ADR3-N's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Unusual Times Advent Calendar 2024 - Song 2]

Here comes Santa claus?????

RealTin3Sn responds:

OMG you got it! You're first person to guess one of my songs LOL.

[Cut the Line]

Came here to drop 5 from the trailer

ChordC responds:

Appreciate it, mate! Keep on making banger tunes!

[WHAT REMAINS]

I really appreciate the technical talk on this one. I'm a plugin and sample hoarder, so it gives me new ideas for junk to fill my hard drive with ❤️

I would write more on the production and arrangement, but I hate typing on mobile and can't hear properly the finer aspects of mix anyway. But it does sound good on my phone, so that's a plus!

KI1 responds:

Always happy to find someone else who likes to go nerd mode. I'm sure we'll use those samples... one day.

You aren't missing too much this time - although I've been getting into panning a lot lately, trying to get W I D E. Thanks for stopping by again :)

[Just break it.]

This reminds me of 90s breakbeats, videogame music. If that's where you were going, I'd check out the Archive's 90s sample CDs. You'll have a lot of fun with them if you have the patience to sort through the samples.

Nice, simple little theme. Looks unmastered from the peaks, but not bad at all

OPFX responds:

Whoa, Nice find!

[Paradigm (feat Burn7) - Single Version]

HOW DID I MISS THIS TAG

Your screams are gorgeous, I have to say. I'd love to hear the raw takes. I'm not entirely sold on the processing chain for the spoken/sung portions, but it suits the screams beautifully.

The only things I would do for this track is potentially carve away the reverb on the kick and toms and revisit the mix prior to the master. I can hear when the compressor kicks in, and it just sounds like the track is too hot prior, or the level of compression needs to be backed off a bit. It's hard enough that I can't make educated comment on the rest of the mix.

BUT, the track itself slams. Great work!

[Blocky Cola]

I usually hate the sound of people eating and drinking, but this is so unusual, I kinda dig it.

[<Dusk>]

Shocked this has no reviews after all this time, when it clearly deserves them. I often wonder where you are now in your musical journey. I have searched and cannot find you. If you at all can be found, I hope someone will reach out and @ me!

[Haunted Triplets (Wip)]

The swinging beats omg <3

Tapestoppa responds:

Thank you! We had the option to either do 6/8 or triplets, I figured triplets would be more bouncy and catchy so we went with it :)

[Anj_Pain Bodies (Gminor)]

Sounds great. Only thing it could use is a competitive (loud) master. I love your vocal delivery.

Anjovi responds:

My thanks!

[Toast]

This is odd, in a good way. It's hitting on several familiar points in my library of references, from corporate, to girly j-pop, to video-game EDM, and beyond. I don't quite know what to make of it, perhaps because it's so unfamiliar, but I do think it's well composed.

I also think that the level of snare and cymbal to lead, pad and so on, as well as master could be approached again some time in the future, while studying references in these similar genres (where you can find similar instrumentation in particular and have an idea of where to place them)

The jump in volume at 2:52 was unexpected, but again, I think you've written a satisfying progression, and the piece concludes in a pretty satisfactory way.

My favorite part overall was the guitar. I think it was wonderfully mixed and the picking style quite interesting to listen to. Great work and certainly an unexpected piece for me to stumble upon this round!

icantpronouncethis responds:

Thank you for the thorough review.

I was worried about the guitar. I haven't gotten the chance to mix real instruments so this was a challenge in many ways.

A lot of my influence do come from the genre you listed. (Snail's House, in the blue shirt, San Holo, etc). So it's really cool you were able to point those out.

One of the thing I should do more often is to use reference track when I am mixing. Honestly never really done that before. I was wondering if you can give me some tips or general information about doing that.

Thank you so much once again.