NikolaosTheDark's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Beatsource - The Khazak]

Interesting take on dance music.

I've never heard the Eastern Europe/Asia Minor style of composing put together with synths and drum kits.

4/5. A benefit to this song is that you can either shuffle to it or kick to it.

[The Angels Are Coming]

Questions and observations.

The composition is fantastic, but the instruments

First off, what genre is this supposed to be? It sounds like it's supposed to be hardstyle. If that's the case, see about getting a better kick/bass combination. I have a kick/bass grouping that I borrowed from Exnotic if you want it.

Second, see about making an extended cut to this song. I'm doing some small-scale freelance DJing, and I'd love to throw this song into a mix. A perfect structure would be...

Drum intro>synth/chord intros>breakdown>climax>Optional outro

4/5. I'd love to see the finished product.

Music-Mayhem responds:

Cheers, yeh i see what you mean. I'm quite new to newgrounds so you know i need some feedback. Thanks for the Structure I'll try to use it for the finished product.

[Give or Take {durn}]

Bass problems.

I've listened to quite a few of your recent tracks. It seems as if your bass is...undermined, for lack of a better word, when put up against the kick, and your kick is lacking in strength (but not necessarily volume) as well. I'd like to know more about your production methods, and if they involve any sidechaining.

durn responds:

To be honest I didn't listen to this on a full system, just my Sennheiser HD 490 headphones and shitty laptop speakers.

I do indeed side-chain the kick and bass, perhaps I should tone it back a bit. As well, I haven't been properly compressing my kickdrum to get the proper fatness out of it that I could be. Currently I just layer two kicks and eq one to punch and the other to resonate, I don't compress either of them, probably part of the problem.

I appreciate your remarks and your concern and will focus harder on getting the most out of my sound in the future. :)

Thanks for the excellent review, NikolaosTheDark.

[[SP] ~ Satisfaction]

I have to disagree...

...with your comment directed at scratchR. Remixes either need to be on par with or better than the original, which is remixers aim for, whether they simply take the style of the original to new heights, or give it a different style altogether. To make remixes for the sake of being worse than the original, as you seem to be implying, is just senseless and demoralizing to me.

As for how the song itself sounds, I personally find it to be too minimalist and amelodic, even for electro. 3/5.

Blizzaine responds:

Amelodic? That's strange, I used 3 different scales in this song :p

As opposed to just 1, like most electro.

[I Wanna Feel You ~Prog. House~]

The only real problem...

...is that those drums that enter around 1:44 need some reverb. Tack that on, and the song will be near-perfect.

4/5.

[Guitar Balad]

Nice job.

Deadmau5 meets David Guetta, who then meets Rune RK.

+1 to my setlist.

[[TMM43] Three Rivers]

My only true complaint...

...is that the synths were hiding behind the kick through the entire song. Bring out the synths more.

4/5.

["Deep Inside" - Etalo]

Thank you.

This is the first song that I've downloaded off of Newgrounds in weeks. Keep uploading.

[Driving to Infinity (Finished)]

Needs more kick drum.

Even if this style is soft, it definitely needs more kick drum. Otherwise, it's fine.

4/5.

DJ-Babokon responds:

Ok thanks.

[Hawkoon - Tsef (db Rmx)]

If anything...

...fix up the vocals. I can't tell if it's the way that the vocals are sampled or if you're sidechaining, but the vocals aren't prominent enough.

4/5. Keep working on it.