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[HW - Sedative Shapes]

waaaahhh

Finally something nice in the top-5. The other songs are nothing compared to this. Love this quite peaceful awesome chill track! Love the rhodes and drums, just awesome, what software do you use btw?

5/5, 10/10, download and favourite from me!

MW-Audio (Mjattie)

haywirehaywire responds:

thanks bro, it means a lot to me. I use FL9 and Sonar.

[Walk Before Running2]

not bad

things I notice during listen: random tempo change, not catchy piano, bass needs boost, kick needs boost, (hi-hats too as you allready know :P) lead that drops in at 1:46 is much too loud. Overall song needs some boost in the freq: 2000-5000 hertz. Ah the piano is not bad in the middle. Melodies are quite nice.

Not bad though, I'm just writing the things to aprove ;)

4/5, 7/10

MWA (Mjattie)

Mushroomhead18nc responds:

If I boosted everything you just listed the song would sound terrible honestly.. it would just make it louder cause your asking to boost bass,mids and highs for the hats.. and this song has one tempo change and thats in the beginning to the main techno part.. other than that theres no other tempo changes...

Now that I listen to it.. I do agree with the lead being too loud at 1:46..

Thx for the review

[[OS] Beyond The Snow]

...........speachless

Astonished... Really astonished. The emotion put in this piece is just superb! I like the piano with echo! By your voice I though singing xD but it are just a couple of breaths. It all flows very well and the quality is on a level higher than any song of yours before! Wow... that emotion! I forget time when I listen to this... The progression and subtle rain... Everything fits!

5/5, 10/10, download and favourite: no complain from me!

Gr. MW-Audio (Mjattie)

ObsidianSnow responds:

Awesome, I couldn't have gotten a better response from you, MW. I really appreciate it. Btw, we need to do another collab sometime. Email me when you have some time, and we'll try to set something up.

Thanks a lot for your review, MW!

[-=Moving Air=-]

jazzy? :O

win: I like the piano and the glitchy synths (?) which are on some piano notes. That trance-like lead is quite nice! The background synths also sound nice and I want to congratulate you for the overal result! It's a download for me!

"fail" (I wouldn't say fail :P but that's the way you asked me xD): Mastering... When the drums and bass drop in, everything sounds overcompressed. Maybe put the volume down of some instruments, or (re)equalize them, though then it won't sound the same... It's not jazzy :P.

Tips: maybe ad some more high-pitched hi-hats. Try to find a better piano sampler or better keyboard so that it sounds more real played. I wouldn't say this is live played (also because it's quantized(<--that's not bad though!)) Try sidechaining the trance synth with the bass drum if you want to xD

Overal: nice synths, nice piano, nice drums, bit poor compressed (mixing is OK ;)). The "fail" isn't really fail xD

5/5, 9/10, download

MW-Audio (Mjattie)

combatplayer responds:

Thanks man :D i did notice the compression and i till change that. And there is some high pitched hihats but i lowered them allot. Also, the drums that kick in with the bass isent mastered besides for the main EQ so allot of room for improvements on that area. So most of the points u mentioned are fixable so ill definatly have a look on them when i get home. And about the name lol. That will most likely change if i get some sort of lyricks or story onto it... Oh and the piano is a HEAVELY mastered and over mixed FL keys. Though i like the sound it got. The piano is played by hand but as u said, quantised. I could never make a piano part like that in a sequencer or whatever lol..

Thanks allot for your review and nice (wise too lol) words ^^

Eddit: i tried fixing most of the problemes u mentioned PLUS a little of my own inspiration.. but in returnit now eats over 6GB RAM and my CPU almost twice.
i dont know if it helped but i hope it did ^^

[The Experiment Rmx]

A bit too much echo on the piano perhaps? :P

It sounds a bit muddy like this. It's really trancy you know xD and I like the drums (as usally). Strings are OK. The clap fills are nice xD, but the echo behind those on 1:38 are not in sync. Melodies are OK. I like the synth at 2:30. Bass is nice. Kick has a bit too much bass --> maybe put it louder and cut the last bit of the sample off, so that you keep the high tones and leave the low tones behind.

Not bad, but a bit lazy mixing xD

4/5, 8/10

MW-Audio (Mjattie)

Airprogressive responds:

hahahah thanks mjattie!

[Beats and Broadswords(trapped)]

it's not classical now is it :O

I though that this would be a classical/movie-theme-kinda song, but as I hear now, it proves me wrong! Dnb/dubstep/glitch/classical-kinda song :O I love it! The glitchy instruments really make it sound quite unique!

