MadTracker - ".: Sorceress :." by XnmE

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.: Sorceress :.

by XnmE

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QBical

Originality:	6/10	Technical:	7/10
Theme:	5/10	Quality:	7/10
Arrangement:	7/10	Global:	7/10

This laidback piece by XnmE realy stands out for me, it uses great sounds and hissy vocals to achieve a realy sexy feel ;)
All the stuff is realy warm and fit's nicely, although I feel that the pad is a bit to harsh or loud.
I realy like the 'guitar solo' that swims in verb at the end!

There's realy not much to say about this one, good work!

Sunbuster

Originality:	8/10	Technical:	8/10
Theme:	8/10	Quality:	7/10
Arrangement:	7/10	Global:	8/10

Downtempo with vocals. I like the laid back feeling of both the vocals and the drums. The vocals work great with that filtered radio band sound. The flute or horn plays some very nice melodies also and adds greatly to the atmosphere of the track.

I've got one major beef with this track, and that is the sawtooth pad that runs in the background all the time. It get's on my nerves. It demands too much attention to be a background instrument and sometimes clashes majorly with the vocals. I think I would have preferred skipping that pad and instead use something that doesn't have quite that much going on in the higher frequencies.

In general, nice, but not much more. Kudos for good vocals, which unfortunately get clouded by the sawtooth from time to time.

TNK / ATK project

Originality:	9/10	Technical:	6/10
Theme:	7/10	Quality:	7/10
Arrangement:	8/10	Global:	8/10

Originality: 9
Theme: 7 <-- Buy why are almost all the melodies presampled ?
Arrangement: 8
Technical: 6 <-- Could have been much higher if the pads & flute had been tracked...
Quality: 7
Global: 8

Nice opening samples (but aarrrgghhh... it's presampled stuff ! Why didn't you do those pads with all those great softsynths available), nice piano and nice dark voices (the metal singer is clearly to be felt here). Then a nice flute melody comes in... but once again, it's some presampled stuff...

The drum programming is well done. Works very well. I like it's laidback atmosphere.
The female vocals (taken from archives) are very like and work very well together with the "be my sorceress" & other vocals spoken by XnmE.
The guitars are great (what a surprise with XnmE!), but enter only towards the end.

He even added a touch of perfection by showing us several pictures during the song. This shows that some real effort was put into this work

However, the pads are too strong and use a too large frequency range, overlapping on the frequency range of several instruments, making the mix less good than it could have been. I think that passing some evolving filter over it could have improved the track a lot.

So my hints if you want to continue producing such tracks is to :
- Learn how to use the softsynths within MT itself : The allowed set of synths could have been used to create all the sounds you used pre-sampled stuff for...
- Improve a bit the mixing, especially the one of those pads you did with FM7.

Besides this, it's all fine. A good entry.