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ü two are too powerful jfc

stardew responds:

thank üüü :')

we will take over the world

Onefin responds:

respect the ümlaüt

Pretty good overall but almost entirely without any low end. It lacks in power as a result.

Add some sub. :P

R3VMusic responds:

okay, thanks for the feedback! :D

If this is still around in a few months it will be absolutely hilarious to look back on these episodes where you didn't really know exactly what you were doing haha.

One very important note: the audio is clipping (going above 0db, in case you don't know), which causes terrible-sounding distortion. The easiest solution is just to turn everything down.

WAConline responds:

YOU AGAIN! I WILL FUCKING! URGH!!!

You know what, nevermind. You got a point. I noticed that After I recorded it but since I already recorded 30 minutes of audio I couldn't do a thing about it sadly. But tomorrow I will fix that. :P
Plus, I had to switch rooms because the computer on the other room wasn't working. But the audio can be fix easily. I'll get someone to help with that tomorrow.

Feedback incoming...
The chords have undertones which become a little overly prominent when they're extended. Was that intentional? If not, might be something to fix as it sounds a bit weird.
Drums could have used a longer fade-in IMO.
Nice arp.
The chords being on the left makes that side feel a lot heavier than the right. If there was some way to keep them more central it would have helped.
Nice build at the end of that sequence but it seemed like the drums lost a lot of oomph at the end of it. Maybe shorten the samples for that bit to prevent them getting limited so much?
Melody coming in at 1:07 is a nice synth.
When you change it up a bit later, it's not really enough - the song as a whole is pretty much just repeating itself.
Aaaand there's the piano!
Nice build, and the melody after it is great, but the synth isn't really fit for constant notes at that speed. When the piano takes over that melody it sounds a lot better.
Nicely done outro. Back to the start.
The undertone I mentioned before seems to carry on a lot longer than the rest of the chord - another reason to try and get rid of it, really. It was causing it to be a bit too heavy.

Overall, a nice track which is enjoyable to listen to (especially when I'm not wearing my good headphones which are making the undertones more audible than if I used my earbuds or laptop speakers), just needs a couple touch-ups and a bit less repetitiveness.

Lubloom responds:

3...2...1...
Probably something that I need to look into. Probably due to the harmonizer and or the timbre.
Maybe.
A modified Nexus one, I believe.
I didn't notice that when I was listening to it. Odd.
Never thought of doing that. I could do.
It was supposed to sound like the sample from Maduk's "Hourglass".
I intended it to be repetitive. I always try and go for different melodies, and sometimes I really think they just don't fit. And as a comparison, listen to both Hourglass and Ghost Assassin if you haven't done so.
Gotta have it in there somewhere!
Maybe turning down the synth would have helped, or reduce the velocity.
Thank you.
I'm gonna mess around with that later. To be honest it was the first time I'd ever used Harmless so I don't have a good idea on how to use it, but hopefully I can do something.

Thanks. Don't forget to check out both of the songs I mentioned. Well, that is if you want to. I can send you links if necessary :)

Piano <3333333333333

Nice intro. Love the drums.
Melodies are nice.
Love the lead coming in at about 0:38.
For some reason your background synths almost always make your track feel pretty heavy. Might be worth looking into. Just the quantity of sound is a little overwhelming. I think it's the piano, but I'm not sure.
There's too much going on at the section from 1:28 on - it's really pretty cluttered.
(That said, the individual sounds are nice, but there are too many at once.)
The outro is nice, but that sub is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too powerful. Maybe it was just the sub before and not the piano, I don't know. But please turn it down a bit.

Overall, nice track, lots of good stuff going on, but you maybe try a little too hard for variety of sounds and melodies here.

Lubloom responds:

Gotta love that Trance-style piano, am I right :P

I was messing around with the drums for a while and I found I was using a too powerful hi-hat, so hopefully that helped :3.
Thanks :)
A preset from Nexus called Another World.
I think it's due to the fact that I use a sub that requires massive sub-bass boost. Probably makes it feel a lot heavier.
I agree with that, I think it's because I tried to get the piano to match the lead. Need to tone that down :P
Idk what went on with the sub at the end lol. I gotta tone that down.

Thanks, and yeah I probably do. I was trying to go for variety on this one, but maybe a little to much.

