trunotfals's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Forgotten]

This is almost amazing. The composition is spectacular. and the mixing was good until the climax around 1:06. The drums are amazing all the way through, but your guitar was always a little weird. It seems like it needs to be eq'ed differently. Not sure what happened with the guitar becasue your drums are perfect.

[The Road Less Travelled]

Hello DSyk!

I remember competing with you in last years NGAUC! Now I will be judging your entry along with everyone else's!

I was excited to see your name on the list! I have been reviewing the few pieces that stand out to me (as there are a lot of entries, so i don't review all of them) And I thoroughly enjoyed your orchestral piece! It was a great concierto style piece, a very somber ballad that I could hear being played as a piece in a symphony! Your form, chord progression and tambour changes and flow were all very beautiful! I have been going to school for composition with the goals of composing orchestral pieces so I really appreciated this a lot! I have very little negative things to say about this, your climax point was great, and your outro was also very great.

I can only say that it ended very suddenly. I would've loved to hear the textures thin out a bit more at the end, maybe solo clarinet with only harp accompaniment into just a simple harp luck melody at the end, that being said the ending was still very good! just a little sudden!

Great work and good luck in the first round!!

DSykMusic responds:

Hi Trunotfals, thanks for the huge compliment!

[-Synapse Vocal Version Remastered-]

Hello Cerzak!!

I will be one of the Judges reviewing you entry for the NGAUC!!

I have been reviewing songs that stand out to me as I go down the LONG list of entries for the competition! I just wanted to say that your piece was quite good! For it's genre it is quite good! All of your compositional ideas were solid and well executed! The vocal chops were really good and as someone who really likes to work with vocal chops I really quite appreciated it.

I think you could improve on mixing. The kick and snare were quite weak on the drops and the "dubsteppy" noises were also very high end heavy. Couldve used more sub on them as well as more low end artifacts in those sounds. I also think throwing in the vocals in the last drop wasn't a very good idea, at least not as loud and overbalanced as you had them. However I still have issues balancing vocals into more busy parts of my songs so I understand that this can be difficult to mix. I think for the drop you couldve automated the compression on the vocals, or volume depending on how you mixed it so that they really are just tastefully added in rather than overshadowing everything else that is going on. And the last verse before the end where you have a random build up into nothing (i.e. the very end of the song) wasn't articulated very well. I've heard other artists do something like this but it really seems to flow. I quite liked the section where you cut out a lot of your drop voices, and just added drums to chords and stuff, you couldve made a good outro with that instead of acting like there was another drop which made the form of the song feel a bit awkward.

Other than that great automation and great transitions!!!! Well done!!! Best of luck in the competition!!!

[Emmaus]

Hello adieuwinter!!

I will be one of the judges reviewing your entry to the NGAUC!!

First off I have to say That I love your style!!

I loved the chords you had going on in the intro, very great compositional style!! great jazzy chords and awesome little bends. Youre transitions were really really great (excuse my lack of proper diction to avoid usuing "realy" over and over) but i truly loved it.

The style of the drums you have going on were amazing, so smooth. It sounds like you had a professional drummer drumming just for you. So tasteful, so smooth, so jazzy. (I may be a bit biased, I'm a drummer myself) And I'm honestly curious how you did it. The wholesong just has this laggy little jazzy relaxed vibe to it. each transition was amazing, every thing flowed.

That all being said. I could never understand what the vocals were saying, there was always too much going on with the vocals, and way too much reverb on them. That would be something to definitely work on!

I wish you the best in the competition!!!

adieuwinter responds:

Hi trunotfals, thanks so much for the kind words! I noticed the reverb the morning after (was cramming work in til early hours of the morning), it's definitely something i'll note for future reference. I really appreciate your comments and I'll do my best as the competition continues!

[Journey]

Hello 5TanLey!!

I will be one of the judges reviewing your entry into the NGAUC!!!

First off I wanted to say great piece!!

Here are a few things!
I love the overall vibe so much. As a whole I love this song!
The only thing i didnt quite like is the transtions were very awkward. You had a cymbal crash just before the inital drop of each section, and then when it dropped, there was nothing but the traditional Amen break beat. This was not very satisfying to each of your build ups. I would suggest making sure you somehow make each drop section feel like the tension settles, maybe move that cymbal drop right on the down beat, or add a different one in the moment of the drop.

But over all you had great form, and great mixing!

Good luck in the competition!!!

5TanLey responds:

Thanks for review/advice, the song is far from being perfect, but I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[Together As One]

Hello Analogstik!!

I will be one of the judges determining your enry into the NGAUC!!!

Personally I had to say that I really enjoyed your song! You have a really good feel for form and transitions! I really enjoyed your chord progression as well. It appeals to my sense of non conformituous chords taht you dont hear in everyday music. I LOVED IT. That being said, i would've loved to hear a bit more variety in what you wrote. It sounds like you found one thing that sounded cool and stuck with it the whole song. Thats not neccesarilly a bad thing for this genre though.

Youre transitions were great and clean and the whole song flowed really well, I would love to see how you improve in the future.

Youre sound design (i.e. the sounds you used) sounded very preset based. It sounds like you wrote some chords on a preset sound that you liked and went with it. This does not mean you are a bad composer, I just would love to see if you knew more about making just the right sounds you wanted for your songs, and then USED those soundsin amazing way.

Good luck on the competition and well done!!!!

[Random Robot Dance]

Great percussion and plucks in the beginning. Found you on the scouting list. Love the vibe and energy, great sounds and great mixing! THe only thing I have to say is it is a little repetitive for my own tastes, but very well done! You should be a great addition to the audio portal!

TWDJake responds:

Thanks so much! I did realize it was a bit repetitive, and I'm still working on making songs that aren't as repetitive! :)

[Dimitir vegas]

Checked you out on the scouting list, Im very impressed by the intro so far. IM commenting along as it goes. great build up. WOW, nice drop, almost melbourne without the bounce. The mixing is pretty solid, could use a bit of work but damn man you would be a great addition to the audio portal. You definitely have my approval. Great sounds, great composition and harmonic knowledge. A+

[[Dubstep] - Adamant]

YEAAAAAA BUDDY!

LegatusRj responds:

^_^

[[Dubstep] - Seventh]

SICK AS TITS

LegatusRj responds:

Thanks man!!! ;)