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[Coven Girls Remix MF v HZ]

Guess who just bought hos first track ever of Itunes after listening to this for 20 seconds!? Me!!
The full thing is just so awesome :D. It pretty much perfectly mixed. This track sounded just as good on my iphone headphones and on my Akg k618's :D.
The vocals are amazing. I absolutely LOVED them actually :D. The moment I clicked the play button, the vocalist just had me instantly. The vocals are also really well mixed into the teack which helps to make the vocals shine.
The strings sounds AMAZING, and the guitar.... Seriously, the guitar solo was so incredible it made me cry ;D. It fits perfectly in the track and really took me by surprise XD.

Though I've said all the pros about the track, I do have to take into consideration that this is only a 40 seconds snippet of the track. Thus I'll have to rate it as a 40 second long track. So I'm afraid I can't give you a full score. The full track gets 10/5 (yes 10 of 5). This snippet still deserves a 4 though XD.
-Ectisity

hania responds:

LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LOVE YOU! Thank you so much for the support! I really love what Manu-Forti and I have going on, and all the amazing work from Tom Willis (guitar) really makes the whole thing KICK ASS!!

[Current Project]

I can always appreciate a good guitar riff, and I love this one . I especially how you arranged the different riffs. Everythings sounds like one, long riff which is what you want to accomplish when writing rock :). You seem to have all the basics down for the guitar. The quality is a bit poor, but the poor quality actually make this track more personal. I think it has it's own charm because you can clearly hear that this was recorded live. While listening to it I actually felt like I could imagine you sitting on your bed with your guitar and your amp, playing this XD.

So basically, I loved the guitar, but the problem is that there is only a guitar. I really missed a bass and some drums in this. It would have been so unbelieveably epic with at least drums. I really hope you will make this into a full metal track in the future. Are you a part of a band?

Anyways, overall I really liked the riff, but it was lacking bass and drums. I felt like I only listened to the guitar part of a full rock song.
If you ever make this a full song, make sure to let me know ;).
-Ectisity

Insomnimatic responds:

First off I would like to thank you very much for the review.

As a matter of fact, I was sitting on my bed recording this haha. The quality is an issue I need to somehow get around. I currently use my Rocksmith Guitar Cable and Mixcraft with some different VST's to achieve the sound.

I actually am at the moment learning bass but I just can not figure out a good bass line to go with this track. I also play drums but I don't have any drum microphones at the moment or a place to play (They are acoustic drums not electronic) so the drums I will have an issue with, saddly. I would love to add some really good drum tracks to this but at the moment I can not.

I am not currently part of a band but I have been in one band before. We disbanded for lack of others showing up for practice and we decided it would be for the best.

I plan on making this a full song and maybe even sing / scream for it but I'm not a very vocalized person haha. Very hard for me to hit notes but I can low and mid scream decently.

[Glasslip OP RmX]

Love the glasslip op and this remix is awesome as always :D.

[F(x)]

Really nice and atmospheric track this :D. I loved how you made intro really calm and atmospheric and just broke it down around 0:16 :D. Sounded awesome. The bass part sounded good for a while, but then it got a bit too repetetive. Listening further into the track, I noticed that the track just stayed on the buildup. There was never any drop. Sure, not every dance track needs a powerful drop, but they should at least have some sort of breaks. I felt like this track lacked that. I really liked the feel of it, but it sounded like a never ending buildup to me. Try studying some other dance tracks and see how they do their breaks. I'm not saying that you should copy them, but there is always something you can learn from listening to others.

Still liked the funky feel of it though and the ambient sounding of it.
Keep it up :).
3 stars.

Crimsonskies455 responds:

Thank you sooooooooo much for your review. I freaking love the feedback.! Do you know any songs that I can canalize for drops that would sort of accompany my style, or any songs that have good breaks?

[Breaking]

Great stuff this :D. Loved the funky feeling it gives :). It's been a while sincd I've hear some proper retrofunk. I loved how you arranged the different parts of the song, and managed to keep it interesting without changing the melody too much. I also liked the melody btw XD.
One thing that i think could use some work is the mixing. Especially the mixing of the subbassy synth.
It really clashes with the lead. You might also need to level it a bit differently as the sub is a bit too loud for my liking.
Around 2:50 you use kind of a distorted guitar-ish synth. This could also use some work, as it really hurt my ears listening to it. I think the main problem with it is that it's too loud, but it could also use some mixing work as well.