Certainly 5/5, 10/10 and a download!

MWA (Mjattie) (I'd be pleased if you'd listen to my newest song --> Out of Control, which is a sort of ambient/house song :))

nubbinownz responds:

Listened, loved it :D Thank you for the review man :D

[[OS] Bloodstained Phoenix]

I know that what you sent me 5/6 months ago :P

I didn't know what to do, because it's YOUR piece and now you finished I'm happy that I didn't help you with it. You surely did a nice thing! I must say, that I like the beginning the most of all, but that's just a matter of taste.

Good things:
I really like the piano melody (in beginning especially), violin, cymbals, high pitched background synths, drum highpassing, drum fills.

Tips: Buy a (Midi) keyboard and really let yourself going with real played notes: you'll certainly hear difference! Though, I still don't know how the hell you do it now; let it sound this realistic without a keyboard...
I'd delete the last note of this piece xD I like the semi out of tune note and when you "play" the last note, the C, it feels... argh... don't know how to say, just not really right.

Drums: I think they sound too plain, or it's just the fact that I (and you) have used them too often: the "reason rock kits". You could try to pick a electronic kit, but that's totally up to you (off course)

These "tips" are just nitpicking and I think you really did a nice job!

5/5, 10/10,

MWA (Mjattie)

ObsidianSnow responds:

lol yeah, I remember when I sent this to you for help. I thought for a while that it would end up sitting on my computer and never being released, but here it is.

XD I thought that last note would kill you inside. It does that to me a little bit, too. It's a little too easily resolved that way... which, unfortunately, is the symbolism I was aiming for. Sorry, bud. The note of ear-death must stay.

Yeah, I'm really hoping I can let loose with an actual keyboard one of these days. Still don't have the cash, though. As for how I do it without one... let's just say it takes a crapload of time, and I'm really, really picky. Just wait till you hear BTS, which is done with the exception of an effect that requires me to take a recording of a very busy friend. I've never been so picky with the sound before.

lol I hate the drums a bit, too. Maybe I should have gone with glitch or something... Meh, it's done now, and I probably won't end up fixing it (unless someone commissions a redux of it). I'll keep it in mind for next time.

Thanks a lot, bud - I always do appreciate your reviews!

[Orchestration part 2]

wow

When the vocals popped in, everything fitted perfectly. I recognise the violin section of nn-xt and the glitch kits of redrum xD (that's not bad I use them also a lot). But I really love this song, whow!!! Great vocals but that bass is just a bit too "in your face" for my meanings.

Great song though, 5/5, 10/10, download, favourite!

Gr MW-Audio (Mjattie)

SilentSeraph responds:

thanks for that :D good call on the NNxt and glitch kit too. I will admit, I mastered this on my laptop speakers and didnt change the mix from the other part of the orchestration figuring it would all still mix well. I wish I'd increased the vox channel though, but I did a live recording/effects automation run, so it only exists as a WAV file X(

[Eckhart Saw Hell Too]

reminds me of yann tiersen

Piano playing is a bit arrhythmical. Piano itself is nice.

Overal song is muddy. That's a shame, it started so nicely but then those drums aren't really fitting, so is the flute. Bassplaying is too spastic (at least after ± 2 min... That's a shame...

Average song though...

4/5, 8/10

MWA (Mjattie)

siike92 responds:

Yeah I'm not really a Piano player so some of this was rather difficult for me. Especially the middle part, and that part is still really off timing.

As for the muddyness, the quote from the movie(Jacob's Ladder) was,

"Eckhart saw hell too. He said "the only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you," he said. "They're freeing your soul. So, if you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth.""

In Jacob's Ladder, Jake holds on and and sees the devils tearing his life apart. I wanted this song to represent the confusion and the process of dieing and struggling to hold on to life. I don't really know if that justifies it, but I think it accurately portrays the idea. But yeah, thanks for the review man. Your critisism is much appreciated.

[Anger of Love]

emotional

The good:
Good use of those strings, sound really emotional. (0+10=10)

How to improve:
-add reverb to all instruments for a more live played feeling (10-1=9)
-drums sound a bit unreal, you could try to put some tape distortion on it. (9-1=8)
-everything sounds a bit unrythmic, like you've not played with metronome (8-1=7)
-ending is abrupt (7-1=6)

Not bad though,

3/5, 6/10

knetter3 responds:

Thanx for the review

I'm still learning about all the posibilities my software has, so it will ever get better, thanks for the good advices!