S3C's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pimp Of Persia]

hella sick!

This is one of the best beats I've heard on NG in a while! Great style!

=The Good=
-Amazing percussion, love the choice of tablas to go with the themes. and of course theres the phatkicks and clap to go with the hip hop genre. Not to mention a great beat! may I ask what you use for percussion at 1:04?
-Love the instrumentation-the stereo phasy sitars is very nice...choirs are a cool addition too
-A nice rap melody in here too on the flute...I like it, very nice! (Borat)
-Nothing too stacked, there's room to lay vocals over-track is rappable
-Egyptian/Persian/Middle Eastern types of sound are my favorite

=The Bad=
-Not much, a subbass line might sound nice in here (in that case you may have to use a kick with more mids)

ideasL 9.5/10 Diversity: 8.5/10 Clarity: 9/10 Overall: 9/10

Keep making beats like this! its real fresh!

winKoneR responds:

wau thank you very much !!

that percussion at 1:04 is some kinda african drums, but I don't know the exact name, I sampled it from some ethnic track a long time ago...

about the subbass, I made it for this track, but at the final mix I cutted it aout because the percussions and kicks are very bassy and another subbass in it would blown up my repros :)

thank you for listen and review man !

[Later]

good job

nice one S-- but that snare is WEAK friend

[Debug My Tetris]

sweeet

nice one her Mr. Dblue! the glitch effects are sweet (but a little bit random), nice selection of synths, would be great if you did glitch the drums too. Ending is real sick too. Peace.

sonicxtreme responds:

yeah but almost random....anyway thankz 4 the rev..peace

[Kriz: ReMotion]

I love that Pad

That pad you used in the intro and later on makes me cold, awesome texture, how much reverb did you put on that haha....nice song but not really my style.

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Kr1z responds:

not that much reverb, but much wind effects :) thx for teh review!!

[BoomChick-Demo-UMSL]

Decent Demo

=The Good=
-Composition is really cool, it has a nice bluesy feel, nice put together notes
-Distorto preset is cool (although its a preset, you can tweak some cool sounds by just tweaking the piece). I personally like it much better than FL slayer even if it doesnt sound anything near a real guitar.
-Sounds like its going somewhere
-Cool Harmonization at 00:36-00:40

=The Bad=
-I dont think the celtic (?) synth is a good fit. I would use an actual more acoustic oriented bass for this song (such as boobass or a nice soundfont)
-Definetly add drums in the full ver. I would have a solo bassline in the next section with the drums going, let it roll by for a few bars, and bring back in the distorto preset
-Your themes that you start off with sound very familiar...
-Some brass would be great, it could use one more instrument

Ideas: 7.5/10 Diversity: 4/10 (just a demo) Clarity: 7/10

7/10 for being a demo. I look forward to hearing the full.

umsldragon responds:

Crap Man! That's be best review I've ever read! Thanks so much! Ya, it was an accordion bass :P Make do with what you've got I guess :P Drums are a must, I agree. Solo bass line... hellz ya! and I'll work on finding more better sounding sound fonts.

Thnk you so much!
Keep it REaL man!

[Waterfall [R1]]

Has character, but doesnt spark waterfall imagery

with me, entirely.

=The Good=
-The piano has lots of character, with its muffled EQ and cheap, detuned sound (sounds like it was recorded on a cell phone)
-The melodies are nice when it gets off the ground. Everything was constructed quite well, favorite part was at 2:20, that section has sweet chords
-Playing flows very well, respect. very beautiful.
-Lots of variation throughout

=The Bad=
-This isnt bad at all, I would just expect a more lush piano with lotsa reverb and a crisp sound to go along with a waterfall.I know its not your fault tho.
-I would personally scrap the intro because I dont think it does the piece any good. The general creepy vibes and dissonant notes just dont fit the song I think. Mainly 00:00-00:55ish.
-If you could transcribe this into a computer program, add strings and maybe a harp that would be great
-An actual waterfall sample might help the general imagery
-Hardware is always more important than software when recording, but perhaps a brighter EQ would go with the muffled sound

Ideas: 8.5/10 Diversity: 9/10 Clarity: 6.5/10 Overall: 8/10

I would give this a 9 if it was just for playing, but clarity is an important department and I think that aspect was generally detrimental to your track. Keep at it tho, I would love to hear more playing from you.

Bezman responds:

Thanks for the review. Breaking down your score was cool.

Your points were clearly made and I like the checklist sytem. I give your review a 9/10.

The detuned sounds are mainly because the piano... hasn't been tuned. I need to sort that out. I think the 0-55s part may have sounded less 'creepy' and more like the water dripping it was meant to resemble if the keys hadn't been so stiff and badly tuned.

I'm not really good with audio software so don't know what a 'brighter EQ' is. And though my skills aren't good enough to add instruments via computer, maybe I'll do that on the keyboard. Thanks for the idea!

Thanks for the awesome review.

Stay funky!

[In-Rush]

Decent style; a bit cluttered and overemphasized

=The Good=
-That main arpsynth you start with is cool and has a cool melody
-Bassline moves well
-Beat is cool and nongeneric, nice use of samples
-Ending was nice, I like the wah synth
-Bell melodies are a nice touch

=The Bad=
-I dont like the Boobass in here. i think you could have chosen a more appropriate, synth sounding bass. There's plenty of sytrus presets do the job.
-I dont think the FL slayer does the track justice
-Doesnt seem like a lot of effort was put into mixing...all instruments sound raw, you should mess with chorus and reverb FX...and certainly different EQs and panning to give each instrument their own room....IE, theres not a whole lot going on in the bass spectrum
-Beat could indeed use more variation...try adding more snare/clap in parts, maybe some consistently moving hi hats every now and then, etc.
-Not a bad thing, but this is techno, not industrial really

Ideas: 7/10 Diversity: 7/10 Clarity: 6.5/10 Overall: 7/10

Its a decent track, but theres some blemishes in here.

ShortMonkey responds:

cheers - I marked it as industrial because it has the Slayer...

[Can you dig it?]

Yes I dig it

I dig this song. For a nice reese, cool synths, and original sounding breakbeats you get a 10. ts got a bit of an industrail touch. It was just a bit repetive tho, and a subbass would be nice in here.But interesting stuff :D

MCMA responds:

Thanks man! You should vote.

[Built to Last]

Crazy

this one had my head swirling haha...love the 7/4 riff haha

[Dungeon Storm]

MMM

I love the logdrum percussion, but there needs to be more variency with shakers or something