sixflab's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[{-=Bugg=-} Fresh Start]

Review

-I'm probably going to be that annoying reverberation of what you have heard earlier by saying this but it's such a generic trance song. I know that it is your first time putting your foot out and trying to do something in this specific genre but it's better to think outside the box and add your own spice to the mix than to do what has been done a million times before. The melodies that you used were rather generic and were very simplistic and repetitive throughout the entirety of the song. There wasn't anything that really kept me interested or focused on the song.

-I'm sorry but trance really isn't my style of expertise and I may not be able to tell you exactly what to do to make your trance works better but I can give you some hints and nudge you a little. That long down point you had somewhere in the middle was a good way of changing pace but it was just way too long and way too low. It's always great to have variety in your songs but try to keep everything more compact and concise rather than dragging things on. It keeps the listener more interested and doesn't make you want to leave the page.

-Review Request Club

BuggMusic responds:

Thank you! I will try to make my next productions less generic!

[Xyirx - Dragon's War]

Awe Inspiring

-This was quite an enjoyable listening experience to me as I had just woken up and gone on Newgrounds. While you also gave it some depth by adding a storyline and plot that can easily be picked out whilst listening to it. It definitely has qualities of a nice progressive storyline and it comes to a definite fruition towards the end where it has a dramatic end.

-It's very difficult to be constructive and find something at fault in this song when after several playthroughs I still can't find any faults. It has a great planned out structure to it as I mentioned before and that's one of the first things that I look for when listening to something. The sound quality is also pretty phenomenal and really helps with the listening experience.

-Review Request Club

Xyirx responds:

Thank you so so much for a detailed review. :)

[Guitar Partitia #1 - Romance]

Classics :)

-Wow, the length of each progression is pretty long and with only a few pauses it must be rather tiring to play this. It's well worth the effort put into it since it's done quite artfully. Not too many mistakes considering the overall length but it's difficult not to since some slippage is bound to happen from time to time.

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Darkmaster603 responds:

Yea, I am really mad about the mistakes, but it's nothing that I can help. I use a cheap-o student model 100 dollar nylon string guitar, so mistakes are bound to happen. It's funny, because when I play Alvarez I notice almsot 0 mistakes, but on mine I can hear them.

Thanks for the review!

[Arial Overveiw]

It's good

-This is quite different from the stuff that i've listened to of yours in the past couple of weeks. It's a testament to your flexibility and the fact that you can throw in some nice electronic stuff with your usual instruments.

-It started quite slow and i'm not sure if you had the first eight seconds just empty on purpose for the menu purposes or if it was just an overlooked aspect. Anyway the initial electronic melody pulses in nicely and the cymbal usage is done very well. It has a nice deep reverberation that gels with the quick pace of the melody.

-Overall it's pretty short but it sounds like it would work great for the purposes that you stated as to why you made this piece. Hopefully everything works out with your friends game and it turns out how he wants it to.

-Review Request Club

Cimba responds:

Thank you for your review =)

[Dark World Crusader (RAC4)]

Nice

-I've really come to love your use of atmosphere and feeling in song build-up and overall make-up of the song. It's great for background work and to convey feelings that might otherwise be overlooked in a sequence if it had no sound at all.

-Classical instruments are always the best for this and I love just sitting down every once in a while to listen to some classical music when i'm doing some work. It's really quite relaxing to listen to while doing work. I don't really have too much to say about this piece in particular but I liked how everything came together in the end. While it wasn't your best work IMO I did like how it ended.

-Review Request Club

popraz responds:

Thank you very much ! I too enjoy listening to classical music while working, though I must admit it's usually soundtrack type classical music. I'm also thrilled that you enjoy my work so much. I really appreciate it a lot.

[Garbage People (Jeffaro)]

Funny

-Beginning lyrics for the win. "What kind of people am I supposed to be?" In the most redneck accent i've heard in a while. It was a great way to start everything off and get the listener into a good heavy metal mood.

-While I did think the beginning lyrics were awesome the music was kind of sub-par. While there were some great riffs every now and then there wasn't anything that really was able to get me into the song(other than the solo). It really didn't help that the music quality was low and it's very low.

-Review Request Club

Jeffaro responds:

Thanks for the comments. I appreciate it. I put allot of time into this. And I do agree the music its self is kind of sub par. The music is a tad too simple even for thrash standards. I tried my best to polish those riffs and connect them into one steady road. To stay in key.

In the future I will try to add more complexity to my riffs.

Thanks for your review.

[Xyirx - Dragon's Breath]

Emotional

-Honestly this is a very touching and dramatic song to me. It's amazing sometimes how much feeling and emotion can be brought up to the surface by listening to a song using just the right chords and instrument combinations.

-It's very dark and deep in the way it is portrayed which is very fitting for the song title and the story you have given it. It would of been nice to see a second more resounding climax at the end though.

-Review Request Club

Xyirx responds:

Thank you so much for the review.

Frankly, I have to say that I got stuck in the end of the song that I couldn't think of something else, so I just add a deep, dark and long bass sound to make it mysterious.

[Wild Yellowness]

You can haz Reviews!

-I really liked how dynamic the song was throughout. It was anything from boring even from the start. It came in really fast and you threw in a little wobble for some good measure. It is quite an original beginning and takes some style from the usual dubstep beginnings but it mixes in an actual melody instead of just a beat.

-What I find quite amusing is how good of a program fruity loops is even though it's not all that expensive(if you get older versions) which is probably why it's so widely used by music makers here on newgrounds. The high pitched melody is quite fruity in itself too. I loved how light it was and how it was good at bringing a delightful atmospheric tone to what was already built up in the beginning. But like most songs it had it's usual ebb and flow to things. Even though I loved how it was progressing in the beginning it started to feel repetitive and positively droning to me(The part i'm talking about is 1:24-about the 2 minute mark). In my opinion this part of the song could of been left out since it slows things down and doesn't quite have that nice fruity feel to the tempo and melody of the song that you built up earlier.

