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My review, your song.

Simple beat, simple melody, not super layered, no major progression.

Just loopy-ambient.

It does loop well.

While I am giving this a low score, its not bad, and I encourage doing little audio 'doodles'. Over time you'll be capable of doing far more in 30 minutes.

2/5 5/10

LollipopNightmare responds:

I love this song... what are you talking about?
SImple beat...
Simple melody..
Not super layered...
sounds great!
Maybe it could be good background music..
background for thinking..
drawing...
dancing with a 3 year old...
fast flash animated doodle....
nintendo?

lmao

i will try harder next time.
many thanks for your input.
i love it.

My review, your song.

Back ground beat got annoying fast.

Intro guitar was neat.

This deserves a better mix on all the sounds.

Given its an improv session, I'm not about to review this as if it were a coherent peice of music. Mainly because its not.

Study your scales and keys, and stick to them when free playing, things will sound so much smoother.

2/5 5/10

Goh-Akumi responds:

Much appreciated!
I tend to try my best to stick to the keys, but the problem is, clumsy fingers sometimes happen. ;-;
thanks though!

My review, your song.

"Original song" I should hope so?

"Elements" is kind of a boring title too granted its excessively cliche.

Song comes in 4/4 beat, synths progressively add up with the kicks and whatnot fading out once in a while.

At 1:30 another notable drop out, more cymbals. Bit of synth automation. First major change in progresion. Sort of just broke down what was built up, to build up something else. Ruins the flow personally.

2:05 some reversed sound, decent pad-strings. The cymbal needs more working in, it stands out in a sort of poor way like it isn't part of the songs instrument set.

2:45 plucked sounding lead is a pretty neat sound, plays a slow melody, hopefully it elaborates.

3:10 synths from earier come back in, still building up.

Beats continue to fall exactly on beat, non stop, all the time. The rolls are linear in that aspect to. They could be mixed up to add a lot more to the song.

Melody stays the same/simple.

4:05 Melody remains staying simple.

4:25 little bridge of sorts pops in, and the song then begins to remove layers.

I kind of felt like this song didn't go anywhere, and the outro was a boring volume ramp down. Mix is great, its mastered, sounds dandy.

Just doesn't sound like any barriers are being pushed, or any effort really excreted from the pores of your skin.

Frankly the song was boring musically, technically its pretty decent.

4/5 7/10

TerraNation responds:

Boring well na ithink its taste you not familar with uplifting trance, beside there reason i upload decent masterd version beacuse its copyrighted. Trance usely be like this people say boring but iknow whats really is boring. But glad give ur point i will check on it see what can be made of it. thanks for the review

My reveiw, your song.

Starts off with some neat sounds playing, has me intrigued so far. Bit of resonance near the 0:08 mark on the phased warbly synth.

Drums come in, they sound great. Could use a second more clear snare I think to add in some clear rolls to a sweet effect.

0:23 bass is playing off key. Sounds a bit better when the warbly synth stops.

0:37/0:42 notes are just way off (on the bass), it sounds bad.

0:53-ish would have been a good spot for the warbly synth to play adifferent melody.

Song loops well. I felt it could have easily been longer though.

Spend more time making sure the notes being played are harmonic and congruent to a key. I'm not sure if this was intentionally dissonant or swapping between 2-3ish keys, but I do know it was this loops major bring down.

Overall mix is alright. Was somewhat quiet. (EQ/boost master mix channel)

3/5 6/10

SonicJ responds:

Ill keep the EQ in mind, thanks for the head up and review. As far as the bass, it didn't sound off to me, if anything, I intentionally made it sound the way it did. This is just a test build for a song Im still working on, so thanks for your input :p

Also, ill try a different melody for :53

My review, your song.

Real short, generic, and not really techno, more trance with poorly mixed drums and a preset clap.

Good job on the succesful loop though.

To be more then frank, I can't stand this type of music. In future work make sure the bass isn't just a lame mimicry of the melody with a simple arpegio. Its a good way to not set yourself apart from other artists.

3/5 6/10

chavyanu responds:

Ya it's what i was aming for. I was like damn, i bet i could make a really generic sounding loop in like 30 seconds.

Voila!

My review, your song.

Touching.

Song progression has a very evident sweep up/down build to it.

Overall .mp3 could use I think some compression and EQ just to boost the sounds a bit. It may be there, but it could be stronger.

While I understand this is made up on the spot, it is randomly flowing, theres a bit of coherance to it, but playing back into what may be a definable chorus would have made this stronger. As would a change of general tempo or key to increase the contrast within the song.

Overall quite good. I'm working on my free-playing myself and hope to acheive a level of skill such as this.

4/5 8/10

TreborLocke responds:

It is very hard to improvise and return to a chorus which is why you find so little of that happening in Jazz. I do it once in this entire improv but, it is very hidden. I just sort of went with what worked with me at the time.

As for the EQ/compression, the compression doesn't need to be fooled with....I will give this a volume boost however heh.

My review, your song.

Opens with distorted lead guitar.

Breif pause, drums come in and the guitar sound like its chorused, but no bass or further accompaniment to the melody is introduced.

Then song progresses, nothing after the little bridge at 0:30ish stands out.

A common problem with songs featuring distorted guitars is that they get this grainy white noise esque sound to them, and it makes focusing on them a bit difficult. Where as say the intro, outro and bridge were done with something less distorted, you'd suddenly create a huge dynamic change in pacing and sound style, and the minute peice you have so far would be far more diverse, and interesting to listen to.

Drums are decent, they're mixed up a bit and sound alright. Might just be my currently bad headphones, but the drum kick was a little bit weak.

Song felt a bit mono, or atleast not utilising stereo to its fullest.

The melody playing I quite liked.

Overall, not bad, but lacking focus.

3/5 7/10

TorkKey responds:

Thank you for the review! I really appreciate all the advice and everything.

I'm going to take everything you said into account when creating another track and/or redoing this one.

"Overall, not bad, but lacking focus." I agree completely. I actually had no idea what I was doing. Just making something that sounded decent. I'm still working on making a song to an idea. I usually come up with an idea/vision to the song. (oops)

As for utilizing stereo, I'm using 2 speakers on my moniter. Lol. I'm working on it though. :)

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>TK<

My review, your song.

Normally I write really exaustive reviews, but in this case I'm loving the song and not finding much to say.

Perhaps remove the rain sample from the middle section so the nature of the rythmn can be followed without the equivalent of recogniseable white noise.

As for genre of music, this is IDM/Ambient.

Could use some more break down clips like at 1:56 scaling up and down.

5/5 9/10

dj5p00n responds:

jim, you boost my ego. thats why your awesome

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