sixflab's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[O rly? -GST Mix-]

Shock and Awe

-It came in a bit slow and the cheering made me expect something to be quite honest a lot different than what it actually was. Not as upbeat like an actual concert atmosphere. It did however have that nice slow intro to allow for the crowd without it interfering with the song so I can't knock you for it.

-When everything started to really get underway the deep deep bass was really a suprise. It's so much different than what you started with and showed the range that the song would cover throughout. It only made things seem brighter than they might of seemed without that implemented.

-I like how you overlapped the patterns and made several layers at some points mixing and matching different beats and sounds giving tastes of everything. It allowed for the long song length since this only drew me in more. It didn't seem as repetitive as it sounded like it was going to be in the author comments. Yes, you did have continuous melodies but you didn't leave them stale and stagnant to get boring. You actually made things dynamic and exciting to listen to.

-The only thing that I had an issue with was the long drawn out ending. It could of easily been shortened instead of allowing it to just sit on the same sound loop for fourty seconds.

-Review Request Club

Dj-GST responds:

Thanks man, I'm glad you liked it.

I'll have more out soon!

[[AL] Break it down]

Rework?

-I'm curious as to if you are going to rework this track or not since it's almost a year and a half old. It has some potential areas in the percussion to improve on if you do.

-Nice kicking bass with a tepid(warm if you were wondering) melody. The contrasting sounds complimented each other nicely in the beginning of the song. The melody seemed to increase in pace as the song progressed making the whole thing speed up for a bit. You did use a nice change of pace at 1:35 by slowing things down again and bringing the song back to it's original pace.

-I feel like the drum combinations that you were using could be slowed down or be made less abrasive to the ears. It just seemed out of place kicking out so much. More like a DnB style drums than something you would see in techno. The drum-out was nice but again it just feels lacking to me.

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ChampionAnwar responds:

To be honest, I've been working on it for a while. The option for me to update the mp3 on this particular song isn't an option here because this song was featured. . As a knock on effect I will not be posting this song as it will be going on my EP once I finish and release it.

Thanks for the comments, I'll get to work on it. . I love Drum'n'Bass (well the old stuff, the new stuff I hear these days disgusts me). . So that did play a big part in the sequencing that I initially did for the drums. When you say "abusive", do you mean the mini glitches that I put in there or something?

Oh and, I got bored and rushed the ending drums because I just wanted to finish something as at that point in '08 I hadn't finished anything in quite a while.

Thanks again man, I'll get right to work :D

[Ocean...]

Well

-It's very soothing and relaxing. The melody has that effect of just calming you down. Not too fast, not too slow, just about the right speed to keep a steady pace and not too loud.

-I think it could of benefitted from a bit more variety. You have subtle changes in the undertones from time to time but nothing that really brought about a change. It doesn't need to be too often but once in a while add something a little different in for a change of pace.

-Review Request Club

EvilScorpio responds:

Okay, I'll try to do it next time) Thanks for the review)

[[DX] A Cold Night]

Not enough variety

-This would work great as background instrumentals for vocals but it isn't mentioned anywhere about that so i'm just assuming that this is an instrumental only project.

-It's a short repetitive track basically. The melody repeats itself over and over with only the intro being unique. If you want to rework this keep the first 45 seconds or so and try adding more variety as a whole after that.

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dx5231 responds:

Yeah, I know there is not enough variety, I guess I have to work more on this track. And yes, this is an instrumental only project.

Thanks for the review.

[[G] Friday Night - WIP]

Catchy

-It starts out a bit slow and could use a longer play-in. Unless you are going for the beginning note to cue in the vocals. That was something I did notice that was done rather well. The music really helped the vocals flow and they rolled right out.

-I think you should finish this though. It has a great start and the beat works well for the pace that you are using. I couldn't honestly grasp a rhyme scheme though unless you were using some form of slant rhyme. I had to listen several times to get the lyrics so posting the lyrics somewhere in the author comments would really help.

-Review Request Club

Jirohbomb responds:

I just uploaded the lyrics for your personal enjoyment. Glad you think that I should finish this. I'll have a finished version of this in a few days.

[Short Circuit]

It's ok

-Nice intro effects. Simple but they got the job done as far as starting everything out nice and easy.

-I liked the drop at :59 only to have everything come back up with a faster pace and a darker melody. It seemed like it skitted notes and blended them together.

-Only problem I saw with this was that you may have put too much variety into this. It's kind of spastic in parts and drab in others. Work on the pacing of songs in general.

-Review Request Club

Somnocyde responds:

Hey Much appreciated. I'd agree that alot of the melodies (as well as their intros) were pretty random. All in all, my up-and-coming submissions will be loads better. Thanx Alot! <>,..,<>RAWR

[epic 8-bit awesomeness]

Not bad

-It's six months out and only has seven reviews before me. It's sad how much activity goes on in the audio portal :/ well other than great works like this being created.

-You did wonders with only 8-bit sounds. You could really expand this if you had more to work with but lets face it, you aren't going to have tons of flashy things from something that was so limited.

-I loved how you mixed the melody up in certain places and made it layered with two paces. The transitions were good too without any noticable note breaks.

-Review Request Club

superuberinsaneausm responds:

thanks!!!

[Coop83 V.S Mans0n]

Well

-It's hard to judge accurately since it doesn't have the vocals yet. That being said half of the song is technically missing. Just try and convince Coop to sing a little or something lol.

-It has a nice upbeat pace with some interesting pads. At least that's what I think it was that was making the clomp clomp noise at the beginning. Sometimes it's a bit hard to recognize when it's computer generated. I would like to see more percussion instruments used or at least some more bass.

-There was an awkward transition at around :57. It doesn't seem intentional but it sounds really bad and interrupts the whole flow of the song. It would most likely sound better with the vocals layed over and i'm not sure exactly where you are going with this because of that :/

-Review Request Club

Mans0n responds:

Transition at 0:57 seconds is just fine.

[Metroid Dubstep]

WIP?

-The intro was the best part of this. It definitely had that metroid feel. It was nice and slow and the wobbles were used nicely to accentuate the original melody.

-I'm not saying the bridge was bad but it wasn't good either. It didn't fit in well with everything else. It just stuck out like a sore thumb and took away from the quality of the whole song.

-Review Request Club

superuberinsaneausm responds:

yea,could of used a diffrent theme for the bridge

[SUIA-Drums&bass?]

Fooled me

-At first I was going to question what you were doing when it seemed like a trance song but the drums did get into the workings. I would suggest bringing the percussion in at an earlier stage and add more pop to the drums. They are there but they don't ever seem to come out. Meaning that they weren't really a focus other than that oddly done drum solo toward the end.

-As mentioned before I didn't like how the intro was done. It was too calm and could of used at least some pads or light drum taps. Then at the end you completely got rid of the melody for a complete drum solo. I'm not even sure what you did at 2:11.

-Try and keep everything together by not just using one aspect at a time. Keep everything multi-dimensional and a little less crazy.

-Review Request Club

superuberinsaneausm responds:

thanks for the advice, i really agree that i could of added more effects to the drums
211 was an outro,to end the song