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Interesting

I'm liking the main melody at the start. The high pitched saw synth things that zip around the 40 second mark are really awesome. I can't help but feel like there needs to be more happening though. The tracks seems a bit empty at times... I'm not sure what would fix that but nevertheless....

Distortion...

You should stick a limiter or compressor on this, because with all the dischord there are some really scratchy moments that could be avoided. Maybe tone down the amount of dischord in the track, or use instruments that don't blur into each other so much (like the low strings at the start, the dischord just becomes this muddy blurry puddle or blech, which could be avoided if you split the notes up into a few different instruments).

ShatterTheSky22 responds:

Thank you for the review. I'm sorry you didn't like the strong dischord. The muddiness is exactly what I was going for with this one, to emphasize the "torment" feeling.

Nice work

The phaser effect at about 1 minute in was cool. The only downfall is the amount of bass heavy reverb. You should try to make is less bassey, otherwise the song starts to sound kind of muddy. Otherwise, awesome track.

Cool!

Sounds almost mechanical... like Cheshyre's Train Madness song... hence the title of the song I guess.

FlamingFirebolt responds:

Hmm i don't know that song. I'll look it up.
The main reason i called it Freight Train is because of the intro synth really. I was kinda making a train whistle sound. (in the end i failed and ended up with this.. )
Oh well thanks you liked it! :)

Great job,

Again with the portamento! We need to get you to porta-rehab man! I'm joking, it really adds a lot to this track. The sweeping pads in the background sound awesome when contrasting with the bouncy drumline. Great work!

Dayum Matt...

It's no mystery why you dominate the NG dubstep scene. I need to take a shower cause some of those synths were so dirty... keep up the awesome work! Congrats on getting signed too!

Whoa...

If you don't think you're going to be able to finish this you should release the source files to someone else. That gated square-thing sounded so crisp, I can see this has a lot of potential.

Good

Except the crash ping-pong delay effect really bugged me. The crash wasn't long enough to overlap between the stereo seperation, and it just sounded empty and incomplete.
The part where the bass pads come in at the start was pretty awesome, and the square plucks added some bounce to the track.
The vocals would have sounded great with a backing synth mispitched maybe a fourth higher or lower than the pitch of the vocals.
However, the track seems to me like it's missing something. You have the beat, the bass and the lead, but there needs to be something else in there to fill out the track. At the moment there sounds like there should be another instrument that would round out the whole song perfectly, but it isn't there.
Overall not a bad song, but there there is definitely some room for improvement.

Pulstate responds:

Excellent review, thank you.

The delay was actually removed, but it's still present in this MP3, apologies for this.

There is definitely room for improvement! :)

Hmm.....

Dischords aren't exactly musically pleasing by anyone's standards... and unfortunately there was a little too much dishcord to make this song bearable.

Pretty good...

But there should have been more variation within the loop. You might as well just kept it to one bar and looped it over and over, next time try to add in a few more chords and get some more variation going.

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