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[Full Circle (unmastered)]

Well, my main problem with this is the mixing, mastering and sound design.
Actually, some sounds are good, some are... well, not that good. Forget it.
There's really no formula on "How to design good sounds" ya know?

So, um, mixing? Like you said "Trying to balance frequencies and volume in this one". That's right!
In my opinion, both the kick and snare could use some compression. Something makes me dislike the hi-hat, it doesn't really fit.

The growls that start at 1:09 aren't amazing in any way either. Not terrible, but not great either.

And the mastering? Well, heres a simple solution: Multiband compressing! Don't overuse it tho.

Well, I liked the melodies tho. The plucked sounds and sawleads and whatever, you know what I'm talking about, sound pretty good too!

Overall: It's pretty good i'd say. Maybe I didn't even need to say some of these things... Probably just saying things that you already know...

richie5126 responds:

Everything helps, lol -- dubstep is new territory for me. It'd be great if you can add more on how I can improve the growls or even rewrite them (bringing out certain frequencies, changing freq sweep, show examples of some stuff I should try and match, etc), this one's basically a vocoded saw lead that I just ran with.

I'm not entirely familiar with multiband compressing but I'll read up on it. Big issue is the mugginess which I'm having trouble clearing up.

[Deeper]

I don't know how about you, but I'm noticing alot of unnessecary distortion in this song, and that is really really bad. I'm not fan of these vocals, too. Also, it doesn't really sound like "Drum N Bass" to me.
Aside from all these cons, there are pros! It's pretty catchy! I like the beat and the bass guitar (at least that's what I'm assuming it is). Good job on that!
Well, but that's not really enough for a great song.
The distortion killed it.
Anyway, keep it up!

JMistro responds:

Thanks for the review. I'm a fan of distortion, I'll agree this one is a bit much but I like it. As far genre labeling goes, I have no clue what to label my tracks haha

[Complex]

I can see that some effort definitely went into this song.
But it's not really cool or something, I don't really like it.
The sounds were a bit wacky.
Overall: Not great, not terrible.

EdKempeper responds:

I totally agree with you.
When I saw that my last track "Whale" (I spent some time on this one) had only 100 plays and 2 downloads because it was an "ambient" song, I said "Fuck off" and made that shitty "Complex" beat in 30 minutes :p

[Morgrenay]

What exactly is this?
Experimental? I see.
I see.

etK responds:

Lel

[Aztech + Lockyn: Soulwind]

Amazing song!
I really liked the melody and the mood of the song.
Except for the drop... I didn't really like it, I just feel that it could have been better.
That might be my personal preferences, but yeah, you get the point.
Like I said, amazing song!

Lockyn responds:

I'm glad you enjoyed despite the drop not being to your standards man. Cheers!