The-XI's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[The house hou ho h]

Nice. Very trip.

Trip is good, trust me. Even though there are a few things that I would like to hear in this song.

It seems that you are making the instruments go to extreme lows, so that it sounds like they are just simply distortion. I'd like to actually hear the instruments that you have going, since they sound like they have a lot of content, and coul be worth listening to.

Of course, you fix that later, but its just those beginning instruments that bug me.

Could you check out my newest song called 'Battle Theme (LoD)' please? I'd really appreciate it if you did =)

Heres the URL:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.php?id=1518490

Thanks! I plan to hear from you soon, man. Keep up the good work!

FoxTechno responds:

Hey cheers man for your reviews, on this track those back instruments where atully put on the main base line on the korg system allready , so i coundent really sort it and make it higher volume.

Im afraid the track abouve is gonna be my last ever track uploaded on here.

You'll be able to find me on my own website www.foxtechno.org.uk or find loads of new music on acidplanet.com at http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?Songs=476170&t=1496 and myspace.com www.myspace.com/foxtechno and my new album is relesed in dec, in itunes napster, and mager music sites.

cheers fox..

[Terminal Velocity(v1.0)]

Very trance =)

Its good to hear a few people here on the site that know what they are doing when they are making trance. A very nice groove you have going on in the entire body of the song, and I really do enjoy it. Has my head bobbin'.

The song is very well produced and everything, but I found it hard to catch hold of the beat of the arpeggio that you had going in the beginnnig, which I would have liked to have had a grasp on.

The filter touches you added on the melody instrument were good, but theres a little knob that says 'Q' on the Fruity Free Filter, make sure thats low. That means low resonance, and low resonace means that people save their ears cause it won't be ringing when it filters in and out.

Good work! I really enjoyed this track.

Could you check out my song called 'Battle Theme (LoD)' and leave a review for it? I'd really appreciate the feedback =)

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.php?id=1518490

Theres the URL for it =D I look foreward to hearing from you soon, good sir.

Keep up the good work!

[Metal Tech(Full, fixed)]

No reviews?

You should really build up some hype for a full version before you actually make one or two of them =P Next time, maybe try to get a bunch of people to listne to the song, and get them to review and stuff and get them excited for the full thing. Then when you submit the full thing, you get lots of reviews and stuff =)

Anyways, this song is really good, even though I really wold ahve prefered to hear a real guitar, and some nicer drum samples. I really don't like the Fruity Loops drum presets.

Although the guitar part is really well written. Major props for that, man.

Could you check out and review my newest song called 'Battle Theme (LoD)' please? I'd really like to get some feedback on it =)

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.php?id=1518490

Thats the URL. I plan to hear from you soon =D Keep up the good work!

Tom-Fanboy responds:

Well I'm using the Demo version of Fruit Loops and the only drawback is that I cannot save an editable form of the music, just and mp3 or .wav. So all music is done in one sitting, so I had to move on due to a virus that needed for me to restart my comp to fix. So yeah no real time to build up hype unless I want to reconstruct it from scratch.

So yeah I'm still learning effects. I would submit my real guitar stuff but the recordings are done via headset mic so yeah...major quality issues.

Trying to get more elaborate in my songs, I'll check your stuff out, thanks.

[Trance Sample 1.]

Its a melody, lol

Very nice melody. But, before you throw it into a full length song (which I wold be interested in hearing, by the way) make the melody longer, and expand on those high notes, and make sure that the delay isn't fighting for sound space =) Give the delay some room to breathe.

Nice, but please try to only submit things that are either finished, or can be used in flashes =D

Keep it up!

[A Thought in the Bathroom...]

The bathroom?

From the sounds of the bass, there was some nasty stuff going on in the bathroom, lol! Very nice fast groove you have going on in this song! Awesome work, keep it up!

CampinCarl8686 responds:

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. Nothing happened in the bathroom...i was just standin in there combing my hair when i started whistlin the thought! Thnx for the review tho! This song is a killer!

[Metropolis]

Suggestions?

Good song, I like the errie feel of the synths, but try to keep the drums simple, steady and grooey. Double kick + trance drums = kid of awkward sounding =P

Other than that, this song is crewed up and has left me crying, in a good way =P

Keep it up!

RoboX responds:

Wow really? Thanks ^-^

[Major Shift]

3.60 to 3.80?

You've been downvoted pretty hard =( When I voted 5, it only moved up 0.20 in score =O

Anyways, to the song. Keep making more songs like this! I like the flawless mastering, and the groovy drums =) Only word of advice = get some samples, and use them instead of the default FL samples that you find in 'packs'.

Go to google and put in 'breakbeat paradise'. Click on the first link, and then find the big white word 'samples'. Then go to drumstuff, and then download your heart out.

Then put them into FL and bam, new, sexy samples =D

Keep it up! Nice melodies, here =)

Billy86 responds:

sure i'll check it out.

thanx for the review!

[Expadition]

'Expadition'

Yo man, Pretty groovy beginning =) Its nice to see that you aren't using the standard 4 by 4 kick in your song here =D The rising strings worked well, I think.

But theres one thing you should try: After you do a rise string, don't just like, keep the song going the way it was. Add on open hi hat on the offbeat, or a ride on every beat. Add some more percussion to make people bob their head =)

Good work man! Keep it up!

Billy86 responds:

i'll try that,

and thanx for the review!

[SpK*) - Drunk Life]

Low synths = win

Well, according to the DNB genre, this doesn't really fit in. DNB is faster, and more upbeat in general. This is slow with unique like drums. I dunno, maybe industrial would work better?

I liked the low synth, but I didn't like the high slayer synth you used =( The song is good, just needs a bit of cleaning up here and there =)

Keep it up!

[{ND} Bassified [Not finished?]]

Wow, detuned.

I feel so dirty XD I love detuned synths man. I dunno, I just love the feel.

This is defiantely hard trance right here man! Hot stuff! The beat is great and heavy, and it DOESN'T DISTORT! Amazing. You are one of the rare population on newgrounds that can actually compress. Yay!

The song is great, and lives up to its genre very nicely. Just don't do those empty breaks so much. It just made the song lose its groove.

Great work, keep it up!

dj-Nate responds:

Thanks alot XI. and thanks for the 5! :D I'll put your advice to good use.

-Nate