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[A Trip Around Bass World]

The sound design is pretty cool, though knowing the plugins you used, I assume you used mostly presets. Your drums sound like the default FL drums too, although I personally am perfectly fine with using presets.

I'd appreciate it if the bass melody had more variation. Right now it's mostly just looping the same stuff with filters added in. Also many of the notes and chords don't sound like they are from the same song, the main key of the song seems to change at some points.

The worst about this by far is the mixing. The drums are barely hearable, the bass is really loud compared to everything else, and the sub bass drop at for example 1:04 is soooo freaking loud compared to everything else. Did you put a limiter on master? It sounds like it at least, I suggest taking that off if possible and mixing everything manually so that the master volume never peaks above red.

Overall, quite nice, though you really need to work on composition and mixing. 3.5/5 :)

VeryInactive01 responds:

Thanks for your feedback, yeah I removed limiter from master channel.
I know that there might be some problems with my songs, I'm trying to improve by creating more and more, looking forward to use your tips in my next composition.

[Game Over]

Not sure if it's just me, but the melody sounds... off. Idk, it sounds weird.

Sound design overall is very good.

The drop is a pure 5/5, though imo the shouts should be a bit lower in volume. The growls are on point though, sounds amazing.

The part after the drop is very fitting, I love it :)

The mixing overall is good, but it could be better. It feels kinda messy rn. The volume feels like it's constantly bouncing from loud to quiet, which I don't really like.

Overall, quite nice. 4.5/5 :D

DoctorNoSense responds:

Thx for the feedback ^^ I will work on it :3

[Sytrus Session 1.0]

Very nice !!

The mixing in Sytrus Session 2.0 is better though. Right now it sounds like a mess. Also again, you should really try adding some speed and more energy to your songs :)

4/5 (Very good!!)

feandesign responds:

Thx! And wow, really? I thought that 2.0 is too messy, but well, if you say so.. :P.
I believe this is the slowest track in my entire audio portal career, most of the time I use 175 beats per minute and above, thus I think I'll go back to making faster beats haha! I'd agree that it's not too energic but it's made only with Sytrus after all and I didn't really have any better ideas for improving the project. Although I'm sure that my next songs will have a lot more power than this. Thank you again for listening to my stuff, much appreciated!

[Sytrus Session 2.0]

Oh shit I love this! Reminds me a lot of the techno songs of the old days. Really nice !!

I was expecting the beat to get faster and more energetic at some point though, right now it feels like the whole song is just interludes. (They are really good interludes, though !)

4.5/5! (Really good)

feandesign responds:

Thanks dude! The whole song is actually in 200bpm, and iirc the fastest one that I've ever made had 205, but I'm not gonna lie - I once tried to do something similar to what Dimrain47 was doing, usually at 230 and I kinda failed miserably, LOL. Anyway, thank you once more for taking a listen, it means a lot!

[tNv - The New Era]

I like the composition, though your sound design for the growls is kinda bad. Could definitely be improved. Also your mix could be louder. Otherwise, a good song. 7/10.

tNava responds:

Thanks. This is quite old, so I have improved in more recent tracks on my newest account 'Kirefyx'

[-Death-]

Quite nice composition, although your mixing definitely needs improvement.

AlphaStormMusic responds:

I mean... yeah, but do you realize how long ago this was? Gotta check out such tracks as my Gravity Remix or an upcoming what I consider a banger for much better mixing. I really have changed since this garbage EP.

[I have no idea what to name this]

tf did i just listen to

jetguy6666 responds:

Something...

[Bitch Lasagna (Remix)]

The rap sounds like it's played in a small room from a phone, being recorded with an another phone that's like 2 meters away and also being shaken all the time.

The brass is very overused and sounds really bad imo. Also the beat is very bland, there isn't really any variation. Plus the song lacks really any bass and it sounds so empty.

EDIT: I don't mean that the brass sound itself is bad, I've used it myself. I mean that you overused it in your song. The brass should be used with caution, for example, only once per beat or something like that to supplement your leads, not make your main melody out of it.

The drop is extremely lame, but at least it's better than the first part. Your growls need some work, though they are decent enough. The growls in the second drop though, hgghhh. No thanks.

Overall, 1/5. This is not very original. The point of a remix is to take a song and expand on it, but what you've done here is the exact opposite and downgraded an otherwise decent rap song into something that sounds like it was made by a fourth grader who got their hands in a launchpad. This song sounds incredibly bland and empty, the lyrics hurt my ears, everything is just looping over and over again, there's nothing new added to the table except a shitty brass and some random dubstep growls here and there.

DipperMcFlipper responds:

I can see what you mean, I had alot of trouble with finding an acapella version that wasn't totally fucked and I tried to finish the song as fast as I could before this whole pewdiepie vs tseries thing got irrelevant. thank you for the feedback! I will try to do better next time.

[Deity of Cosmos]

Oh my god this is amazing :0 Makes me feel really epic, well done !!!!

DanJohansen responds:

Sweeeet, glad you dug it man! :D

[fallin']

Some of the tones sound off, particularly places like 0:16 and 0:39, and the drop is way too distorted for my likings. But the sound design and overall atmosphere of this song is amazing. Really nice! 9/10 :)

Red65 responds:

yeah i agree. i just noticed that i forgot to remove a specific pattern