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[Ocean Waves]

My biggest problem is that your piano is very muddy. The kick is way too intense and due to this, your snare and kick are very unbalanced. Back to the piano, you should cut some of those low ends out with an EQ. I would also look for any resonating areas by turning up the gain on one of the bands, going back and forth between frequencies until you find that really resonating sound and then lowering that frequency while messing with the bandwidth until you can't hear it anymore. As for the composition, some sounds don't feel like they're placed right or don't work together. The mix is pretty unbalanced overall due to some levels feeling off. I also think more could've been added to it and the progression could have felt a bit more structured.

[dark atmospheric]

I think the beginning piano is a bit muddy and I also think it would benefit from sounding more distant with maybe a filter or reverb. As for the mud, take an EQ, put the gain all the way up one of the bands and go back and forth in the frequencies to try and find where that muddy sound is coming from. After you find it, bring it down until it's not there and be sure not to cut out too much. Also experiment with the bandwidth. You also have this sort of sandy sound on the piano and how I get rid of it is by doing a high pass on the top of the EQ, turning that gain all the way down on that band to make a low cut and then start at the top frequency and go down until it's gone. If it's not there then you can use the same method with finding mud to find that sandy sound. The drums don't really fit imo.

[Friday]

It sounds like the beginning is clipping and it sounds very low passed which isn't bad just that I would lower the volume. It really hard to tell what's really going on in the first part [0:00 - 1:03] because it sounds like there's some mud. That's all I'll comment on. It does sound pretty interesting.

[NiTi - Alive (Dusty Remix)]

Underrated alert! But my one pet peeve that I have is that it felt like you lost some energy at 0:56. I was waiting for maybe a stronger 808 or maybe a pad or some type of synth but all that really hit was the kick. That synth at 1:19 could have been cool at 0:56 and instead it's not chopped. I think, personally, it would have carried that part better. Other than that, I think it's super good!

[Bong]

I didn't even know you made music

DavJT responds:

I do B)

[~:Starlight Promenade:~]

Vibey and good chippy

[4 D Innovation]

I'm too familiar with this style. Please consider this as I review this song. The transition at 0:32 feels off. I feel like this song could benefit from a much thicker kick or 808. EQing out the high and mid frequencies of the 808 and kick (leaving like 100 ~ 120 frequencies) and then increasing the 80 range frequency on one of them by a bit could work. They might clash so lowering frequency at 50 ~ 80 on one of them could work. Probably the one you didn't increase the 80 frequency of. Pretty nice!

[JVNA - Ghost (AlvoGTR Remix)]

Woah! This is so good! The mix sounds really clean. My preference though is that I wish the kicks in the build ups had a different pattern. As well as in the drop at 2:41. Otherwise I feel like this is super good! Very well made!

AlvoGTR responds:

idk about the build ups but at 2:41 i got lost in the excision sauce

[The day after twosday]

Well this a very nice. I recommend adding a drum pattern as well as developing the melody a bit further. I also recommend adding some passing notes in the form of either perfect 4ths or 5ths. It doesn't have to be perfect 4ths or 5th though. It can just be single notes as well. It sounds like the chord progression goes Bbm7 - A - F# - A. So to develop it further you can try Bbm7 - BbD# - A - F# - BbD# - A. But I think you should try also switching up the chords in the chord progression as well. Or maybe even extending the chords or adding inversions like Bbm7add13 - BbD# - A/E - F#maj7 - BbD# - A.The just gets a bit too repetitive due to the chord progression. I think the kick is too loud. I think you try to "tuck it" under the song a bit or have it blend in more. Probably with some reverb maybe or/and if you're on FLM, a filter. Also I think you could add more in general like the drum pattern, a nice sax, maybe a bass line. Maybe a bass that plays the notes (not chords) Bb - F - Bb - F - A - C# - A - C# - F# - Bb - F# - Bb - A - C# - A - C#. It would probably be like quarter note then an eighth or half note then a quarter idrk.

Overall I think you can expand on some things but I do like the chord progression. I just feel it can be a bit more interesting as things progress. Pretty nice and chill.

[πSive - Signal]

I'll take into consideration that beepbox doesn't have as many features as a regular DAW. There are some limitations and I'm also not too familiar with it. That being said there doesn't really feel like there's a structure to how this song progresses. Other than that I can't really say much about due to the unfair nature of beepbox compared to a DAW like FL. You worked well with what you had.

nurdPi responds:

yeah that's fair