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[Poo smells good]

So here we go:

I didn't like it much. I'm going to say that right off the bat. Maybe it's just not my kind of music but I just can't imagine someone who would actually listen to stuff like this over and over again.
First off, your drums. they are panned way too extreme for my taste, you could have played around with that a little more, for example let them pan against each other with an lfo or something so the snare doesn't always sit on the left and the bass and crash (which sounds rather awfull and has no dynamic range what so ever) on the right. The other sounds are rather good the bass that you introduce right after the sirens at the start was the sound that I liked the most. You unfortunately didn't use it that much later on or you just didn't mix it in very well, which gets me to the next point.

The mixing:
It all sounds very mashed together, try to give every instrument room in the frequencyspectrum to work in. Your mix is mainly a pile of mud. The whole thing doesn't really sound pleasantly compressed so you should probably look into compression for your sounds aswell. Also you should try to sidechain some of your stuff in this too to give the instruments room in terms of loudness. So yeah try to improve that and you might get something decent out of this.

Musicality:

I did not like the composition. It's all over the place. You dont really know what you have to think of it as the listener. It's quite as confusing as the title, so well I guess you were going for that all along. Try to streamline a bit more in future productions maybe.

Overall a pretty awful track, I hope I didn't just hate on your track and gave some constructive criticism to improve your skills.

1.5/5

TacoMilagroIII responds:

Noted.

[Scrambling & Rambling]

Hi,

this is my first review so please dont take the stuff i write too siriously. I'll try my best thought ;)

I really like the sound design in this track, the basses got a lot of punch, same thing with the drums. The kind of squelchy sound on your break parts is the thing i like the most if I had to pick one thing from that track. It has got a great mellow feel to it. The mixing and mastering is well done too. No annoying frequencys in the higher register and next to no resonances in the low end.

Now to the bad.
I dont really like your arrangement. For me it drags on for too long, this song could have delivered all of its parts in 5 minutes. I get that you arent going for the edm/skrillex type dubstep with heavy "drops" and crazy melodies all over the place, but you could have included some risers or build ups (or atleast some longer quieter sections) to raise excitement in the listener. However the song flows along nicely. For my taste theres to few variation in it though probably because the song is too long.

So my verdict for your song is going to be 4 out of 5 stars.
The song has a nice concept! Keep it up ;)

dannyNergy responds:

thx for your in depth review