Hikari's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[john cena memesong]

Best trap ever

[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!

[Acid Rain]

Two clowns

[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.

[Fuck Everything Else (loop)]

I love where this is going, however the bass was way too loud. This in my opinion muded up your track.

[Timely.xm]

Very cool, I wish there where more trackers in the newgrounds community!

[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.