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Ronster & Maup - The Zone

By Ronster & Maup

Sunbuster

Originality:5Theme:5Arrangement:6
Technical:5Quality:5Global:6
A hard trance tune this seems to be. And alot has been done to get it to sound as hard as possible. Disted instruments, doubled drums and all. But I like it, it has a good drive, just as hard trance tunes should have.

The melody that enters at about 2:00 is really nice (played with instrument 09). It gives a great sence of large open spaces, distant lands and so on.

Female vocals, nice touch although they seem to be of slightly poor quality. Samples in general seem to be of lower quality. What's good though is that it's consistent. Not some samples of high quality and others of lower, but all equal. This makes the low quality less noticeable.

What this tune mostly lacks are the little things. Small changes in the hihats for instance. I could identify several spots where an extra hit on the open hihat would have been right on. Panning also seems to be a unknown term for the author. This is helped a bit by the use of reverb and stereo delay though.

As a tip: One of the bassdrum tracks was unessecary. It was obvious that you (the author) wanted more power into the bass, and that's why you double it. Instead you could have left one track away, and added a distortion filter on one bassdrum track, set the thresold to 0 and the added a couple of dB in the level. Same effect as with doubling the tracks, but one track less to worry about ;)

And finally, another tip. In Madtracker there's a function called cleanup (under the edit menu). Learn to use it. I noticed a duplicate instrument in your tune, ran the cleanup and shaved of 500Kb from the filesize of the tune (some other unused instruments went in the process also). On a 2.8MB tune that's pretty much IMO ;)


Daniel

Originality:2Theme:5Arrangement:5
Technical:6Quality:5Global:5
No. About 7' of pain & so slow to take off.


D.Copy

Originality:5Theme:4Arrangement:3
Technical:2Quality:1Global:3
The quite good idea also is traced a theme, but the general impression spoils awful quality samples and bad data of a sound.


Netbeat

Originality:1Theme:3Arrangement:3
Technical:6Quality:7Global:4
style: dance, trance. solid trance. very high quality samples! danceable!


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