AvizuraNG's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Smoking Man]

Great mix-down and track all around. You're mixing some really interesting beat-work with that characteristic dark-edge. You should be recognised for your characteristic sound!

Adjeye responds:

Thanks man, never feel like changing the little dark mood I do. I feel like makkng music that way is the only true me.

[Dejavu (Piano piece)]

Wow, nice bit of polyrhythm here. We had to spend about a month learning about polyrhythm at school. Interesting to see you progressing so quickly musically.

Keep at it!

Adjeye responds:

Thanks! Still exploring ways to make my music more intresting!

[Warry Dreamscape]

Glad to see that you're still making music. You've improved significantly since the last time, but are still staying true to what represents your sound (which imo is that dark moody edge).

A shame that I'm the first reviewer ... I hope your track gets more attention.

-Avizura

Adjeye responds:

I don’t care all too much for exposure anymore, I do music for me nowadays. I still find joy in seeing others enjoy it aswel tho, so thanks!

[Replace Capacitors]

I like the ... 5/4 (?) signature you've used. I usually don't divide my 5/4 beats like you do. It's wonderful in how many ways you can divide that signature.
The sudden changes were welcome too! Makes it really sound like something is going wrong.

I wonder if this is actually possible on a real SID-chip, it has quite a lot of depth in terms of stuff going on at the same time. But if you tried to imitate the SID-chip, I assume you know about it's limitations. So if you did keep the limitations in mind, it's pretty mind-blowing what you did. Creating a whole world of sound with just those 3 tracks.

I'll have to show this to Jeroen Tel sometime.

Good job!

benja14xd responds:

Thank you for listening my track.
I love using non-4/4 time signatures (like 3/4, or in this case 5/4)
Things like 3 channel polyphony, only pulse, saw, triangle and noise, Ring mod, cutoff, resonance (and the possibility to change "instrument" during playback) makes the SID something more capable than a 2A03, even using the same tricks like the "Follin brothers 1 channel echo"
The song was made in FL Studio, and I tried to have all the limitations in mind, so... if someone try to make a C64 play this, i will be possible (in some way).

There is a video in my youtube channel showing what is going with the three channel in the whole song, if you're interesed.

[Drunken Sailor]

Pretty damn catchy. The mixdown needs a lot of work though. There's a lot of stuff fighting for your attention, I'd give the vocals more space I can hardly hear them. I'd bring the stuff that is just there to add detail to the track more to the background and the important elements to the front.

But other than that, I enjoyed it a lot. Interesting mix of genres. Usually this type of song is not accompanied by electronic instruments, I liked that about it. Keep it up!

zanaelf responds:

Thanks for the feedback on the song :-)

[Test Theme 2]

Crazy is an understatement, haha. Man this is some trippy stuff.

Radius responds:

I know.

[circular shift left]

Most certainly okay for a track that you wrote in a couple of hours! I like the dreamy vibe.
DL+Faved, good work.

bryce responds:

appreciated

[Mastered Love (Demo extended version Album more than Soon)]

Modern UK Hardcore/Happy Hardcore is one of my favourite genres. The mixdown is pretty damn good. I feel like the chord progression might be a bit too cliché, I'd change the inversions so it sounds less cliché.

The drop gave me exactly what I craved for in the intro. You did a really good job in having that contrast between the two sections. Nice work!

LumpyDumpyBuuu responds:

thank you very much.

[Solarwind]

I feel like this could be a 70s punk anthem or something, it really has that kind of vibe to it. But then mixed with Drum N Bass elements. Really interesting!

I would work a bit on the mixdown, it sounds like there's a lot of overlapping elements. Try to build your tracks by fitting every element in it's own frequency range (giving every element it's own place).

In terms of uniqueness, you have a lot to offer. I mean, how often do you hear high shivering strings in a slamming DnB track? Keep it up!

Skybrid responds:

Got it. I'll take your advices, thank you! I really glad you enjoined that, I am doing my best ;)

[A Static Soul]

The overall mixdown sounds a little bit messy, how much did you compress the overall track?
Or maybe you like the sound of it, but then I would add some parallel compression on the elements that you want to be compressed instead of compressing the master.
But if you want to have it loud, I would look into "soft-clipping", which is basically what all the big DnB producers use to get their stuff loud (from what I've learned).

There's a bit of mid frequencies that I'm missing, right now it sounds like it's mostly bass and treble with a scoop in the mids, while this might sound cool on your speakers, there's a lot of sound-systems (phones, mp3-players or hi-fis) that add bass, treble and compression to the sound, so if you're mixing down your track it would be better to keep the sound fairly neutral.

(So I wouldn't go for the hi-fi sound, but for a more neutral sound)

I really like the synths you programmed for this track. I'm a big fan of FM-basslines, what did you use for that?
The overal "flow" of the track is very nice, super catchy. The beat fits perfectly with the rest in the track.
Clearly there's a lot of attention to detail, with all the little fx and sounds in the background. It keeps me engaged. And you're doing this with only one motif essentially, good job!

SilentShadow97 responds:

Compression wise I've compressed (Fruity Limiter) certain instruments/synths separately depending on what I felt needed it and popped a maximizer (Maximus) on the master, maybe I was messing with the mids a little too much. Glad you liked it overall, these are the types of comments that mean a lot to me, thank you! :)