Rii [ AzNxRawRx ]
Bananacho [ amandaphobia08 ]
Sootie [ SootjeNL ]
Peachii [ animeobsessed40 ]
Resonant Blue by HanabiProjects / This is the first track off of Hanabi Project’s second single, titled Blue Moon. I’ll have to admit that it’s not one of my favorite songs to hear anymore, because Tsunku keeps trying to make it the new Love Machine and play it all the bloody time, but knowing some of these girls’ voices, I was interested to see what they do with it.
Despite that I know some of these girls, without color-coded lyrics I’m having a hard time telling who is who, so bear with me if I point out people by timemark instead of name. :P
I like the tone of the Reina—is that Rii? (*read some of the comments*) She totally sounds 20x better here than she did in the Onna ni Sachi Are by HoshiDubs that I reviewed just a couple days ago. The energy is much more appropriate, and although she’s still having some microphone issues, it’s much easier to listen to. Great emotion out of her here!
I’m guessing that Bananacho is the Ai here. She did a pretty good job overall and has pretty voice and emotion behind her lines. I noticed some pitching and pronunciation errors throughout, though, so be careful about falling flat and your tongue tripping you up. Singing almost half of the song solo can give you a lot to focus on, but I would have liked to hear juuust a little more accuracy out of her. Still, there were some lines in here that she sounded awesome on!
It’s hard to say too much about Peachii and Sootie, since they barely got any lines, but I think they sound good! Loved the ah ah ah’s! The only thing I would have wanted was a bit more energy out of them, and it’s a shame the Sayumi’s HELP ME!! at the end got left out. As a note to the mixer, I would have found someone to cover it if you couldn’t get the line from the file it was supposed to be in—it could have been done pretty quickly by anyone, including yourself.
On the mixing side, I would have liked to hear reverb on the lines to make them blend together a little more, and be careful about the volume between people on duet lines. Rii often overpowered Bananacho—while part of that is probably energy differences, sometimes you can help it out a bit by just lowering the volume of the more energetic singer. Overall, though, the mix was okay—just work on evening out volumes and making sure you’ve got everything in the mix before you export and post it!
Tsugunaga Momoko : Yuuki-chan
Suzuki Airi : Nina-chan
Natsuyaki Miyabi : Belly-chan
Goal by Ai~Su Cream (from ChARmSproject) / I ADORE this song, first off. It’s one of the best Buono songs ever, in my opinion.. and totally reminds me of Viva La Vida every time I hear it still. But anyway, I’m SO glad someone dubbed this!
On the vocals as a whole, I felt they had the perfect feeling and tone for the song, altough I would have liked to hear a bit more energy out of Nina and Yuuki. It sounds like they were trying a bit too hard to fit the song and held back just a little too much. I loved Belly’s energy, though! She had the perfect balance that made her shine out, but kept her sounding subdued enough to still fit the song.
My favorite part of this are the choruses. All three girls blend well together, and their high notes sound really soft and pretty! I might have wanted a little more out of them energy-wise, but even so they were pleasant to listen to.
The mixing is nice and together, except for a couple syllables here and there where one girl will stick out. The verse solos were all perfectly in time as well, so great job to the mixer who put those together. As people who know me know, I am absolutely neurotic about timing and I hear everything, so I totally respect anyone who can mix something and there’s nowhere I would move the syllables around.
One thing that did bother me a bit about the mixing is that the weird mic qualities paired with a low quality concert rip instrumental are keeping me from really believing the dub. I know from experience that you can’t use regular instrumentals with live Buono dubs because of their live band that plays at a different tempo, but I probably would have looked for a better quality rip and thrown on some filters to the channels to get your instrumental to come out a bit better. I’ve had to make instrumentals off of this concert before and I know for a fact that if you get the audio rip HD enough, the center channel will extract pretty well.
Anyway, I enjoyed this a lot! I find myself a bit jaded and cynical about Buono cover groups these days, but I’ve got some respect for this one now. Great job!
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