The-XI's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[rage of light FULL .]

Woah, dark.

I can't decide if this is a really fast tempo, or if its a slow tempo and your just making all the synths go fast!

I really enjoyed the whole dark feel to this song, awesome work. Keep it up, man!

MuSic-Creater responds:

heheh ty yea i should hade change the bigining a bit yea i gess my style if fast slow mixed tgether thanx for the reveiw glad u enjoyed it i like ur songs also. keep it up

[ATWC [Pt2]]

I know what to do?

Hmm... well... maybe.

I like how heavy the bass synth is in the beginning. I just realized that you are screwing around with the filter frequency. I think you shouldn't have just stopped it after the big crash intro though(needs better compression and volume control, btw) and I believe if you kept it going with a slight beat instead of a major one, like a break beat or drum percs, then the song would ahve much more of a flow, instead of constant ambience. I like to hear lots of breaks and drops as much as the next person, but I also like flow. That is probably the only thing(other than compression) that you need to work on.

Good work.

Good work.

LaymanLove responds:

Ya, looking back on this track, I recognize a LOT of technical recording mistakes. To be honest, it's not even very interesting in the first place.

I can say that I have recently become more thorough in my Dynamics and EQing...hope it's for the better.

Thanks for the review,
LL

[Karbon - Anaconda Remix]

Its good, but...

...from what I'm noticing, your doing one hell of a lot of remixes. Slow down on those, try to work on some more original work. It'll be better for you.

Since i can't hear too much, (damn school
) i can only comment on what i can hear. I like the drum work, and the little lead stabs you have sound a little bit too awkward for the song. It sounds like its plaing a sour chord.

Good work, but try to come up with a better intro.

PS: Can you drop by and check out my stuff? Thanks!

Karbon responds:

Vanguard. :( Now I hate it for some reason. Now I use Absynth 3.0 most of the time. Pretty raw. You should check it out.

[Under]

Always good to see new guys.

I really enjoyed the ambience of this track. The vocals worked very well, but i'd like to see them worked with in a way as to make them into a melody.

You song seems very dissarranged. Try to make the drums not stop so much. If you stop one beat, bring another one in. Make sure that at least one beat is going for at least 8 bars. Just so that it sounds a little more professional sounding.

Other than that, amazing song! I enjoyed it.

PS Can you check out my stuff? I got a new track called 'Anthem of Chaos' and i'd like it if you reviewed it :) Thanks!

Night-speaker responds:

Ty fore the review!!!

Night_s

[AirWolf 2005 (LoopMix)]

I love reviewing loops :)

Then theres so much to comment about, since loops have to be complex, since they are short :D

Lets get right on, then. I really like the fact that you made it into a 3 stepper, adds a whole new 'triuphant' feel to it. Awesome.

About how it loops, I didn't really like how it loops, because you must have set it on 'leave remainder' when you exported it. When you make a loop, change that to 'cut remainder' then it will loop somewhat good :)

I really like the 3 stepped drums but I'd like to see them more diverse. Add some fills, add some kick rolls, some glitches, breaks, anything! Make them exciting!

I didn't really enjoy your arrangment too much... you had a 12 bar melody?
Try to think of arrangment as a way to make a song 'clean'. A normal short melody is 4 bars, a decent normal melody is 8, a long one is 16, and a long ass one is 32 and up. A 12 bar melody kind of throws off the whoe balance, and I could really feel the track so much as i would have been able to if i knew that a bass change was goin to happen after the 4th bar, but you made it happen at the 3rd or 5th bar. Kind of awkward, but its not as bad as i say it is, its just really really unique.

Other than these small things, i say make this loop into a full track. It would be very enjoyable to hear, and it would get everyones head bobbin :D

Awesome work!

PS: Can you check out my music? I've only got one up right now, but there will be more coming :) Thanks!

DJ-Dajova responds:

TY for the long review.

And yes, i know those little mistakes, except the melody... U know, the melody comes from a old tvshow, and this is my remix from that theme :D

And yes, I am working on the full version of this melody... It isn´t the same "hard"style as this 1, but it will be better than this :D

Hehe, i will be back with better work later on... I´m having many tips and such from great produsers, so i can just keeping better and better ;)

TY for the review and welcome again! :P

[Topaz]

Awkward drums...

I thought the strings sounded a little fake, maybe it may have sounded better if you used different samples or something, but i would rag on you too much about them.

Your drum work is nothing less than 'unique', i enjoyed it because it was different, but I disliked on how I had to wait until the hi hats kicked in until I got the pattern they were playing.

I think that you should focus on stopping having the glitchy sounding bass drum, and add a simple 4 by 4 kick pattern after a while.

Other than these small things, very good, I enjoyed it, but not something I'd listen to all the time.
Good work, 4/5

PS: Do you think you can drop me a review? I've only got one song up right now, but there wil be more soon :) Thanks!

Gillenium responds:

haha, did you see the date on this thing? It's ooooold. I've improved 10-fold, so check out the new stuff! I'll check out your stuff later. Thanks for the review.

[Carf-MusicIsTheAwnser(Trance)]

Pretty nice.

