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[AIM . Requiem for an Astronaut (Ft. Marie Ork)]

I am genuinely shocked by your progression through the years, Lex! This is beautiful, melodic, and haunting, yet also comforting. I found it through the recommends on my own latest, using Marie Ork, which I'd love to hear your feedback on, but back to the piece at hand! Despite having to read the lyrics, I enjoyed it very much. She is such a versatile instrument. Sounds good out of the box even. I'm even impressed you managed to make the Power Drum Kit fit without sounding like velocity machine guns. It doesn't really have a GUI as far as I remember. I would like to reengineer it.

The chord progression is what got me. Very smooth!

LexRodent responds:

Thanks a lot for your words.
It's always nice to confirm by the ears of a fellow musician there's been some advancement in my music making. Marie Ork it's indeed great for a free vst, if she had a slightly better pronunciation it'd be an absolute killer. I got the Power drum kit a couple of years ago, this version has a good GUI as well as some base patterns which are very useful to modify to your song's needs.

I'll drop by to hear what you did with Marie Ork.

[INK 20 [FULL MIXTAPE]]

Getting closer and closer to that clean ass studio sound. I would take the instrumentals down just a little bit -- at least Listerine in particular -- maybe add a chorus here and there to pump up your vocals in the space. Sounding better and better every time I hear from you, diction is slick.

Thanks for featuring me. I don't have time to give a proper review for the full mix but it's an honor <3

guyfromKillerRAT responds:

It's always an honor with CyberD.

[Last Battle]

UwU that intro tho, and those arps! I might take them down just a tad in the first bar they come in -- they're just a bit strong

Absolutely love what you've done with the bass. SUPER DETUNE! Wonderful arrangement and variety, sweet key change in the middle. I wonder how you manage it -- I get so attached to the same key haha

This is a bop. Looking at the waveform, I'm not sure if it's making the most of loudness, but that doesn't really matter unless I play another track after and have to turn everything down

I might take your bass down about .2 dB -- it sounds quite loud relative to the track even for dnb, but other than that, absolutely lit :3

Dieswyx responds:

I'm such a fan of detune and loud basses. :>

[Lotus Apparition]

Absolute fire

I didn't expect that harp to come in -- at first I thought it was dissonant to the intro, maybe outside the key

The vocoder coming in hits very nicely

A little bit of sibilance on the vocals -- might manually duck the s's

Occasionally the mix feels a bit hi-passed and low-mid heavy, perhaps over reverby. However I really enjoy the writing itself, and that makes up for a LOT. The detuned sound of literally everything and the motifs tying in together are perfect. Happy boi hours

May take the hi-hat and shakers down 2-3 dB

But other than that, masterful. Doesn't get old for 8 whole minutes. I have a short attention span. That's saying something

@cyberdevil absolutely killing the flows as always <3

S3C responds:

thanks for the great review! Appreciate the sensitive ears noticing the detuned sounds and the specific mixing suggestions- will def keep them in mind for new Cyberdevillian collaborations

[1111 - 626f6e7573]

Here from the playlist. Am I right to understand this is 14 days of quarantine? If so, you made damn good use of it. I wasn't expecting sweet, sweet blue grass when I showed up. Happily surprised

Dadush responds:

Yeah man - this was during the time at Uni where I had to quarantine because a flatmate had gotten covid symptom. Thought it was a good way to pass the time. Glad you enjoyed it :^)

[Tем временем в России . . .]

Meanwhile in Russia, hehehe. Interesting meld of genres, and nice overtones in the mids on that bass. I would have preferred something other than the pluck used, or maybe layered it with another plug and panned them out. It's a little mid heavy to me. I initially thought it was a piano. But other than that, lit!

EDIT: I wish they had comment threads on here

If it's the harmonic exciter, you might be able to cut low mids and notch the EQ elsewhere, and turn it down some. I think it would do well with a little thinning out or spreadilizing

LexRodent responds:

Thanks for listening man, glad you like the fusion I went for.
I have noticed I tend to overdo the mids lately, still learning how much harmonic exciter it's too much :D

[VREMYA KHAYPA (ВРЕМЯ ХАЙПА)]

You literally rapped faster than I could read at points, and the flow is absolutely klass. Вот возьми пятерочку. Я с удовольствием бы продуцировала с тобой трек -- такая скорость. Просто невероятно))

Olindel responds:

Thank you very much! We could maybe do something together if you want, just let me know what you have in mind and I'll think about it. ;)

[killedherself x Kid Kamikaze - invincible]

Smooth as shit. Maybe a little overcompressed when I listen to the sides, but a little back off and I think it would retain the charm. Great work!

killedherself responds:

over compressed bass and saws is the vibe ^_~

[+Lucky+]

Really heavy on the treble in your snare and snap. I had to turn down the volume a little. I'd recommend either turning them down some or rolling off a little highs strategically.

This track has a nice vibe. It sounds like you might be clipping in places. If you don't know what that is, look it up. Best practice is to mix quiet, then let mastering FX or a third party online master handle making everything loud.

Your cello is also a bit loud relative to the rest of the track and sounds a bit dry. Chorus, reverb, delay, and panning/tremelo panning are all things you could do to liven it up. Another cello perhaps doubling the same line would also be interesting to hear, and perhaps apply all those effects on a send track for them both. Pocket Blakus is a good free kontakt cello, if you don't have it.

But beyond any technical mumbo jumbo, this is real smooth!

gray1 responds:

I mean you can tell by the peking on the actual wave file on this track that the collapse and the snares are is R peaking and that is due to the blood overdrive that I used all those in 2019 just because I was trying to fucking make everything go over the top and the blow overdrive did that I've since alarms not to fucking do that but you know you love you learn and that's just the way production goes but as far as mastering you know it's better to keep going at it I'm oversized you're cool and all that shit but doing it yourself and learn all that shit to your ears pop is kind of fun too PS I'm using text to speech and I don't feel like correcting any of this

[Great Beyond]

Just a touch more punch and crunch on those drums, maybe a bit less hihat, and this would be a five for me. I think I'd like a little bit less volume on the scratches, or some panning. Maybe some reverb or delay play? The track feels like it wants to be spaced out. Great work!

Casper responds:

Yeah, i was thinking about some reverb and delay on those scratches