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[NGHH KO1 - Broken Vs Gasmsq]

Hands Down Gasmasq

I hate to one-sidedly support one person over the other in this competition but the fact was all that empty space really took away from that track. Gasmasq had greater clarity in his Vocals, although both Vocal tracks left a little to be desired in terms of production (but they always do).

[Drum Track for E-Collab]

Huge Mistake, needs to be reuploaded

You need to rebounce it as either a mono file or a stereo file panned to the middle, because right now you only have it going to the left channel. That's a pretty big boner.

Also, this recording is very, very hot. Try to bounce it to make sure you're not clipping the actual track (and actually turn it down, compression won't help much if it's just way too loud).

Funzo123 responds:

Yeah, i just realized that it was panned to the left, sorry about that, i'll reupload.

[I Like to Move it [Rave Mix]]

Pretty Good Mix

I don't have the headphones to properly listen to it (so I got a bit of fuzz here and there) but overall it was pretty awesome. I wish you had included the original vocal track, because that is easily the most identifiable part of the song and the first thing that comes to my mind when somebody mentions that song. I guess it would violate the ToS of Audioportal, so I shouldn't complain too hard. Good mix all together.

[If I had Lungs]

Everything in this is really well executed except

The vocals. It's just that there is a problem with actual clarity. You might want to have a more human approach to how you represent the robot. The vocoder effect you have right now just makes it almost impossible to understand without the lyrics. The super reverb verse before the final two lines is also very hard to understand.

Vocals are a very hard thing to balance and portray clear, so you should always try to double check with an outside ear whether or not the lyrics are intelligible.

Other than that, there are negligible vocal flaws, which I'm sure you've already torn your hair out about and decided to leave be.

However, now that I'm done being an asshole, this was an awesome song, an awesome concept, and a good execution.

merlin responds:

It'd have been a much better song if Reason had an auto tuner like FL does... Oh well, perhaps some day I'll educate myself in the ways of FL. I never really wanted this song to be a greatest song of all time, if it were up to me, I would have chosen a different song :( But I'm currently working on a new one, that should have the best of both worlds on it! I hope you stumbled your way onto some of my other work!

[Graveyard (8-bit)]

I'm surprised such limitations lead to so much

Even though 8-bit is hard to take seriously, I would say that your compositional and arranging skills are incredible.

[Dick Kick (Modern 8bit)]

Is it still 8bit if you use actual Drum Kits?

Well, I guess this is a modern 8-bit piece, and I'm not too big of an 8-bit connoisseur so it was decent track nonetheless. I do admit this takes me back to the Gameboy Color Days.

Bunnymajs responds:

Ofc not :)
but i dont want it to be Chiptune or 100% 8bit..

Maybe i should Rename it not to be so misleading for those who actually know what 8-bit is :)

But then random people wouldnt understand what i mean..
and they are quite allot more people then those who know :D

[Don't Let Me Down]

No 5/4 Lead In Measure?

That was the best part of the song too...

Also, never cough on a recording, ever I took off three points for that and should have taken off more.

Urbanus responds:

Meh I'm not too upset. It was an off the cuff recording for kicks and giggles. Thanks for the review though! Not too many people are willing to dig into the nether regions of the audio portal.

[White Houses]

Good Demo, Vocals could use a tiny bit of polishin

Don't get me wrong, this is clean for a demo. I'm critiquing very specific things which for demos can be negligible, but help with mixing for the Pop Radio Crowd.

For Vox, Perhaps try backing off the mic a little bit to avoid clipping and perhaps putting the vocals in stereo. Stereo can be achieved by either recording to two tracks simultaneously or just doubling the original vocal track and panning one to one side and the other to the other side. Depending on what you record with, it can be achieved with certain imaging plug-ins as well.

You manage to pick up some tape hiss sounds as well, which may happen because you record incredibly loud some parts, but during the verse everything else drops out. If you want to get rid of that sound, record everything at the same volume and use volume automation or sample editing to create the dynamics.

Also, the bass is fine for the most part.

Otherwise, you have a good accessible grunge sound.

Diavaul1 responds:

Thanks for the feedback. Our vocals are stereo during the chorus and mono during the verse. We did this because it sounded weird in verse due to the overdubbing. The tape hiss is there because we didn't record the bass loud enough the first time so we had to boost it. We could re record it, but we're lazy. I'm not sure about clipping vocals, we didn't really notice that.

[It's War!]

You have captured the essence of Nintendo 64-midi

You have reproduced 64 midi all to well sir. I don't exactly know what stopped me from giving you ten out of ten, but I will probably correct myself later. It must be my bitchy mood. I'm probably on my period or something. Anyway good job with this track.

[B-Line It!]

Midi-ocre

There wasn't a strong melody line, though I liked the trumpet falls. Try to focus on composing a strong theme or melody to be developed and re-used, though the opening riff was very catchy.

I guess using the same progression really limited you in the end. I just felt like it didn't go anywhere. Solo-sections in midi music are best when they are highly structured, kind of like the synth solos in Toto's Roxanne or Africa. These sounded more improvisational and thrown together.

However, you have done a lot so give yourself a pat on the back and remember you're halfway there.