Buoy's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Electrick - Esphere]

ba

nice song you've got here, way too repetitive and robotic for my taste though. Lead doesn't sound all that good- something even more generic maybe

Bass is a tad low, and repetitive that too

FX sounds pretty good, nice touch with these EQ/resonance sweeps. Don't overdo it though. Piano has some weird effects on it- sounds great. overall a pretty decent trance song, nothing near my taste though

Hey hit me back homie yo ^_^

Electrick responds:

Hey dude, thanks for the review. I told you this was a quick one. So I didn't master it very well. Still, thanks for the review!

[Mellow River]

geh

detuned sines are teh sex when it comes to cold synths- does really well. Bass is a lil uncalled for, sweeps too, but the sweeps sound pretty damn good anyways.

Shuffled breakbeat with a shaker sounds good, gives a lot of that relaxed feeling. Wish you did a bit more out of it though. Cymbal in the very end just stopped- lenghten it a couple of seconds so it can finish

Doesn't sound like you did a lot out of the song- it ended as sit started- gah- wish you ended it a bit more fancy than that

anyways keep your stuff up and submit thingies

[Slow Morning Train]

Hey! :D

I made an ambient song about riding a train too! :D It's far more dark than this stuff tho

anyways

Sounded more chill song when it started, with these funky drums, but that ambient influence with liquid sounding synth hit is really the only thing I see that ambient with it. And maybe those effected drums too

Anyways the rest of the drums seem pretty good, but soo tiny and hollow- I guess that does something you wanted with the track

Bells seems tiny too, way low in the mix

Nice job man (no wait, you're not one), ANYWAYS, could need some minor improvements and additions, then you'd have a great ambient-ISH track.

[BBQBEEFBURGERMAN Theme]

bah

why didn't the burgerman make an animation with HIM singing that in the credits- to me, it seems b-m-inc's vocals would fit a big burger with huge eyes so damn good

Anyways great stuff, nothing to suggest- wait, drums sound a bit low, maybe making all drums except cymbalism louder

DarKsidE555 responds:

Because you suck. lollers. Big wtfbomb at ur faic! >: (

Word homes! Thanks for da reviewzness!

[Ocean of Innocence]

yay

synth has a lil weird attack value, but the melody is great and it sounds pretty good. I like how you do that sharp effect thing- sounds like you're filtering it up or whatever

The choir thing sounds very very very fake, can't really say if it should be considered a fake choir or a great pad :D

The song has no progression whatsoever, and damn it feels empty. I could see such a lot more in this. It'd be a killer track!

Good job, keep working on it!

Imn responds:

I will definitely work on this. I wanted to see what others thought of my first ambient track.

I don't have very many samples, and I made the choir sample I had so high-pitched that it sounds fake, sadly. I can look at what else I have and maybe replace it with something much better.

It's very short and, as you said, feels empty. I do feel there is some progression, but not much.

Thanks again for the review, I will extend the track!

[Stu Jam]

yay

Never really heard any of your stuff

But damn, this is nice. Sounds almost liquid... The clarity is damn perfect, much better than any recorded stuff I've heard here yet. Guitar playing is amazing- wonderful notes / melodies / tabs / whatever you call it when playing guitar. Is the reverb actual acoustics or a computer plugin? If it's real, then what sort of room did you play it in?

Anyways- great work! All tens for ya

Metalcan responds:

Thanks for the nice review!

The reverb is a mix between Guitar Rig 2 VSTi and Boss GT-3 effects pedal.

[O- Emotion [Forgive]]

Nice

Nice, your new name, that is.

