at it xD
That's why my music resides under another name.... because when people read your reviews then listen to your songs... you lose a lot of respect... you get the "Still sounds better than yours" syndrome.
Anywho, I definitely loved the song. Excellent transitions..... brilliant effects... you must be getting deja vu just reading this D:
I love your ability to encompass.. many genres and be excellent at them all, again, with my musical incompetence, I could not tell how you've EQ'ed the kick.... but personally I think it sounds fine.
One thing I can say is that I feel the.... fuck.. I dunno wut to call it. Kick buildup? da da da da da da da da dadadadadad... Idk... I feel stupid. Anyway, THAT i feel is a bit overused as a transition.
I do however love the ambient breakdown..... but the piano sounds... a bit raw to my ears. Then again I love reverbing the hell out of my piano.... just my taste. Heck.... you'll be damned if you find a single thing in my song that hasnt been reverbed and delayed. (If you even find my songs :D)
:( I need to get smarter so I can write better reviews.
5/5 and downloaded. And RSS'd alongside CombatPlayer and C-Enterprise.
Yeah I only have 3 RSS Feeds QQ Get over it.
Once again, brilliant song...... keep on truckin.
Damn that joke sucked.
"Can't compare to that last review xD. I lack the will and the audio knowledge to write anything as... excellent. I'm an FL noob. I bought it... I just suck at it xD"
Dude is this song like a magnet for awesome reviews or what? xD. Thanks for the really awesome review, I don't really mind if you're still new to FL. You put effort into this review, unlike so many people here on NG, and I appreciate that, so thanks :D.
"That's why my music resides under another name.... because when people read your reviews then listen to your songs... you lose a lot of respect... you get the "Still sounds better than yours" syndrome."
Hm, makes sense. I'm actually planning on posting my music on another account, but more because my old ones suck so much and are still on this account though :P.
"Anywho, I definitely loved the song. Excellent transitions..... brilliant effects... you must be getting deja vu just reading this D:"
Haha lol. Nothing wrong with getting compliments, to be honest xP. Thanks!
"I love your ability to encompass.. many genres and be excellent at them all"
Wow thanks. It's more of me grabbing some genres which I have a chance of being slightly good at and then being lucky that they come out well at the end, lol. Although you should hear my Robot Day song once it's finished, it has Jazz, Breakbeat, Ambient, Trance, Techno, Orchestral and Glitch all in one song :P.
"again, with my musical incompetence, I could not tell how you've EQ'ed the kick.... but personally I think it sounds fine."
Don't worry, you'll get used to EQing soon enough. You can tell that the kick doesn't have enough bass to it and sounds weak, so basically that's what I think I need to fix.
"One thing I can say is that I feel the.... fuck.. I dunno wut to call it. Kick buildup? da da da da da da da da dadadadadad... Idk... I feel stupid. Anyway, THAT i feel is a bit overused as a transition."
Haha I just call it a kick roll. That's probably because like I said in the Author's Comments, I listened to a lot of professional trance from my friends' headphones since they had the music so loud, and one of the tricks I picked up was snare rolls/kick rolls. Although yeah, I agree with you that it's definitely overused.
"I do however love the ambient breakdown..... but the piano sounds... a bit raw to my ears. Then again I love reverbing the hell out of my piano.... just my taste. Heck.... you'll be damned if you find a single thing in my song that hasnt been reverbed and delayed. (If you even find my songs :D)"
Lol xD. Actually I'm exactly like you when it comes to reverb and delay, but luckily I didn't go too crazy in this song. I think...
I'm probably going to change the piano sample to something more dynamic.
":( I need to get smarter so I can write better reviews."
Haha not to worry, when I was about as good as you at music, my reviews were around the size of one of the paragraphs DjAbbic put in his review :P.
"5/5 and downloaded. And RSS'd alongside CombatPlayer and C-Enterprise.
Yeah I only have 3 RSS Feeds QQ Get over it."
Haha I'm glad you like my work enough to RSS me :3.
"Once again, brilliant song...... keep on truckin.
Damn that joke sucked."
Lol thanks again for the epic review :D.
Awesome!
Giving a look around your audios I got on mind that I would review this song but I forgot (sometime around april or may 2010) =P. So here it is my review. The instruments are perfect and the story is pretty cool. I love the rythm. One of your best songs in my opnion. I also found awesome the intro because it reminds me of your Chaoz Fantasy Remix - WIP loop.
Thanks dude.
The Chaoz Fantasy WiP uses the same effect and a similar sound for the intro so I can see why it reminds you of it. The sounds took me a long time to choose so I'm glad you like those :3.
Yeah even though this is such an old song I'm still very proud of it.
Thanks for reviewing!