ImCold's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Insanity]

The main bass you have there is pretty cool, but its kinda dry. If you are using serum you can add a phaser filter or a reverb that is automated with a little bit of movement. You could use a different wavetable for the sound. maybe layer it with a low bussy saw bass, and add some stereo imaging to make it wide. The instrumental stuff between the bass is really cool, you should do more stuff with that.

The drop sounds like it could use a bit more juice. It sounds like you have reverb on the basses, which makes tehm less powerful. Instead of reverb you could add some tube distortion to the sound and turn up the sub. dont forget the super saws, put a little minor chord at the begining of each section. It seems like you do have a reverb filter on the growls, you should lower the cutoff to around 20 - 100 Hz so you can get some wacky pitch automations.

The sound design in general needs more stability

HVLLXW responds:

ty for the review. i knew it needed some extra work, so i'll keep this comment in mind when i touch it up

[Runa - Black Hole]

damn this is nastyyyyy

[epic bass]

thats nastyyyy

[gaming lo-fi, of the 2000s variety]

the beat is pretty cool, i see you dipped all the fx in reverb

ninja78900987 responds:

actually, most of them are already like that
i think i only added reverb to one sample, the gamecube "bong" at the end
anyways, thanks for listening

[Clean Doorframe Ajar (Bone Servant)]

those vocal things in the intro are cool. the bass that comes in at 00:20 has some notes that are off key.It also dosnt match the vocal sounds that come back in at 00:40. the percussion that comes in a little later is interesting, not sure if it works tho. try to work off of chord shapes for the melody and bassline and it will sound more complete

CJspellsfish responds:

thanks

[Apparat - Goodbye (DK-R Remix)]

very chill and dreamy, it could use some more high end tho

[Shatter]

the melody is actually really cool but since its dubstep you should add some wubs and growls and other screeeechy stuff. and maybe find some more tough drum samples. also it needs a buildup to go with the drop

daon81 responds:

I know, it's not really Dubstep. Unfortunately, Newgrounds restricts the Genre choice. On my SoundCloud page, it's listed as 'Glitch Hop', but Newgrounds doesn't allow custom Genres :(

[Kahoot!]

the square things at 00:11 are a little loud and kinda stand out too much, maybe turn them down a little. its pretty cool overall

Albin3825 responds:

I probably should have added sidechain

[CARDS - Special Event]

i like the synth choice here, but the bass melody kinda walks around in no specific direction. try and make it a little more solid. the drums are good, good bit of punch

["Shatter" (WIP)]

the intro seems a little strange, like a metronome in glitching out. Maybe you could add some white noise and a low pass filter with a little resonance an automate it up. At 00:16 it is craving some stabs there, you already have a pluck thing there but try and layer it with some brass or a thicker bass. I like the pluck progression, its cool. At 00:27 there is a stray hat there, its lonely! add some more drums to make it feel good. also the name 'shatter' is good, you should keep that

daon81 responds:

thanks for the feedback. the track is out at https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/947639.
I hope you enjoy it.