ADR3-N's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[dynamism]

Perfect use of that sine in the beginning. When your lead at 22 secon7 ds comes in, I would like a bit less volume on it, and maybe a bit less FX in general. Something is overdriving and I feel it is supposed to sound smooth and unobtrusive.

By 1:07 I am fully immersed and waiting for more insanity.

1:22, those breaks are gorgeous. They sound like well organized ADHD. I would like a more centered sound for your bass just to sit inside the mix cleanly. Changing bass synths throughout I think does you many favors for variety, even if the bassline doesn't change much.

This is a long track and very busy, so the transition at 2:37 does you a lot of favors. In the future, working with similar arrangements, you may think about changing tempo for transitions. Which I'm not sure if it is happening under my nose or not, haha. Ah, I see by 3:34 you are already on this. Great work and fantastically varied piece. 3:55 is NUTS

Fantastic work here. Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

[Dream, Run, Fly]

WUPWUPWUPWUP uwu

Super cute. I would like to hear more of your lead and tame the volume of surrounding arps and pads in that space. I think your bass and low passes sound great. Also guitar sounds fantastic. I was not ready for the track to be over and would certainly rate higher if there were more.

Great job. Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

[OpenGain]

Very quiet piece -- recommend running it through some sort of free online mastering service of your choosing.

The piece itself is simple, happy and quirky. I don't have much critique in that regard beyond perhaps a bit less volume on your plucks. I would like to hear more of your bass. Something seems to be going on in the mix and it's very quiet.

Still, I enjoyed the piece. Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

[PROJECT - 20]

Wow, what an insane shift in tone once the dubstep begins. I'm not even sure what to think. Such shifts in mood.

I think your keys could stand to be lower in the mix. Impressed you did this on FL Studio mobile. I would ask for a bit less reverb on your pads. I think your writing is very nicely varied and keeps my attention throughout, as well as the screaming solos. Very interesting piece.

The outro leaves a little to be desired, and the piece is short, but I think it works. Great work!

Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

AniGlebGD responds:

I really appreciate your attention to my works.
So, as I mentioned a completely s*ck at other genres except dubstep (future bass).
I put a lot of reverb cause I wanted to make transition between chords very smooth, but I think I overdid.
Sometimes badly - made piece of track sounds much better than well made one.(

[The Mirror]

I think those 16th notes in the beginning could come down a bit or be rolled off with a low pass -- the pspsps stands overtop your intro pretty loudly.

I really enjoy the development through 1 minute.

Nice and pensive. I think centering your bass to pulse underneath the track would give more dramatic effect.

1:42 sounds great. The track as a whole may benefit from more compression, as contemporary cinematic in this style is typically quite loud. I find myself wanting more volume and spread on your brasses, louder slams on choir and percussion at that final big section.

Nice work! Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

[The Bell of Death - NGUAC]

Very interesting sounds going on here. It reminds me of the old days of listening to techno on Newgrounds.

One thing throughout, I enjoy your writing, but I think you could stand to shorten or drop the volume on your reverb wet signal. On big sections, it gets pretty muddy, in contrast to the overly crisp highs of your percussion.

I would like: more volume on the kick, less on the hihats and anything that sounds like tsssss, a bassline more clearly audible under your bass arps -- could even be on offbeats to contrast against the kick. This would make a huge difference in the DRAMA for drops.

As a whole, the piece holds together well and I really enjoyed it. Great work.

Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

amishpimp responds:

thanks for the feedback, i really appreciate it! drops have been very difficult for me in general so i will take this into account going forward.

[AlphezoPlay - Overcharged (Dubstep)]

Nice intro. I hear something going on in the intro on your bass. It sounds like clipping. I think a lot of the mix problems I hear early on could be solved with MUCH less reverb on all instruments, and where you MUST have it, a low cut on the wet to 250 hz. The whole track seems to suffer from this.

That said, I love your arranging and writing all the way to 1:20. Your drop is positively chaotic, in a good way, excepting the issues of mix, the growls being too loud, and a bit less bass than I prefer. Literally just taking the reverb down will fix the majority of these issues.

The choir at 2:40 sounds really familiar, and although it is very clearly a synth I think works pretty well. Very daring choices.

Wonderful guitar solo at 3:26. This is like dubstep meets videogame, blues, and jazz at the same time.

Transition at 4:26 is good, again excepting the reverb issue throughout.

4:44 the drop is really tinny at the top. I think part of this is trying to ensure that it is heard above the MASSIVE reverb on the percussion and your pads.

Very interesting outro at 5:40. Total change of mood.

Again, thanks for coming out to NGUAC! What a journey!

AlphezGD responds:

So i just have to lower the reverb right? noted 👍

And also thanks to you!!

[Grim Ego]

Nice blending of old and new in this piece.

One thing I'm noticing overall, the reverb on that brass is covering up some of your bass. I would want more volume on the 808, more extreme distortion/saturation on it. I'm lazy, so I use Diablo by cymatics for that.

It's a bit hard to hear your snares throughout the drops.

The piece is pretty simple and straightforward otherwise, with a bit less variety than I'd like. I would personally slap an 8 to 16 bar bridge/verse before your final drop and play more with distortion. Maybe get some unusual metallic auxiliary percussion in there for drama's sake -- some more reverse crashes and etc to liven up the head of each section. Again, I'm lazy, and I use these cliches in my own music frequently.

Bold choice to use essentially two chords for the track as a whole, and I think it works for you. Clean up the reverbs, do some minor leveling, and pump up a bit more nastiness on the bass, and I think you have a banger on your hands. Also, might use two different brasses, one in each channel, for a bit more drama. As is, I really only hear the brass in the right, and I assume you're going for massive and spacy.

Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

[What Time Is It?]

I'm not sure what genre I'd call this -- a mix between those synthwave drums and chip.

It's a little tinny on the mix but I think that's owed to the hi-hat being high up in the mix and highs not rolled off on the synths.

1:53 sounds nice. I want a bit more volume on the noises at the beginning of that outro.

Quick drum fill earlier was nice.

Overall, pretty short, uncomplicated piece, with infectious happy little melodies. Liked it a lot.

Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

[Four Sprouts Under Empty Sky]

Nice intro. I might suggest a lot less reverb on your piano and a bit less velocity on the chord stabs -- individual notes of it.

Nice intricate drum writing. I think I would like a bit less verb on the kick, more panning on the toms across left and right for fills. The snare if you can put it on another channel could use saturation and compression.

I feel the weakest element of your piece is DSK Guitars. If you can find Junk Guitar for sforzando (you will know from the Japanese site if you do) I think that'd be a better, more velocity sensitive guitar. DSK is sitting in the uncanny valley for me, almost guitar, but not.

Mix wise on that guitar, it sounds pretty dry. I would take it down in volume, do something with pingpong delay, space it out, reverb, etc.

Your vocals fit very nicely and I have no complaints. Arrangement wise, very nice pensive piece.

Overall, I enjoyed the listen. Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!