Hikari's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Moonlight Chasers]

Man I just cant enjoy the epic that is going on under the hihat :/ . Loved literally everything other than that hat :(.

Lubloom responds:

Noted, I'm going to turn that shit down. I just listened to it and it wasn't that loud when I mastered it AND when I previewed it in the project. Fixed now!

[1-2-3...3-4-5 feat. NitChee [WIP]]

This is literally Barney!

[This Beat Kicks]

This is pro as hell

[Sky Power]

Not bad for your third track. I started out in garaugeband back in 09 actually. I would honestly suggest moving up to Logic X, I think you are ready! That riser made it really hard for me to get though your song but the rest wasnt bad. I really wish I cot this in an environment where I could critique the mix better. Keep it up and never give up.

[Hey Girl (R U Fat?)]

SHOTS FIRED!

[Rock The Place]

Love the screaches, the kick was pretty solid, really tuned. At some points it was a bit too harsh in my opinion, but who really cares, it really fit well in your song. This is a really solid track, keep fighting the good fight.

[Your Story]

I do not have any thing meaningful to say, I really just wanted to emphasize that this is pretty great.

[duality]

"still sucks" fuck off.

johnfn responds:

lol :< ;.;

[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