Shamukh's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Edit (Padlock Rmx, BL Edition)]

Awesome stuff.

Felt like I was listening to Frog Pocket at the end there. I can hear the control that you had while making this, and that makes it all the better.

Great tune. :D

poopr1221 responds:

Thanks for the input! I'm a really big fan of Come On Primates, so it's seriously awesome to be compared to Frog Pocket.

[Arctic Fire [Wip]]

Very good

Not gonna spend my time nitpicking because you clearly know what you're doing. All I can really note is that if feels like there's just a huge dent in the higher frequencies so it feels "lopsided". Punchy snare, but the kick doesn't seem to do it justice. Maybe if the higher frequencies stood out more though it'd be a different story. :)

Great track man.

SteakJohnson responds:

thanks! i suppose the kick needs to be crunchier then

[8bit - Heart]

This is awesome.

If you'd allow me to pigeonhole this, this is great autechre-esque IDM 8bit. Seriously though, this is awesome. Maybe could use some nice TrIaNgLe BaSs if you know what I mean.

IbeSm responds:

Definately man, thanks. Never heard of IDM, which is ironically something I've literally searched for... intelligent dance music.

I'll play around wih this concept :).

[[dannyNergy] It's Correct]

Hot

Perfect minimal house. It's pretty hard to pull this off but you know your shit man.

Aside from that I think you should try mastering it yourself and upload that, just for fun practice. ;)

dannyNergy responds:

Got way to much shit going on at the moment. I'll just let the label do it.

Anyways glad you dig it.

[xKore - Chrono Cross]

It's nice.

I'm a huge fan of plains of time and the chrono cross soundtrack in general. The arrangement of the melodies and harmonies were near perfect that they way you switched them around to me just didn't click; especially that modulated guitar sound. I don't think i was diggin' the 16th arp bass thingy you got going on there, I think it'd work better legato. I was also kind of disappointed that you only remixed a portion of the song. There was more to work with and I would have loved to hear it. Also, to be reallllly nitpicky, the melody's off by like 1 note lol.

As far as the mixing goes, the hugest thing I find wrong with it is that the power of the melody doesn't really match up to the power for the rest of it, so it seems a little off-balance imo. More energetic sounds would probably fit better (but don't use supersaws for the love of god).

Overall this is very nice 8D. Great job man.

xKore responds:

yeah i dont like it either lol.

[Aspiration Rd. 2 {NewYear Mix}]

Probably kind of a harsh review but...

I'm not too fond of this particular progression, I feel it's a bit overdone, but I really do like the melodies you've come up with, it's definitely really catchy. :D Here's my critique, I hope this doesn't come across as offensive:

The levels are ABSOLUTELY unbalanced beyond belief. the leads you used for the melodies are fluctuating in loudness and at some points are overcompressing the track and it sounds really, really sloppy. As far as fullness, things sound fine with the bass, but when you lose that, the track gets lost too. The kickdrum is overcompressed too and the frequency sweeps, while somewhat original, don't work for this song at all. The crash is really harsh also, turn that down some.

Suggestions:
1. Add a bassy pad or something to accompany the low-end--work on adding a clean fullness in general
2. Work on maintaining levels, the supersaw and crash are just too high.
3. Try to be careful where you add your filter effects; they are really common and work nice for many tracks, but you kind of overdid i believe.
4. Try to tone it down on the reverb; reverb is generally used to make things sound a bit more smooth/natural, but overdoing it will just make things sound unclear/muddy and it's an ear-sore.

Happy producin! 3/5, 6/10

b0b3rt responds:

Thanks for the review, I understand what you said.

This was basically supposed to be an exercise in automation so I've got no beef with toning it down =P

[Decisive Metal - FF VI]

Well

It sounds unmixed. the bass isn't bassy enough, and although the drums are well-sequenced, they feel separate from the rest of the track. Too much going on at once. the lead doesn't have enough treble to hold a sufficient amount of energy in the track and the power chords subdues it to hell.

Worst parts are the bass and drums though; and the worst ending to a song you could possibly have. Too bad something quite miraculously fell on your hard drive and broke it (how does that happen?). Well-arranged though and naturally good because the original is great. :)

7/10, 3/5. Butterscoth, yo!

ProjectGodMode responds:

That's pretty much the end of the song was Danny's hard drive death so it is and always will be as you hear it... so tough shit lol.

-Jarrod