I love the basic sound of this track so far, it gets right to the point of 'trance'. I thought the strings were a little bit much, but it all works out in the end. The basslien works out very well, even though it simply is, well, one note. The acid arp you bring in later on sounds much better as an arpeggio, then those simple little music hits in the backround that you started them off with. Maybe it would have been better if you had started it off with a simpe trance hit in the firt place?

I really like the sound of this song, the melodys work very well with each other, but i'd like to hear more of a 'build', not so much of just a straight foreward track. I'd lie to hear some fancy drum techniques, some awesome note changes, and proably some awesome trance leads.

Other than that, very nice track, I thouroughly enjoyed it. Its a lot better than lots of the stuff here in the AP. I am impressed, you know what you are doing.
I also really like your way of arrangment.

Great work!

PS: Can you please check out some of my work? I'm new here, so only one song is up, but there will be more soon :) Thanks!

Carf responds:

Yo XL, thanx for the kind words, this are the kinda comments that made me continue with what I am doing, try and make good music :). I need to say that MitA is one of my finest trancy tracks, I am really widely with making music, from trance till hiphop just because its the kick of making something from nothing. I am gonna check out your shizz right away. Keep up the creativity, in the end we all trying todo the same, making great music.

[§Zeth§ - Reflection]

Another orchaestral artist...

Man, i love this kind of msic, very hard to produce.

Very well done piece, high quality samples and everything. But i still have my little pet peeves about it :)

The bass guitar, when you first bring it in, it almost sounds random! Maybe you could make the pattern sound alittle more realistic or something.

And after the piano part, I love the arp in backround, but the harpsichord sounding melody is way too tinny for me, man. It just kind of grinds at my ears. Maybe you should have just chosen to use a violin or something.

But, other than these things,, I like the simple drum work, and the song overall is simply amazing.

Awesome.

PS: Can you please check out my work? I'm a new artist here, so ive only got one song up, but there will be more :) Thanks!

XGM-Zeth responds:

Thank you, First off; The bass guitar I can guarantee is not random :p
Harpsichord? I think you are referring to the synth. I am sorry for putting it that loud, Thank you for reviewing.

I'll owe you a review till after I get home.

[_-=[Dancing with Darkness]=-_]

EVIL!

Or something.

Awesome stirngs in the beginning, but it seems like the low strings you have distort themselves? Like, they go too low or something.

I'm hearing some awesome choirs and organs and evil motherfucking shit that I love so much that I shall commence to download this track as soon as I am done listening.

I loved the melody work, and eveyrthing of that sort, but I still have an issue or two with a few parts in the song...

Yes, i know, unbelievable...

The piano-ish type arpeggio you bring in is great, but it gets repetitive! Change it up, add an arpeggio ending, then switch it entirely, and don't be afraid to slow it down either :)
Your reverse cymbals are a nice touch, but they are so tinny, and low quality like :(
Your booms are also a nice touch, but...they are FL presets man. It shouldnt be too much to find a royality free boom sound that gets the point across just as well, if not better?

Other than these things that i decided to nit-pick at (cause I'm a whore) this song is a 5/5 rating.

5/5, + DL.

Awesome work! You amaze me and my insignificant mind.

MaestroSorrow responds:

I am glad you found this song enjoyable. Yes there are big plans for this song, and I hope it will be worth it all.

The crash Cymbals were too tinny? Seriously?! On my headphones, it's as if they're going to explode my ears X_x. I'll see if i'm the only one with this issue?

Also yeah, GO PRESET BOOM XD! Because this was a demo, it has a bunch of presets and stuff so that I can remember what I was thinking at the time. The full thing, will have its own boom.

Also... piano? O_o... there was no teh piano here? But... that is actually a pretty good idea! I have an organ, if thats what you mean.

[[FUSION] - Airwave]

You deserve a review.

Seriously this a very well arranged and professional sounding track. But as soon as I got into it and i was expecting something amazing to some from it, it just cut out.

I can understand if you cut it out if you gave us a taste of the melody firrst, but you didnt! You just kind of...gave us a 'melody tease'... a damn good melody tease, but it didnt sound like the real thing. The masses demand hard trance leads and awesome drum programming to be pleased >:(

Lol, I kid, I kid.

I will be truthfully honest, if i heard this track at a music store, i wouold be bored with the beginning. I probably wouldnt have enogh patience to get to that awesome bass pattern. Maybe just cut out the beginning and start the song out with maybe some glitch drums, or the offbeat bassline.

I really like the synth work, even though its all presets... you should try making your own synths, man. Not to be offensive to you or anything, but it makes making music so much more challenging, and fun. Really, it does. It even gives you originality :D

Awesome work, but maybe you should consider giving more than just a teaser to newgrounds :)

PS: The song Airwave is a progressive trance song, that was even remixed by DJ Tiesto. If you ever wanna show the masses this track, maybe you should change the name. Just giving you the heads up :)
And maybe you could check out my music sometime? I've only got one track up, but that is soon to change...lol.
Thanks!

Fusion responds:

Thanks for your review and your critical comments, i go to check what i can change about it.