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[[Fiji]A New Climate]

Wow, you're getting better a trance

Occasionally, try to slip in a hihat for drum track but that's the least of your worries. Other than that, everything else is perfect. Great flow, great synth choice, great melodies, love the filtering.

Great job

MrFijiWiji responds:

thnx man i agree about the hihat part... and btw i made the lead myself! and some of the other synths too! im weening myself off those nexus presets slowly...

[Our Nova Pt. 2]

cool!

great breakdown to a slower speed than the last song

DJ-Chilvan responds:

Thanks! Yea, I really like the mellowness of this track. I prefer it to part one, even though everyone else likes part one better.

[Our Nova Pt. 1]

great...

Just needs a stronger kick, that's the only problem.

DJ-Chilvan responds:

Yea, I kinda noticed that, but any stronger, it would most likely ruin the cadence of the song. I'm glad you liked it though, and thanks for the review!

[_/Run Away\_ [vox]]

too much low freq amplification on the vox

Other than that, that's about it. Everything else is good. I can't really make out the words.

ShootingStar responds:

Ok, I'm definitely re-doing vocals XD
Thanks for the review!!

ShootingStar

[[Fiji]As Long as Forever]

wow cool

I guess I have to say it, this is worth a 10. This shows that you've improved musically. Good job, no criticisms. Let's hope I don't come up with any last minute ones in the future.

MrFijiWiji responds:

omg dude thank u so much for checking this out! i really appreciate this... and ahah... i get 0 bombed yet again.. oh well... no matter what i will get this on the front page

[_/Uplift\_ [preview]]

nice flow

the sidechained pad is abit too sidechained. Nice intro though. That was interesting.

ShootingStar responds:

Sweet :D Thanks for the review dave!! :D

ShootingStar

[_/Ultra Motion\_ [ng cut]]

cool

nice chill trance there sir. I see this one blooming into something good!

ShootingStar responds:

Sweet :D Haha thanks a bunch for the review!!

ShootingStar

[_/Blue Sky\_ [promo]]

wow

very unique. add lyrics to this definitely. The beginning sounds like a video games song though and try to have more of a buildup in the beginning rather than just
throwing everything at once there. Good luck in the future and I hope to hear you on XM Radio's trance channel one day.

ShootingStar responds:

Haha I hope so too :D But this is only a demo so that's why it starts so quick - I normally do have a longer intro :P
Thanks for the review!

ShootingStar

[_/YRX vs SS: Gods Fist\_]

yourix vs. ss

I could totally use this in a video game escape theme or something. Just love the filtering on the drum and the samples that you used. You and yourix always make good stuff.

ShootingStar responds:

haha :D thanks for the review!!

ShootingStar

[_/White Static\_]

good stuff

good sidechaining, melody & equalization. I just have a problem with that synth from 0:30 - 0:41 that sounds like "hard mid booster" and plays throughout most of the song; it cuts into my ears. And at times when the sidechained air 3xosc effect is stopped for like 1.5 seconds with no sidechaining for example 1:15, can be abit annoying at times but that's the least of the worries. Every now and then, try to change the bass melody "abit" more often like for another 8 bars anywhere in the song. because that's the only thing that makes the song repetitive, Although the one in the beginning was very useful indeed!

Amazing job of compressing the song into four beats at the build up. What did you do? export the mp3 and then bring it back into fl and then do piano roll on C10 frequency?

regards, DJDO

(P.S. Are you sure this song should be named white static?)

ShootingStar responds:

Haha not hard mid booster but close :D But I personally like the bass (maybe not where you're talking about) but in the rest of the song, I'll look into changing that..
The no sidechaining, I don't know why I did that, it was just for fun/ tired of it being sidechained all the time haha :D
And then the compression, well, I exported it, then put it into the sequencer like you would with vocals so you can edit them and just shortened into four beats :D
Any other ideas for names? Couldn't really come up with any :P
Thanks for the review Dave!!

ShootingStar