Buoy's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[SP@C3-AG3 (loop)]

hey :D

I love the little bass riff goin' there. Loop or yer own midi work? :D I'm gonna try playin' that on some guitar some day, just fo' kicks. Drum hits are way random, use some more groovy pattern, like a breakbeat, or add some out of this world-effects to the drum sounds. Lovely pad too :D

TETRISNG responds:

i don't like you.

[FattyMcpatty And LardyLarLar 1]

what

i am scared

FatKidWitAJetPak responds:

Lol, SBB, you wouldn't understand this type of humor.

[SimMa-T - Apologize]

nicey

I love the melodies and all, but you need some masterings here, cause there's a lot of clipping all over the place, especially with that soft guitar like lead going. As said, the melodies are really dreamy and wonderful :)

Try some drums here for once :D

Gnydsmelt responds:

Thanks, i am in fact a real drummer ;O but i suck at doing digital drums so ;O :P

Thanks for the awesome review!!

[Rig - Second To None]

niiiicey

I didn't like em oriental sounds too much. And that's as far as my negatives go. I just love the way it turns into an intense drum-and-fx mayhem later on in the song. You sure are great at them masterings and making stuff sound good, cause here you did one damn great job mixing it for a professional sound. Nothing much more to say than

VEWY WELL. DOEN

>.(

Rig responds:

FAHN THEN >,(
Thanks for the comments! I don't really have a mastering regimen - all I usually do is put a compressor and some EQ on the master bus. I put most of my effort into mixing.

[[!] Progress Demo]

arr

Wonderful melodies, sadly they're all based on a very simple little theme. I'm sure you could make it even more varied and fill up more frequency spectrum. Synths also happen to be sorta dull sounding together as they're... ALL based off saw waves. Lovely elegant legato slides on certain synths though.

coolio

alertG responds:

They are all based on saw waves, theyre my favorite :P But ill keep that in mind for future songs. Also, I guess it could use a little more variation frequency wise.

overall it is just a demo, so it isnt really a finnished peice. but thanks a lot for your feedback!

[Winterbliss]

lah deh lah dah

I loved the calm pads in the beginning, you'll need to have more of it in parts like 0:21 and on etc. One thing that got me is how drums sound very weak for this kind of song. Sharpen up that kick and use a snare with a longer decay for awe. More distortion on bass would do good too.

Lovely little sine synth you got going, I'd boost its level and reverb it around if I were you. Now for the orchestrale... again I'd reverb the staccato strings for amplifying that highlands feeling you just gave it with them strings. Also some remarkable string chords and bass strings to back up the staccato would have been absolutely fantastic. Then how about adding brasses... nah, now I'm just daydreaming :o

YES

cycerin responds:

Thanks for the review and suggestions. :D

...What are you smoking though, do you know how shit my mix would become if I added enough reverb to make it actually stand out through that fat fat staccato string arrangement? :P Percussion and such is intentionally soft. Reverb on the sine lead though, that might be a good idea.

but hey why don't you make a remix? You seem to have a pretty good idea of how you want it. :D

[High Tides (dire Wolf)]

very nice

The bells in the start sound kind of retro, almost like those bells you'd hear in them semi-horror series from Someyear's. Sadly everything fell apart from each other with the soloing guitar, which is off tune from the other instruments. I don't know what the lyrics are, so post lyrics or something.

Mighty interesting though, quite lovely.

malkavianxx responds:

Thank you for your very nice review. Here ar the lyrics:

High tides rising from the sea
Swallowing nations violently
Surging current pulls you out of your homes into the black of night
Feel the undertow as you drift away into the sunken seas

Rise, Rise, etc.

[(WF1) On Angels Hair]

thing is

I suggest you don't use synths to manipulate instruments. It never seems to work well, and it's pretty obvious that there's some sawtooth going on, not a guitar, with the first strummings. And the lead guitar is horribly generic 'slayer' sounding. Use sampler patches or soundfonts instead.

Those other, pure synths sound great though, especially that low decay sine/triangle hybrid esque thing. Not a fan of the composition at all, the tune comes short with its structure.

Decent stuff, could need some work or better instrument choices all the way though.

wyldfyre1 responds:

thanks again for yet another honost review. LOL here's a song i thought i personaly thought i did pretty decent on. Hmm well i guess i'll see what i can do to improve on some of this =). Thanks for the honost review.