aliaspharow's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Assless]

Nice!

Definitly a good dubstep track you got here. Great ideas and a very good execution on all levels. Love the samples you used.

But the first thing i think needs work is the drums. The drum samples you used are rough and dont do your track much justice and they need to be better EQed to sound more professional.

The second thing i noticed is that your wobbles are well done in concept, but need more effects and compression. You should try messing around with an EQ on there and using fruity shaper and stereo enhancer. Also a bigger sidechain to the snare and kick would help i do think.

Either way, you have all the right key elements, i just think you need more refining. I hope to hear what you come up with next.

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[-ganon95- Bit.trip Part3- VOID]

hey man :D

You know how much i love your shit xD. Definitly the best 8-bit style out there... or atleast that i know.

0:00-0:25 Awesome use of... are those just samples? damn you sure know how to use your samples! can definitely feel the build to it, great use of reverb!

0:35-1:30 Great transitioning and love the melodies so far :3 great original style with a great vibe to it!

1:30-3:00 awesome instrument sectioning. still epic vibe to it and the production quality is great so far.

3:00-3:40 great transitioning again, everything comes together in a great package, seems the melody keeps on morphing while still staying the same, wich is a great effect!

3:40-4:57 Great instrumental chose, i really like those percs and the clarinet sounds divine. Lol that cheerful bass riff really gets to me and it sound very pro and well done.

4:57-6:20 Great change of pace, really feeling different now even tho the melody is still the same. I can see how you really took the stylings of the game to heart. that guitar in the background sounds sweet. and the strings go very well with the rest.

6:20-7:25 very good percussion work here. and those samples you used in the background sound totally bad ass. The strings coming in sounds very well and really add a sense of mystery to the whole track at that time.

7:25-8:30 I love how you just cut to another melody in the middle of everything. The change of pace went very well with the track's style. everything sounds very clean and calculated at this point. I like it.

8:30-9:30 although this has to be my least favorite melody so far you do have very good pad work here and all the instrument sell the melody very well. I like the percussion work allot too.

Outro: wow lol that is some wicked build. Very trippy stuff indeed. very epic effect work.

Overall: I think you can guessed that i loved this allot. In fact i cant really give you any true criticism because i'm not very experienced in 8-bit so i can't truely tell what is done on purpose and what isnt. But over all you sold your idea very well and this has to be my favorite of your 8-bit tracks so far. Please never stop producing!

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ganon95 responds:

sup dude! didn't know you were part of the RRC, sweet!

actually that first bit is a recording of the first cutscene in ID with some effects added, its still pretty cool though huh?

I think one of my fav. parts of this song is the desert-sounding clarinet :P i like how the bass line kinda cuts off quickly instead of being a solid bass, definitely something you don't hear much.

glad you liked it enough to give a sweet review :P im only half done so trust me, theres more :P

[The Fan]

definite approval :D

It's been a while since i've heard a definite garage sound on newgrounds. It's definitely refreshing. The guitars sound a bit muddy and so do the drums but it adds a sort of depth in style to the track so its not really a bad thing. The part that was less of a succes has to be the vocals tho. They arnt very crisp at all in fact if it wasn't for the lyrics in the author's notes i probably wouldnt even of understood what you were talking about. I think you definitly need to work on your singing pitch wise. and you need to sing less directly into the microphone because its bleeding out really bad and this results into it sounding really irratating.

Structure: the structure in this track was very well done, very traditional but thats not bad at all. The cord progression was good and everything came in at the right time so i can see that you have experience in the genre.

Melodies: Themelodies you used were great and worked really well together. And they also had allot of variation which is really great. The bass work and the lead work work perfectly together to sell the peice.

All together this is a great peice. You've got some talent there. I hope you succeed in making it big!

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Sawdust responds:

Thanks, thanks, THANKS for the kind words, man.

[Stargenx - Triumph]

Very well done!

