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[DaftVirgin Audio Trance]

Ok, few problems.

The kick drum clips. To fix this, (it would helpful to know which program you're using here), apply either a limiter, compressor. Try the former for now because it is less messy for beginners. In addition to that, lower the volume a tad bit. If you want a louder sounding drum, learn how to use compression and saturation. Those two combined will give you powerful sounds.

Try to get a bass in there as well. A good free synth to work with is TAL noisemaker. It creates excellent dirty basses.

[TL - Deeper]

Nice job.

The melodies and ideas are very cool. The implementation has some issues though. The drums were nice and crisp. I could use a little bit more punch with the kick drum, and a snare that is a little less cheesy.
For the synths. The first one was good. The one that comes at :24 is not so good. I can see what you are going for though. To improve the sound of that, some reverb would be nice. Pads in the background sound amazing with that kind of lead (increase the higher frequencies of the pads if you already mixed them in there) . Other thing. Add some note dynamics. Use LFO's to alter the pitch just slightly. Then add some slight detune to the saws. The one that comes in at the break is better in my opinion. Just mix the two together, and you have a nice saw lead that has a nice textured detune.

Hope this helped. Overall, it's pretty good.

TeHLoY responds:

Hmm... Awesome suggestions you've made!
I do agree, the one that came in .24 isn't too good, I was aiming for a video-gamey e.guitar sound, but it ended up like that. It does sound a bit sharp, maybe I should have just lowered the high frequencies of that.
Pads? Never really thought of adding it there. And a subtle LFO? Man, you're good at looking for when to add these stuff. ;)

Yup, I think this song can definitely be improved, but I don't plan on touching this song unless I have to =X And thanks for the great suggestions on how to improve!

[~Alfa~ Strobe (Full)]

Haha

This is purely amazing. Love the lead. It sort of has a Ben Preston feel to it (My favorite). Nice work.

aliaspharow responds:

Thanks man you not so bad yourself!

[TL - Brighter than Light]

You have really good ideas.

Trust me. The melodies were beautiful. I especially liked the piano. You mix it in well.

It's true. Trance is really hard to make. (Hence why I switched to house :p). The reason lies in the EQ. Trance is composed of many parts (Low Bass|Mid Bass| High Bass|Gate|Pads|Lead|Drums)

They all occupy different frequency bands, so if some frequencies overlap, it is important to lower the frequency band of the instrument that doesn't belong there (ie, if a pad takes away from the bass, lower the low frequencies).

The other difficulty comes from synthesizing the right sounds. I would ditch sytrus and get Sylenth because Sylenth allows for up to 8 waves per osc. You'll find that this makes a big difference in quality.

The alternative to this of course is layering different patches of 3xOsc or Sytrus, but it's just harder to work with.

Anyways, I hoped that this helped. Tell me when you have a new track up, and I can come listen to it.

TeHLoY responds:

Well, sure.
I've encountered this problem many times, when two instruments just don't sound right together. I've learnt by removing the conflicting frequencies, it became alright.

I've never seen the frequencies split into many parts. Maybe that's because I mix by ear, I know very little theory about mixing. o.o

Actually, I prefer 3xOsc over sytrus. I think it's because I'm really used to 3x, but I'm still learning sytrus anyway. I often have to layer two 3xosc synths to get enough oscillators.

And of course, this really helped a lot. Thanks for this awesome review!!

Do pm me too when you post a new song. I would like to listen to it too. =)

[|-venting-|]

I don't really like hip hop

But that was amazing.

The beginning was really good, probably the best part of the track. I think you need more variation in the rest of the song though, add a lead, idk.

O-Prime125 responds:

i think its ok how it is to be honest , it is rap after all.
Thanks for the comment though! :)

[Para - Blistering Eyes]

Umm...

You guys are kidding right? I agree, the pitched voice was annoying, but everything was amazing. (second part especially). It was very infected mushroom guitaresque. I loved the leads (maybe the square lead could be softened a bit though), other than that, it was great!

Koriigahn responds:

Thank's for the review!

[Robo Festival]

Really tight.

It sounds quite good. I would add some pads into it so that the reverb isn't the only thing in the background. Btw, I would get another reverb because the FL built in reverb has a very cheap sound (its model based, whereas convolution reverbs sound more realistic). The beats are also nice. I think you are doing quite a good job. Keep it up.

hau5wave responds:

well thank's, glad you liked my robotic track lol.
I will take a look at those reeverbs that u mentioned.
thank's for the review

[FreeFall[Original Mix]]

It's sad

that people can't appreciate this great song. Maybe I came a little too late? Anyways, I'm putting you on my 5ing list, so hopefully you can get to front page.
The bass is amazing. You make good use of the 5th semitone, but you exceeded my expectations by giving it a little vibrato. What synth are you using for it because its just perfect.
In the beginning, it could use some other percs, or some other additions to the bass (have you heard Dinka - Chemistry?) if not, I would definitly do so. However, in the mix, it was flawless.
If you recorded the vocal sample yourself, then cheers; it was spectacular. One nice thing to try out would be to do some gating, or just some coordinated vocal chop in the beginning, then to introduce the full vocal during the breakdown.
The pluck was great. I'd love to know how you made it. I can see its parallel in Ben Preston's work.

I think the chord progression was quite decent. I did somewhat capture the ideas you tried to incorporate into "free fall." But to really sway your listeners, you should to a total breakdown. Since "free fall" would be something that's maybe not so great when you first start it out, if you know what I mean.

Decent stuff, don't let the bombers bog you down. (Though, if you want this song to do well, I wouldn't curse Newgrounds and all of its audiences.)

Anyways nice work, looking forwards to seeing more of your stuff. Maybe a collab is possible in the near future? Idk, could be interesting. PM me if you are interested.

[Strobe (HLS Mix)]

Love the bass,

The lead, not so much, however, because the quality is really good for newgrounds, I will do my best to keep it on the front page (we need more real trance on ng. Just PM me if it gets bombed.

As for the song, I would work on increasing the harmonic content found in the lead, and on improving the chorus effect on it to give it a rich texture. Btw, what synthesizer did you use for the bass? (yes, its that good ;)

heartless1298 responds:

Wow thanks a lot, I really appreciate that! And thanks a lot for the advice too, that's a really good idea that I kinda forgot about haha. And I'll PM you about the bass, so that I know for sure that you get it.