Cool intro, sweet vocal chops. awesome vocals, nice ambience. great buildup, amazing drop.
Reviews for "Zyzyx - Scars"
DJ-Zyzyx responds:
Thank you :D
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Nice track, Zyzyx! It's been a while since I've dropped by so I thought I'd take the chance to give you some compliments and suggestions.
+The mix the whole way through is really good. I don't have any criticism there.
+The vocal melody is really, really good, except for "our scars" imo because the pacing of the line suddenly drops a lot and it feels like we've hit a mudpit that's slowing us down or something. Also your singing is really solid except for "heart," where you audibly break a bit...
+Lots of very fun chiptune drop fills! Very VR-y.
+Thank you for changing up the chord progression. It's a pet peeve of mine when a chord progression is used all the way through and it just makes the whole track so much cooler.
+3:08-3:11 is really clever. I'm glad you did that.
-Not sure how I feel about how quickly the vocal chops enter in the intro. I might give the guitar a bit more time to shine on its own.
-The future bass chords felt like they were lacking some heft, compared to what I expected from the last measure of the buildup. The problem is that you have two consecutive measures that are bulding up to that giant chord stack you have by being sort of anticlimactic and giving a feeling of falling into the drop— waiting, and then waiting some more, makes the whole thing kinda lose momentum. tl;dr- I'd either make the buildup keep gaining energy until the chords, or to have some kind of impact instead of/along with the future bass chords.
-The sudden motion in the piano 1:43-1:46 struck me as very distracting because it immediately disrupted the calm of that section.
-1:59-2:00 is cool in theory but imo it's executed kinda weirdly and ends up sounding very dissonant and jarring. Not sure whether this is because of reverb or something, or that it's just way too sudden.
-The guitar got kind of distorted in the outro— not sure whether this was from audio stretching or if it was intentional, but idk I found it not ideal
-General notes on the lyrics: ideally you should have the same rhyme pattern in both pairs of stanzas, but you don't. The first pair is -A-B -A-B, but the second pair is -A-A -B-B. I think making the scheme consistent would make it just a bit stronger! Also "With hearts so binding/blinded by a thousand chains" doesn't make any sense, lol. Also, see note on "our scars" above
Overall excellent track! It's crazy how professional you've been sounding lately. Keep it up!
DJ-Zyzyx responds:
Wow you're very nitpicky xD i like nitpicky tho. Yeah the distortion at the end is a bitcrusher. I don't exactly see the problem you have with the drop, but I appreciate your criticism. I've heard this song so many times I kinda lost a sense of the mix.
thank u m8 <3
~Z
sounds awesome!
I love that guitar in the beginning, and those vocal chops are great.
The overall sound is amazing, and the vocals are awesome as usual!
The drop, in my opinion, is not as good as Lost It All's, but still incredible.
I heard the boomer FX xD
5/5
DJ-Zyzyx responds:
Lol xD Thanks so much man :D