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Reviews for "Midnight Lights {7x}"

Here is your personal review for round 2 of the NGADM! Keep in mind, this review will be harsher than the round 1 review! I will be poking at songs more in each consecutive round, because it will naturally be more difficult to advance.

The Good:
-I have to say, those saxophone solos are really nice.
-You use the filters fairly well, very classic DnB style.
-Those bell-like chords sound really nice.

The Not-So-Good:
-That high hat is immediately noticable and fairly annoying - too many high frequencies.
-When the bass wobbles hit in, I wasn't overly impressed. The wobbles seemed fairly awkward and not overly good.
-Unfortunately, nice as the saxophone was, it didn't work with the other instruments as well as it could have.
-Needs some more bass. The bass wobbles were more in the middle frequencies than the low ones. Could have used some thicker bass. That would have sounded a lot better.
-Fairly repetitive, it doesn't really change too much except for the first saxophone solo.
-Ew, that outro sounds pretty bad. I'd have liked it if you added in one last note on the sax so that it could ring out rather than having a delayed noise sweep.

Overall: I like it, but it seems fairly empty and uninspired to me. Not enough saxophone - not melded as well as it could have. The bass wobbles brought it down quite a bit as well. It's alright. Just not extremely good. I'll give it a 7/10.

EbonHawk7X responds:

Thank you for the helpful reviews during this competition, your critique is always appreciated and helps me to realize what needs to be improved. I feel this review was no exception and I can't contest any of the points that you have made, so I will accept them and implement the ideas in future works. Thanks for judging and taking the time to write this!

Great job! The sax playing is spot on and gives a little bit of soul to the piece.

The only thing that made me give 4/5 is the beat and it's volume. The beat, by itself, is good and flows with the piece. The only problem is that it was too loud and drowned out the more moving parts of the song, especially that wonderful sax.

Neat! the sax is really great, its the meat of the song in my opinion. and i lvoe the thick gritty bass. could have used a bit more variation, and some hi-hat diversity. but other than that, great job!

You know what this reminds me of? Cloudchasers or a similar Gummi Ship theme from Kingdom Hearts II. :D That's a good thing!

The chords, the drums and the melodic line bring back some Yoko Shimomura memories.

EbonHawk7X responds:

Thank you; Yoko Shimomura is definitely one of my favorite video game composers. I especially like her work for Final Fantasy Versus XIII and in the Kingdom Hearts series. Good luck on your song, can't wait to hear it!