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[Back to ride this world]

There is probably some good song writing in here... Somewhere... But I certainly can't hear it.

Tip #1: get better sound equipment, don't record this song with your early 2000s Nokia phone.

Tip #2: Yeah, that's about all I got, the song would definitely be actually listenable if you did pretty much any kind of recording, but you seemingly did it all with an old phone or something.

I know this is like, punk, but like, any type of recording would be nice. Like, any.

There would be probably a decent punk band in there somewhere if you got better recording software but for now it's a low score.

Ragkul responds:

the song was recorded in low quality on purpose, it was low quality with the low pass filter, with a vinyl disc emulator, with a tube amplifier, etc ...

[zami - Ideal]

It's a pretty good song, but the mixing is fairly bad, reminds me a bit of Ocularnebula.

The start is pretty good but the bass drum is fairly unfitting, also the voice-sounding synth at 00:15 is loud going in, things need to be toned down a bit, things need to generally be changed up. The song also sounds fairly mono when it comes to drums, very little effects on the drums making it sound a little like an early techno song.

Around 00:23 is some fairly good mixing other than generally the voice-sounding synth being too loud, having too much of a presence, needs to be toned down by quite a lot.

At about 00:48 is really good, not much to complain about, the song should be generally mixed like that, but maybe around here the hihats should be turned down a bit,

The drums at the end are really fitting, and really fit the end. However, the weird reverb/high pass on the gameboy synth doesn't sound very good.

I also noticed at 00:42 the hihats seemingly either get louder or transition to a different sample entirely, it's a little hard to notice but I certainly did, sounds a little jarring.

Minor moments of just things getting a little too loud all around, should maybe work on that a bit.

The track also just simply doesn't loop very well, it doesn't feel like a clean loop, don't know if that's a mistake or not.

The structuring, and melodies are overall just really good though, really shines in the melody/songwriting department honestly, other than being loud at times it's just a really well-written song.

Overall, a pretty good track other than the mixing, a lot of potential, will be following.

zami responds:

thx for the great feedback!! idk what happened, MP3s leave a little silence at the beginning, which ruins the loop. a wav render loops nicely for me

[slips]

Kinda sounds like hillbilly techno lmao

This ones the shortest of them all, but it probably has the best mixing of them all, the bass drum at the start is way too loud and abrasive for an intro but other than that its pretty good.

Feels like it should at least have an outro but of course, no time for outros anymore, it's a pretty good start overall, just needs extending.

I know why all of this stuff is so short, simply because you don't have time to make music much at all anymore, but I'm still leaving an honest review cause... Well if I don't I'll probably just get reported.

Still, I kinda miss the old longer songs, but I still appreciate the return either way.

[addichord]

Celebrating this amazing occasion with a review! So glad to see you back! Hopefully back, I expect you to disappear again sadly :(

But anyways, I'm happy to hear new OcularNebula, at least new to me considering this is 2015, and earlier.

However, I feel the weird dissonant melodies don't really add much to the song, they are certainly interesting but I feel as if you could have some something much different, the other parts of the song are great but they are really brought down by the dissonant part.

No hard feelings, I'm happy to hear you back, and have Wistful Wishes for a bright future!

Yours truly (if you saw the comment on YouTube) - LTBMCF.