by

Marc Letharus
(Letharus)

A very pompous, yet interesting intro starts "She Never Speaks" off. Those guitars of yours are very good and fits brilliantly with the "Pink Floyd-ian" concept you have chosen as an intro. When the tune accelerates in speed I find that your rhythm section is very 80s (not necessarily a good thing) with no particular feel to it, and it is also a tad too weak for a guitar tune such as this one. Your bass is also thin and should have been more of a continous bassline rather than the odd punch here and there. I LOVE your x-fade transition at order 19. The ending is also quite nice, but it does not leave me with any impression. Alas.

Easy-listening guitar track. Noisy low frequency breathing sound in the intro hurts the ears. Extreme panning for the guitar lead in places sounds harsh with headphones. Okay use of sampled guitar riffs in the lead for extra realism. Melody and chord structure is listenable but rather lacklustre. Cymbals crash too loud in earlier orders. Decent sample set with a few from Necros. Guitars a little out of tune with the pads. The song is okay, if a little boring, until a few orders before the end where it changes dramatically with a transition that sounds like pure cut-and-paste. Work on your transitions and melodies. A reasonable effort.

INSTRUMENTATION/SAMPLES: The guitar and percussion samples were pretty good, though some others (e.g. bass and organs) had minor problems. Ins 0E's loop is rather off, Ins 10 was a bit flat (especially noticeable in the end sequence), and Ins 14 just sounded scratchy at low freq's partly because it was undersampled and there were at least 4 points where the envelope was pushed outside of the waveform range, which translates into a bit of static. -=-=-=- TECHNIQUE: No complaints here. :) -=-=-=- ORIGINALITY: It's a nice tune, but didn't see anything remarkably original here. -=-=-=- FORM: It just seems to be missing a whole section of the song. Not timewise but melody wise. The middle is empty with just the organs and a little bit of guitar, but that's it. -=-=-=- OVERALL: Pretty good as a BGM perhaps. Nice work. -=-=-=-

- intro patterns were very nice, guitar sound like Dire Straits - good drums - when guitar isn't playing, lacks a leading flow - can notice loop point when synth comes in in pat. 12, also needs an effect, maybe vibrato? - poor fade at end, can hear volume steps - some samples sound rough, niticeable drums during rolls - nice tune

The strings are what I like best about this tune. The intro build-up is really good, and the overall atmosphere is also quite well done. Another thing I'd like to comment is the rather nice section in the middle of the song, where the strings create a much needed break from the tune with some spooky chords. This kind of music is not particularly appealing to me, but I've tried to keep an open mind to this tune. I don't really find the tune especially original - only thing that makes it different are the way, the strings are used (as mentioned before). The form of the tune is ok - again, I like the way the break in the middle section with only the strings playing - without it the tune would've been too monotone and without life. Your tracking-technique is good - above average for sure. Concerning the samples - well, they're a bit on the noisy side for my taste, but the samples are well chosen. I'm not too keen on the bass-sample though. Would've picked a more clean bass instead of this one, which is too distorted IMO.

This style is not very easy to approach using a tracker. Accoustic vibes need more harmonics and space to express themselves. You made a pleasant piece of Dire Straits mood tune. Your stereo technique is neat. Your drums arrangments could be more realistic, more inventive too. You write good organ lines.

This modul is ok!!! The idea with the guitar is the most interesting in it. The melodie and changes a re a bit boring. It´s not perfect and has no idividual touch. The melody has some errors in according the voices. The changes in the according-voices are to straigt and have not enough modulations. At least ok, but not great or very good only everage. I cannot give you more tips, because I´m not a tracker musician. I´m only a coder trying do give some objective opinions for the tunes. :-)

Not bad of a tune the samples were misused in some places but othere than that the song was good.

Quite an interesting change from the norm. Guitar tunes were out in general this year after being overused in most European Demo Comps from 1996-1997, but still refreshing to hear one here in MC6. The melody and chords were based around the oriental scale. The guitar sounds a bit too much like the riff at the beginning sounds similar to the one in "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyyd. The organ sample needed some beefing up. It was a little plain, something like the hammond organ. Drum track sounds a little cut and pasty.. , and sample quality of the drums is a little on the crusty side, especially shows in the Hats. Some nice breaks which added a touch of realism to the drum track. The backing was a little bit too repetative, and the rhythm could have broken into something different instead of using the same Bass Drum , SNare Drum riff. The panning was very well done , and orchestration good as well. I found the hats a little on the soft side. A good effort here!