ADR3-N's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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.

[WaV0N - VIRUS]

Groovy, with some good writing. The mix is a little off. Sounds like it's been sausage fattened a lot or is clipping with the 808 up too loud.

WaV0N responds:

Lmao I like the point of turning the 808 way too loud makes it sounds gud so, am also making another one lol

[PizzapiePartiesOver/Death.avi]

What is this? Did you convert an avi file to midi?

TheGamerBrine48 responds:

this is comic music, I made this piece in 1000000 music on newgrounds

[DubTest]

Great first attempt. I would just say the instruments need to come down a lot in the mix so the drums can cut through. Otherwise you have really great melody writing.

I might cut the low piano chords -- either remove some notes so they aren't chunky sounding, or bring them up in the register. But personally I don't really like sound font piano after just working with it for so many years. That's more of a music producer gripe.

You've got some really interesting ideas going on here. I'd like to see you do something similar in the future

Quippic8 responds:

Thank you for being honest! I will take your advice<3

[D[ツ]L]

Sounds so interesting. I would have liked to just chill on that opening chord drone and ... actually it sounds so funky I'd sample it <3

Quippic8 responds:

It is called a percussive organ. I had to argue with the studio owner because I have a vintage one that weighs a ton and I had to get a bigger studio lol.
My friend also recorded me.

[Alone At Night (Minecraft Days)]

You made this only in minecraft?! Holy cow. This bops. I'm super impressed. I'd like to see a video next time you do something like this. It's really cool

Quippic8 responds:

I can promise you a video on my next minecraft song

[Tranquil]

I just want you to know, my brain saw your username and immediately thought first track of 20... 11

Interesting, mellow piece. I can't tell if we have sub rumbling in my left ear or if that's tinnitus. I might cut it unless you center it more and make it swell in both ears -- to give more of a feeling of progression by 1:00

You've got a good theme going on, but I'm not really able to pick up an obvious melody outside of the plucks denoting suspended chords. By 1:46 this is somewhat resolved.

I want to say you have some really nice dulcimer sounds going on here. Holy cow. I wish this part had been just a bit earlier.

Interesting stereo play at 2:42. I think that staccato pluck throughout could use some more development and dynamics throughout, potentially to be pushed a bit to the back. It seems to have carried most of the whole piece, not leaving a lot of room for transition.

I'm not quite sold on the violin when it comes in. That one's not going to sound natural without a looooooot of modulation, sounds like. You could potentially treat it like a lead guitar in the mix, double track two instances of it and slightly detune one, change round robins, pan appropriately. It's very thin and flat there. I think even just a chorus or being thrown to the back with reverb a bit may help.

The next section with synth strings -- obvious ones at that, is much more balanced and lays in together. I honestly think you could get away with more obviously synthy instruments, which would completely jump over and sidestep the uncanny valley that's happening with the violin.

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cyan11 responds:

Thanks for listening/commenting

[Sustainability]

Starting in up to 15 seconds, sounding good. Only thing I'm noticing is some lack of clarity in your low mids. I'd cut some reverb down just a bit there, and up your low cut to about 250.

When the guitars come in they stand out really nicely but seem to kind of lay on top of the track. You can double track two guitar lines so that it doesn't sound centered, and apply chorus with a lower dry signal there. I really enjoy your composition though!

Around 1:40, your heavy guitars and or N64 esque bass are covered up by the reverb so that I can only make them out because I know what they are. I think that may be from personal experience with it myself just going ear dead to the composition after so many hours trying to get those juicy spacious sounds.

Compositionally, this is absolutely wonderful to listen to and you have a lot of varied textures. Excited to see more from you!

zybor responds:

Thank you for your kind words and detailed review! :3

Wow you have good ears for noticing the instruments used in the track.