ADR3-N's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Venturescape - Episode 2: Memories]

Beautiful work. Happy to be featured. I've already told you a bit of what I think about this brilliant piece, but it's a little eerie that Jessica died on my fiancee's birthday, lol. Also just noticed Billy's mom stole my middle name.

Could use a little less mid and a bit more high end on young Billy and maybe better recording conditions with less 'verbing, but other than that, great work all around. I especially enjoyed the performance with Kathryn Cloud. Nice, clear, bright, and authentic. You've also done a good job of mixing a lot of diverse recording conditions along with several different compositions and making it sound good.

Nice work! Let me know if you need another piece or some spoopy SFX.

[WOAH!]

Feels really thrown together and awkward. Just not enjoying it at all.

[Slix Slaz]

Can't tell if it was made with loops or not as the user below alleges. However, the track itself was rather short and sort of bland. Sounds kind of like 80's TV show music mixed in with trap. Not really a huge fan. Would appreciate a longer track with a bit more intrigue to it.

[The Lift Gem]

The writing of this is pretty interesting. Would be much better if you had some proper mixing software. The static-y cymbals and the overall cheapy sounding keys get grating after a while.

[Rip]

This is weird as hell. I can see someone sampling this prior to a dubstep drop. Next time, beatbox more.

[Bass Syringe BIG ROOM]

This is probably the most original big room tune I've ever heard. And I mean that in the sense of it not sounding the exact same as every other big room song ever, in the same key, etc. Nice work.

[Smash Dash to the Max]

Really, really repetitive! Decent sound, but it sounds almost like you're using loops. Is that the case?

ZoeW responds:

I use loops for some of my songs, this is one of them. Thanks so much for the feedback!

[Black Hole]

This sounds like you recorded audio output on a vastly overtaxed PC. Lots of skipping, artefacts, etc. Also, lots of issues with the volume cutting in and out. That needs fixed before I can really consider this listenable.

DJ-Silent responds:

Thanks for the review! Yeah i do not really know what happened with sound spikes but it was a test, i will take this for helping me on my next music, thanks :D

[See Through Darkness]

Not bad, but sounds like the entire song is smashed through a lo-fi filter. Drums need more compression, less reverb, and different levels. Snare needs to come up, and so do crashes. Bass also needs to come way up. Can hardly hear it.

Ultramartyr responds:

yeah i'm not too happy with the guitar sound, too much distortion and presence, not enough bass. the bass being low is my fault, i was afraid of the low end overpowering the mix. i'll pass your advice about the drums to my drummer. thanks for the review.

[Getting Started]

Oh, so much good-natured fun going on here. Lots of spacy synths, cute bass, good structures and fun flourishes. Mix is a bit muddy though. Bass could use a little more presence. Reverb and those super long note tails on your pads are bleeding pretty hard. Percussion is sort of buried under the entire composition, especially your leads.

Good writing, so-so mixing and mastering. Enjoyed.

Noisysundae responds:

Short but very useful for me! I regret reading this so late. I should've paid more attention on whatever is going on in the background. Many thanks.

Although you didn't complain about the composition, most of the time, I can't point out the flaw in the mix by myself when I don't have the clear final image of the track in my head. Not sure if this can be called the writer's block, but I can only think about one really catchy melody and nothing else lately, hence the repetitive pad, arps, and lead synths after 0:42.