ImCold's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[eph]

wow there is so much texture and flavor in here, this is so awesome

[Disintegrate]

The intro is very nicee, very much vibe if I may say. The kick needs more low end to it and the snare could use some reverb.

The drop isnt bad, you have a good template but the actual basses are hard to hear. I operate on FL studio 20 so I dont know what kind of effects you have on mobile. I would add distortion and compression to the growls. eq the low end out of the piano in the drop, and add a sub bass.

you seem pretty good at making melodies and instrumental stuff. I like how you used some of that in the second drop. You should kep going with this stuff and keep slappin

FirechompGD responds:

Thanks! My DAW only has 14 tracks and I forgot to put the sub bass. It's hard to EQ things on mobile since I have to work on ear and didn't know eqing that much, anyways thanks for the feedback!

[Celestial]

yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

The piano is fire, you made it eevrn cooler with the strings. The snare could use a little compression and reverb because is sounds weak. The drop is really nice. I recomend using OTT compression because it sounds like you dont have it. Also add distortion to the mid bass and turn up the sub.

the part at 01:51 hits with some magic, i really dig it. The second drop nedds the same advice that i gave earlier. The lead you have is very dreamy and fits well. I can 100% vibe to this song

SharpenedSwords responds:

Thanks! The feedback's appreciated :D

[SandDisplayMan - !!Digital_Infinity!!]

The intro is so cool, Iike the melody. The buildup could use some more energy. try to add a thick snare with the kick drum and automat the pitch to go up. The growls are very classic sounding, try to sprinkle them with a little stereo imaging and distortion. also add a wide reverb with a short decay to your snare.

The beat change at the second drop is very nice, its feels like drum and bass. It was awesome when brought back the melody over the drop. I love how it sounds. One more thing, you must sidechain your growls to your kick to give more punch

SandDisplayMan responds:

Thaks for listening to my song and reviewing it, it's nice to hear that my songs are good :)) About stereo-imaging the growls, sometimes I do it, but it ends often sounding bad when played on mono (like on laptop or smartphone speakers). I actually sidechained the basses to the kick and snare but it seems like the automation is too tight and I should add some reeverb to the snare. Anyways, thanks for reviewing my song :))

[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

[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