ADR3-N's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Melancholy in G-minor]

Nice relaxing house beat. I particularly like the wistful vibe around 2:40. I might tame those higher frequencies just a little bit past 20khz, but otherwise this is everything I could have asked for it to be. Loving the shift at 3:26.

By any chance are you using Nexus 2? Oh no, I see Serum in the software notes. Insanely similar sound. Wicked cool.

Crazy to think you do house. I have a ton of your metal tracks on an old mp3 player, over a decade old now. Hearing this has me thinking about my own journey through music, for better or worse, listening to those old tunes, clawing through a trial version of the same software I use today. Really enjoyed the listen. Surprised me :)

[Repetitive Distortion]

I'd be more likely to call this synth or darkwave, with industrial flavors, but this is a nice driving little piece. Kinda cyberpunky to me. Great work, and nice to see you outside of genres I would typically expect <3

[LABS]

Is this made using actual spitfire LABS instruments? If so, wicked cool. It develops a little bit slower for me than I'd prefer, and some of the instruments and choir seem a bit sharp or flat relative to one another. That's not a hard fix.

I would bring your flute in the left channel up a little, or tame the reverb on the instruments with whole notes. Otherwise, pretty freaking cool.

yagru responds:

YES DUDE! user buggagumpus (below) suggested them to me! love it. i agree about the flute tho...just created this randomly last night and needed to upload so i could listen in the car lol

[A Dman's Valentine]

Yo, smooth and sick. Grats on the front page! I wish this was longer

[Plans]

I was about to write this off, but your vocal mixing hooked me into the rest of the production. I think with just some taming on your sibilants, s and t and such, even if it's just manually lowering the volume so you don't have to spend money on a bunch of fancy programs to do it for you, that would help a lot.

Overall, your bass is just a little bit flat compared to the rest of the track, and your drums could stand to come out a few dB in the mix, but your structure is nice and strong, and you have an interesting chord progression. Nice work!

floorboardofficial responds:

YES hahahaha. I did NOTHING for sibilance control back then. The worst part is when they're not quantized properly and you get this unpleasent surprise ping-pong effect that just ruins the illusion of the overdubs. Anyways, in the years since I made this I've started doing exactly what you said and manually dealing with sibilants, but holy hell is it a time consuming pain in the ass cheek. Are there any "fancy programs" that you'd reccomend? I've tried a couple free de-essers here and there and frankly they were all pretty much unusable. I honestly wouldn't mind throwing down some cold hard money cash to save myself the pain.

But hey, thanks for the review! Much appreciated :)

[Ease Your Mind]

Not bad! I think it could use mastering compression but other than that a solid structure and a driving beat, complete with a recognizable melody.

I really think you could use to start making news posts so people can know more about you as an artist. Every two weeks you can post to the front page. It's quite useful :)

[FVIII ~ Wonder]

A lot of great melodic ideas here. Congratulations on your first song on NG. It's missing a bassline, and you could definitely make use of a more conventional structure. The intro feels as naked as an outro, and by 2:03, I feel like we've been in either a build or an intro for a very long time, especially by 2:30.

Without a bassline, 2:41 doesn't hit as hard as it should. That said with those small fixes this would be a pretty nice little track. Great work, and a fantastic start.

Keep it up! Let me know if you want any help resources or tips or tricks :)

FVIII responds:

thanks for the feedback! I made this track a couple months ago and I had much less experience with music-making at that time! I have a bunch of other tracks coming, but they still need a lot of fixing. I'll make sure to add a baseline next time :)

[Proceeds The Weedian]

Nice and sludgey. Mix is clipping and I think your snare and kick could come out but I really enjoyed it :)

That solo is sick af. It's a good volume level compared to the rest of the track but by then the mix is crackling a little. Only thing keeping me from just jamming out. Seriously nice solos

Banana-head responds:

Thanks for the review! The clipping problem is mostly due to me having no idea of what im doing as im still learning how to mix shit, i have a lot to learn still.

[Open Seas and Skies | Finnsfolks]

Hey, I finally got time to listen to this!

Like your opening chords, and the development at 18 secs. Could probably bring that synth down just a little bit for effect, have it swell in. Your lead is quirky and interesting, mellow. The high synth that comes in after I'd take down just a little.

Your percussion is about .1 or .2 db louder than I'd like, but that's better than being quiet. By 1:33 I think it's fine, but I'd still bring it down .1

The track itself plods along merrily and without any jarring transitions, which is great. You've really come far in the past few years. I'm super proud of you.

Now, this isn't my genre, but it's not offensive to listen to at all, and I don't have the desire to skip. That's a high compliment. It's long for my tastes, but by no means bad at all. Great work :)

[Perestroika]

Наркотик не класс. Я еду на хардбасс <3

Спасибо за исполнение хорошего трека. Ты номер миллион ;)