Shamukh's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[[Solitude] (Mastered)]

Great job!

I like the progression and melody a lot! Here are a couple things that don't stand too well with me though:

Your piano chords are way too compressed it sounds like... and your high freqs aren't standing out too well. Also, your sub bass is muddying up the track rather bad. :(

Overall, not a bad job, the eq just seems a bit unbalanced. :P Keep it up man!

Koriigahn responds:

Sure thing man!

*Looks at .Flp's Eq*

Well the piano was made with Flkeys, which sorta annoyed me as i now have an amazing Piano vst that would fir just right for this song :/

Anyway, thanks alot!

[(NUB) Flight of Your Life]

Good stuff man. ;)

I like the arrangement and a drums a lot. The guitar synth really takes too much precedence in the song though. Probably turn down the melodies and countermelodies. With that, I think the countermelodies are clashing to much, in my opinion, it'd sound a lot better if you put each of them (I hear three melodies, but here might only be two >_>) in their own place, i.e one to the stereo left and more in the middle of the freq spectrum with some reverb with about 50% dry or something (just to make it more subtle than the 'dominate' one), and your dominant one to the stereo right a little and let tha dominate a lot more.

Two melodies is just what I hear, but I might just be tired. ;_;

Anyway, good to hear something new from you. ;)

nubbinownz responds:

hehe funny thing actually , there are 2 main melodies, and both of them are panned to the left and the right. The first guitar is panned to the left, the second is panned to the right, and the 8bit melody is centered with reverb/ delay on it lol. Maybe I'll try to widen them up a bit

[Now You're a Hero instrum]

Thank you

For uploading the instrumental. :)

Reachground responds:

No problem :)

[Title Splash Sequence -r]

Sounds really neat.

But it's not really 'loopish'. Get rid of that huge blank at the end of the tune, and possibly make a little drum break at the end as well so the drums match up with the beginning of it. then you got a really nice loop. ;)

Great job man! 5/5

[Chrono Trigger - Schala Theme]

It's awesome. :D

But if you wanna add 'emotional' effect, the best way to go about doing that is to add a bassline to this, which is the only thing this song is missing; a cello sound would probably do the job well. :P

Other than that, great job man!

Jabicho responds:

Thanks! =D, I think your suggestion is great, I was also thinking on adding a violin too (when my friend gives me back my 99 sounds keyboard lol, cuz the one I'm using only has 9 sounds. I think I'll have it at the end of the month)
Thanks again! ^_^

[A Fast Trance Build]

I like this a lot!

@ 743R0807: Cut off the reverse crash, and you got yourself a perfect loop (as he said in the description), which is the reason I don't have a problem with the ending at all (if he wanted to add an ending, he would have, the dude knows what he's doing P:).

Anyway, I really like this. The only thing that kind of annoys me is the kick; it's weak. But other than that, you definitely knew what you were doing 4 years ago. I can only imagine how amazing you are now. D:

[[djjakee] inspiration DEMO]

So I really like the chord progression!

But hearing the percussion, this really doesn't seem to cater to the ambient genre.

Okay, so the drums are a little too loud and could be EQ'd a little better (the snare needs to have a low-cut filter added to it, i.e. null out all the low end frequencies so it doesn't counter the kick drum). The open hat, which seems to be panned to the right (yuck. :P), seems to be a bit shaky. I dunno, it just sounds kinda dry, try adding some effects to it (distortion and reverb come to mind). I'm diggin' the ride though. ;)

I love the chord progression, but of course more needs to happen to even out the energy that should be going on throughout the entire frequency spectrum; you need a deep bass-line to 'glue' your track together, and a melody to give it more depth and emotion (of course not all songs start out with bass-lines and melodies, so you might already have these things in mind >_>).

Overall, this sounds like a pretty good start for a song in the classical rock genre, even if that isn't the direction you want to take it... Great job man! I hope to hear a complete version! :)

[a small sized Loop]

For future loops:

When you're in rendering options, under the 'Looping mode' tab, put that on 'Cut Remainder'. That'll get rid of the little pause at the end that makes the loop lose its flow. ;)

[Chrono Tri. - Singing Mountain]

@ FatKid

There's only 12 endings. :P 13 if you take account in that you can complete 'The Dream Project' two different ways.

Anyway, I love this man! It could a use a little more energy on the low-end. But other than that, I really really enjoyed it. Keep it up man!

Cosmos8942 responds:

I hear ya'. Once I get composing again I am planning on going back through the Chrono Trigger Themes...until then ^^.

-AJ-

Thanks for the review :)

[{Blaze}]

Symphonic sounds...

In high energy songs is EXTREMELY hard to pull off. That is the main reason why I love this song to no end.

Great stuff man.