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[The Only Choice]

the riffs are great, but the quality is lacking. there is just too much reverb and it isn't really hard enough to head bang too if that makes sense.

also, since you used VSTs it did sound stale.

overall though, your creativity is excellent. just work on your sound quality and learn how to mix a bit better.

Sielumetsien responds:

Thank you for the review, it's very helpful. Thank you so much sir :). I think everyone is right, I should reduce the reverb to minimum in the future.

[Static Falling]

neat tune. I really dig the riff. its one of those things where you can do lots of shit with it and keep the song going for a long while.

but yeah. the only few problems I have with this track is that your distortion effects were peaking. at some points while I was listening I've noticed some crackling there. gotta keep your eye out on your mixer!

also, not a big fan on the percussion. sounds like you just picked a preset kit and went along with it.

IMO, at the end it felt like it was cut short. I think letting that bell play for longer with those effects would be really cool. and then you can kick in that riff again.

overall, this track feels very unfinished. you got really cool ideas, but it sounded like you didn't put a lot of time in it.

keep at it mate.

MockOff responds:

I know there was some crackling in the beginning, but that wasn't from the guitar riff. I unplugged the chord and used it to make a crackling effect. I thought it fit the mood of the song to throw that in there.
I will agree though that I didn't really put in too much effort on the percussion. This is an older song of mine and I had that tendency back then.

[The Forest]

well this was cool. this could be a very sweet intro for a Goa Trance track. I fucking love psychedelic shit.

where's that sitar? :3

anyways, mix was solid. the arrangement was nice. very good use of your sounds. kinda makes me want to play some type of dark mansion search and destroy kind of game.

SoTJake responds:

That's exactly the mood I had when I created it. ;)

Thanks for the review. :)

[Industrial Heart Ache]

getting better every day. reminds me of some of aphex twin's stuff.

would love to hear vocals on this

downtempo <3

Insanctuary responds:

I've been listening to Aphex Twin's Polynomial C, haha!

[This Is Sypharx [SPHX]]

yay another generic dubstep artist. yadayadayadayada.

start making your own better drum samples.

electronic music is not all about wobbles

there is no sub bass in this track.

please try again.

Athanatos responds:

Generic huh?
First of all I'm not a 'dubstep artist'.
I've only made a few dubstep songs.
Drum Samples? I create and use my drum own samples.
This song does not have a 'generic dubstep wobble', so the one that I have in my song is the one I chose for a REASON.
No sub bass? I didn't want sub bass in there.

I didn't put that much work into this song, i just didn't want to continue with it.

[atomsmasha - chiplikeido]

Lovely.

I know I'm a bad reviewer. ;)

jarrydn responds:

lol thanks man

[Sting of The Jellyfish]

woah.. all that distortion!

Quarl responds:

STING OF THE DURPFISH!!!! BZZZZZZZT!!!!!!

[Cherry Bomb]

Right now I'm picturing short videos of people going through malls and buying shit in with fast / slow effects on different clips.

Please make a music video now.

Quarl responds:

haha, one day I'll buy a video camera... and a bass, and a DJ controller, and some new speakers, and an amp for my new bass and....

I would if I could afford to do it but I'm too poor. I loved making videos back in the day when the equipment was free to use (highschool/college.)

[This is Chipstep]

Chipstep is the new hip hop? ha. glad to see others getting involved in the genre.

I think if you focus less on the bass this tune would be fantastic. chip music isn't all about bass even if it has step in it. :)

wandschrank responds:

Sadly, there is no chiptunes category, so I keep putting my "bassless" chiptunes into the video game category. This chipstep category on the other hand looked very empty, so I decided to help filling it. ;)

Apparently you got another definition of "chipstep" than most people; if you search it on YouTube, of those overwhelming 922 results (!!), most songs I heard by now had a lot of bass. Many are also not really chiptunes, but normal Dubstep songs with some Chiptune influences (check out the great songs from User N3z-3 on NG, for example, he mixes "traditional" Dubstep with Chiptunes).

Even those made with LSDJ on Gameboy only (search for Cybercrime for example, that stuff is great) are very bassy. Those good old chips were capable of producing quite a nice bass, as you can hear in that Gameboy example. I used the (nicely emulated) chip of a Super Cassette Vision / Yeno console for my bass in this song and did not change it a lot - to make it less bassy, I would have had to play higher notes, which does not sound that nice, or equalize it A LOT - which I did not want, it would have ruined the authenticity . This song, however, may not be an "authentic" chiptune. I wanted to show how it can sound when you mix the sounds of the most awesome old pcs / consoles. The result was surprisingly punchy.. and chipstep.

So overall, I think "chipstep" is a very vaguely defined style that can be interpret in many ways. Most "chipstep" songs you find on the internet mix Dubstep with Chiptunes or make Dubstep-like tracks with chipsounds only, sometimes even with a single Gameboy only.

You are completely right when you say chip music wouldn't be all about bass - and more about melody - but this category is called "Chipstep", and believe me, I will celebrate the day when there will be a "Chiptunes" category for "real" chip music with more melody and less bass and without the "step". But for me (and many others), the "step" in chipstep results in focussing on the bass.

This is only my opinion, though, and maybe it would really sound better without that much bass, who knows? :D

Thanks for your review!

Regards,
wandschrank