omg, for some reason i think this
should be in the game banjo kazooie... idk why. besides having the same instruments in it as the title its almost the same style as the songs in the game. and i love it. great job!! im definitely downloading this.
5/5
-crepth
Awesome, thanks!
this is professionalshit right here.
like you, i also enjoy sitting back to play some game or something while listening to the goa radio. its great music. not very popular but the people who like it and make it keep it alive... this song included. finishing something like this in only 4 hours is very impressive. i work with fl mostly and i can't make myself a good goa bass like the one you have here... the perfect balance of the classic old audio recordings, wahwah instruments, sfx, panning hihats and the whole goa shabang! you've done your hw XD. keep this stuff up man, its great.
5/5 clearly.
-crepth
If you can't get yourself a good throbbing bassline with a 3Xosc, maybe you should try and get yourself a hold of z3ta+. It's a real powerful synth for superstrings and throbbing basses. I used it all the time when I was using FL constantly, but now I just use the subtractor in Reason :D
Thanks for the review!
awesome. i remember you showing this to me
yeah i put the bass all the way up but i still didn't really notice it as much as i was hoping to. i think thats the one thing this is missing, perhaps with the exception of a little melody different from the main one for variety, is the mellow bass. i could hear a hint of a moogy thing in the bg but i think it would do a little more good if it was louder.
the slow addition of pads and intensity of percussion made it very smooth and mellow while still having some punch to it. nice job.
5/5. nine outta ten only because i think another little melody for several measures could have helped.
-crepth
Yeah, I did show you this (over the phone, I think)
As for the bass, sorry to disappoint you. I had a lot going on in the sub section, mostly on the pads, but I can understand that your speakers are inferior (ha, jk) You're gonna have to show me the moog thing though (I'm on my mom's laptop, so the speakers suck and I don't have the flp to look at lol)
A different melody would have helped I guess. I was kinda going for the flash background music type thing (that's why it's short), but more diversity is never a bad thing!
Thanks for the criticism! see you soon.
can't go wrong with this can ya?
songs like this get boring. this is that one style that follows a perfect formula and get very predictable, boring, and has generic, badly thought out melodies.
now there are actually a lot of songs in this genre but remember, a song isn't all about all the best instruments. like the little wah wah thing that came in first at about 4 seconds- it's cool but we've all heard it before. same with the main synth. if you wanna make this better, add your own thing to it. im pretty sure everyone has something different they can add to styles like this and that's what allows people to make it big. if you add your own stuff im sure this will be a hit.
4/5 it was mastered well. but i just rated it a 6 because i didn't like it.
-crepth
lololol i can master better than that
thanks for reviewing :]
nice to see another goa fan on the portal!!
man. you have no idea... there are like no goa songs that i've heard on the portal. you're getting the idea of it down but like others were saying its more about a loud driving bass. and i think you should have added more sfx. Slower transitions and break measures are also what make goa so awesome... but since it wasn't goa alone that you were going for it's cool. still i think adding those things could have made it less repetitive.
5/5 great job. im going to post a song similar to this in a few weeks. if it occurs to you, go check it out.
-crepth
Thanks man!
At first, I aimed at "commercial trance", the Tiesto-like trance or what you'd call it, but I really can't break out from my goa / psy-habits so it gets a little like that. Then I decided that it very well could be a mix instead.
I also agree that this song has some flaws, but I'm just glad it was featured at the frontpage. What a shock!
Of course I will! Thanks crepth.
needs bass in a bad way
and some better recording equipment. this is pretty great though. you guys did a very nice job keeping together for the most part. except for when the trumpet had a solo... but you guys are going in a great direction. just add bass
4/5
-crepth
Yeah we are looking for a bass and some recording equipment.
We recorded this using the built in microphone on an ibook g4.
Thanks man!
you will grow to realize that this sounds bad.
your composing isn't really that bad, i'd call it more sporadic just work on your transitions. but you are really being brought down by the quality of your instruments they are all really bad quality. i can tell from the harpsichord that you use fl. try to master your sounds and perhaps more easily just find some guitar samples on the internet. go to the forums and ask around. you had some parts that were perfect for a video game battle song. i think you could break off into that genre very easily and be successful in it.
4/5 good luck on future songs.
-crepth
now that you mention it i can see which parts would fit in a video game yeah..
probably the more epic\melodic ones..remind me a bit of final fantasy-like stuff..lol.
anyway thanx i appreciate your review.
pretty much killed the original...
you got all the notes right and stuff. even though i think remixes should be more than just a change of instruments, at least you didn't fuck up the notes and rhythm. so as the others were saying its empty because of its lack of a bass line but also because of its airiness and lack of a strong instrument with some power to it. all of these instruments were compressed and had a lot of reverb and were relatively quiet. i don't know why you'd take a strong, fast paced, intense song and make it completely mellow with no "bulk". was that what you were going for or something? if so, sorry but i didn't like that- just my opinion. the amount of flanger you put on the bg sounds was unnecessary i think. aaaaannnnddd uhmmmm. it was well mastered not too preset-y. the bell is kinda generic though. so yeah, lacks body, has an unorthodox theme, and it goes well with itself (the instruments fit with eachother).
so i can see you don't like bad reviewers, gave you an extra piece of mah mind for ya... good luck on the remake. i hope you do consider at least a few of the things i said :]
4/5
-crepth
Thanks for the review, the hints are very helpful, I only dislike bad reviews when they are like "OMG THIS SONG SUX!" But don't have any helpful criticism, they just ignore the whole concept of helping out the artist with their song... But you on the other hand, you have put thought into this and it will most definitely help me when I remake the song! :D
Zeke30695
this is great. true trance right here ^^
at first i was like meh i don't have high expectations for this but you really drove it through with the sfx, perc, and pads all running at the same time. most of the instruments are very high quality and you have a nice atmosphere of ambiance and airiness. i liked it. your kick had the nice ... "wuhmp wuhmp" thing going but it could have been stronger. and the whole time. i was wondering. damn when is the bass gonna come in. then i realized my sub woofer was down and little bit... turned it up and still i could barely hear it. you should pump that up in the climax.
5/5 obviously. this should be 1st on the weekly best in my opinion. this is waaayyy better than g-R's song... no offense to him but you put a lot more effort into this and it shows!
im working on a trance song now and i might finish it soon. ill pm you for some advice on it if you have the time or if i ever do finish it.
-crepth
Sure thang neon.
I was a bit unsure about the bass aswell, most of the time when I do bass it's overly loud on the monitors in my room next door so I toned it down but didn't check it, so I wasn't sure if the levels were right or not. Another guy said the kick could be stronger aswell, I think that the level I have it at right now is too loud to let the pads takeover and create atmosphere but too quiet to creat a phat beat, if you know what I mean? kind a like a compromise between the two. I might fix this song up in the future.
Thanks fo the review n it'd be great if I could give you some advice :)
:D yeah you should change the genre
this is perfect for Gunbound online in a menu or something. anyone who plays it knows its better than what the menu song is now.
i think the instruments are too low quality to be understood as blues. they are far more similar to what we are used to in video games. especially the synth that kicks in at like 0:45. its just too perfect for a video game.
5/5 great job. maybe its just mislabeled... also the compression in the beginning hides the notes of the bass and when it uncompresses, the notes kinda come as a big surprise. maybe keep that in mind for future songs.
-crepth
Well I didn't want bass to highlight most of the song, since it's repetative. Also, thanks for the imput, I'll be looking forward to my next songs with that in mind.
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