vonDark's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[wave to...]

You are my favourite audio artist

Really, this is the most pleasing music I have ever heard on this site.

I <3 the contrast between the glitchy beats and the smooth vocals. Awesome job.

I would seriously buy yor record if you ever made one.

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

nice 1,
now i'll prolly sell 2 copies! one to u and one to my gran... bo
;ped

[|-It's A Dream-REMIX ,V.3-|]

I need more Low frequencies

More bass please.
I like the lead melody, but the vocal samples were übercheesy.

Dj-SilenT-HunteR responds:

I'v made a V.4 with more stuff and better bass but not going to upload it :/
Yeah will hear me somewhere soon ;)
Thx for the REV!

[-API- Toys]

Digging the simplicity.

I can see this wasn't your biggest effort compisition wise, but I still love it.
Not very fond of the bright pad, seems a little bit out of place, but the rest of the sounds are top notch.
Would've loved to see you take this to the next level and added some more diversit in it, but I can see that you might be a little bit busy with your "commercial" stuff.

Keep up the work. Might check out your CD if it ever comes out.

<3

[~[ Nightfall ]~]

It's kinda like old scary movies.

It kinda set up the mood for something really energic, but kinda failed to deliver.
Could need some more elements other than the drums, bass and strings. Try listening to some more D'n'B, the drums ususally contains of tons of percussive elements. Your beat is a good start, but I would like something more advanced later in the song.

Keep on making music, this doesn't seem like the start for something bad.

DSMagnum responds:

I'm still working out stuff with drums. I can get a good beat, but not always do I add more elements than the bass, snare, and highhat/ride cymbol. As for adding more elements, I've noticed that sometimes I do lack on that. I'll have to work on improving on that, too. When I had made this, I planned on making it a loop, so that's the main reason why there wasn't much of a build throughout. It still could've used more I guess.

Thanks for reviewing!

[AnSpal - Heaven and Hell]

Needs mastering...

Sorry man, but this just became too heavy for me. All the different sounds seemed to be crammed into the same frequency, making a sound-gravy that was very difficult to make any sense of, for me at least.
Of course this isn't a very difficult fix, just try to tone some instruments down, and use some lowpass/hipass filters, try to play around with it to make each instrument stand out.
The melody isn't that bad, even though also seemed to have the same problem as the rest of the song: to much crammed into one place. It may just be my sense of music though.

Don't take this offensive, I'm just trying to point out what could be done better, so you can create even cooler songs.

Keep up the good work, and you'll improve. You seem to be off to a good start.

AnSpal1202 responds:

thanx man I know wat u mean, this song I KNOW I didnt put in a lot of effort, I'll take ur advice next time

[moderntragidy (2nd half)]

Ah, this is nice.

Really peacefull. And trippy.
I like the bassline and the distant distorted voices.
Not sure about those orch drums though, I've allways thought they were a little bit cheesy.

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

yo von dark,
all my stuff is cheesy, i'm surprised the orch perc stuck out but yeh, cheddar cheese on toast mate mixed with roquefort served on a bed of matured gouda, cmon
;ped

[Apocalypse On The Horizon 2]

Chaotic, but ok

The mix was a little more chaotic than I usually prefer, but I guess that is your style.
First of all, I would suggest giving that guitar a little more treble and hi-mid, and cut of some of the bass, as it seems to occupy all the lower Frequencies, giving no place for the bass to come through. I can see you want to make the guitar come through, a tip is to increase the mid, instead of turning it up, now it gives a very muffled sound.

Anyway, I can see you made a great effort, not really what I would useually like to listen to, but I think it would be quite a cool track if you find a way to mix the guitar and the synths together. Try reading some things about mastering.

Stealth-Emergence responds:

Excellent thanks man! yeah I've been having problems with recording guitar and end up with that muffled sound, which I think now I've sorted so hopefully in future tracks the guitars I record will (touch wood) have a nicer cleaner sound

Peace Out!

Thanks for your review

Stealth

[§Zeth§ DovreMedley]

Wooot!

Veldig bra altså, selv om jeg savner litt mer helhetsfølelse av det. Var liksom bare samme melodien spilt i forskjellig stil.
Og ante ikke at syntetisk gitar kunne høres så bra ut, hvilket program/plugin/VST eller hva søren, er det du brukte?

[DEF]

quite original

Well I guess the sound quality took away a lot of the experience, cause it was pretty bad.
Also, I think you should experiment by giving different instruments different melody, here almost all the instruments follow the same melody, I think only the lead guitar had a different melody. I think it would be better if the saxophone(?) had a little more active part here, it's a really nice sounding instrument.
Experiment a little more with different melodies and try to get some new recording and this could turn into something great.

slowz responds:

thanks for the review. Our recording equitment is not good at all and to make it worse its in an echoey room. We had a limited amount of time to do this peice on the recording so its abit rushed! As for me i play keyboard, guitar, electirc bass, and drums. We recently got a new keyboarder whos really good. drummers good to. So we will work on everything that you said. Thanks for the review!!! :)

[Four Note Blues]

pretty basic

could have used some more interesting elements. Now it's just a piano playing a melody in the old fashioned blues way, not sure what you call it in english.
Next time try adding some more instruments and stuff.