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Surya 
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Registration Date: 04-11-2002
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Like the dark intro.
Hover stabs are nice, melody does the trick.
Drumwork is quite decent. More boom in the kick wouldn't hurt.
Adding some nice crisp rides or hats would be nice. Or bringing the existing ones more up front and EQing the +10mhz parts a bit more could also help.
Hear you worked on the sub, but still missing a nice deep and warm sub.
Sequencing is quite OK, but I think the main melody is used too constant, which will make the track boring after a few listen sections.
Nevertheless, great for a first track, rarely heard better debuts!
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27-10-2003 12:14 |
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thechronic
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Registration Date: 01-11-2002
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For a first timer this is a pretty good achievement 
I like the track even though it's not really my style.
Music wise it's very OK, the only thing I don't like is the sound of the pizzicato, but the delay on it is well chosen I must say 
Maybe chose a different sample for it, something that fits the track better. When the pizzicato goes down an octave at 3:38 I like it a lot better.
The intro is nice, with those heavily reverbed industrial doom noises, wikkid
Buildup is pretty good too. This is a very important thing and takes many people a lot of time to get the hang of, I'm impressed of the flow the track has if it's your first production!! That buildup between 3:37 and 4:04 is a masterpiece, makes my heartbeat go way up!
The mix is a bit rough, some refinements can be made here. The lead stab sound that comes in around 1:00 is way too loud in the beginning. Also throughout the rest of the track this sound is a tad too loud.
The hihats are too soft, they should be more prominent.
I like the way the two basses combine. The sub bass loses a bit of power though when the hoover is not playing.
The stereo panned percussion bits are nicely built up but go too loud as well on their peaks.
At some points there is a lot of noise noticeable in the background, eg at 2:52. It's maybe a compressor pushing up the noise floor, or a byproduct of the MP3 encoding.
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27-10-2003 14:30 |
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thechronic
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Originally posted by Surya
Adding some nice crisp rides or hats would be nice. Or bringing the existing ones more up front and EQing the +10mhz parts a bit more could also help. |
The track is encoded at 22kHz, there is nothing above 11kHz present, so I understand your frustration
It's impossible to judge this part of the sound in this sample rate 
Good thing is that I upgraded the MP3 file size limit to 16MB yesterday, so if you feel like uploading a high quality MP3 Akura, go ahead
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27-10-2003 14:33 |
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Akura
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Registration Date: 06-04-2003
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Superb to hear such comments and from who!!
I will repost the track in a bit better quality (certainly at least 32kHz) after I made some adjustments according both your tips. Anyway I'm on the reworking job for the moment because my mate Bukc (who is indispensable to me to make a decent track) is on a trip for 3 month's in Latin America. When he comes back we'll only be able to make "patife-style" tracks anymore 
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27-10-2003 21:40 |
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