ADR3-N's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dark & Mild Bass]

Good

I like the arps you have going there. I wish it was more of a song though. With only that level of development, it just doesn't sound completely full to me. Good job on this though.

Thayzer responds:

okk...

[Dancing Mad: Esperoid - P]

Cool

Wow, this is one of the first happy songs I've really enjoyed. I've never really played FFVI all that much, but this song is cool. The notes were spot on. I like the arpeggiating you have going on there. Good job! I don't really have any suggestions for improvement, unless you can get someone who is godly at guitar playing to play those guitar parts for you. That would make it even more awesome than it is now.

I like the sad-ish part near the end as well. You captured the feeling of the song quite well. Excellent cover/remix/whatever.

bitium-ribbon responds:

It's interesting you'd say that about the "happy" feeling, considering that this song is a final boss theme. But thank you for reviewing!

[Final Fantasy: Tortured S]

Good!

These are very good song choices here, however I felt that something was missing from it in the beginning. That feeling was soon lost, later on. Good work!

Do you think you could possibly do a remix the song in FFXII, in the core of Giruvegan? I forgot the name of it, but I do remember that I attempted to put it on my laptop (and succeeded) with some kind of plug rig and a recorder from my own mixing program. Excellent mixing there, by the way.

bitium-ribbon responds:

Thanks for the review! However, with very, very few exceptions, I make a practice of only mixing music from games I'm familiar with, and I have no desire to become familiar with FFXII. :P

I'll give the midi a listen for fairness, but wishing you no offense, don't hold your breath.

Glad you liked it! ^^

[Knights of The Temple]

Weird

Sounds like when I take the whammy bar off my guitar and try to play it like a fiddle or something. XD

Cool song, even if some of the chipping gets old.

JakesFable responds:

Yeah lol this song is like over 2 years old and the chipping thing was new to me at the time lol and lol that sounds awesome. Thanks alot for the review ;)

[The University After Dark 2]

Minnesota eh?

Wow, it is like 2 at night now, lol. I really like the song. It's strange and kinda gives me a headache and doesn't go where I want it to, but I like it just the same. It kinda gives me a paranoid feeling though, like someone's watching me when I listen to it. Creepy, lol.

NuclearStrike responds:

You said ALL the right things. Mission Accomplished for me :D. Thanks for reviewing. Love, Peace, and Big Beat.

[Realistic Feats]

Heh, moody bells =b

This is a walk down memory lane for me. It reminds me of when I was little and used to play stuff like this on my keyboard. I like the section around 1:18 where you deviated from the main theme of the song a lot. Good job.

NightmareTheDragon responds:

Thanks man

[Glass Lung; Miss Angel]

Good

I like the appregiation you have going, but the beginning was pretty shaky and unstable. Some of the notes just sounded like they didn't fit. The rest of the song was fine. I enjoyed it a lot. It sounded a little empty though. Perhaps too much acid and drums blocked out all the sentimental sounding instruments. The song is overall overpowered by the drums. Better EQ'ing would fix that.

DjUntold responds:

It's funny how different your review is from most of the responses I've had from friends and family haha. It seems like it's half and half, some people like the sentimental side at the beginning, and some people like the harder part towards the end.

As for the equalization, I purposefully kept the drums at a higher volume as it is to add to the intensity of the emotions that I was experiencing at the time of the songs creation, but I may have left them a bit to loud, cause it drowns out the main bell melody a bit. I may end up changing that a bit.

Thank you for the review!
- Aaron

[.Explode.]

Eh. . .

Way too much repetition and weird sounding synth riffs. I'm not saying it's bad, but it's just not my style. I've heard tons of stuff like this before. Maybe you should put a little more feeling into it.

ToxicTom responds:

soz mun

[Combustible Friendship, Pt. 2]

Nice

There were a ton of inharmonies in the background that kept annoying me. Pretty cool song there though. Good job!

kevs91 responds:

I think some of the background noise/inharmonies come from two key places in this one:
The guitars I'm using are admittedly poor- the strings are old, they easily fall just a bit out of tune, etc. etc. Plus, I'm just not a good guitar player at all.
Also, I think some of that feel (to my ears anyways) comes with some of the percussion sounds.

Anyway, yeah, definitely a good point. Hopefully with time and practice I'll get better at the mixing process, and maybe even at playing the instruments so that this sort of thing will be much easier to avoid. But I do think at least a little of it comes with the territory when you make noisy music, and it occasionally even adds to the feel of the song. Not, of course, to the extent it's present here, I think.

Thank you very much for the kind words and the review. It's all appreciated, and sorry for the time it took to respond!

[For Your Health]

LOL

The only reason why I gave an 8 is that the clapping got on my nerves a little. Other than that, it's fucking awesome. Good work!

HappyHomicide responds:

Yeah, i just took the edited version from youtube and put metal on it. glad you enjoyed it!