ADR3-N's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Thearseri]

Not bad. Simple chord progression. Mixing isn't bad from what I hear. Progresses a little slow for my taste, and a lot of the instruments sound like presets. Crashes are too loud. Rest of the perc could stick out a bit more and be good. There just isn't much differentiating one part of the track from the other, no overarching melody, etc.

TheSecondAxeman responds:

Thanks for the feedback! The instruments weren't presets, however some were derived from them as I'm not incredible at working with certain synths just yet. Cheers!

[Alan Walker - Faded (Penta Remake)]

Tons of distortion in the mix. Fix that, and this might be alright. Just sort of feels overdone all over.

EndyDashGD responds:

Cuz this is made in caustic, and it is my remix

[FL studio PC test]

This is spam quality audio, honestly. Now, if you'd called it "ear rape" I'd have given a better rating. Study your program a bit more.

EndyDashGD responds:

This is my first time with fl studio, i didnt studied the program

[The Art of Staying Calm]

This is pretty fantastic. Man, I would love to get a hold of this and lay something down over it. Would love to know any equipment, virtual amps, etc. Just sounds great.

RobSoundtrack responds:

Thanks man! Some old stuff but i really wish i finished this out with vocals i had laid out.
2012?
I think i was using the Engl E530 preamp, into the back of a bogner power section, into a eminence 1x12, into sm57?
Guitar was probably Ibanez rg7320 with dimarzios.

Kinda convoluted, feel free to msg me if this is not even what you were asking lol

[ENtrance - Belgrade (Original Mix)]

This would be a fantastic mix if the mid and high around 4-10k were not so pumped up. Bring those down and my heart will be happy. Also, watch distortion on that piano part, or just distortion, period. There seems to be a little of it going on.

ENtrance93 responds:

https://soundcloud.com/mindlifting-records/entrance-belgrade-original-mix-preview

Thank you sir :)

[Soular Order]

This is pretty dope stuff. Probably would fit better in hip-hop though. It sounds like really laid back trap music. No real complaints here except I wish the sub bass were a bit louder and a bit more kick to it. Good work!

AnubisInc responds:

Yeah I understand that. Hip Hop people tell me that this sound isn't Hip Hop enough to be in the genre, and I get the same from EDM people, so I just post it as whatever lol.

[unconventional]

Interesting to start off. Sounds like engines warming up, sirens, etc. at the beginning, then -- woah, such pretty noises at 30 seconds. You won me. This just sounds dirty, filthy... I want to know what went into this, what DAW, what VST, and Christ, if I own them, I want a preset, to see what we're playing with here lol. That sounds like a lot to ask.

1:00 is intriguingly gentle, with those reverse vocals, calming, before returning to that nice gritty, glitchy feel. I really like it. I feel that chorusy (delay?) effect took away from the silky death that was going on here though. Sounded good on headphones but my monitors didn't like it quite as much. Kind of drowned out your perc -- or just sat on top or beneath it.

Interesting stuff!

XEFSketch responds:

Thanks for the feedback!

As far as your questions:

The daw is FLStudio, VST's: mostly harmor and massive. Presets in massive are pretty simple just using band-reject filters on wavetables crude, melofantic, scrap-yard and sonic to get a mouthy-like sound. Growling sounds mainly focus on the midrange when it comes to "articulating" a raw gnarly sound. I also made sounds in massive, recorded them in edison and re-sampled them in harmor using a Hz-unison of 9 to get a liquidy sound. I just play around with resynthesizing a lot. Other effects that add to the mouthy-like sound are phasing and chorus.

The vocals were granualized and stretched out, the reason they sound quiet and displaced is I wanted it to sound like they were being suffocated and trying to speak out through the mess of noise, kinda like the sun peeking thru the clouds after a storm.