Or4nges's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Owl City, Hello Seattle 8-bit]

Shame.

You're getting zeros because everyone hates owl city lol.

this isn't exactly 8-bit either. Anyway, it is what it is, but you could have spiced it up a bit. And a little work on the lead synth couldn't hurt. it was very basic. Maybe some synth strings in the background, stray away from the 8-bit feel you were going for.

6 because it may have been a cover, but it wasn't very imaginative :P. And it was very repetitive.

[Something Unknown]

Only complaint

I think you could have done more with the drums. Add a fill here and there, maybe fill them out more like halfway through the track, pan some things here and there. Something to make the beat more interesting :)

I really liked your leadwork and the chords. Excellent, friend :D

[End of the Journey - slunchyy]

Noice.

I like it. Seems like a loop you'd hear in a nintendo game. Not much criticism except that it's pretty short. Even background loops can afford to be at least a minute long or so :P

P.S. Can I ask what you're using for the bass? I mean the vst. I like it alot, nice and full.

kjhsdgf responds:

oh thanks, man.
yeah i might extend it a little for juicier tunes.

the bass is 2 different sounds:

the deep sound is the "rough step" sound out of the misc shapes
and "rough square" is the mid-low sound, it's from the same folder.

the deep bass has a parametric eq on it to cancel out the high-pitched sounds.
and i messed with the instrument properties on both of those shapes.

tl;dr packs>shapes>misc on the left side
(if you're using fl-studio)

[FEAST - Illusion]

Ask and you shall recieve :D

I particularly like the chord progression. It feels different and somewhat irregular with the strings, so it doesn't get boring at all. Awesome work on that bit.

I will say that some of the bass seemed like it needed to be turned down a little at 0:28. Just a little though! it was kind of overpowering.

Plucks, sweet :P Kinda like my song "Welcome Back". I feel like we've got some similarities stylistically lol. I think it would have been cool to have them slowly fade in with a low pass filter or something. The rest of the song flows extremely well, but those just kind of 'pop' in. You know?

You might wanna try sidechaining the strings when the kick comes in, or compressing it some more, sounds to me like it's having some trouble punching through the layers.

Don't get me wrong, I like it alot :D. I get nit-picky with my reviews. All if this is mainly my opinion, so take it with a grain of salt.

I like this style, you should do it more often!

FEAST responds:

No no, recommended changes and they shall be made. I like reviews like this - ones that actually help you improve your music.

[FEAST - Rampage]

Lessee...

I'm a fan of the fading chords in the beginning. I've done that once or twice. the side-chain effect before the guitar was awesome. The kick was perfect, and it was good and punchy.
I do think that while the guitar's soloing the beat kind of gets lost. the pulsing chords are by nature off beat so the tempo feels like it's being pulled. I feel like if you threw a very subtle high-hat into the background you could fix it however :). Or some toms a-la U-2.

And there are off-key notes. The little phrase at exactly 0:24. I think it's the delay
that's causing the dissonance. Maybe pan the effect?

All in all, I liked it. Nice and calming with only a few things that bugged me. I must compliment you on your mastering though. everything sat really nicely in the mix. :D

P.S. I really think this song deserves to be expanded on. It's practically begging for it!

FEAST responds:

Thanks for the great review. Someone else mentioned the off key notes but It's really hard for me to know where. Glad you mentioned the time where it happens. You had some great suggestions and I'm going to check all of them out. Please review more of my stuff. I'm practically begging lol.

[-=Changes=-]

Calming

However, the delay on the guitar was too strong. Turn down the feedback a little, it's creating a lot of dissonance that kind of ruins the song :/

If you tweak that, it'll be awesome. Really short, but a good start to a great song.

death-is-forever responds:

Thanks for the advice, I was trying to get that atmospheric effect... guess it didn't quite work. :p

Thanks again, maybe I'll expand on this soon, check back sometime.

[grooveT3K - Venusian Trip]

Kick up that bass!

It's missing that extra something. That thing that makes a track feel as though it's a living, breathing thing. The most obvious of which being that even with my bass boosting headphones, there's barely any lower-mid frequencies.

I also felt the drums could use some EQing, the didn't sit right in the mix, and felt out of place.

Other than that, I liked the melodies, and the rhthym was also good.

Keep at it :)

grooveT3K responds:

Thanks for your review mate and im pleased you enjoyed my track!

I agree with the drums I could have done a better job on a couple of the hits I got in there but I got a little bit rushed and wanted the track up for Australia day! lol

As for the lack of bass, I have a 2.1ch set in my studio and theres plenty of bass kicking, I also like to review them on my theatre setup which has Jenson dual 10" subs and they kick pretty hard. I do sometimes mix with my Pioneer HDJ-1000 heaphones (when ppl are sleeping lol) which I use for Dj'ing and they are really good for bass but still aernt that responsive for real low frequencys which this track mainly has, I did have a set of Senheisen audiophile headphones and they were a real studio set but still lacked in the low frequencys, the only set of head phones ive ever used that actually had impressive bass reproduction were the ones Dr Dre relesed, my mate had some and they were bassy! What sort of head phones you using?

Thanks again mate ;)

[-Naive Again-]

I don't understand..

How your songs can just ooze joy.

I have to go wash my hands.