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Wrong is Right

By Ronster / SpeedDevils Records

Originality:4Theme:5Arrangement:4
Technical:4Quality:4Global:5
This song contains four tracks with reverb and the gain set at 100! I had to disable three of these and route all of them to only one instead, to be able to listen to this song at all. This gives exactly the same effect. You should try that in your next attempt.

This song has lots of energy and pretty cool melody, but the whole song is too simple. Not so good quality and much more effects are needed to make this song sound good. The leads sounds like chip-instruments and the bassdrum should be lower. A string or two would do a lot for this one. As I said earlier, I cant see any reason to have reverb-gain set at 100, no, this is too much. The thing that saves this song is the great voice-samples, which are the same samples as Phasio used in "The Ultimate Seduction". Now dont let my complaining scare you. I just hope I've given you a few pointers here.




Originality:3Theme:5Arrangement:5
Technical:4Quality:6Global:5
I was so amazed; a trance track with the tiesto sound, in the middle of a compo? Who would ever expect such a thing? Wrong is Right is one of those million tracks that are produced every day, untill a new genre is the big thing and all these producers start producing the new hype. The famous 'wrong is right' sentences are used (first one to be heard back in 1992?), but it is used in a highly constructive way. There's a good overall sound quality & a impressive lead synth, but the melody isn't good enough to keep me interested.
But the worst thing is the bassline; every 3th & 4th measure it's absolutely false/detuned. Bleeding ears! This is really a major drawback and devaluates the song. The structure is very flat, showing no creativity or originality. At 2.30 some sort of bridge is introduced, which only implies that the leadsynth is being removed, resulting in a hollow, flat sound. After some time the leadsynth reappears, but only much harder than before, which I don't understand. I also don't know why this song lasts more than 5 minutes, when nothing really happens.
Little positive points are the mix (atleast parts of it) and the instrument quality, which all sounds rather good.
Overall not a good track, with a terrifying bassline, an inconsistent leadsynth and a boring attitude. Nothing much.

To the artist; first of all, re-sequence your bassline! Second; add more to the song. If you insert a bridge, don't only introduce it through removal of the leadsynth, but also through the addition of less strong instruments/melody alterations.
Third: make your structure more exiting; don't copy what you hear from others, but build your own thing. Perform experiments with it.


Originality:6Theme:7Arrangement:6
Technical:4Quality:6Global:6



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