Score: 10

"Holy Shiznit!"

submission: Paradise on E (Karco Remix)

date: July 2, 2008

An original cover. Nice ambient feel to the song. This song is looong, man, it's loooooooong. Congrats on being so dedicated as to go all the way through with it.
The clashing of the bright happy tune and the sad slow synths in the background worked surprisingly well, it sounded like it shouldn't have worked, but somehow, it did. 5 minutes in and still going strong. It's kind of upbeat, but not rushed, the melody really sinks in. It's quite diverse, changing synths and patterns quite often, the minutes tick by and it's still interesting.
Ok, just finished. Man, great work. Loved it. Gets my 5, 10, fav, download.
Well done.

Would you mind taking a listen to my latest submission?
Keep up the excellent stuff!

Score: 10

"Agree with RyeGuyHead"

submission: I'm Falling (commission)

date: July 1, 2008

Very much a radio rock song.
The scream felt out of place imo, but the rest was of mostly a high quality.
Excellent song, nothing less than a 10.
Great work. Nice lyrics too.
:D

Score: 8

"Happy Fun Time Joy!"

submission: Happy Fun Time Menu Loop

date: July 1, 2008

For its purpose, I think it's a nice song. The instruments used were good, however I would have loved to have heard that lead hold onto a couple of long notes. Not much, just a couple, to break from all the short static sounds and tie it all together. But that's just a minor thing. Loops well, quality is good, and most important of all, it's fun! =3

Nice work.

Score: 10

"Woah"

submission: Symphony of the Damned

date: July 1, 2008

The quality and composition of this track is awesome. It's a huge wall of sound, and the blend of orchestra and DnB isn't too strong, I would have loved a thick reese bass featured prominently in there, but the drums were spot on that in the end, I didn't care, it was that good.

Great work.

Score: 9

"The battle was quite short"

submission: _-={Reaching Dreamers}=-_

date: June 30, 2008

The change of pace is quite quick and unexpected, I'm left wanting more, feeling that there should have been more. But again, the quality was great and I could hear the story going on, the orchestration was quite full on, high energy. It'd be great to hear something like this in a live performance.
Great work, Maestro.

Score: 10

">:("

submission: Rig - Moving On

date: June 11, 2008

This song makes me want to kick babies, because it's awesome.
Don't know what to criticise, so I'll just ask, what do you do with the vocals in FL to make them awesome. I've just recently got a mic and I want to get my voice sounding electronic, the best I've got is a bitcrusher and a few effects. Rig, HOW DO YOU DO WHAT YOU DO!? And don't spare on the details.

<3 ^_^ lol good job, gratz on the weekly top 5, lets have a party, agnreh muffins 4 all.

Score: 6

"Critical analysis"

submission: Deejay DeeZ - Everland

date: June 10, 2008

Could use major improvements, so I'll suggest a few things that I hope will help.

The drums; They need to be better. That kick sounded like it was just the default FL sample without any alteration. The kick sample has a lot of potential, but on its own, it doesn't really work. Try running it through some fruity effects, if you plug the parametric EQ 2 into it, and turn up the bass frequencies you can get a deeper, more forceful kick, although you should watch out that it doesn't peak. One thing I like to do, although I have no idea what more experienced musicians might think, is running fruity blood overdrive through the kick, turn the pre amp up to about 0.2, and turn the volume on the kick channel on the mixer down a bit.
The clap and the hat are pretty generic. I suggest maybe introducing more drum samples to your repertoire and messing about with effects to get a fresh drum sound. I like mixing drum samples with the more realistic FPC samples, and messing about with effects to get something totally original. The crash should be used sparingly, as a resolution to a climactic build up, but I'll go into more detail later.
The rhythm of the drums are pretty generic too, although I know that's what's expected of electronic tracks, it's nice to hear more energy and punch out of the drums, and some more variation. Drums can really make or break an electronica song.

The synths; The synths were pretty nice, but they sound FL preset-ish. They don't have any variation other than their standard sound, no effects to mix it up a bit. Add some phaser, reverb and other effects, maybe mess about with automation clips to get a more varied sound in your synths. I would have also loved to see different synth instruments in there, they all seemed to have the same tone, variation can work wonders, get some more diversity in your instrumentation, get something to fill it out more, it sounded kind of hollow.

The Melody; Now, this was probably the best part of the song. It sounds promising, good signs for the future, although this is a repetitive song, you need to get a bit (not a lot) more variation in your tune, add another melody, something to that effect.

Overall; Please don't take all this criticism as a bad thing, this song is good, but my analysis should serve as advice, for you to learn from and to make those songs that are truly awesome. Great work, keep it up.
-Review Request Club-

Score: 8

"For what it was made for"

submission: Whales, Whales, Whales

date: June 10, 2008

it sounds really cool. The instruments are an interesting choice, although, I have to say that I'm not a fan of the guitar sound. I'd prefer to hear it made more digital sounding through effects, FL give it to you so that it sounds in between trying to be realistic and digital. But that was a minor issue, it still sounded pretty cool amongst the other instruments. The progression of the piece was nice, the adding on of instruments at the start was good, and the change to the single note for each chord on the guitar was good. I didn't like the main guitar riff, the melody was jumping around too much, and it gave off a bit of a random feel. I'd suggest keeping a couple of those melodic leaps in there, but change some of them so that they move in step sequence, and it flows a lot more evenly, especially considering that it's in the bass, and the melody is playing over top of it. I'd love to see some more variation in this piece, a new melody in the lead, somewhere in the middle, but for that smooth ambient type sound, you did a really good job, I'm just being pretty picky about it.
Keep it up!
-Review request club- (lol first review for the club in a loooooong time)

Score: 10

"The Lady is a Beast"

submission: »§« Coming Home

date: June 5, 2008

That was well awesome, your voice sent a shiver down my spine. Whatever happened to the epic metal collab "Authority of Darkness". Anyway, I'd love to see someone like DarKsidE555 add some furious fretwork to this style. Vocals were great, lyrics were a little twisted, a bit like something I'd write. Keep up the awesomeness.
"The Lady is a Beast", you can use that for a song title for free! That's my gift to you, LadyArsenic.
Oh, and Maestro, well done to you too. Epic.

5/5 ^_^

Score: 10

"Love"

submission: _-={From Darkness, Rise}=-_

date: June 1, 2008

that gritty angry brass. It's so wonderfully realistic, it almost makes me lose control of my sexual organs >;D

The splendour, I think, about this song, and indeed, now that I think about it, with most of your other songs lies within how well woven together the harmonies between instruments are. There's no real memorable tune, it's a sea of sound that's so easy to immerse oneself in. If I were to tell someone about MaestroRage's music I couldn't go "hey, have you heard his last song, it sounds like this *hums melody*", they'd actually have to listen for themselves, and feel for themselves the way that the music affects the listener on a totally different level.
I love it.
Congrats on the tank awards, your music is memorable, and you truly live up to your title of "maestro".