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[Ghostwave]

beautifully executed

not much more to say. essentially classic style, rich, full with a deep soundstage and masterfully mixed and balanced. tight bass, sparkle on the high and appropriate transitions. well done. couldn't have done the idea more justice.

NemesisTheory responds:

Thanks! I really appreciate it. :)

["In Your Heart" F-777]

hey again

man, this is just getting depressing having to review this stuff...like seeing how crappy i was compared to you 8 years ago. judas priest. i had nowhere near this amount of style (or the kind of website cult following...).

oh well, all relative. i mean, even the mix - is extraordinarily well balanced and clear. it doesn't appear to really have any problem bands in the overall spectrum that i can pick out, just enough high end while not being obviously hyped. The low end is prominent and wieghty but not ridiculously overemphasized (big problem for most people.

what's your monitoring setup like? do you mix with headphones or speakers? i always wonder about this stuff because i look at you um...guys who are 8 years younger than me pushing out stuff that sounds just as balanced and have to wonder if it's just an effing fluke or if you've actually got a pair Adam S7's fed by a Benchmark DAC-1 as your secret weapon or some crap. I mean, 8 years ago I had a pair of crappy nady headphones and a logitech z-550 set of speakers (computer speakers do not = monitors...) that i used to listen to everything.

everything is being taken over by high school students i tell you. in 20 years, microsoft will be completely staffed by 18 year olds.

F-777 responds:

Lol thanks for your review!

I make about 90% of my songs with crappy headphones that don't even have a brand name. But i do have a nice set of speakers, no brand name either =S but still sound good, so when im done the song i normally play it on my speakers to see what needs adjusting =P.

thanks for your review!

["Drown" - F-777]

hello there

ah, yes - so I remember now seeing you favorited on quite a few people's pages...the famous "F-777". You're 14? I hope you just haven't updated that or it almost makes me feel embarrassed. I think at your age, the music I was making sounded primitive compared to this stuff. But then...Fruity Loops I don't even think had come out yet... or had just barely come out and I was still depending on the stock sounds in a $300 keyboard I was using under Power Tracks Pro (have any of you people even heard of that program? it's a flipping dinosaur...it actually is still being made but still looks like a friggin windows 95 program...sad).

anyway - the song is good - I know that FL Studio phaser anywhere, the sound is way way to typical (correct me if i'm wrong). The song progresses nicely and involves and really good blend of instruments, which can be quite difficult for a mix this busy. I might complain that the drums are mono-fied but I often just settle for that idea as well (esp. in Reason 3 when using Dr. Rex). To say that you don't have talent would be ridiculous.

it reminds me of this 8 year old i know who can use flash animation better than most people twice his age. To imagine him in a decade would likely put him at a near-professional level. Same thing applies here. I'd give you another decade and then figure that you're probably around the time that you become one of those typical Chinese big name trance techno producer that you see credits pop up for on one of those DDR type games. "Solja Tek feat. F-777"!! and then some massive beat pops up. you know, can't you see it. anyway - whatever you want to do i would guess is pretty much open game within a matter of years.

[paradigm shift]

wow!

i can tell those are the roland v-drums...but that's okay. it's still really really good. when the bass line shot in i was like "dang"! the guitar playing is slick. needs more of the bass guitar and a little more high end sparkle or amp 'presence'. other than that - it was fantastic.

[-Submerged-]

solid piece

Very stable and rock-solid instrumentation. Catchy rhythm and short breaks. honestly, i quite like this one. It's not needlessly complicated and overstated but still able to convey a good set of musical ideas. I'd like to see the idea extended to be more of a full "composition" rather than a 2 minute idea (i'm guilty of this all the time).

RAVEN responds:

Thanks for the review, joshhunsaker! I have to agree with what you said about expanding the track. I might consider revising it and making an extended version, but for now I still haven't decided. Glad you like the track! =)

[Beatforce Activated]

fun

It's a fun piece. enjoyable in a funky weird sort of way. even though it seems to loop the exact same set of bars about 12 times it takes a long time to get old. good work. i like the use of non-pitched instruments fm modulation sweeps.

[mario 3 underwater crazy theme]

kind of interesting

Yes, the drums are a little different. Could be a good thing. Somewhat a funny piece. The song doesn't seem to take itself very seriously, which made me smile during most of the piece. Simplistic, yet effective. A little short, but that may be the theme's fault that it is based off of.

newrounds1 responds:

hehe .... hmmm ...

[Through the Gates (Abbv.)]

the arps are well done

good trance saw use. can't deny that. i think you're pushing the distortion barrier with all the low end in this one...it sounds loud at the expense of any sense of dynamics. The song would be a ridiculous amount better if mixed well under the 0 db digital limit and them only compressed and limited slightly to lop of undetectable peaks. As it is...I can already tell that the waveform is going to look like a continuous set of square waves if opened in an audio editor. on top of this, the psychological compression algorithm used in mp3 encoding already causes a 0 db limited song to clip due to compression artifacts.

sense of melody is great though. and the ending was nice. the raw talent is there...it just needs some refinement. in fact i think some of arp use is extraordinary, so that should be commended.