Albums: Dwelling of Duels: DS Month (June 2025)
apollo justice but it’s disco probably
Game(s): Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
Reviews
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Good sound choices, instruments don’t sound fully rhythmically locked in, you can kinda immediately tell how a lot of the instruments are playing juuuust outside of each other. Lead guitar sounds nice and dreamy. I like the details and embellishments in the soundscape, although the track as a whole starts to get a little repetitive after a while without too many changes or surprises. Mixing is mostly alright but rhythm funkiness aside, I think a lot of the mudiness could be EQ-cleared up (which is probably exacerbated by all the reverb). I don’t hate the fadeout, conceptually, but it feels like instruments don’t fade out in equal measure (some fade faster than others), and the fact that I can hear the last note pretty clearly still kinda defeats the purpose.
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ABBAllo Justice, hell yeah. Nails the disco vibe from the jump, even including the fadeout ending!
Little loose on the guitar entrance, tightens up toward the chorus. Delay in the left ear around a minute in suffers a bit from the same looseness – rhythmic dissonance can be enjoyable but this style tends toward keeping things tight for that dance vibe.
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Super vibey lead guitar tone, love it. That’s definitely the hook of the track for me. I didn’t walk away from this with very many specific comments, which I suppose is a testament to your ability to capture a vibe and lock into it. It’s a vibe that I happen to enjoy, so it works for me even though it doesn’t end up being terribly flashy. The fadeout didn’t really work for me in execution either, it felt like the volume is fading out and the instruments are ALSO winding down at the same time. Not a huge deal overall, this is a good one.
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Love the guitar tone here. It has a surfy vibe to it. I feel like some notes are just a tad out of tune maybe? Great vibe overall though. The mix could use a slight polish here and there. Lead guitar is a tad loud for example but nothing egregious. Something about the fade out is strange. I feel like you should have played longer so the fade out didn’t catch that last chord.
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I like the reharms in this arrangement. Guitar tone works really well for this style, too. I think the arrangement could use a little more complexity,
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This had a groove and I love the idea.
This is really let down to me by some of the performances getting out of phase lock with the drums. I think that if you were able to take a few more passes at getting everything to be SUPER TIGHT this would go from being a good little cover to being amazing
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This one has a funky vibe to me, resembles disco but yet kinda more funk than disco. The playing is nice and clean and precise. I feel that the reverb on the lead is a little too much and that the backing disco elements are a bit too quiet. It might be good to have a sense of a different lead sound as well to trade off on the lead melody. The performance is solid and catchy.
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Nice vibe right off the bat. Lead playing feels a little out-of-time in the beginning. The acoustic guitar also has some high frequencies poking out. Or is that a sitar? A synth? I hear it panning around. It’s cool but very pokey.
I feel the arrangement has a similar energy level throughout and would benefit from some dynamic shifts. Varying up the main drum beat would help as well.
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At 1:10 this is very a cool nice ambient vibe, btw the whole song is a vibe,
mega contrast of the mood with the song before this one.
i enjoy it thx
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Love the vibe on this one! Time feels slightly loose, which with disco you would expect some crispness. Is that some triangle in the background I detect? Not sure I’m feeling the drum groove – it definitely doesn’t have enough open/close hat variation to be considered disco in my mind, but the volume is balanced on it pretty well. I do like the guitar tone overall, it is very clean and balances well against the other backing instruments. Would like something more during the bridges when the guitar isn’t playing – would be nice to have one of the other voices take a bit of a turn to lead. Fadeout is very well handled. I think this is a really good base of an idea, would love to have seen this fleshed out and made a bit more complex
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I’ve been headboppin! I think the drums/bass need more love. I know the temptation to put the lead instruments high, but here’s a method to try: Solo your drums, get them sounding as good as possible. Maybe put them peaking at -6 DB (just an example, adjust to taste – just don’t have em peaking at 0 db). Get your bass sounding as good as possible, put it peaking at -6 db and get that groove locked. Edit one/both peaks to be lower if needed. Once that feels good, that’s like 80% of your mix work. Adjust the lead back into taste – if there’s not enough groove, you need more bass/drums back in. If there’s not enough melody, you need more lead back in. Just a suggestion of a method that may work for you. I’ve found a lot of benefits lately by going Drums -> Bass -> Leads -> Rest in my own process. This still got me headbopping!
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Groovy entry! Reminded me of that Yakuza entry for Rhythm Month. For a while there, it has an atmospheric break that feels a bit weird. Almost as if the guitar here had been recorded in one take and it needed to take a break, but I obviously can’t tell for sure. It’s also the longest fadeout I’ve heard in a while, which isn’t necessarily bad. But I think the arrangement could be tighter, if that makes any sense.
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