Score: 10

"Very nice!"

submission: Luckiness is a word

date: November 28, 2009

This is a really cool tune. Happy! It also has a very decent production! Good for you!

Score: 9

"Nice song!"

submission: krachmaninoff-in love again-l-

date: July 31, 2009

This is actually a very good song! I won't get into production issues, as I consider that for the type of recording equipment used, it's already sounding good enough!

I love the piano and hammond in this! There is a rock 'n roll/punk feel to the entire song. It's, well, really alternative! And a flanger? What is it on? I can hear it in the guitar, but some times on the drums as well. Was it on the output (or just the effect the cassette added)? This is soooo late '70s! Even though I never like using the term, this is actually genuine as well as musically interesting!

Great work! 9/10 (for the sound quality) and 5/5 for a great piece!

Score: 9

"It's totally working!"

submission: {Heim} Exhilaration

date: July 28, 2009

Orchestral Muse! I love arpeggios! This is a really great piece! I love it! Genuinely! Surely among the best of the kind over here!

Vaib's got a point, though, about the off-beat percussion near the end and I do get the rhythm they're on, but that's only if you try to follow them from the start. If you pay attention to them for the first time just a few seconds before the final climax, you'll notice that initially they won't sound to fit. That's because the focus in the electric guitar(s) and the orchestra rather than the percussion, which seems to be your intention. I would suggest, that you either change the percussion part, or add some more instrumentation to back it up and bring it to focus. 9/5 from me!

Score: 8

"Well, hello there!"

submission: Why We Fall (Rough Vocals)

date: July 28, 2009

My 8 goes to you for writing a very catchy well structured song! The other two are missing for the lack of money you 've spent on your recording equipment and a proper singer. Ok, so the production isn't great, the drums aren't realistic, the electric guitars have no Eq, the bass comes to my (studio) monitors as pure muddiness, the vocals are too high in the mix (compress them and bring them at the same level as the electric guitars), the solos could have been better etc, but this reminds me of demo tracks composers send to studios in order for them to turn them into hits.

So it's a 8/5 (five, in order to help you promote it)

If you want any help production-and-post-production-wise, you can reach me from here and I'll be glad to help you out (I'm not charging)

Score: 9

"Nice!"

submission: Something deep

date: January 14, 2009

Interesting! Well structured! Weird! Beautiful!

Ok, so the vocals could have been better. They could have been recorded better (tonal errors) and they could have been produced better. The same about production applies to the song in it's entirety. Eq and mastering are what's lacking. The mixing is ok! The instrumentation is nice and unique! Overall I really do like this! Congrats!

Score: 10

"This is great!!!!"

submission: Mister Toast

date: January 14, 2009

I love it! It still needs some fixes, both in mixing and in mastering. Personally, I'm a sucker for the hammond and I think you're the first one I heard using it in NG (apart for yours truly). The drums are great (a bit too loud for my taste, though), the bass is too low in the mix in my opinion. The guitars are just fine! The vocals could have been edited better (more compression, some reverb and better Eq), but there is nothing essentially wrong with your singing, so don't be hard on yourself.

Overall, this is one of the very few complete, original and interesting works in NG! I salute you!

Score: 9

"Nice job!"

submission: mclanetest

date: January 14, 2009

Ok, so it has a couple of mistakes here and there, no biggie... This is a quite decent piece of music. The production quality is good! The recording quality is good, the instrumentation is good (especially in the second part), the tune is catchy. I really do like this!!! And I'd love to hear a complete song from you!

On a more constructive note, you really haven't done much panning except for the double-tracked acoustic guitars and the automatic panning of some drum parts. Everything else is centered. You should try widening your stereo mix. You could at least move one electric guitar half way left and another halfway right.

Anything else is too picky to comment even for me... Great job! I'll be waiting for that complete song!

Score: 9

"I leave one out for the potential!"

submission: Kill Bill on a Motif (Preview)

date: January 12, 2009

I 'll skip the mixing/mastering commenting I usually embark to, as you're stating yourself that you haven't really done much on that subject for this. As I generally don't work too much on just one piece of hardware, I'm impressed when someone shows determination to really exploit his hardware's capabilities. I don't know if you're trying this due to lack of other equipment or just to practice on your instrument, but the result is satisfying!

If you take those skills and use them on a complete project, I'm sure it will be great!

Score: 8

"What?!?!?"

submission: FP! - Mario Lolol

date: January 12, 2009

1.94?!?!?!? I high fived you to raise this as much as possible. This is really nice! Almost everything about it... Just one thing, though. I think you've overdone it with the reverb. I won't tell you to reduce it in the mix, but instead, just make it shorter. You won't lose the feel you're going for, but you 'll manage to make it less confusing and sounding like from the bottom of a well.

Congrats! This is really well done!

Score: 8

"Not bad at all!"

submission: DJ_Seri - End is Near

date: January 12, 2009

Speaking of underrated... I guess you were hit by some unjust low score... I think I'm gonna start a crusade about this.

Well... This is a quite interesting song you've got there. I always like piano arpeggios, so I might be biased.
I would make a couple of suggestions though:
-Mastering: The output level is just too low. Use a compressor or a maximizer in the output channel to make it louder. Don't just raise the master, you wouldn't want clipping, now, would you?
-Dynamics: Even though the piano melody is just fine, it lacks dynamics. Try randomizing the velocities, especially in the second part. If you have a midi controller (even better), record it!
-Samples: The piano sounds fine, the drums are good enough (you can find better), but the strings are unnatural. See if you find something more natural sounding. Perhaps something a bit less aggressive.
-Mixing: I'm listening through headphones currently, so I won't risk commenting on Eq (it sounds fine to me). The mixing levels are just fine. Don't touch them! The balance is a bit to the right (due to the piano, so you could try setting it right by compensating with the strings panned harder to the left.

Otherwise, this is actually quite good and promising!!! If you finish it, I'd love to hear it and give you further feedback!