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Appreciated

This is a piece of art.

I have to start off by saying, I love that melody and pad, along with the drums. I truly enjoyed each guitar switch-up/solo you added into it. That really gave it a better feeling as a whole. The instruments you used in this were a joy to the ear as well.

I definitely get the creepy but epic feeling from this.

The vocals, could have possible been better. For example, I could hardly hear them or understand them the first time they showed up. Although, the second time, they sounded perfect.

I would have also tried to add a better intro and a better ending in this. You could have let it build up for about 20 to 30 seconds before putting everything into it. The ending seemed to abrupt as well, you could have spent a little more time on it.

I gotta say though, I really loved this work of art!

-Emergency

Jasonatron responds:

Thanks! I really appreciate you taking the time to listen and offer feedback. :) I've tweaked the song in some of the ways you mentioned.

[necromancing tribal people]

Different

This is definitely different.

I'll start off by saying, I enjoyed all of the melody sounds and patterns as well as the entire dark feeling I get from the track. They also build-up a little bit throughout the song and really brought a few epic parts to it.

Now, I believe I need to mention the shaker throughout the song, it played through the entire song and eventually got pretty annoying. I would probably add that to some parts and take it out of others. The song, also changes up a little much for me to consider it one entire song.. like at 1:52, you should have taken that and tried to turn it into an entirely different song. I probably enjoyed that melody the most out of anything in this.

Your drum/snare pattern was very enjoyable but the kick in itself sounded too generic of an instrument. You should probably fool around with all the kicks in FL Studio, add reverb and such, or combine some, or possibly look for new drum packs.

This belongs in a Flash Animation, I hope an animator here uses it.

With all that being said, I would've probably placed this in the Miscellaneous category because I personally believe it takes more than just a Hip-Hop type of recurring drum pattern to consider something Hip-Hop.

I hope my few words have helped you're future producing in any way possible.

-Emergency

WallofYawn responds:

Thank you E, that was a good critique. This is just a base audio. A teaser if you will. I'm definitely gonna remake/master this, and I'll take into account your critique.

The shaker: yea, I noticed that, too. I'll change it up tomorrow or the next day, when I have free reign of the computer.

I'll see about making it more consistent. I try too hard sometimes at trying to make an epic song, and sometimes I change it up too often. I need to get my production/song writing skills to be a bit better, but I'll try to perfect this.

Also, the kick was not from FL. It is from a drumpack, but I agree, I need a better kickdrum. Maybe a more bassy/thumpy one.

I placed it in hip hop, because to me that's the closest label I could place on it. I didn't put it in Miscellaneous, because I thought it might have more views under hip hop.

Anywho, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and hopefully I can fix all the issues, master it, and put it on an album some day. Thank you,

Chris