Other than that I really liked it :). It had a really nice feel and I really liked how you varied the drums as well :D. I'm by no means a good mixer, but fix the mixing and I think this will be great :D.
Keep it up ;).
-enochcity

Voltus responds:

Hey thank you very much for your Review, glad you liked it.

Whats up with the mixing complaints? You're not the only one who noticed this. I referenced the track in the studio with everything sounding fine, what monitoring system do you have? The synth around 2:50 is just a sudo randomly resonating filter with a lot of reso. What I didn't mix in the studio was the sub, I don't have a lot of tools for referencing that at home so that might be a little too much. IDK I try my best but am always kind of bummed when people point out my mixing is too loud, mushed or whatever. Anyways thanks for your review and as I said I'd like to know your monitoring setup.

Cheers!

[Are You Afraid?]

Hoped to see you guyz pitted up against each other kn the NGADM, but now that you've teamed up I guess you'll go pretty far X3.
Great tune :D. Good luck in the NGADM ;).

[Telephantism (Demo)]

I think Inferno said everything that needs to be said so I'll just confirm his review.
The mix IS very muddy. And no, the vocals won't fix the mix :P. If the mix is bad before the vocals it will become even worse after the vocals. I suggest that you fix the mixing now and don't wait until after you've added the vocals.
Other than that I disliked pretty much of all of the panning. Just became annoying.
You do have composistion skills though. I really liked the melodies and arrangement which is why I'm giving a higher score than inferno.
With some mixing changes and vocals I might give this a full score.
-Ectisity

Chris354 responds:

Okay - I'll need to look at mixing and see how some of the panning can be corrected - I will lessen the panning significantly so that its lots closer, but keeping it all in the middle for the guitars is NOT a good idea with the mixing in mind.

Vocals will not be able to go online as for other changes until August so that auditions are fair and honest.

[Classical Gas (Tommy Style)]

I'm always surprised over what a single guitar can do by itself :D. It's one of tye reasons why it's my favourite instrument even though I play the piano as well :D. This is a great example of the superiority of guitars X3. I loved how you used dynamics and take the listener to another world while listening to your track :). Imagined myself being in the wild west while listening to this XD.
I'm not giving a full score because even though I liked it with the guitar alone I think it could have been more amazing with some western soundeffects and some piano notes.
Great work anyways :D
4.5 stars.
-Ectisity

Ceevro responds:

Thanks for the review! I gotta say that this is about the most difficult thing I've ever learned to play. I had to buy a new mic to do it, because every attempt at getting the dynamics with my old mic was just...well...the mic couldn't keep up with the range in the song.

Perhaps I'll do a version with some orchestration later, but that's a really tough order, because there are multiple key/time/tempo changes, which means I can't just patch in some loops - I gotta play the orchestral parts live! I'm a good guitarist, but not so good with a piano, ya know?

[>Luma<]

Really enjoyed listening to this :D! As said in the review below. The bass sounds a bit low to me though, or I think it's rather that the lower frequencies of the bass are all cut out. I would have cut frequencies below 100-200 hertz, but not more than that. Only personal taste though.
Other than that I luv it :D. Liked the arrangement and luved the melodies :).
Keep up the good work :D!
-Ectisity

[Towards Madness (alt)]

Frst of all I want to say that this type of music is not really my piece of cake. For me it sounds very messy and tiring for my ears because of all the random stuff going on. So this is not really something I enjoy listening to. That's just a matter of personal taste though.
Speaking from a technical standpoint, this track does what it was set out to do. I actually really liked all the melodies, and how you keep them interesting by varying them. The song is also very well arranged and mixed, though I do think the drums during the intro was a bit too loud.
The song has a lot of interesting and ideas, and keeps itself interesting throughout. It really has that feeling of a boss battle, though I do believe thatsome people (like me) would get tired of listening to this for too long because of all the background stuff and noise.
I can really see that you put alot of effort into this one :). Again, keep in mind that my review is just matter of personal taste :3.
4 stars.
-enochcity