Reviews for Overcome

[LunacyEcho]

>listens to 0:41
>WAIT WAIT THIS MELODY IS CATCHY BUT IVE HEARD THIS MELODY BEFORE
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-dvTjK_07c
>laughs hysterically

...but daaamn. Aside from you accidentally turning out to be Usher, this song is so good :D Those solos are rhythmically boring, but sound so groovy and insanely catchy! The way the main melody pans around in the ears during the final solo is not only doubly catchy, but really homes in how good you are at mixing. I think it's a new life goal for me to find clipping in any of your tracks ever. :P

I definitely wouldn't have noticed any differences had you not said you didn't have your keyboard :D Although, upon reflection, the intervals your melodies jump aren't as drastic as they usually are... :P
If I were to give one nitpick to this song, it would be that in a song with amazing 80s bouncy transitions, you could have ended it so climactically with those blasts at 2:54! But they sort of stayed the same volume instead of being a crescendo, so it lost a bit of its momentum and... well, LSD's already commented on the ending. :D

Great song, though! If this is just one of your sketches, I can't wait to see what you put out for NGADM! ;)

johnfn responds:

Hahahah, the similarity to that Usher song is hilarious. I can't say that I've never heard it before. Maybe like once or twice. I don't think it was even subconscious inspiration, I think it's just a really funny coincidence.

Hmm, I think you might be able to find clipping. It's really easy for me to make a song clip if I'm too lazy to listen to the whole mix right before I upload. One that particularly stands out in my mind is that a preliminary version of Light Up was clipping on practically every single kick. I have no idea why people didn't hate it. Every time I listen to it I cringe, but maybe everyone else thought that was just what the kick sample sounds like? LOL

It was kind of fun to do a quarter note solo because it's kind of a constraint on the form. Like, is it even possible to make a quarter note solo sound good?

The funny thing about the panning melody is that I was like "aw man this is gonna be really hard to mix," but as soon as I panned it it just fit in perfectly and I didn't have to do any work at all. I like it when this happens. ^_^

Ah yeah, it would have been a good idea to crescendo that ending. I was so pleased with myself that I actually came up with a sensible way to end the piece that I didn't even bother doing anything else.

EDIT: God darn you now I can't not hear that stupid Usher song when I listen to this song. RUINED FOREVER. WAY TO GO.

[zi8tx]

Very Catchy. Fits in Geometry Dash too... Great Job mate^^

johnfn responds:

Hurray!

[LucidShadowDreamer]

The first 7 seconds sounded very much like something TaintedLogic would make :p
I've found that a lot of succesfull people come from demoscene. Weird.

This is pretty rad. I like the intrumentation, and the melodies. Some parts feel a bit simple/empty, but I'm guessing you didn't have time to fill all spots up, as you need to work on the NGADM track XD
I'll leave you a more extensive review for that track, when it's posted ;)

This sounds like video game music.
Overall, I liked this, especially the melodies. I just think there could be a bit more to it. Also, do you do these endings on purpose? I get that it ties the end to the beginning of the track, but... You know...

johnfn responds:

Yeah I have been listening to a lot of those demoscene people. THEY ARE REALLY GOOD D:<

Also yeah this track is pretty empty. The truth is that I wrote this track in a cafe, and I was having trouble mixing it because of the noise from the cafe. Sparse songs are a LOT easier to mix than dense songs.

Also lol yeah the ending uh I mean I don't know what you're talking about the ending is perfect. D:

[CoolEnderman]

Very good, im use it for my lvl in geometry dash game!

johnfn responds:

Hehe, that seems to be the thing to do.