1. Sorry for spelling mistakes. I’m horrible at english, I am lazy, I don’t care that much (about spelling right. I care about the music of course!).
2. I didn’t pay attention to an overall nice feeling with every feedback text. Please keep in mind, that all of this is just my gut feeling. And that I’m generally amazed by all of your submissions. I just went on with it. That doesn’t mean, that if you didn’t get a lot of pro’s, that I didn’t like your track. This was meant to be only constructive feedback.
@Arelem
Nice build up. Cool sounds, very spherical. The part before the first drop may benefit from some extra love. just some extra sparkle. I love the pluggy sound in the bridge. Kinda reminds me of pizzicato strings. Really tasteful and musical. All spherical sounds in your song are. And you really play with dynamics and width in a very musical way. I think the main guitar sound could have benefited from some modulation. I might be biased here, because I know the base material, but it sounds a bit too uninspired in my eyes.
@A Future in Noise
I think the composition behind that track is actually pretty neat. However, I think, that the overall sound experience is a bit static. Everything sounds very placed. Something that would have been overruled by a human performance, of course. The track could use some unpredictable touches. Modulation, noise, weird stuff, delays, reverb. I know you used reverb, but that’s kind of a glueing reverb. What I mean, is something that really influences the sound experience and makes it more human.
@VCA-089
Great soundscapes in the start. The delays, the reverse sounds, the noisy stuff. All very beautiful and it’s really dragging me into the track. The topline in that very part sounds a bit rushed to me, since everything is so slow motion sounding. Really great drum sounds. Especially the snare with it’s Phil Collins’ish gated reverb vibe. The overall choices and songparts in this track are very musical. I kinda lose the plot with a certain note in the topline and I’m not really digging the bass line, which is a bit too hesitant in my eyes. It’ just that one touch not dirty enough. But then again, everything kinda comes together within the last part before the soundscape outro. Well done!
@J.Ruegg
What a start. Instant vibe, a bit scary, a bit cinematic, but everything in a good way. I kinda get vibes of playing GTA and it’s dark while there is a really scary mission and you have no clue what you actually should be doing. What I mean is, I instantly create pictures in my head. Thats what music should do, so every credit to that. Outstanding sound design, outstanding musicality. This & tinnitus’s track are my clear favorites in this competition. Well done, I have nothing to add.
@SuC76
I think the bass sound sounds a bit too obviously pitched. You kinda hear the natural noise within that sample shifting and I’m missing something when I hear that. If you’d make it really obvious & in your face, with some crunch and more dirt, you could use this to your benefit, but now it kinda seems as tho you wanted to hide it, but didn’t quite manage it. The main sound that starts right at the beginning (pluggy with delay) is really really nice. I really like that one. I think you could have sticked with the first melody bit for a bit longer and as you switch it up, maybe switch the sound with it.
@EsteveCorbera
I feel like the first too parts/sounds don’t really connect within the listening experience until they are together. Maybe, it wouldn’t have been bad, to give them at least a tiny bit of overlapping time before the first one fades away. As the bells turn off, you start that octave bass line. In my opinion, this could have been a main hook!! It’s really far away but I get 80s vibes (do you know the Stranger Things?. You could’ve picked that up from there and that would have glued everything together I think! Right now, I like the song, but I’m constantly waiting for the moment that I really fall into the song and feel it, but it just quite doesn’t happen for mere there.
@satchboogie
Nice spooky sound design shit. I love it. Even tho it takes a while for the first harmony/melody parts, it still sounds musical. For me, it’s perfect up until the drums. They kinda could have been more in front, in my eyes. After that, the drum composition is a bit inconsistent. And I think, since the sound design is a bit weird (but nice!), the vocal top line could have been a bit more poppy. I would’ve hoped for it to take over from there and hook me. Right now, it kinda hides behind the track and the arrangement.
@tinnitus
Top composition, top sound design. Very very musical choices. Nice voice as well. Very well used. I really get dragged into this track right away and it doesn’t let me go. To me, the whole percussion theme is soooo amazing. I’m not entirely sure, if what I’m hoping for is even possible, but I think that the percussion and especially the main parts of it could be more in your face. Just a touch. It all blends very well within that track, but I kinda miss a tiny bit of the track steering me through it. Other than then, that: This and J.Ruegg’s track are the clear winners.
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