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Not too bad =)

I think one of the things that sets you apart from the other artists here is your ability to mix, master, and your instrumentation.
Without that though, I'm afraid you would not be worth too much.

I find that with this song you've been very generic. The drumbeat is very straight forward, and not very diverse, although drum'n bass nowadays tends to have a little more texture, more diversity, and variates a lot more.

I also find that your transitioning is very generic, general high pass filters, and pretty regular sounding use of decay and cut off points to automate your instruments.

One of my key bits of advice to you is to experiment some more:

Diversity/originality is hard to maintain when you follow the same way of creating the energetic feel to your song. I believe the way you do this is through 'hands up' kind of loops, melodies, what have you. Try experimenting a little bit more with different ways of creating energy, it doesn't need to be hands up, incredibly fast melodies all the way through.

I'm afraid that after hearing all these hands up melodies all over the place, my hands are tired, and they're down. I've listened to a lot and after a while, I crave something that isn't what I heard with a few different notes just a week ago.

I would love to hear more going on with the bass, more automation there, not necessarily the generic d'n b reeses you hear on every other track. Maybe something acidic? Maybe something with an interesting bit of automation/lead in.

Also, try working with atmospheric FX. Don't just select your VEC samples and add those in almost every 4 bars or so. Have some originality, edit them, and, I'm assuming you use FL, try working with some different FL FX to see what you can do. The breakdown was good with this, although I would've loved it to be a little less based on lots of sounds at once to create texture. I'd like to see some more 'thick' sounding synths to build that up, but there are many, many ways you could do that.

6/10 3/5 - Impressive track!

You have good potential, and don't let my review get you down, I just like for people with good potential to not fall into the generic trap.

I forgot the artists full Newgrounds name, but he's on Newgrounds. You will find him somewhere under DJNB/DJ Nosebleed. He writes very original, very interesting Drum'n Bass (Blood of God being his best track in my opinion) and I would love to hear more like that from you.

Good luck with future production =)

- Brittany (Fierra)

Nice track =]

Definitely one of your better tracks, very interesting in it's own way.

A few points stick out, the kick kinda hurts my speakers. =P

Also, there are a lot of very noticeable Nexus presets for me.

Quite repetitive, but not so that it becomes boring, but I'd love to hear some other stuff going on, more varied progression, etc.

A good track, definitely. Keep putting out this stuff, it's nicely made!

- Britt

Kr1z responds:

-Kick hurting?
I put alot of time in layering and tweaking that kick, I'm glad how it stands out well in the track.
If you want me to change the kick, tell me something more concrete than 'the kick kinda hurts my speakers' .. like, be fucking helpful for once.
I don't see what's wrong with my kick.
I sent it to Karco and he found nothing wrong with the drums. If i have to choose between Karco and you, I choose Karco.

-Yes its nexus, like, whatever. I layered, modded, filtered, arped and sequenced the hell out of it till it sounded like i wanted it to sound.
The pluck aint the dance seq pluck preset. Although, I looked it up and it sounds pretty much the same :/
I can't work with 3xosc or some other VSTi. Sorry :$

I always try not to be too repeative. I'm sorry i failed. :( What about my interlude? My pad breakdown? My pluck breakdown? My anticlimax? My melody variation part? I've put alot of effort in the progression :/ I don't see how I can make it more varied.
Again, if you want me to change something, you could propose some examples. That'd be actually helpful.

A good track?
Why is this score the lowest while it's "Definitely one of my better tracks" ?

It would be nice if you'd not only tell me what I did wrong.
It's helpfull though! But - why don't you ever mention what I did RIGHT?
I mean, for instance, the mix. I worked my ass off on mixing the full track.
Same goes for the melody. No comments? :$ What about the transitions, the fx used, the hat line, the chords, the other crap? :P
I'm happy with the result.

Your review makes me feel bad.

My name's Brittany. I've been writing trance since 2007, and I'm making my goal this year to get signed. I put all effort possible into my tracks, and I hope you like them, they are for your pleasure!

Brittany Barrett @Fierra-Trance

Age 30, Female

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Essex, UK

Joined on 5/9/09

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