ADR3-N's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Stargenx - The Whale]

The louder you sing, the better it sounds. Otherwise, kind of odd. Your arranging is good, but I would definitely redo your vocals. Could use some finer tuned mixing as well. The instrumental could stick out a bit more and I wouldn't complain.

EDIT 4/16/2024: I don't know what crack I was smoking in 2016. There's a lot of reverb, and that's probably what I was complaining about. And to a degree the vocals sound like they're being performed live on stage vs the studio. You know what I'm talking about. That difference in presence. Anyway, I found you again through @LJCoffee's (the guy who scouted me years ago) scout list. Hope you're well!

Stargenx responds:

Thanks for the review! Very understandable!

[Buzz Word]

This shit makes me happy, period. Literally cannot understand why it hasn't blown up more speakers than the plays tell me it has. Could use just a bit more bass, but that's a bit subjective. Otherwise, pretty perfect, and your writing is impeccable. :)

Hikari responds:

Woah, thank you a lot for your review and time! I completely agree with you. I feel like I could have decreased the dynamics in the sub a hair and increased the volume by a solid db. Happyhardcore is a bit out of my norm but it's been a life long dream to make a song in the style. It's kind of funny, when I started making music when I was 12 all I wanted to do was make rave and hardtrance. So this was kind of a throw back to those days. Another interesting point is that I had originally made this melody to show a friend how to sequence, make a chord progression and how to arrange. I liked the melody but I had no idea what to do with the it so I just threw it in the archive. A few months later I got bored and decided to look through my old project files. When I rediscovered "nice melody.flp" I got instantly inspired. Thank you again for your listen!

[Ver2ion - Blowin Smoke (Prod. Jordan Beats)]

I feel like your loudness is mostly from your vocal mixing, not your diction. Work on that. In my experience, shouting sounds more energetic than just talking. You need to get more aggressive! Also, your flow needs a bit of work. The rhyme scheme is a bit odd.

[A.T.K]

You're definitely a talented writer. Just think you could use some better 808 bass. Keep it up!

SmokeAvery responds:

Thanks man , your absolutely right about the 808.. I'm currently in the middle of two DnB tracks. I'll def backtrack on this

[Donk this]

Interesting. I recognize your sample pack right off the bat, but you use it nicely. Loop isn't quite flawless though.

[Urban Kiss]

Sounds like a lot of mixcraft presets and loops to me -- everything vaguely familiar. It's not bad though. I like the snare.

Zodiax responds:

Thanks for your thoughts. No loops were actually used, but we did use a few stock preset instruments that were tweaked a little from VST's such as Sawer and Sytrus. The guitar sample was actually made by us....literally playing the guitar.

It's unfortunate that it sounds like that to you (meaning we failed to do something creative enough to pull away from that stigma) but I'll take that into consideration next time we work with these instruments.

Thanks for the feedback. It's always appreciated.

[BBP Cloud Camping]

Really all you could use is better vocal mixing. Your flow ain't too bad, although at points it suffers and stutters a bit.

[Sweet Dreams My Love]

It isn't bad, but it isn't great. I hear so many presets, or what sound like presets. The mixing isn't too great, and there really is no variation throughout. In Trance you usually have a chorus. Just seems kind of lazy to me. I do want that crunchy guitar synth though. That was pretty nice.

[Go DNBness!]

There's a lot of distortion in your mix. This is weird as hell. Some points, I like it. Others, I'm like, what wacked out horror movie am I in? Ascending chords were nice but you didn't stay in them long.