ADR3-N's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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!

[Back from the Dead]

Needs bass. . . badly

Other than the lack of bass, the song is kick ass. Where'd you find the recordings of the guy that was talking? Back onto the topic of improvement, I'd put more bass into the kick and a little less treble on the who song. Nice rythm guitars by the way.

pitchblak responds:

Thanx alot , yeah, i agree on the kick drum being to low also the song does need bass. I actually got the soundbites from the original black and white Return of the living dead. well, ive got some new equipment now and hope that my quality is gonna be alot better from now on. Also gonna see about adding some bass to my sons as well.Rock on man

[Black Christmas]

Awesome!

Nice minor key =P

I just love Christmas songs like this. I really have nothing that I can think of to say besides that this song is supremely cool and really creepy. I wish my school band would let us play something like this. I like 'weird' music like this, so yeah. Good work!

Keep it up!

HappyHomicide responds:

Thanks man!

[Edge of Faith]

EDIT2021: Just came back to say I still very much enjoy this mix. Since started making my own music and become an audio mod along the way. Wishing you well, wherever your journeys have led, and wherever they may take you in the time to come :)

Very sweet!

This should be number one, definitely. I have absolutely no criticisms. Most amazing song ever. It would probably sound better with a real guitar though. I do like the synth or whatever it is though. It sounds relaxed and chilled and at the same time, it sounds angry and sad.

I like the instruments and vocals also.

What program did you use?

NemesisTheory responds:

Wow, kind words!! I definitely DISAGREE about being #1 though lol XD
and yeah it would definitely be a lot better with a real guitar... guess I'm gonna start saving for one? hahaha

I used FL Studio 8 btw!