Darren-M's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[+C+ Panic Infinity (demo?)]

full version

i would love to hear a full version of this, i think it has promise but my favorite part about it is the portamento on the lead, gives it a slinky feel

Neon-Crepth responds:

thanks for the input! that was what i thought was most successful, it sounds really boring without it.

[The First Antartican]

max reverb

the massive amounts of reverb in this track really enhanced the atmosphere and presence of it, the high ends are a little piercing, and can be fixed with a master eq, but thats not a big deal, the chimes added alot to this song, and for the most part had a nice tone, and the gong at the beginning made a great entrance, and the strings i enjoyed but when you introduced the snare drum i thought there should have been less reverb on that, the vox pads really created a cold image for me, i think that made it complete.

good work!

[Epic Organs]

organs!

the part where the bass came in around 20 was a really great transitions.

i felt that the kick in this song was a little too hard and that the bongos/wood drum thingy could have been turned down a little as more of a part of the groove than the front face of the song.

this song was really funky and had me dancing in my chair, i also enjoyed the slower attack on the synths

lucifer333 responds:

thanks for the revue, now that i think about it that would make the song a little better. dont forget to listen to my other songs!

[-Carry On-]

stuff i was thinking while listening

the part around :50 was a nice break, i thought the drums should have been brought forth a little more. i heard from a D&B group that they actually have two of the same drum tracks under their song, one as the main and the other has a band pass on it with alot of reverb to fill in the gaps, it actually makes it really full sounding

the part around 2:40 was a nice change, kinda sound like a break beat. the string has a nice atmosphere. nice pads too.

the transition from soft to hard style was a little too drastic for me, and i felt it could have been introduced a little more slowly back into the harder style.

good work.

ELBrain responds:

Thanks man! That double tracking is a good idea; I'm familiar with it from recording live instruments (guitar, drums, etc...), but I didn't think I would need to do it with electronic stuff. Maybe that's not the case. -_-;;

As for the transition, I'm thinking of something to make it better atm, but at the time I was happy with it. I only started getting a lot of feed back from friends like 2 days ago, but I wanted to put something out on newgrounds before then. (I want more feedback!)

[Sarah (S. C.)]

haha that was well done

this was a well done song, the vocals were just at the right level. the part about her being a horse was funny.

she is a funny woman

BreakingFaces responds:

thanks

[General guy]

interesting

this song was actually, pardon the cheesy word, cute!

i liked the atmosphere in this song, it was making me think of childhood adventure....thats just me.

one thing i would have done different was tone the phone beeps down, they are just a tiny but too loud

stroshi responds:

I actually have a second version, but the main instrument in that one is way too loud. i'm gonna work on a third version, and i think it will be the best.

[By Your Side Instrumental]

cool visions

this was a pretty graphic song, i pictured a movie starting in the streets of some town and its summer time and the camera is swooping down from the sky and zooming in towards the main character as it flys past bill boards and peoples windows

as for the song itself, its cool, definetly has atmosphere, but i would have liked to hear the drums change up a little, but not too much

mobius121 responds:

Thanks very much for your comment. I will have to remember to change it up a bit next time ;) Very interesting vision too! Maybe someone could use it like that for their animation?

[Phaetus]

pitch shifts! yay!

when i irst heard this it sounded like a group named genetic

honestly these kind of drum patterns i always love because of the pitch shifts and varried reverb amounts. did you put distortion on the drums? it all sounds great,my biggest complaint is the mixing, some parts are way too forward in volume and presence, but the drum patterns really rok my sox

good work

ELBrain responds:

Thank you! As far as the drums go, here's what I did:

First I came up with the original beat (the normal sounding one). It has some compression on it, as well as a bit of distortion and lo-fi sound fx thingy. Then, what I did, was I took the 2 bar beat out as a sample (from Reason) and loaded it into Fruity Loops. I then proceeded to take that original beat, and come up with 3 really messed up beats using the VST Glitch. I put all sorts of effects on the screwed up beats, i.e. speeding up and pitch shifting, filters, etc... Glitch has a lot of nifty little tricks. It took me awhile to learn how to use it effectively. =D Getting it to sound good instead of just being noise takes some work, and a lot of playing with it. Glitch is hard to explain, you just gotta mess with it.

Another thing I did with was the drums, was: when the really weird beats were playing, there were 2 parts were I played the weird beats and then also a copy of it but with a phaser on it. I sequenced the frequency and rate knobs on the phaser to a trippy pattern.

The only other thing I did to the drums, is during the beginning and fade out of the song, I took the weird, glitchy beats and added a ton of distortion to them to make them sound like dampened explosions.

If you use Reason I'd be happy to send you a combinator patch and the appropriate samples!

[Diary Of A Psycho]

psychotic

wow i love the kick around :40. at the beginning of this song there was alot of presence. nice intro, good sample too. there is a great build on 2:00. i thought the delay on your lead sequence was a little overbaring. it was interesting around 2:00 how things were on the off beat, there was a nice house like groove after that. if im not mistaken there is a vox layer hidden in there, thats a really good idea it helps carry the root chord progression and made the song sound full. i like to usually use vox or synth pads for that.

i use reason 4 as well and this is teaching me a few things

great work fellow reasoner!
keep the tracks coming

[Silver]

yeah, break it down!

hey! i just listened to your remix of this first haha, um... honestly man i like this one alot, its really catchy now, um the synths with the slow attack in the mid high range are really cool! i liked the percussions as well.

good work