zlarke's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[DooDooDoDoWubWubWub]

Put a hard limiter on your track, its clipping way too much. The bass is too boomy, I can't listen to this without getting a headache.

lantaren responds:

I know that it's clipping, you really think I didn't know that? and Limiters suck. They take away from the sounds when all it needs is better leveling (as the guy above said) so... yeah... sorry that you get a headache from it.

[Chuggin Riff Sample]

DAMN IT. I wanted the bass guitar and drums to kick in so bad. SO BAD.

Please finish this. Or I'll have to murder this chinchilla.

DiroNomer responds:

lol! Alright. By request, I will finish this.

Thanks for the comment :)

[I Want To Be With You]

The good: Decent production quality, Lovely voice, wonderful effort.

The bad: cliche lyrics and structure, overused chord progression, some notes sounded off at times.

Bring something new to the table instead of rewriting every cheesy love song ever created.

soundbreaker responds:

The Good: Lucky microphone purchase off eBay.

The Bad: Was drunk when writing the lyrics (and half-sober when recording them). LazyMuffin is the original creator of the instrumental, which I was enchanted with.

I was aiming for the cheesiest of stalker-songs, so I must have done pretty well by your standards.

[Eliminate All Remixes]

Don't be so hard on yourself. You've got your own style, and its great. You just need to work on transitions and variation, that crash is nice the first time, but after a while it gets old, try something else!

Your melody patterns are catchy.. well made, just need a bit of changes here and there so it isn't the same thing for 4 bars and then you change it up.

Drum samples are important for a better sounding track, try less generic sounding samples, I'm sure you can find some free ones online!

All in all good track, which could be even better with a few changes.

BouncyPiglett responds:

It's all one big learning experience right. Becoming good at something like this I would imagine takes many years of intense practise. I don't have the time for intense practise so a long-drawn out period of trial and error is what's in store for me. But hey, the fact that it's ANY GOOD at all at this stage is making it all worth while

[Reapers are Coming WIP]

Damn, that build was absolutely incredible. Sad to say the drop itself dissapointed me, the quality of the synths there were pretty raw sounding, a bit too loud as well. Made me a sad panda.

Theledge93 responds:

like i said it's a WIP. i did it on headphones, so the levels are WAY outta wack. glad you like the build though!

[Newgrounds]

good melody, mastering needs work.. those synths are way too raw sounding. Try side chaining that saw for a bigger kick and better sound. Gimme some more POW after that build at 1:00.

eyramusic responds:

Yeah, not coming back to this though.

[Swelter (wip)]

Quality loop! got some really good atmosphere going, all the instruments seem to fit in great.

Nice job.

Sythec responds:

thanks. doin ma thang. influenced between deep medi and ultimae records

[-Happyland-]

Loving the cutesy melody and dat chick going "Here we go!"

This seriously sounds like something I'd hear in a Nintendo game :) Fun stuff. Quality Production.

Waterflame responds:

hehe thanks! :D

[Make a change - Ignyte]

Before I spew out my incoherent ramble of criticism, I'd like to say I did like this. The percussion is my only gripe however. That crunchy hi hat syncopation heard in parts of the song was out of place in the epic surges of strings and piano . If you stuck to the raw sounding realistic percussion it would have been waay better. If anything, tone down the percussion just a tad because the rest was brilliant.

Ignyte responds:

I'll make a note of it, I have noticed that my crushed hats were quite alot louder through my computer speakers than when I was composing and using the KRK's.
This is just the free release of a draft, once my third Album is released It'll be alot better.

[Drop Dead]

Your description is spot on. I know there aren't rules when it comes to art... but perhaps some song structure next time around? Great effort though.

Icecry0 responds:

Thanks for the tip :)