dariunas's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Green Hill Zone - Orchestrated]

Really nice!

This is a great little track! Haven't heard this for so long, it was nice to revisit it in this way.

I like that you haven't overdone it with a barrage of instruments. You've selected a nice instrumentation that works well with the song.

My only minor gripe is that the attack and decay on your strings patch means that it's impossible for you to express the slighter quicker note changes effectively. Maybe two patches with different envelops could work better.

Either way, well done; a great track. :D

DigitalDuck responds:

Thanks for the review! There was a reason I used a piccolo for the melody...

[No idea Why]

Crisp!

VERY well mixed! A little more variety in the drums would have been nice, but they sound good. The synth work is top notch and all beds in nicely together :)

yeajimmiboi responds:

Thank you man :) thank you for commenting :)

[Random Battle Theme]

Love it!

I REALLY like this track. Very atmospheric and well layered. Drums were a touch loud in the beginning, and could be nice to have a few different velocity levels for the snare hits, but having said that; having one sound like that is what gives it a kinda 16-bit game 'edge' to it which is great. :)

The synth work is great. Gates synths in there or vocoders? (Assuming you're using Reason?)

yeajimmiboi responds:

There were both :) I used a gated synth on the Thor synth, seemed to give a kind of surreal edge. That trippy synth I just came across in the Thor bank section, so I thought I would add a digital reverb unit too it, same with the others, I also added a scream distortion unit too the drums. I am glad you enjoyed it :)

[Automation Experimentation]

Quality track :)

This is a great track. I really like the main lead melody line. Though I think you could probably bring out the lead a little bit more in the mix. Levels are solid though. Synths work nicely together. It's a bit short for a trance song, but develops so well that could loop it over and over happily

Nice job!

yeajimmiboi responds:

Thank you for your review. Thanks for your kind words :)

[Eat Your Vegetables NOW]

Nice composition, poor production

You have some nice little themes and some good sound selection with the synths, but your levels are off.

The bass drums sits far back in the mix and has very little prominence. Conversely, your snare drum is excessively loud! Listen to your tracks on other systems and other speakers, then come back and rebalance...

Think the current rating does not reflect the potential of the track. Get your levels sounding a bit more even with less spikes (open up your exported file in something like Audacity - freeware audio editor to see this) then normalise.

Keep going!

Marsvent responds:

Thanx for the first review,
I will surely check out Audacity... (nvm, it's sucky)