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Reviews for "starlight dreams"

Hahha, yeah. This is not chiptune o.O (jk).

I like it; it's hard not to like something you've done. I already mentioned this, but holy **** you've been productive for a while now. I've got to say I liked the previous composition you posted slightly more than I do this, but I still enjoy it quite a bit.
It's relaxing, and works well as background music. This is just my opinion, but I think it lacks a really 'catchy' melody, but I'd say this song doesn't necessarily need that. Of course there are several melodies, I'm just saying I probably won't remember them tomorrow.
Aside from that, I like the way you put a multitude of instruments (and other sounds) together to form the entirety. I also like the way that the more "heavy" percussion enters at 1:00-1:05.

It's impressive the way you still manage to bring in several different themes (like the shift at 2:41), as well as the fact that they complement eachoter so well.
According to my ears the mixing also seems to be sufficient (at least). However, I'm not to be trusted when it comes to that, as I am very new to mixing at a whole. I'm simply a (starting) hobby musician, so I can't give you any more a credible review than that.
Overall, I loved it; keep up the good stuff ;)

ps. That ending though!

johnfn responds:

> Hahha, yeah. This is not chiptune o.O (jk).

HA YES I DID IT. Now back to our regularly scheduled program of 500 chiptune songs.

> I like it; it's hard not to like something you've done. I already mentioned this, but holy **** you've been productive for a while now.

Could possibly be my swan song. I'm going to work at a real job soon and I'm not going to have any free time any more.

D:

> melodies

I fully understand. Actually I was trying to switch up my traditional style of melodic based songs. The strength in this song is imo how if you put on headphones you sit back and close your eyes and let the chords sweep you away. (lol I'm a little too romantic about my music lol)

I was pretty happy about the mix so I think you're spot on ;-)

Thanks for the review!

this is really well produced, i'm going to download this and add it to my Mp3 player :D nice track!

johnfn responds:

yeah dude! It's all about getting dat kick to be AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE and then sidechaining all the things to it so that people just hear the kick being really loud and their brain recognizes that as equivalent to a good mix. You think I'm being sarcastic but that's actually like 90% of how to do it... the other 10% is having no overlapping frequencies and creative use of samples.

...Ah crap, I just gave away all my secrets! Oh well.