This sounds japanese in the start- prolly because of the sitar-like thingywang synth. Dunno if I think that one fits there, doesn't fit the style of the rest of your song really good- and in the main parts of the song the melody is just annoying. Fancy lil filter thing you did with it, it sounded like a normal synth when it was fading in

The pad in back almost sounds like a bongo sweep lol. Nice, gives a very subtle feel and stuff. If you kept working on it with that pad as the main synth you'd almost have a me-style song, lol

Nice sweep, a bit cheesy but the note progression is great. Sounds like you EQ-ed it kinda weird though, or maybe you didn't but I think it'd be good if you filtered away some of the mid-freqs, cause it has that hollow feeling that goes into your nose and back in your throat- which is kind of annoying. Makes good harmony with everything, too bad it's only in there when the tune is at it's messiest

Ok, then there's this trance saw- now it sounds like it's on the playlist for the DJ in the rave party- nothing to comment or add, it sounds good- adds yet another mood to the song

Drums- holy hell they are a damn lot more diverse than in most trance-style songs. Which I like ^_______^. Kick sounds liquid.

The base is almost unhearable, I can only really hear it when I focus on it = MAKE IT LOUDER >:(

Wow you mixed a lot of moods here- almost everything had a different mood- ethnic, ambient soundscape, partyish, victory stuff- you mixed it pretty well. It clashes quite a bit in a while though because of the very different stuff you have in there.

Ok nice. Why not submit the other songs in the series before you continue it? So that people can get the whole thing- a lotta people haven't heard the others

10 for originality since I've never heard such a mix of different stuff before- 9 for clarity- you mastered it great, but the tune sounds messy at places- 9 for diversity since it has a lot more diversity than most tunes, but may get repetitive at times- 10 for effort, bah, wtf do I know about it >:(.
9 overall- it's great, but ain't perfect

HotDecemberSex responds:

Omg this is an author response!

=P

Thanks for the awesome review man, I really appreciate it.

The bass sounded fine to me dude, maybe you need to get better headphones or a sub-woofer so that the bass will stand out more.

Anyway I really appreciate this dude ^^

OCON liek OMG!1!11

[DSZ - The Nuclear Circle]

what

the start sounds like white noise being poffed around

wait

the whole track sounds like that

wait here comes a something

weird lead with some kind of melody that never changes

noisepong stops, lead continues with a sligh change each time

fx and some pad

white noise

continues like that for a long time

shit bell

This song is a bit bare bones, and it's sorta- weird, almost inaudible too. You coulda addded lots more variation to it, or you could just redo it to make it sound more like an actual song than random stuff put in a song

eh maybe

Distortzion responds:

"Maybe"

just keep it like that.

[Assembly Warfare]

wow

this almost sounds like my first song in the start- it has a really nice industrial feeling. Is these things really drums? Cause you mustve tweaked it an incredible lot.

Ok later on comes some stuff that sounds more like drummage. Very thin and high percussion, lower percussion would make some real nice bang in the song.

Okay the pad was a bit uncalled for, but whatever. I wouldn't have put it there.

Nice experimental track man! This could definatively evolve into something awesome if you kept working on it!

Suspended-3rd-Chord responds:

hey thanks for another review :D

thanks for the critiques. yes, their needs to have some lower percussion. I thought i covered the higher end percussion, thanskf for pointing htat out. you didnt like the pad :P ? well i know where you are coming from, the song was lacking some melodical bits so i threw it in there. maybe it wasnt a good thing tho.

thanks again for the review dude!

[JAG~TheCaveRave(FF1_ReMix)]

ok

I don't know FF much, but this sounds pretty good.

The synths are damn cheesy, but they sound good- that being, not VERY good. I loved the pads you used, but some of the other things you used really doesn't sound that good.

The little running lead goes on very nice, but variation would be good though rite

I like the lil break, the bassdrum sounds weaker than ever though

If you continued on the part after that break with the same style you could make a nice circus/comic feel, the melody was simply funny

Ok good work, ut I could like to see much more intergration, cause it sounds a bit like a clashy after a while.

beatmasterJAG responds:

All points noted.
Like I said its Orion-doesnt get much cheesier.
Thanks for the reivew.