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d-kay

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  • Birthday 01/19/2022

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  1. I'm a "not-yet-qualified-musician-to-really-say-anything" guy, so don't take my non-professional opinion too seriously. But... the songs are quite well structured, and I know how hard only that can be to get right. The notable thing is how poorly the samples/instruments are choosen. I don't know but perhaps you should consider buying better equipment. The bass-sound/bassline in "Love Overflow" is completely wrong in my humble opininon. It should be a heavy long bass with kick overlayered. And the strings, well I don't know perhaps a bit too harsh?, using the same string-sample through a whole song is very annoying to listen to. Replace some of the electronic drumsnares with non-electrical snares too. Especially in the "snaredrum break". "Windin road" could be a bit more original, but the composition & sounds work well together. Perhaps the melody (rhodessounding piano) could be fattened up abit by doubling parts of it with a basssound, and replace the synth-"whoo"'s with real ones. In general ,for being a one-person-band, the drums and bass/melodies are quite OK. I hope this was constructive critiscism.
  2. Ok, I have to be honest here. This song is not good. It would suit an episode with "The Simpsons", when they are being ironic about the American dream/superiority and such, but else... /d-kay
  3. Cool!, btw ,what does a "overdriven filter" mean?. I know about resonance, & cutoff but that's not it , right?. Is it when you overdrive the signal before you send it to the filter?. /d-kay
  4. Just a question, HOw did make that lofi piano sound? (at the beginning of "I don't know") it sounds as if it were taken from a movie. Did you use some tape-saturating-stuff?. /d-kay
  5. I Like it!. Listened to "I don't know" and I liked that one too. You could do the music for the next "The Matrix"- movie!!. I definately like the weak "computer-siren-sound" in the background of "I don't know" .It makes it sound really cool. /d-kay
  6. I'm no recording specialist. What I perhaps think is that the bass-tom (??) on 1st and 2nd (Triplets?) is on some occations too strong,heavy, or bass-sounding in the mix, perhaps switch to to regular orchestra-puka (<--don't know their english name,BIG-sounding drum anyway) sometimes in the song. Then you must add african choirs too http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/wink.gif. I can almost see the advertisment for American airways now http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/wink.gif. (djembe is the bongo-drums right, not the shaker-thingie?) Anyway I liked the shaker-thingie. /d-kay
  7. Some quick reflections: at "Wash over me" 1:52 there is a really nice piano-part with effective use of the pads & djembe. Skip the flute-part/chorus-part and build something completely new around this particular passage 1:52->2:22. The rest is to cheesy for me In my own very humble opinion. I listened to some of the other songs mentioned but it's really not my kind of music. And I used trackers (FastTracker2) too!! cHeers! /d-kay
  8. I agree on the song "Shade". A little to much white-elevator-music-funk for my style. I listened to the "We have the power", and well not closer to my style of funk but still, a little like "Rage against the machine"-feeling there.. just add a little more of distortion and guitars and your there http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/wink.gif. , anyway, well played, sounds like you've been playing a while (coming from a total amateur). /d-kay
  9. Should I be critical or not?. Well, first of all I don't want to be a complete idiot by "dizzing" all the tunes I didn't like,so I'll just round up my impressions of some of the songs. Some people seem to be stuck in the eighties. One song was like brought out of Miami Vice! (or Karate Kid). And more directly criticism of the songs I liked: Professor Tundra/"If you wanna" The song starts really good with that funky base-line, but edit 00:17 to 00:37 out of the song and it will be so much better. It's too early in the song somehow, just to throw heavy drums into it. I liked the base-line though. The lyric "if you wanna.." is good but if possible record it in a good studio. The "nasal-compressed lo-fi" voice sounds strange when you put the reverb-effect on it. Subspace I haven't had that much time to listen to all songs, but they sound good so far. Especially those who arent all strings floating into each other. /"Lumi" Builds up quite nicely. The drums are good, they add that little electronic "crunch" to it (acoustic open hihat at 1:55?, change that one to a 909 one). The fagotte at 2:19 (or whatever it is) should be synthetical also, otherwise it turns a little bit cheezy "english-series in the country" http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/wink.gif. Michael Oster F7 Sound and Vision Great!, this is serious stuff. "Fire on Damp sand" IS fire on damp sand. I thought of the Gulf War immediately. Radio crackles, oil-fields burning, F18 hornet flying above. istyle /"JuliaROBOT" well, is this DEMO-music or what. Ever been in a demo-group? I Like the 2:08 voice in the middle. But, really this is cheezy music http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/wink.gif I can't help but like it though, being a comp. freak. Did you use a Tracker or what? http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/wink.gif or perhaps Fruityloop. Cool name though "JuliaROBOT", If I ever bought a robot I'd call it Julia. /"BrothersunSistermoon" Ehh? not very good singing voice. Slightly out of tune http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/wink.gif DJ Rezolution Well, one of the few songs which would be possible to actually sell. Ass-kicking super mixed. This guy knows how to do it. The bass-line is VERY good. The chords aren't all cheezy like most of those Bom chi Bom chi songs. if someone feels like defending their songs, well email me then d_kay303@hotmail.com
  10. Ok, looks like I 'm part of the minority here. I'm a computergeek finishing off my M.Sc. degree in Electrical engineering. I'm (only) 24 years old and have been involved in making music on my computer for the last 12 years. Completely on a hobby-basis, cause I could never afford those nice synths/keyboard it appears that all of you have. Well to cut things short, I've recently(!) bought a midi-keyboard to be able to make music based on midi. I'm currently in Cubase-training. By the way, my music-skills are based on playing the flute for 8 years, and fooling around on my sisters piano. equipment? computer midi-keyboard various software-synths, like Reaktor 2.7 . /Per (d-kay is a "phonetic alias" for decay)
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