-The song didn't seem to have proper planning and a preset structure since it seemed to go in random directions and never really had a set structure that it was following. Yes, it would go for about thirty seconds here and there on the same song build but they were meshed together with solid transitions. I might of said otherwise but most of the time I was just stimied as to where this was going. I like being spontaneous and seeing stuff come out free flowing but planning is always something that I would like to see a little of in the end. This brings me to the ending of the song. It did take a step back on pace and revisit an earlier sounding melody it took me aback as to how fast it ended. There wasn't any real progressive dropoff in things. It just dropped off the face of the earth and I would of liked to have seen some sort of filtering out of layers instead of the drastic ending.

-The percussion was mixed in like some good pancake batter that's mixed with care so the final result is everything that you wanted in a good breakfast(sans sides). While as far as my ear could tell there wasn't any unique or interesting percussion instruments you did do a swell job of adding some spice here and there into the melody with them. At times, like I mentioned, you tend to overdue the drums and it brings the song down a little since the melody is the real focal point of the song and bringing out too much percussion just tends to bring the song down as a whole since it doesn't need it.

-I can see where you are coming from saying that the audio mods might have thought you were using some material from other areas since at times the song does get a little repetitive and becomes rather familiar. In the whole aspect of things though the song has very few of those things and it probably took the mods a little time to sort things out and get to your submission. Nothing too big but it seems to worry most people when they are first submitting their work to the audio portal.

-Review Request Club

Radidsh responds:

Hiya, Review Request Club, and thankies!

Such a long and professional review slightly startles me, and that just shows that I still have a long way to go regarding understanding music making properly and making some more proper pieces. I am glad that you enjoyed it and did not find it boring!

I believe my weakest point is not finding other instruments, creating new or tweaking them, having a nice ear candy effect and so. Heh, I do not even know what a so-called "VST" is, but I shall do research and try learning some more, as I really do want to make high-quality digital music one day which becomes popular and which many listeners will enjoy and listen to more than once.

I also plan, at a later point, to do a nenewed version of this song and make it sound more professional, the same melodies but with more eye candy perhaps. A sort of remix or so. ;)

Thank you kindly for the awesome review and the effort behind it, I really appreciate it. Good luck further with the reviewing, keep up the awesome work!

[[CG]-Utopia]

+1 audio review

-Ah, it's quite refreshing to see someone put some serious time and effort into an audio piece that they submit here. While most people spend a couple of days and post stuff up you actually took months which I will applaud you on. In the long run all of that time was well spent in my opinion. This is really a work of art. The sound quality is quite commendable and is some really high quality. It makes all of that mastering time pay off. It's not the easiest thing to do but it can make all the difference between a song that sounds just ok and a song that sounds great. While the overall song may be good a lot of the time people fail to see that fine details are just as big of a part of the song they create.

-While the structure of the song is ok the way it is now it leaves a lot to be desired from a design standpoint. It's very monotonous and very rarely does it live up to the lustrous intricacies of what it could of been. The beginning starts off strong with several bass kicks while slowly mixing in more percussion as the melody flows but it stays at an almost stagnant pace for a whole minute. I felt that the beginning could of been sped up and been progressively faster in the buildup stages of the song.

-When you came up to the first real song transition at about 1:05 I thought you took an odd turn with this by going to a completely electronic fast paced melody. It was in no way a bad choice and it suprised me that you didn't drop the sound completely but intertwined the two sections nicely. It was also that slight of speed that this song needed to pick it up into another level of pace. Supplemented later on with more blended drums and cymbals just increased the enjoyability of this section of the song and finished off the first half nicely. Like I said earlier it definitely could of been sped up more in the very beginning and truncated the song some.

-I loved how you started to bring the percussion to the forefront as the song progressed. It made it more multi-dimensional and had more substance than a lot of songs i've listened to as of late. I like being able to see different instruments show themselves out and not constantly be in the background of the melody. Everything was kept in check nicely and that's what the mastering is all about. Let's check it...Rewind. I honestly was not expecting that at all. It was a nice use of sound effects into the mix of things. It brought back some similar elements to earlier in the song but it didn't make things too repetitive.

-Overall, you ended up putting together something of great quality. While it isn't the best it's still really high up there. It's a big leap considering that you made a great portion of the synths yourself and everything blended together nicely. The biggest part of this that put a smile on my face was the fact that this even provoked emotional atmosphere. It makes everything seem better even though everything around you might not be the best. I'll keep my ears out for you since you have the potential to really start making some outstanding music in the near future.

-Review Request Club

KroweMusic responds:

Thanks a lot for the review! I'm glad that you enjoyed it and that you will be looking out for my other songs in the future!

[3 Britney Spears Remix WGuitar]

Review

-It's always hard for me to judge remixes of songs since I have to go and find the original track and compare how they sound. I'm not entirely sure if it takes more work to remix or build from scratch either. Maybe you can tell me in a response.

-In my opinion it sounds great. It's mixed up just enough that I can tell you put some extensive work into making sure that it didn't sound like the original. I would of liked to see more guitar but like you said you wanted to keep the pop theme of it. A break in the lyrics for more instrumental work would of been cool to hear too.

-Review Request Club

Mushroomhead18nc responds:

appreciate it.. I think it takes way more work to make a song from scratch.. This song is popular and people will listen to it just to see if I made it good or fucked it up.. they have something to reference the song to.. So it draws more listeners.. just like playing cover songs as a rock band.. Thats how I think of writing techno music as a solo artist as well..