ADR3-N's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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 :)

[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.

Here from audio advertisements :)

cyan11 responds:

Thanks for listening/commenting