[Stay Determined - An Undertale Cover Album]

3 hours ago, Slimy said:

Is this a joke?

• The name of your Soundcloud page is SanicStudios Music.
• Your midi arrangements somehow sound off beat.
• Several of your covers sound like they have literal mistakes in them.
• Your "tEm battlz! yAyA!" remix is using Mixcraft's out-of-the-box "boy band" sounds, like every armature YouTuber who ever made a joke remix.
• " Please tell me what you think (I will not tolerate haters) "

I'd say that general audiences aren't a good place to get serious feedback on music, but this statement doesn't actually appear to be true.

1) I can call it whatever I want.

2) They aren't MIDIs. It's live playing.

3)  Which ones?

4) That song is supposed to be a joke. I was just going to do Enemy Approaching but made my own version.

5) I only wanted positive feedback/criticism and not (like you've done) "is this a joke? ur stupid. ur music sucks"

6) I feel that it is true. This album is one of the best things on my account, next to Mafiatale.

[Stay Determined - An Undertale Cover Album]

30 minutes ago, timaeus222 said:

Sorry @Gario, but I have to agree with Slimy here (plus, thus guy asked for "feedback, pronto").

I'm not hating, but it's hard not to hear the sloppy rhythms. I don't mean to say the rhythm is terrible, but that it's "too human", or that you had recorded "live" MIDI with significant latency and didn't fix the rhythm. It's particularly noticeable on "Gaster's Amalgamations" since the piano is by itself for most of the song.

Fortunately, at least a good portion of your stuff isn't quantized (computer-perfect rhythm), so it makes me think you might have a MIDI keyboard - do you? If so, it was a good decision.

• "A Possibility of a Fight" is actually not that bad. It kinda sounds like a garage jam. Granted, the guitars aren't the most realistic, but it's fairly enjoyable.
• "Wrong Enemy" is alright, but the sounds are fairly dry; that is, lacking reverb. If you want instruments to gel together more cohesively, it helps to add reverb to give a sense of similar spaces (even if it's to the subtle extent of a natural room).
• "The Wrong Number Song" sounds comical in nature, honestly. I think it's a funny listen, with the speech synthesizer lyrics and oompah rhythm. Unfortunately it's not something I would put on 24-hour repeat because the vocals are too loud.
• "The Great Papyrus" has better rhythm than "Gaster's Amalgamations", though there are still a few rhythmic errors. I think the average Undertale fan would like it, but it's super loud, especially at the 1-minute mark.
• "Hold On To Your Hopes And Dreams", like "The Great Papyrus", gets quite loud at 0:22 and on, and it clips. So, you should use a limiter to watch your peaks. TLs-Pocket Limiter is a nice, free limiter that doesn't give you overcompression (it does, however, allow overcrowding, so be aware of that).

I'm going to stop with the critique at this spot in the playlist though, since you probably see a common theme: many of these tracks are pretty loud. Like @Gario said, it would probably be more practical to choose individual tracks that you want to work on more, and post those in their own topics, as it's time-consuming to critique an entire playlist, in the amount of time you deem as "pronto".

My advice is, try not to keep boosting instruments until you hear each one over the other. Instead, treat it more like a balancing act between instruments, with a specific maximum loudness that you don't want to exceed. Once you get the volumes down, try EQing at clashing frequency ranges so that the characteristics of each instrument can be heard. In general, it's usually better to cut than to boost with EQ, since it's less painful (to anyone's ears) if your sounds are hollow than if they're overboosted.

Here's a frequency range chart to get you started:

Also, here is some music for you to listen to for comparison, so you have a mixing reference.

https://soundcloud.com/isworks/shreddage-2-srp-the-devils-mudflap-by-andrew-aversa-power-metal (power metal)

https://soundcloud.com/isworks/henning-nugel-leaving-dressed (cinematic)

https://soundcloud.com/isworks/tetralogy-worlds-most-wanted (jazz, funk)

https://soundcloud.com/biggiantcircles/borderlands-2-tropical-paradise-exploration (ambient)

If you really want to get better, it would be well worth your time to take criticism with a thick skin, and not be saying "I'm not tolerating haters". Sometimes that's necessary. You may also want to listen to many styles of music so you have a greater knowledge of multiple mixing contexts. Hope that helps!

Thank you Timaeus. You have made some good points there that should help me. Yes, I do have a MIDI keyboard and used it for every single song on here (except Wrong Enemy which was a MIDI arrangement(there was a glitch with the guitar sound so it's much louder and distorted than it would've been). I wasn't expecting these to be the best things ever. After all, I only spent a month and a half on them. If they were going to be perfect I would've spent at least 3 months on them. Also (evident in @Slimy's post) saying that I won't be tolerating haters is just going to drag them in.

 

thank you ~~metalwarrior06

[Stay Determined - An Undertale Cover Album]

I have been working my little pants off at this for about a month and a half. I need some feedback, pronto. Just released yesterday, I launched my Stay Determined album onto Soundcloud with some fairly positive reviews. Lots of likes, reposts and views. Now I need your opinion. Please tell me what you think (I will not tolerate haters) and thank you for listening.