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Mich

Age/Gender: 18, Male
Location: Belgium, Europe
Job: Loving Brittany <3

I make music. I'm making a website, I fiddle with graphic stuff sometimes. I hang in the Audio forum with my homeboys.

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Latest Flash Reviews

21 Reviews | 6 w/ Responses

Score: 8
FL Studio Tutorial

"Nice for the absolute beginner"

submission: FL Studio Tutorial
date: March 11, 2009

IT gives you a nice start on how to get around with it.
Though to be honest, I wouldn't quite make a tutorial about someting I've only been using for a couple of months myself :p

I wish you good luck to discover quite a bit more about FL studio, like automations, sidechaining etc.

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Score: 7
keyAthlon

"Pretty neat"

submission: keyAthlon
date: January 15, 2009

Nice Stepmania like game, but I'm guessing you haven't played it.
on flashflashrevolution.com you'll find this game with loads of songs and a whole community around it. I play a lot there so I thought I'd try this out.

First things first: work on the synchronization, I bet it's hard, but it's really necessary.

And please switch the up and the down arrow, in stepmania, FFR, DDR, ITG, they're switched, so every player of those games is used to it that way (including me) :p

Good job though!

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Score: 7
district blade ryu EP:4

"nice but..."

date: July 31, 2008

looked all fine, but I didn't watch the whole thing.
there's a little bug which makes it very anoying to proceed.
the little knob in the bottom right to proceed doesn't work so I had to right-click everytime and click play then.

I hop for you people are smart enough to figure that out and let it pass judgement.

July 31, 2008

Author's Response:

ok I fixed the description on the button

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Score: 9
First Musings

"Minimalistic, but a nice vibe."

submission: First Musings
date: October 3, 2009

As the summary states, I like the minimal feel you get there at the start.
It creates some sort of comic feel at first. When the second instrument comes in, you get a nice atmosphere going.

The instruments sound very realistic, you've got a nice plugin there.
At one point the notes seem a bit random, but they're all nice and harmonic (you're way too good at harmonics, lol).

The strongs come in unexpectedly, but very fitting. You get quite some energy going there, I like that.

About that crackle - it actually gives it some sort of lo-fi feel, which I like. Maybe you could experiment around with that effect intentionally a bit.

I hope you're still going to extend this into a full song, it's a really nice song you've got going.

Keep up your stuff man. :)

-Mich

October 3, 2009

Author's Response:

Thanks for the review MICH!

Sometime I hope to approach a full orchestration, but minimalism is all that really works out well for me. I really liked this one, starting with the bassoon.

Garritan's sounds are fine, except for the brass. I think the key is a bit of reverb on the individual instrumentation.

I'm curious which point seemed random, there are definitely spots where melody was less driven by the structure of the bassoon.

I think the instrumentation all works together, the clarinet and violin speak together quite well.

I really wish I knew where the crackle came from. But yeah, it does kind of feel like vinyl, now that you mention it.

I want to extend this piece, I think I need to work on increasing orchestration next.

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Score: 9
SN |Pristine| SN

"Nice glitchy and lo-fi"

submission: SN |Pristine| SN
date: October 3, 2009

Unlike Supersteph54, I do like me some glitch from time to time.

I like how it started out crackling in a really lo-fi style. You have a nicely set band pass filter there too.

Reverb-y closed hihats are good. Flawless transistion to the full beat.
I think the beat is quite in-your face, perhaps a little too bassy to fit with the rest of the style.

You've got a very nice ambience going in here though. I guess with delayed and reverbed synths.

The glithy effects on your drums are very well done (what did you make that with?) Maybe the climax of the song could've lasted a bit longer, but overall, it's a very nice product.

Keep it up and such!

-Mich

October 4, 2009

Author's Response:

AWW hey its MICH

thats not a band pass filter, i just EQ'ed them with like very little highs and no lows

the beat being in your face...i dont really know what to say about that, personal taste i guess, i like it though

hmm i could have had a secondary climax right after it, coulda been good

the glitchy effects on the drums are just arpegiations, really simple to do compared to other glitch effects

peace out

SessileNomad

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Score: 7
[X] Against All Odds

"Pretty nice, but I'd re-arrange the layers a bit."

date: October 2, 2009

You have a giant supersaw laying over the whole song, while it would probably sound a lot cleaner and more polished it was pushed more to the back.

You could do that by for example sidechaining the supersaw, so it ducks when the kick hits. I also advice Equalizing that supersaw so it doesn't take up the whole frequency spectrum, but only a part of it, which is for you to decide.

Overall it was pretty catchy. a little repetitive, but that's normal, as you explained.
Your intro was pretty unique by the way. The track has quite some potential.

As for genre: I'd go for dance.

Keep it up, and try to work on those points I mentioned. Hope I helped!

-Mich

October 3, 2009

Author's Response:

Yeah, I don't like the way that I mixed this song too much. I got lazy I suppose. Thanks for the pointers, I'll definitely work on them. :D

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