shesmackshard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Captain Tranceplanet]

Pretty cool man :)

sounds pretty sweet dude lol, nice melodies and effects. just needs more EQ attention to make the bass not clash as much, and the master could use some more brightness.

lol nice vocal samples :)

5/5 9/10

Could ya check out my new track? :)

Rajunen responds:

Thanks for the feedback :) I agree It could've used a bit more EQ'ing but I've been doing that for the last two months (though kinda casually). That's what you get for putting too much stuff there to mix it properly, a problem I still have in my music. Can't seem to realize sometimes less is more...

Anyway, in the end I just wanted to get the track out, and sounded "good enough" for release. I'll check your track out, btw.

[Done an Now]

Hmmmm :)

Nice stuff man, pretty cool. melodies fit well.

Now, you've got yourself a song. But you need to play around with mixing, FX, and EQ for sure. Its the other half of the song basically!

Good melodies and ncie drumtrack, just mix and EQ now :)

8/10 4/5

kagcd43 responds:

Thanks for the review, im still new at making this music, as i am just a drummer lol. Will try and make it much better

[Sounds of Unstable Fractals]

Epiiiiccc

Lol I love chopping and screwing samples in songs, so this hits a sweet spot. Very freeky even - broken record style.

Other than the cool sounds and cutting of the samples I could have personally used some more mixing effects and attention. But yeah its a nice misc track :D 8/10 5/5

DrudgeSkeleton responds:

Hey you have got a good ear for that, since, indeed, it is a home made sample cut up and re arranged etc.. But of course you start to know my style :P Thanx for the review mate.

[A walk through the park 2]

Lmao wtf kinda park

Fuckin creepy startin lol, epic effects. This is really quite cool.

The production is well done, especially when shit starts panning stereo away from center, and the subbass that kicks in is quite nice. Awesome man.

5/5 10/10

DrudgeSkeleton responds:

Lol thanx :) Glad you noticed the panning.

[Carbon Fox]

Hmm

Starts of reminding me like mortal kombat, then it breaks off. This seems more like industrial to me, but thats beside the point.

Nice melodies :D Good drums, good synths, decent production, 5/5 10/10

care to check out my new song and review vote?

SquashManYeah responds:

Thanks man! I won't forget

[nCamargo - Loops-in]

Well hey

Yeah dude, turned out good! I like the pads, and the melody itself. The drums are nice sounds, IMO. Good stuff man :) 5/5 10/10

Could you review my latest submission? Or vote at least

Fuinhalokz responds:

I voted mate. Thanks for the comment ;D.

[-+Chilling+-]

Lets seee here!

Well it starts off, to me, as sounding like a main menu an RPG haha :D Which I love. Genres are beside the point in my reviews.

This song is very chill man. Definitely very laid back, atmospheric/ambient, and the melodies are nice. Not sure why you just got a 7, not too many crits in there.

Im gonna say, that there is a Win/Lose on the variation on this song. If there was more variation, I think i would be put in less of a trance. So for that, I deduct nothing. This song is very captivating.

The mixing seems nice. Maybe a little more Highs to tighten up the kicks, and a little less 50-frequency on them/ But other than that, there is nothing I see to deduct any points.

Awesome. 10/10 5/5

DjEsyrik responds:

Yea, i thougth the same with the RPG thing.

Also, i noticed the bass frequency after publishing it, and Yea' the song is kinda repetive :P
But, thank you for reviewing :3

[Jump in finished.]

nice man

I think the detache strings would be better dry, without reverb, with the velocity on the hits high as they can go. Turn the string chords in the background way up.

Not much else to crit, sounds decent. nice atmosphere. 10/10 5/5

Pokemeon responds:

Thank you i see what you mean about the detache strings only problem is that orchestral vst is not letting me save my presets so every time i load a track i have to manually change every instrument to what its suppose to be... so it just becomes a pain in the ass trying to go back and change stuff. anyway thanks for the review bro im glad you like it.

[S_V2_10(demo)]

Thats a pretty cool synth

Not sure what that synth is, but its pretty cool.

To keep this one simple, it needs a bassline, and some good effects (ie compression yet again)

If you intend to focus on technoish stuff, the limiter/compressor will be your main whore dude. Dont abuse it, but learn how to use it in collab with other effects and you'll be good.

8/10 5/5

KranBerries responds:

Yep, i made all of these before i even really knew what a kompressor was, but now that ive been told numerous times to play with it i think ill go ahead do that, i'll most likely try to make a new short using some of the advise i've been given so far! well, after i go buy the ballad of gay tony for gta 4 ha. and yes i will be fokusing on tekno, the only other thing i ever did was D&B like 4 months ago, id gladly let you take a stab at listening to it, so long as i kan upload it :D thanks for the review man.

[S_v1_2010]

Hmmm

This is actually a pretty good melody. I wont focus much on the EQ on this review, but moreso some effects (like the guy below me mentioned)

The compressor goes a long way, but personally I use a Limiter way more. I wouldnt throw it on the kicks either.

If you're using FLS, do this for a suggestion:
Go to the master mixer channel, and where it has the default limiter, click it, and right click the arrows top right, and click Drum Compression 2 (I use this sometimes).

Then adjust levels after you hear what this affect does.

On the synth, it might be cool to add a sidechain.
FLS > Mixer > Gross beat > Sidechain (bottom left).

The compressor and the sidechain work well together.

Some quick ideas. Theres tons of stuff you can do here.

For one further suggestion, you should definitely consider a bassline. The typical "in-between-kick" bassline would work, as seen in some of my songs, like on my Breakdown in "Emineye".

Cool stuff though. You're a good writer, now to put that to work in collaboration with some learning on production and mixing. Stay at it.

Out of the 3 ive heard of yurs, this has the most potential for SURE.
And for that, 10/10 5/5. Like seriously, its not an amazing track (this is no secret) but I cant help but give a high score because I can personally hear a LOT of potential in this sequence.

KranBerries responds:

i appresiate the review man, and i think imma start a word file kalled, smaks notes! lol and the bassline thing, im kindof konfused as to what that really is so when i figure it out and view a few tut's i should be able to fix them up more :D