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Sinusrhythmus v3.0 (vocal mix)

By tubrox

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Yannick

Originality:	7	Technical:	6
Theme:	6	Quality:	7
Arrangement:	6	Global:	6

+ Vocals

Inge

Originality:	7	Technical:	7
Theme:	2	Quality:	7
Arrangement:	3	Global:	5

Sounds like: Felix da Housecat on Ritalin

Good:
-Distinct electrosound that combines 80's influences and modern dance components.
-Characteristic speech to give face to the song
-Crispclear production with enough room for every instrument to fill the entire spectrum.

Points of improvement:
Pattern 19 is the first pattern where the song gets exciting. The first 2 minutes sound like an introduction to something bigger, since a real chorus is missing. This song would greatly improve if it would contain a distinct main theme. The current song doesn't catch my attention enough, but simply tends to drift by. It needs a stronger theme.

Sunbuster

Originality:	7	Technical:	7
Theme:	6	Quality:	6
Arrangement:	6	Global:	7

The tune overall has sort of an 90's electro feeling. Adding a short delay on the snare would have completed that picture.
Anyway, there's some weird stuff going on in the beginning. I'm not sure if it's intentional (not sure if it's in my setup only), but the basskick seems to cut out every now and then. Kind of like two instruments would cancel each other out partly.

I'm 99% sure I've heard these vocals before, not sure where though... I'm not too fond of the vocals, they don't fit the tune quite in my opinion. I'm not quite sure however what it is that makes them not fit in my ears, maybe it's because they somehow seem to be on a different level than the rest of the tune. They don't sound as if they've been made for this track, they sound as if they've been implemented later on, but not recorded specifically for this track. Sometimes they sound a bit out of beat.

The overall mix is good however, the instruments are well balanced. I would have liked the stereofield to be used a bit more, everything sounds a bit centered now. Samples sound good, even though they technically are of low quality (8KHz), only on the crash did I audibly notice this low quality, otherwise the samples worked well. No madtracker effects have been used at all, which is a bit odd.

In general it's a cool tune, but the vocals to me are a bit of a greyzone. Personally, I would have left them out and instead have implemented a lead melody of some sort.