I have to say that i just love emotional classical work like this. Awesome melody work, great instrument choice. I can tell you've spent allot of time and effort on this peice and it has paid off. My only complaint is that it doesnt really have any climax since you keep everything so soft. The song starts out a resonable level but should really start to build velocity allot more from 0:20 to 0:50 for example. then slowly build a bit more untill 1:20 when it takes a pause after a climax and then comes back in. then only start building at 1:40 when the chorus kicks in
and at 2:03 it should be pretty loud at that point too. At the end i think the piano should a have a bit lower velocity.

But all and all i have to say that this is one of the better classical tracks i have heard here on newgrounds. Keep it up man!

Stargenx responds:

Thanks for the review!

I listen to it on a higher volume, so that may be why you think it's soft, or maybe that's why I think it's not that soft. The velocity of the piano is a result of me trying to make it audible over everything else.

[Weird Spacey Thing]

Nice instruments

Fairly good production you got here. The mix is clean and fresh, theres limited filtering but thats not so bad in this case. The instruments are well chosen and they sound very original. The drums are also well done, although i think they would of sounded better if they were more breakbeat like. The track structure is alright but i dont feel like there is any real building going on. The melody is really what i would work on in this case. The cord progression is a bit strange and the instruments seem to work against eachother melody wise. I would try and pay attention to that in the future.

But other then that this is a rather good mix you got here. just keep on working on that cord progression and i'm sure you'l go somewhere with your music

EricFreeman responds:

Thanks for listening! And honestly, I don't really know much about chord progression at all. I just put down notes that sound cool and twist knobs until the song doesn't suck :3

[Powrffs]

BITCH!?

that NG's votiing system is horrendous.

thousands of good tracks get burried and voted down and never seen again, and WHAT do we see on the top 20 of all time? This?

This on #4?

and "Quest of the Manwhore" on #1?

W. T. F.

Feddey, I will review your track. I'm sorry if I seem like a douche right now but I'm mostly mad at the people running this site, who seem to be under the --impression-- that they are actually doing a good job. People can spam at me all they want, being the NG fanboys that they are, but regardless I will speak my opinion fairly and you can either take it or leave it.

Your track is, from my perspective, not very impressive. I am not trying to be insulting I am merely saying I would rather listen to music and not something that sounds like you farted at the microphone.

When I listen to --music-- I expect some kind of melody to be present. This, to me anyway, does not sound like you put in any effort towards to achieving such a thing. Unless you count the margin of --notes-- ranging from 0:00 to 0:02.

I am asked countless times by people on youtube to listen and critique work they have created. Last night I was handed over 7 submissions to hear out. And even though some of them were less than impressive, I could still tell that they tried. they put real effort in and they spent time to achieve their results. and because of their efforts they were awarded with perhaps 10, 20 views on youtube tops. This is unfair to them and does them an injustice.

This is not your fault. In my opinion I feel that you did nothing wrong here. You submitted your mp3 which, frankly, I don't like and I would have expected to go down with Aliaspharow's submission "420"

Except that his song was a very well done piece and probably deserved to be featured on Best of the Week, if not the spot we currently see is held by "Quest of the Manwhore ."

I could list countless examples of people who get bombed within seconds of submitting their tracks but that would likely take up all of my remaining characters, which could be better spent given you insight as to how you could have actually made this track worth my time.

Sir, I will now tell you what score, in my opinion, I think this submission is worth.

Two.

My reasons are as follows.

1. It does not sound like music to me.
2. It lacks originality. Am I to be under the impression that you made your own presets?
3. because it's my opinion and I can. you are free to take it as you please. ;)

I have, by this point, lost nearly all faith in NGs community and staff. In my opinion, the fact that this is an ongoing issue, that nothing has/is/will be done (to the best of my knowledge), and that there is a lack of respect towards most users outside of a certain "inner circle" shows that the site as a whole is going in a bad direction.

His recommendation?

