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Again...

Second song in this competition ive heard that uses xkore's samples. (im pretty sure). Try attributing him next time.

Songs not that bad though, not a fan of the high formants but what ever.

dietsnapple135 responds:

I'm sure there's quite a few submissions in the contest ripping xKore. Since you commented in the contest about the percussion, I'll assume you mean my snare. 3 snares layered from the vengeance pack(which xKore uses, I'm sure), compressed, layered with white noise and recompressed. Not stolen, if you thinking it was stolen affected your score, please re-evaluate. If not, don't sweat it. Thanks.

Xkore samples......

Just sayin, you coulda attributed him.

Decibel responds:

IMSRYWUT? :p
Thanks for the 9 broham ;)

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NYEEARARAARGHHHH.

Less mids!

Kick is too trancey imo, rest of the percussion is nice.
wayyy too much mids on the bass.

You coulda had a more prominent break, introduced a new arp/chord variation; a sub bass drop when the wobble phrases finish. But the main melody was pretty interesting & pretty scary!

Thats about it, but the mids on that wobble really ruined it tbh dude.
Pretty good feel throughout though, definetly getting there.

A Trip!

Production was excellent, I started off thinking this was gonna be out of my genre comfort zone, but wow i was wrong this whole song was a TRIP man. Seriously it took me places so chill.

InvisibleObserver responds:

Big thanks. Genre and tone wise I find the song pretty likeable, but I was (and still am) nervous as to 18 minutes being rather daunting to approach.

You have survived the gauntlet.

Emotional song needs emotional samples!

When writing these kind of slower piano based songs, so much depends on your piano samples, if your still using stock samples id reccomend finding some soundfonts or if ya got the time serach for a vst called "prova" which is really good.

Not something id actively listen to usually, saw someone mentioned Final fantasy below and yes, i could totally see this in a final fantasy game.

Also make sure your addign dynamics(volume of individual notes) when ur sequencing emotional instruments, even go overboard with loud notes then soft just so the lsitener doesnt get the impression of monotony. Loved when the everything checked in at 3:30 ish.

Also try sticking to that 4/4 a little more, sure its nice to get instresting rhythms but a couple parts had some awkward beat skips and rhythms etc.

I like where your going dude keep it up.

Not me cup of tea exactly...

Maybe layer that hat off the kick?(so the kick is clearer and doesnt sound liek a punchy high hat)
And the descending "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaooow", could be turned down a bit and less frequent.(or just turn down the mids in it)
I found the drum patterns a little too awkward, not relaxing enough to be ambient and not groovy enough for DnB.

Favorite part was the deep sine bass, very beinaurly!

But thats my thoughts mostly subjective, kinda weird i just made an ambient/DnB song as well ^-^. Is this your RUNAGDM entry btw? Good work overall, watch out for solus!

RetromanOMG responds:

This won't be my contest piece, I just wanted to make something different (my actual entry is actually going to be my usual style cranked out to mind-bending extremes).

I will make a few changes to this song, though.

Definetly Good

But i feel like its deviant somewhat from the classic xKore.

i mean, rather stereotypical wobbles nothing too interesting happening in the back either(shoulda bring in some of that stuff from eden imo)
Need a little compression/highs on the tom roll in the intro.
The laser shots are just about the worst about part of the song(are you trying to appease the mainstream lol?).

But dont get me wrong this is full headbanging dubstep glory right here, the drop rather insane, i just feel youve done much better/original work before.

Wow are people hating!

The mix took a sec to get used to, usual xkore style slightly over comrpessed to perfection.

But better than most your dubstep tracks, always try to keep the melodies alive in your music and not just head banging WUBWUB. And that bass is sooooo full!

Definetly above average!

Close dude, all i can reccomend is a different clap; its what keeps this song kinda corny. The kick could be pumped just a tad. The bass is just right and everything else in the mix. The writing is also a little unoriginal(synths and chords). But they definetly evoke emotion!

Unoriginality should be the least of your problems though even though your mixing skills are really close to getting there; so this is when you should start worrying about unoriginality and developing your own style.(not saying im there yet either :P)

Ill be hearing ur next stuff bro ood work. ;)

TeHLoY responds:

I chose to use a common chord progression on purpose. I wanted to challenge myself on using something so common yet try to make this song unique.

Unfortunately, I don't see this song finished anytime soon. My computer is killing the sound quality, can't even do much at all.

My own style? I'm still learning how to program synths, so now most of my stuff sounds generic, and my melodies are often limited to simple arpeggios as it is hard to start a good melody without inspiration.

Meanwhile, my sample library is rather small, I'm often using identical samples for most of my songs. I'm still looking around for more samples, but for now, I can only modify my current samples by Eqing, layering, etc... But I might find a better clap sample, the one I used for this song is just a default fl studio sample that is heavily modified.

blargh

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