Spadezer's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Phantom Sage - Our Lives Past (Zelthyk Remix)]

So I got to say a couple of things. Firstly, I really enjoyed it. This is my type of jam. It's so full and warm and it sounds like a mainstream track. I was impressed.

What I do have to say though, and it's not about the mixing since that point has already been made. What I do need to point out is the composition. I want to make a pie chart of the different notes that lead synth hits, and point to how often you keep pounding that B trying to bash it into my skull. I bet it would take up a good 80% of that chart. I may have exaggerated my point, but I do have a small pet peeve when I hear songs that repeat the same pitch consistently because then my focus is taken away from listening to the song to listening to that note.

But please don't let that take away from how much I enjoyed that. This was great. I liked the sound and it was so warm.

Chliz responds:

Thx! On my next song I'll try mixing up the chords and melodies.

[Mandala]

Wait a minute.........

I've reviewed this before....

Love that sound design though

BiPolarBeat responds:

Have you?

[[EXTENDED] Mountains of Ethnia and Rebuilded Auroras]

I gotta say, I'm really glad you tried the NGUAC with an entry similar to your NGADM. I really enjoyed it, as I am now. One of the best aspects with this is your production quality. Everything is so crisp and clean, but not only that, the composition behind it behind it is really solid too. The only thing I would nitpick on is that while everything sounds so real and present, some of the stuff like your brass VST's I can tell you are trying to enhance their quality a bit by putting a bit too much reverb it sounds like (particularly around 4:36 for example, it may be a string VST too can't quite tell). I think you also made them a little bit too much since they sound like they're crowind the rest of the mix a bit. Ironic that I just criticized the two aspects I think are the best part of the song, but whatever, take it how it is I guess. Lol.

Like I said, I really enjoyed this one and I'm glad you put this in the NGUAC contest too.

AlbeGian responds:

Thank you so much for the review!!
I'm glad you liked and thanks a lot for the feedback

[Dreamworld]

That sounds like Johnfn melodies.

This is pretty great to listen to though.

ethansight responds:

That's... very true and a good thing..?

XD why thank you.

[Elysium]

I think you've peaked

etherealwinds responds:

does that mean i'll never do better? :(

[It Will Blow Over]

Through this whole contest I've never been able to learn what your usual style is lol. The use of autotune is interesting. Interesting I mean it's so over the top obvious that it's not distasteful. I wonder how it would've sounded if you used midi input to pitch the notes instead of using a pitcher plugin or something. I only ask because that would maybe change the desired effect.

Cool work though.

McGorilla42 responds:

I'm not totally sure that I have set style that I work in or what it'd be defined as. The first three songs of the competition are in a style that I used to write in primarily, but moved away from in the last year or two. I think that what I really would've liked on this track would be vocoded vocals, but I haven't had a chance to figure out how to get that working! I guess that's sort of similar to what you describe with using midi input to pitch the vocals?

Thanks for listening, Spadezer! :)

[The Fall]

Just popped in. Man this is sweet. It's so full and diverse I can't really tell who's influencing the style the most. Good luck.

johnfn responds:

ty spadezer :D

[Smoking Man]

I enjoyed watching this progress

Adjeye responds:

;) I can always build on your feedback :)

[flux]

It's catchy and it's got the right synths, but what's missing is the atmosphere. It doesn't have that full and delicate feel.

Doesn't sound bad though. I figured I'd leave a review for you since thi's was empty lol.

[Gladiolus]

Probably the song in this round with the fewest number of instruments, and it still sounds full. Nice!

Lovely voices

etherealwinds responds:

Thank you Spadez! I think it was a bit of a risk this round, as tracks with few instruments tend to not to do so well in the NGADM. I knew that perhaps it could leave judges feeling a little left wanting. With this track, I felt that if I was going to muddy the piano arrangement with anything, I'd have to take it to full orchestra.

That being said, I wasn't really worrying about what I can add to try and impress anybody, or thinking about what could get me extra points. I just wanted to create something beautiful and I put just as much effort into this as I did with my tracks that have more going on. :)