Buoy's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[_-={He's a Pirate Dance Remix]

good

*looks down at Karco's review*

...I like this song

MaestroRage responds:

*recovers from Karco's review*

Thanks :'D. I'm glad you liked it!

[Rig - THSE! (Fixed & Faster)]

yay

I could feel the 4 on the floor pattern coming when I heard the start, so the diversed, heavy drums made me really happay

gongrats, you made me happay too, though most likely not in the way you wanted to

Rig responds:

Oh, but I LOVE making you happy.
;D

[Sudden Drop]

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

this song is neat. I like how you feature some epiano into the mix in a techno track like this. The dnb-y drums are my favourite aspect of the song along with the 303-ish bass. The sudden drop, yeah that's enough of a reason to name the song after it- The sub bass is so freakin deep, I think I'd call it a sub-sub bass... the tune seems to clip when that bass is playing. I don't really have anything more to comment so here's some extra brambling to fill up space

ShinDenjin responds:

I noticed the clipping too, but figured it wouldn't be too much of a problem. Thanks for liking it.

~Shin

[hearing = fearing]

co0l

the start is a bit annoying, but when it progresses it sounds damn beast. Loving the weird sounding percussion you got, try to change up the pattern sometimes though. The ambience and fx fits this track greatly, it would surely fit most of these kind of scary tunes well too. Weird how you changed the amount of reverb on the whole track completely with these cricket-sounding percussion stuffs. Really scary screaming machine :O this ambient-ish track is great. Diversed, interesting and original, awesome soundscaping

snayk responds:

Cool, thanks for the review!

[Psybot - Final chance]

nice

The lyrics are really good, the guy who sings that is pretty good too, not perfect thoe. The arpish melody in the start is pretty nicely done. Base is quite low, if you made it somewhat louder it would be great. Very catchy drums, but they're annyoing when focusing on to them. The leads sound great. The melody at somewhere around 2:40 to 3:10 is pure awe. Very repetitive composition but it doesn't matter too much. (hit me back plz ^^)

Psybot responds:

the guy who is singing is infact myself =P and i know that it is not perfect... i am gonna try make an improved verision of it.. but i have to get better headphones, my old ones broke so i am using a bad pair right now.

i think you are right when it somes to the base too, but then again.. speakers =P

Thx for your review! =D

//Psybotronicle Waste\\

[Departure (Club Mix)]

interesting

I like. The arps and pads are all very soothing and relaxing. The drums are a bit bangy for this track in my opinion. It's rather repetitive, and the same melodies come in and out, but they're all pretty much the same. The structure is quite diversed though so ya get my credits there. The mastering is great at most parts, but there's some parts where it sounds awkward and scratchy- that's in the most intense parts in the mid. Apart from that you've made a great song!

A-New-Decade responds:

Well I was trying to make the arps sound euphoric, not soothing. Thanks for digging the rest, though!

[Windsilk]

garageband/FL presetz

Pretty good song, the only part of it that I didn't like was the start, which is really cheesy and sounds very "amateur-ish". Plus I can clealry hear the presets. Very nice fx, voice and choir and all that, added a lot to the tune. Drums are my very favourite part. Great drum work indeed, but it's not really drum n bas as the genre of the song states :P This would probably work ebst as an ambient or dance song.

NyteDragon responds:

Thanks so much for the response! Yeah, I have a hard time figuring out the genre to things sometimes/ I'll keep that in mind for next time!

[Jungledrift: ImperfectDisciple]

Well I can

The title fits greatly. I can like totally imagine a scenario for the song. The retro sounding synth hits are probably the only thing that annoys me, they don't fit with the rest of the song. It's a great song, there's a lot of elements that I really can't say I've heard in a song before. Good work on this, I might check out your newer songs at that site later

itsameyayo responds:

Thanks a ton!

-Yeah, I might make a comeback here, I love Newgrounds since it's easier to connect with people now with the new audio system (me liek alot).

-Retro sounding synth hits? Haha, I guess so, I just edited some normal samples, whatever works to get the good sounds :)

-ImperfectDisciple

[Flying in the rain - Shen RMX]

c0000000l

I like. The off tune synth doesnt sound too good to me, but apart from that there's not much I don't like with it. Vocals fit pretty good into the song. good work! Can't really comment much more in this song.

Shenkhar responds:

Thanks for the review SBB. I fixed the off tune synth.. not sure what happened there.

[Karco - Soaring -]

Right

I don't know what 3-step is at all- but it sounds a whole lot like skipping a note with the drums and bass each measure, which gives a pretty catchy effect, but I bet I'm wrong as always. You seem to be pretty good at it, whatever it is.

The basslead thing you have in the start sounds like you put some highpass ditty on it- it doesn't sound too interesting. plz fade in some distortion (if that's not added, it it is, you better make it more present) thing there. For kicks. The kick sounds good to me, the snare you don't use in the rolls sounds more like an awkward combination of a snare and clap with the weirdest eq ever seen by any human eyes. The pretty thick snare you use in the rolls and buildups aren't bad at all, actually I love them... without the snare rolls the drums altogether would sound pretty much like copy-and-paste-a-bar-all-over patterns

I like the lead, it sounds funny. It sounds like it jumped out of the rave song in the night club and went walking in the mountains screaming "FREEDOM, BITCHES" to the city below it... at least that's what I imagine the lead is doing in this song- Though the melody hardly changes up- you have two melodies with hardly any variations- sure it's not intended to progress (that's obvious) but it's really the most repetitive two minutes I've heard in a while

Pretty good stuff in here if it wasn't for the complete and utter lack of diversity

Karco responds:

3-step means the song uses triplets. Instead of eighth/sixteenth notes, two/four of which fit in one beat, triplets are notes small enough so three of them fit in the same beat. I did make use of rhythms that accomodate six notes in one beat - for example, the snare roll.

Huh, I'm pretty sure that was a Lowpass Filter. But yeah, I was aiming for something to make the intro a bit more interesting. And, distortion? I never considered that, I was going for a cleaner, happier song.

If you're wondering why the general EQ was weird, it was because I did the mastering on a pretty weird pair of headphones, which had some weird treble frequencies and quite weak bass - funny thing was, on the box they were going on and on about the "deep, rich bass" they had. XD I might re-master it sometime, though unless it's repeatedly asked for I probably won't.

I liked the lead too, and, oddly enough, I've had similar thoughts about it come from other people as well. :P I tried to change up the melodies a little bit but it was proving to be more work than it should have been, and, since I was mainly trying to give myself a break and have fun with this song instead of pushing myself like I have been lately, I put it aside and didn't really come back to it at all. :P

Well, SBB, glad you liked the parts you did and thanks for criticising me on the parts you didn't! Thanks for the review. :)