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[[HS]Resonate (wip)]

Some tips

Not bad man. I'm a seasoned hardstyle producer and my suggestions to you are.

Sample your kick drum and reverse it to make a nice fade in sound for the bass if it's going to be sudden. I would increase the volume on the main synth a really small amount or reduce the kick volume a little and boost the low low frequencies 65 hertz

Keep it up. One of the best I have heard on NG for hardstyle so far.

I would appreciate if you could take a listen to my music and drop some comments. added you to my favs

VelociD responds:

Thx for your review and especially the tips.
I'm going to write an review to one or more of your tracks asap =).

[M13 -Hardstyle Project-]

Nice starting point

Nice starting point man keep it up. I heard a few sour notes in the melody though. none the less not bad :D

P.S. I would appreciate if you could tell me what you think of my tunes, or even just take a listen. I need more friends XD so I don't get 0 bombed by kids who don't like hard basslines

[SN |Make the Choice| SN]

Good job on the atmosphere!!!

Great job with the atompshere and putting fx kicks in. Melody is also nice. However The kicks need work. They are pushed to far into the background I think you could fix that by turning the synths down some and boosting 65 hertz on the bass drum. Good call on the vocals his voice actually worked quite well.

P.S. I would appreciate if you could tell me what you think of my tunes, or even just take a listen. I need more friends XD so I don't get 0 bombed by kids who don't like hard basslines

SessileNomad responds:

lol i already like your stuff ephixa xD

ok ill check more of your tunes, sooner or later, im kind busy atm

i agre with these kicks, though, i made this track a while back and i had no clue what i was doing XD

[[PSF] Hardstyle Demo 2]

Nice drums

The snares and drums are good. That seems to be the part that a lot of people dont pay attention to. You might want to change your snare loop to a 4 to the floor though.

BIggest suggestion I could make is beef up that bassline with some distortion and side chaining.

Keep it up!

P.S. I would appreciate if you could tell me what you tthink of my tunes, or even just take a listen.

ProjectStormForce responds:

Thanks a lot! I'll check your songs out too.

[Hallucinogenic]

Hey man, not to bad, sound quality needs work.

Coming from a seasoned hardstyle producer, this is actually pretty good but I think the sounds are WAY to compressed. What effects did you use on the master channel? I also suggest turning up the decay on the reverb for the lead.

you're bass isn't to bad but it really needs more impact. Try taking the punch out of a sampled kick and layering it on your bass.

culmor30 responds:

I'm honored :D

This is really old, mastered it with a Soundgoodizer. I didn't even EQ some channels. Oh god I was awful. Don't worry, I'm trying to get better :]

Thanks much for the review.

[Z-tone - Grendell(NG cut)]

Not bad not bad

I can't fuckin stand supa dupa (lead preset in the intro he used, for ppl who don't know what that is). Melody reminds me of another track Forgot the name.

this is pretty good though nice work. However the mixdown isn't to good. some vocals are to loud. I think ur overclipping and using a compressor / limiter to fix the issue because the bass is pushing the leads into the background.

Keep it up.

Z-Tone responds:

the intro is actually a modified version of smooth filter but yeah
check the extended mix too:P
think its much better:D

["Z3ta-Crispy ArP"Hardstyle]

Alright.

The main synth sounds really weak. You need to assign them to a mixer channel, boost the highs with an EQ, put on a little bit of distortion. Turn off the delay and reverb on the VSTSs and then add them in the effects line. Make sure the reverb has a long decay and a large room setting.

You might want to layer the melody another octave higher to give it more power aswell.

Try adding in more atemospheric effects to like reverb kicks explosions builds reverse explosions etc etc.

Z-Tone responds:

yeah your right the main lead is but...
if it sounds weak then its the mids i should:P
and im not using FL studio if you think that:D
so everything is already a mixerchannel and yeah i dont use the vsti built in effects
i use more other vsts such as camel space and so forth
long decays and large rooms are not always right
it depents very much on what sound you are using and other sounds in the mix
the sound i wanted there was a more softer yet hard enough to call hardstyle to kinda be in sync with the soft harp
but yeah there are no golden rules about either leads of eqing and mastering

what you need to do is check out my other songs both on this account and hotplurplegnome:P
i have more defined tunes than this one..:P

but yeah thanks for the review:D

[[Hard Trance] Light]

It's alright

I do not like the clap pattern at all in the background.

ElectroLord99 responds:

thats nice. i wanted it like that

[Mammal Sauce]

Omg, I remeber this song

Isn't this from a album called big box of shit or something? haha this song is so epic (The full version)

I love what you have done here.