Hikari's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[2 pounds of eye drops]

I love unstable sounds like the ones you added to the intro, they make me think of the late 80s early 90's sound design for film. Your sub channel sounds a bit phasy in mono, that aside however your stereo image is well constructed. On the polar opisit, your mix sounds pretty good in mono, but the drums do kind of poke out a bit too much, so playback on the iphone and the likes would be a bit distorted from your original vision. You do have some nice movement through out the song while still keeping the main theme and feeling of the track as a whole. At about bar 58 you do a self indulgent distortion effect to your main melody. I can get behind that, but it's a bit jarring. At bar 98 we get 6 bars of not much. Just having percussion is kind of annoying, I'm sure you could have had some other kind of movement in your breakdown. I like the fill in at 112, it really leads you back into the song. I'm not sensing much variance from the beginning of the song though. Your song seems to just drag on because of this. If you just left the filter trippy ending as that instead of awkwardly keeping the percussion going the track would have really benefited from that.

All in all the roomy dynamic nature of this song is a real plus. I absolutely enjoy the warm, dark tone you get out of this song. The only disappointment I really get from this song is the minimal nature of your percussion and your lack of movement in your atmosphere. On a side note, I couldn't tell if the noise floor being that apparent was an unavoidable fate do to your set up or intentional. Either way it wasn't pleasant for me.

I hope this review can help you sleep at night and help you focus on the things you need to work on with all of your mite because with out you there would be no audio portal and then there would be no cool toons for flashes that need them so if you dont make better music over time witch it seems liek you are doing than the whole site might be doomed so keep up the work or you might not have work! #lel

Sequenced responds:

Dam I've been awake ever since

[nrg smith - grimey sex]

Classic 909 hihat intro sequence followed by some harmonic minor. By about thirty seconds it really feels like the song could be a satire, but the bass drops too hard for me to really think this until I get to the end of the song. As a satire I would have to say It's a solid 4 stars but I'm going to pretend it isn't for now. (half eddit, I didnt read the description till I got to the satire review, so I was right it is a satire! :D LOVE IT)

The build up is a bit clumsy and abrupt. When the bass hits your stereo image gets really smeared and thin. It sounds like you inverted the one of the sides and thought to your self, this will work. Well guess what, it made a lot of the upper mid harmonics sound out of place and in the background. This kind of off balances the mix. Your sound design isn't that bad though to be honest with you, it's just the mix and structure that kind of killed it for me.

As a satire however, you capture the ridiculous nature of dubstep. With an arbitrary melody that beautifully leads you into a barrage of brofessional, seemingly randomly modulated wubs. Your use of drums are perfect for this, you truly captured the rock-esk kick snare combo with the hihats way the fuck in the background. The nofilter sweep wasn't really apart of the trope but it was a really nice addition to truly get the no skill feeling in there.

All in all I would have to say as a real song, I don't like it (probably because like even you say dubstep sucks). As a satire I love it, because you really nailed all of the tropes.

Sequenced responds:

Why did you give me an essay for 10 minutes of work

[Knight Fight [Chiptune]]

Got milk? Love this semi right off the bat. I've actually been playing with milky. How are you doing the pulse width effect? Is it just clever use of wave shapes? Regardless, nice work with the tracking.

SuperBastard responds:

Hmmm, pulse width? The slightly detuned stacked square waves? Honestly I cheated that a bit, they're literally just two stacked sounds taking up two channels. The main one is at full volume while the detuned one is at about 25%. Then to add to the effect I gave both channels some vibrato at different depths. It's not the most efficient use of space, but it works!

[Sierra Rising - Under Lock and Key]

Right away I love the fade in with the nice use of atmosphere. Honestly love dnb for these kinds of pads. We get to about thirty seconds in and the beat kind of gets a bit, how do you say, lacking coordination. We get back into it around a minute in and you add another element to the track which is nice. I was hoping for something more to be honest though but I'll be patient. Breakdown at the two minute mark is eluding to a sweet bass drop. Still waiting.

Since the song doesn't have as much movement or a climax I have to dock some points but to be honest (and this is unfair I should have listened to it in a monitoring situation) the song was really standard. It had some mad potential to have a really neat climax but it fell short. The runtime kind of took away from the experience because of this fatal flaw. All in all though the song is pretty solid. Keep up the good work!

SierraRising responds:

Wow, goldmine of useful info right here! Climaxes are definitely a problem, I agree with you on that, and I´m sorry it fell short in your eyes (or ears?). I´ll work on adding more elements that lead up to something in the future, for sure!
Thanks a lot for the review, it helped a bunch!

[8-bit Basshunter medly]

Preeety much epic.

Genraltweet responds:

Thank you!

[You Know Nothing]

Dam, if this is garaugeband, it's either came a looong way or your just ridicules! I would say this whole song is over hyped and reaaaly takes away from the listening experience. This may be from your monitoring environment.

OMGL33TH4X0R responds:

A lot of people don't know that GarageBand supports 3rd party VSTs, and this song uses Alchemy, and Sylenth in addition to the built-in software instruments. I don't really have a proper monitoring environment at all because making music is just a small hobby of mine. I did spend some time mastering this song so it does sound higher quality than your typical GarageBand song.

[Mitchell Rusty Clit]

Pressing play... now!

You start off with a delicate atmosphere, and straight away you get right into the sexy lyrics. The addition of a drum was classic. The guitar emulation was a bit (or what ever your bass was) harsh and watery. But when you broke into that classic ForeverBound dirty dutch beat you took the cake.

All in all, 3.5/5 would listen.

Insanctuary responds:

I agree; I just like it rough.

[huh what]

Alright, I'll do a classic review by me, right off the bat the sounds are superb. As your song progresses you start to add some elements but it seems like there no real direction at the moment. Real nice use of short sounds to produce a texture. When the strings dropped in I was expecting more to happen, like for the song to really pick up.. but sadly it was just more of the same. When the song ended I was left feeling a bit fooled, there was no real journey happening here.

I can only give you a three out of ten, witch is not bad, that's average, witch is pretty great considering this song isn't even finished (in my personal opinion) All of your sounds where great and there but it was just missing... well.. anything inherently interesting.

Keep up the awesome work, I am really loving the sounds you're getting out of your new software!

Much love, Hikari~

Blackmajiick responds:

Finally, something constructive. Thanks for that.

[Goats]

5/5 song plays.

DiroNomer responds:

Thank you.

[{another chance}]

I feel like you didn't have a real direction with this song. The mixing could use some work as well. I give my own review a 2/10

DESHIEL responds:

That's true, this project started because I opened up the piano roll on a whim, without a plan. :)