Darren-M's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[.HLS. Kiss Me RMX]

samples are great. piano was mixed well.

the vocal samples in this are simply pristine and very well mixed! i loved the piano. it was also well mixed and eq'ed.

there was alot of flavor in this and reminded me of 90's dance that i love.

the drop and WOOH was awesome at 2:25. that was my favorite part.

the bass was a little week for the type of sound you were going for but atleast it made room for the rrhythmic piano.

heartless1298 responds:

Thanks! Yea I know the bass is weak, but every time I tried EQing it so that I could turn the bass up, it instantly distorted everything. I cried T_T (not really) lol.

Thanks for the review though!

[Bend it some more]

Guitar + computer

this was a pretty neat song and the author comment made me laugh.
i liked the drums you chose for this song and your guitar playing skills were pretty good too. there was so much variety.
the plam muting at 2:38 was cool.
i think you need to boost the guitars signal a little. the kick was perfect, but the other higher drums might need to be lowered.

good work

Markjie responds:

Oke then thanks, i will work on that ;)

[Alarm FX]

pretty good actualy

wow i actually like this alarm. it would be ferfect to sample. i hope you dont mind if i use it later as a sample.

i think i would lower the pitch on it though

uten responds:

go ahead

[/Neon Green\]

i liked the HH

the high hat in this sounded pretty cool. i think for the drum pattern you made the beginning tempo was perfect. the melody was a little generic but the instruments were really cool. you filled the spectrum pretty well.

good work on this. i liked the ending

[Monster's Funeral]

feel the pain

dude i totally feel the pain of putting music in a genre when it is so inclusive of many genres haha. and i hate misc. i think i would describe this song as ambient

now for a review.

the intro was cool very cryptic. it sounds like you used a hell of a lot of lfo or phase shifting effects on this...it was awesome. i think you need to put an eq on this over the master and lift the freq's at 200Hz and 12 KHz and maybe a little at 125Hz

the drop at around 3 minutes was intense and you did that so very very well but at the end of it i was expecting a build but it didnt happen. i was disapointed. i was freaking out when i heard that drop because it was so beautiful and then it died when the more familiar part of the song came in.....man i git some chills from that even after i listened again. what was that a flanger?

i hope this was helpful

[Dark Dawn II]

hey man. the bass

the sub bass in this was extremely thick, i thought it kinda interfered from the listeners attention. but it didnt sound bad. the thing around :50 was really cool really unique. the drums need to be just a bit punchier. this song felt really dense and i felt that there were things on the sub sonic level that werent being brought out and they needed to be. this song felt really complete, like it was orchestrated well, i didnt get bored and i was interested in hearing the whole thing which is important because for most music the human attention span usually lasts for about 3:30s.

the drum beat was good and went well for the whole song and i liked the the phaser you used on the drums such as parts around 5:00

this was a good song but work on that bass. it should consume all the attention.

[stairway to the 4th dimension]

at first

at first i thought this song had really strange musicality and structure but i started to enjoy it a lot. it let me zone out and i felt really easy minded. this is a beautiful song. thank you for making it.

the recording quality could have been a little better. but its not a big deal.

Boux responds:

thanks for the comment, in the start its a chords progress going from C to B7, gives a strange beautiful sound, and true for the quality, I got a minuscule microphone on the front of the computer for the recording.

[D-Party]

good but could use work

this song was pretty good and fun to listen too but there were a few things that really stuck out to me. your drum samples for one were really...organic, which surprised me and i wasnt sure if i liked the style, i usually go for more fake drum sounds that have really punchy attacks, i think a kick like that would have sounded better.

lessen the reverb a little on the High hats. the piano in the middle was pretty awesome. and i like the pattern you chose at the end for the kick drum, its kinda hip hoppy and went well.

i thought your leads needed to be turned down in volume a little, they were overbearing. good build at :28 with the snare and crash cymbol.

dont get me wrong this was a good song i just figured you would appreciate a technical review since you seem put alot of effort into your songs and obviously it was well orchestrated so you dont want to hear that. :)

keep up the work!

Draikon responds:

thanks, but yeah i was doing this on my laptop so everything sounded different then it does on my home computer (which is broken)

[back to earth RMX]

good but needs work on a few things

my 6 of ten is my over all impression and is not meant to be taken personally if it offends you but i have a few reasons. one of the the things you must watch out for especially with side-chained offbeat bass lines like this is its interference with the kick and other bass parts, there seems to be a but of interference between your kick and bass, it could just be me, but try to EQ them so they are in separate frequency spaces.

as for the lead, it was really good but the res or distortion on it was a little bit too high, turn that down and it will sounds great.

i did like the build at :35, it was awesome, i also liked the claps. this track was pretty good but it could use some work, but it has the potential to jam harder than it already is.

keep up the music man.