Feddey I think that you should watch some tutorials and learn basic structure of a track, possibly learn the patterns of various chords etc and overall put more effort into your work before submitting it to places like NG or other. It will broaden your horizons and make you a better artist. I am not saying this to be mean I am simply giving you a guide that I honestly, truly think will help you.

Tom, please more focus on the audio portal. This should be a place for artists to learn from each other and grow and overall should be a place I would WANT to put my music.

I am disgusted. And if things don't start to get better...

If this continues to be an issue...

If you show no sign that you care for the quality of your own creation (and this applies to everyone)...

then I will leave and request that everyone else here do the same.

Bitches be crazy!!!

Feddey responds:

Hey.. i agree in most of ur states.

BUT?!

If you had read my commen to the song, you would understand that this submission is not a serious upload, i did it cause it sounded fun (imo) and it was my first song ever made..

Also, if you take your time to go to my profile you will see that there are like 15 other tracks.. I've put a lot of effort in these 15 other tracks and i mangae to create a full song.. no offence..

Thanks for the rewiev tho.. and i agree with the random pick " bla bla. makes it to the top audio ever is kind of lol.. but it's like changing every week, and i think it's kind of good, so that people gets attension and many rewievs and advices.. even tho they should have listened to it before to quality check that it's not like a crap song like this.. .

[[Fiji] Complexities]

BAHW

WHYYYYYY!!! This is the shit!!! Dude You Need to sell this stuff!!! The feel is perfect! The drum work and glitching is amazing!! I don't usualy make short reviews like this, but i'm already out of words...

BEAST!

[Death of an Ingrate]

trippy...

Now this is original stuff! I love finding music like this. Perfect mix of metal and dark industrial. The vocals were very well executed and the synth work is right up there. The simplistic metal/distorted drums fit the piece very well and the variating melodies just make it that much better. Just wish there was a bit more filter work, and the vocals could have been a bit louder. Also i would of appreciated it if you would have put the lyrics in author's comments

But over all this is a very epic track and i hope to hear more from you sometime. Keep up the good work!

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SoulSecure responds:

Cool review. "simplistic metal/distorted drums" well, the drums are actually not very typical for metal, especially during the second riff. I remember back when I wrote the drums to that part, I thought they made the riff sound like Bowser theme music. I'm not sure what you mean by "distorted" since the only way in which I manipulated the drums was through volume, other than that I left them clean and dry, I mean if you want to hear distorted beats listen to Gone Astray and Dimwit (both my songs). I guess the thing that makes it most different from normal metal drumming is the pronounced use of the high hat cymbals, closed and open. Also the dance beat I added in the breakdown, just for this remix lol.

EDIT: As it turned out, I DID know what you meant by filtering, I just thought you meant with Love Philter or something, not filtering frequencies, lol.

[.:Blues in Dublin:.(NAC)]

Enjoyable!

It's certainly an enjoyable piece. It seems to have a rather strange charm to it, relatable to some sort of soundtrack piece. although i have to say that it is quiet short and that it does not loop very well, the instrument selection is very appropriate and the drums are very well done. The melodies have a strange feel to them, almost uneasy. I think you should try making a longer melody pattern tho and try to make it a bit slower. I think this would sound much better if it were a slower ballad type of song. I can't really give you any sort of usefull instrumental advice since this type of music really isnt in my style range, But i hope at least some of this was useful.

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camoshark responds:

Hey mate, glad you enjoyed!

As foretold in my previous response to SuperSteph54, I gave myself the challenge to make the shortest most efficient song possible, and I tried to make a melody that would stick in your mind!

The reason it sounds so uneasy is because of the chords and the motives I chose. I did some sort of call and response, but with the exact same melody, so it sounds just as much a question than an answer, hence the ambiguity. The chords also NEVER resolve.

I'm really surprised someone noticed though, I figure you have at the very least SOME experience in the domain.

Anyways, I'm glad you enjoyed, I'll try to make it longer next time!

Cheers,
Samuel Hébert