I actually smiled because of the melody of this beat! I think that low-end need a little fixing - I’m listening on the JBL mobile speaker and the kick (somewhere near 0:26) is so deep it almost ripping this poor JBL apart. Despite that, little more arrangement tricks would do the trick. Playing with pause, to make reset from the main melody would be nice touch, in my opinion.
It’s really nice melody on the piano. It was going on repeat, while I was writing this, and didn’t get this “oh-god-not-again” type of vibe, good job there! I think you could try to get some live-sounding drum VSTs for some of the fills (e.g. 2:14), or maybe just some recorded live drums loops. I found this method long time ago and it’s really useful when you want to spice it up a bit, but not changing the entire boom-bap-ish drum kit. So, to sum up: I really liked it, but it’s too sad vibe for me to come back and just listen to it. But that’s just my aesthetic choice I guess.
Really nice, warm synth. Bassline is entirely not my vibe. I’m not sure if it’s quantized, but for such synth chord progression I would like to hear more loosely flow on those bass notes. When I don’t have any “real” instrument with pads/keys I like to put notes and quantise them and just move them like -10/+10ms for this “human vibe”. This 10 ms restriction is basically safe-zone for such changes before getting any phase issues. Everything else is just good. I really like the groove of the drums.
Mr. BoomBox - I simply dig it. Really nice sound, old-school vibe is just pouring out of this, drums are dope. Only this sound tag is rather disturbing for overall experience. Me likey!
I’m not into this type of the lyrics, so I’ll pass on that. The beat I like. So lazy, nice vibey samples. But I think it could be little more arranged - it sounds little too “basic”, as for me. Also bassline need some compression, so the differences between the notes’ volume won’t be that noticeable.
This hits hard. Beat mixing is just on point, really dope old-school banger vibe, especially those keys. Vocals could be recorded/mixed better, because it’s not sounding as good as it should.
Gypsy Valley - It really differs from the mainstream, and that’s good. From something around 00:40 it changes to the bridge and that part after is little weird, in my opinion, because you changed proportions of the instruments and samples lost their “lead instrument” position. Try maybe more compression on that samples or maybe try to play more variations on the bassline so it would be the “lead instrument” for that part. Overall, I liked that one, good job!
Ok, so that's for the reviewing, nice beats y'all!
Here's something I released recently, any tips are appreciated!