deadboi21's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Twilight Redux]

Oh wow. At first I didn't like your other song that hit the popular audio that day, Sakura that much, but listening to this song, I can say that "Twilight Redux" > "Sakura". You really nailed it with this song. But I do think that the guitars pretty lacking, and as mentioned before, it's repetitive, especially the drops. Overall, nice!

P.S. If you ever get to read this, did you actually played a real guitar in this song, or was the guitar synthesized? Just curious.

Sylux03 responds:

Hahaha! I know! I develop much often. Thank you for giving a nice thoughts! Actually it's just an audio I downloaded from a website. It's a pack actually, I got a lot of guitar clips in my library. And it is free to use. :)

[short song for a sad homie]

Hmmm..... I don't really know man. This song feels really relaxing, but neither in a sad way, nor in a happy way. I think the crack should've been a bit louder in the song, because the other sounds seem to just make it as if it's not present in the song. In fact, make the whole thing a bit louder. Like master it or something if you know what that is. Also I would suggest you to EQ that riser at :39, as that kind of ruins the whole lo-fi vibe itself. Then, I would also suggest you to make the end a bit shorter, as I think it's pretty unnecessary to just extend the whole end with just the crack and that's that. Maybe you could also try to add some more details to this song, like sound effects, or even instruments to accompany the piano, but if you also want to just go with the whole minimalistic style, then I don't really mind. Overall, this is not at all too bad, but not too good either.

P.S. Hope your homie get good soon, bro.

ItzBrok3n responds:

thanks for the input, i'll definitely put it all into consideration next time i wanna do lo-fi

and my attempt for "mastering" was literally just 4 fruity compressors in parallel in a Patcher, I was trying to imitate a mastering method I heard about somewhere online. did it work? guess not.

p.s. i think he's good now

[Temps Relatif]

Hmm, this really feels nice. At first it feels creepy, then it just transitions to something that's rather calming. If I were to put in video game terms, it feels like I'm in some kind of dungeon or something. [specifically a water-themed dungeon] There's nothing much to criticize here, except somewhere around 2:02 to 2:15 feels rather off-key, and I don't know if you did it on purpose or not, but I think it ruins the feeling a little bit. Also just a suggestion, maybe you can also extend the ending a little bit, like add an effect where the music box would just turn off or something, like a reiteration of the beginning, to give it some minor details. Overall, I kind of like this experimental song you made here. Hope your friend feels the same too!

P.S. What was the sample/soundfont you used for the music box? I really want to know. :0

spectronoid97 responds:

Thanks for the review! I did this song preeetty fast, like 2 - 3 hours at most, so it really was just an experimentation, but I intend to give it more thought in the future and possibly remake it. Yeah, the off-key whole tone part was on purpose, to make it feel like it had kind of a tension going on to transition for the next theme, which also used the whole tone scale but in a much subtler way. But maybe in the final thing it's gonna be different, who knows.

And also, the plugin I used was DSK Music Box, it's free and pretty simple, but it does exactly what you want from a plugin like this. :D

[Bells of Time]

Oh boi, this feels a lot like the classic Megaman soundtrack, which is a great soundtrack, just need to add some drums, and bam! [imo ofc] However, there are somethings off with your song. First, I can actually hear some distortion when something is playing on top of the bell. Like static or something like that. It's either the audio quality or there is a problem with your mix. The song was a bit repetitive at times, just that it's playing in different orders. Maybe change up the melodies once in a while?

Also, just a few suggestions tho, maybe you could try panning your instruments to give it some extra details? Take the bells for example. You can try to make it pan left and right, like something is moving? I don't know, it's up to you. You can also try to give it some extra details by adding a few more stuff, like something to do the chords [ex. choir, pad, etc.] and some sound effects [ex. risers] to make it more interesting.

Overall, I really get the classic Megaman feels in this song, but I think it needs a bit more detail and also polishing in the production value.

Brostro responds:

Yeah, ill be sure to do that. Also, see my other songs if u like, they are much better than this :P (other songs as in my last 4 songs) :)

[OGG1]

Hmm, I suggest you to replace that electric guitar with something else, because it seems very muddy and seems to mess the whole mix up, especially at the beginning. Those drums seem to be very lacking, maybe you can make it stand out in the mix a bit? I would also suggest you to add some dynamics to your song, like adjusting the velocity, to make it sound more realistic, and also try to lower the reeverb on the piano a bit? Because it feels a bit muddy at the beginning. Overall, I see what you were trying to do, experimenting and all that, but I think that was a bit poorly executed in my perspective.

MishkoLalko responds:

Thank you very much. I'll try to improve. :з

[Streets of Köttai (Town Theme)]

Well, I'm speechless right now. This songs just perfect. Really. This would be really perfect in a video game. Just a minor suggestion, maybe you can pan the flute to the right? Just to give it an effect because the guitar is panned to the left, and the flute plays after the guitar. Overall, nice song.

MateusAbrantes responds:

Hm, that's weird... I'm pretty sure the guitar is panned to the right and the woodwinds to the left. I'll double check in the project file. haha Thanks for the suggestion anyway, and for the generous score. :)

[Crazy World]

Dude, I really like the beat. I think it really suits that of a video game or something. However, the vocals should've been a bit louder, it was a bit hard to understand what you were saying in some parts of the song. Maybe give it some effects too, I guess? Your flow is a bit rough on the edges during the verses, just keep trying and it will develop. Overall, not bad for a rap song.

maxxpump responds:

I made this at about 4am in the morning when my GF was asleep, so was limited to what I could do vocal wise. You know if I woke her up, I would have been crucified, or relegated to living in the shed. The lyrics were not practiced at all and I went freestyle on quite a few bars. I compressed quite a lot of the tracks to get the vocal track to sit better, but even now I think I should have upped the gain on the vocals. Thanks for your comment on the overall beat, I don't usually make rap songs, and I just liked the overall flow of the song. I'm no singer by any stretch of the imagination, I hate my voice personally and usually autotune the shit out of it, but I always put a raw track into it as I like the natural chorus effect it gives off. I usually don't produce something so raw, and unfinished, but I wanted to show my neighbour a new beat which I came up with as he spits bars all the time and I'm hoping to do a project with him in the near future, as he's an excellent vocalist. He's also been through the wars a bit and he has come up with some useful lyrics. I did do a bit of rap on a song called "Relationship issues" which I took a lot of time making sure it was the best I could possibly do. Also I did another song called "Picture Frame", which I did multiple voicing for and nearly sounded like Dre.

Thanks anyway for your constructive comment, I find its rare people give me any comments on my tunes these days, and these comments usually are along of the lines of simply "Cool track" or "thats crap, eat shit and die". Thanks again dude, things will get improved.