I can fap to this

Not exactly how I imagined it panning out after the beginning, but well done! I was expecting something more in the line of detuned saws (Envy-style), but the chips work too.

I also feel like it might have done a bit better if you had added a more personal touch to it - instead of just remaking it, REIMAGINE it.

Lubloom responds:

EnV's style would have worked quite well too, but I wanted to go for a more chippish feel.

I might add a bit in at the end rather than having the chorus repeat 3 times.

Thanks for the review!

The start feels a little drawn out and repetitive, though definitely not as much so as Moonshine did. :P

It also a lot more build - right now you only have just the one measure of wubs before the drop. It could probably be improved a lot by a repeating drum sample, or other things that you find in lots of dubstep.

Other than that, great work! I can't wait to hear the finished product.

Lubloom responds:

I've already made a lot of change to the start, don't worry :P

Yeah, I agree. I'll work on that soon :D

Thank you!

Pretty good for your first song!

The song progresses nicely (especially the build-ups), and you have some interesting stuff going on. A couple things to work on would be mixing the synths better (by adjusting their volumes) and incorporating more sounds into the piece to make it more interesting.

I'm interested to know how you made it - what synths/samples did you use?

LucaZ69 responds:

Thank you very much for tips:-)
I collecting samples from projects of other people..
Some samples i have from free vocal packs:-)
If you mean wobble samples and other stuff that's from Harmor(basic plugin in FL studio), i edited this samples little bit and make melody with it.

R4R

Kick at the start is REALLY weird, like too weird.
The repeated vocal sample for the first year and a half got boring quickly.
More or less though, the stuff behind that sounds quite good.

First drop -
The warbly synth on the high end sounds kinda bad to be honest... (Might it be resampled vocals?)
Overall this section of the song doesn't sound too nice. It's just loud and a bit obnoxious.

The breakdown afterward is something I love, though. That melody is great. I thoroughly enjoyed this part and the section following it leading up to the second drop, with a good use of the vocal samples.

The second drop is better, but the bassline of a repeated note decreasing slightly in pitch doesn't sound good at all. It doesn't matter if that's something with the genre - it just isn't nice to listen to.

The outro is okay, but it still has that bass synth that doesn't agree with me.

Overall, it seems like this is probably a genre song. The issue is that you tried too hard to make it in the genre rather than actually making it sound great. Don't be afraid to try something different if it makes it sound better.

MegaSphere responds:

>Kick at the start is REALLY weird, like too weird.
________It's a weaker variant of the main kick and I think it does the job well.

>The repeated vocal sample for the first year and a half got boring quickly.
________Matter of taste. I enjoy listening to hours of 80s hip hop to find cool stuff to sample. Another example of this is in my track 'This Beat Kicks'.

>First drop
>The warbly synth on the high end sounds kinda bad to be honest... (Might it be resampled vocals?)
________Can't say I have this problem, could it perhaps be your equipment? I've mixed this on both my monitors and headphones so any ear piecing highs should be tamed.

>Overall this section of the song doesn't sound too nice. It's just loud and a bit obnoxious.
________Haha, you've nailed this genre!

>The breakdown afterward is something I love, though. That melody is great. I thoroughly enjoyed this part and the section following it leading up to the second drop, with a good use of the vocal samples.
________Ty ;D

>The second drop is better, but the bassline of a repeated note decreasing slightly in pitch doesn't sound good at all. It doesn't matter if that's something with the genre - it just isn't nice to listen to.
________That isn't a bassline... Yeah, it's a genre thing.

The outro is okay, but it still has that bass synth that doesn't agree with me.
________No idea what 'bass synth' you're talking about. The outro is just the kick and the vocals.

>The issue is that you tried too hard to make it in the genre rather than actually making it sound great.
________I don't get this... I like a music genre, so I make a track in that genre and you're telling me that I shouldn't be making that particular style, instead I should write something YOU find 'great'.

>Don't be afraid to try something different if it makes it sound better.
________What's different about my track is that it is 150BPM, same tempo as Hardstyle, yet very clearly Hardcore. It's not even slowed down Hardcore either, it sounds poor when I change the tempo to something more standard like 170BPM.

From your review I can tell you just wouldn't like the music I listen to and your feedback is essentially, "don't make music you like".

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