T7online's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Each Step]

Great

Like alot of other people have told you, this track is great, and very well mixed/mastered, most elements seems smooth and well seperated around the mix, except for the low end.

You see, to me the bass seems a bit too loud and the reverb on all elements with bass makes a lot of rumbling sounds in the bottom of your mix. This can be fixed 2 ways; either turn down or remove some of the most bassy reverbs (bass aren't supposed to have very much reverb, and it's gotta be short) or give the finished track some EQ, turn down by max. 5-7 dB at 2-300 hertz. This is what i call the "muddyness area".

Beside that, some times of the track felt a bit overcrowded to me, a bit too much happenin' at the same time, but that's just my tastes ^_^

Otherwise, great track, keep up the good work.

A sincere 5/5 and 9/10 from me,

T7

nightvision responds:

It sounds like I'm not mastering it with appropriate headphones, because its sounds great on mine and all other music seems to sound tinney.

Maybe its time for some new mastering headphones.

[Dreamerz: Machines Will Fall]

Nice

Great track indeed, i like :D

I quite like the end, with the tape sound and a little metallic "ding"!

A few improvement points:

- Some sounds were a bit too metallic for my tastes and some samples such as the snare felt a bit low-quality like.

- Sometimes the mix got a little "overcrowded".

Otherwise, sweet track, plenty of variation and cool breaks B)

itsameyayo responds:

Yeah, I need drum samples, I figure that dilemma out!

-SuperDrummer146

[Progenitor]

GRRRRR

GRRRRRR....GRAAARH! I wrote you this fine long review and F*CKING Newgrounds don't work very well in Firefox so it screwed it all up when i was about to submit it. I thought i had copied the text to my clipboard but all i had was this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.php?id=1072175&sub=565
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This sucks!

Oh well, nice track, i hope you can do with my angry review.

T7

G9 responds:

I got scared initially scanning this that you thought the track sucked.

...

Well, it kind of does, but no matter. :P

Thanks man!

[This time it's for you]

Nice indeed

To start off, i think this track is pretty cool, i especially like the interesting build and arrangement, not to mention the cool FX panning around at some points in the song.

But with that said, there's still much to be improved. Please don't take this in a bad way, i could always go and say that this track is brilliant and has nothing that could be improved, but i want to help you by spending some time telling you what I think could be improved. Use this any way you'd like.

First off, the most important issue is the clarity of the song. This problem lies within both the mixing of the song, with the snare being a little too loud and the guitar lacking a bit of high frequencies, but motr importantly, the track has, at some point, been turned up so loud causing the whole mix to clip. This means, the volume gets so high that it causes the sound to distort, reducing the clarity drastically.

The other problem is to me, the "midi-ness". Everything sounds very computed and too straight on. Normally when doing indie music you would have a real band with a real set of drums and guitars, ect. play the song. But to me it sounds like you have only the guitar. There isn't really any quick way to solve this on the computer, other than going out and finding someone to play your drums (the most "visible" midi-fied instrument in this song).

The bass goes fine within your computer, but i'd reccomend you that when doing indie (or any other "acoustic" sounding genre of music) you've got to at least have a real guitar and a set of drums.

Other than that, it's a damn fine track with plenty of potential.

Hope i helped (and thanks for your reviews),

T7

[Tecky6]

Neat!

Lemme say, this track is pretty damn neat!

The glitchy vocal laying on top of a electrified beat(snaps and all:P) sounds so f*cking cool!

The rest of the track was, to me, a bit minimalistic...get more elements into the song!

Overall cool track:)

T7

phoozle responds:

Thank you.

[Jonathan Whalen - Someday Soon]

Very neat

When i heard this, i felt pretty nice, you have talents within composing but i though your choices in sounds were a bit weak, sounds a bit like sampled GM(General Midi, this isn't a compliment!).

You need more "air" in your track, try using another sound for the piano, one with plenty of reverb and release times, this will make it more "whooshy" and floating.

The voice is pretty good, but far from perfect, sorry. You're good at singing, but you need the right tools to make it sound good also:

1. A good mic(you have this)
2. An autotuner(Gsnap is a free autotuner and Antares autotune is clearly the best commercial autotuner.)
3. In some cases a good sounding chorus.
4. A reverb(you have this too)

To me, this vocal needs step 2 and 3. To add more air to your vocal, boost some of the high frequencies(5-10.000 hertz) by 3-5 db...

Don't think that i think this track is bad, as it's not at all, i'm just trying to give you some useful feedback and improvement points, like i would have wanted from a review on my own audio.

If you have time, why not stop by and leave me a review?

T7

Jonnycakes responds:

Thank you for the extensive review!! there was no general MIDI involved. The instruments were wet samples from Garritan Personal orchetra. The problem is that I'm at school abroad so I dont have all my gear...including a sustain pedal, which is what's really needed to get the piano more flowing.

I appreciate your advice on the frequencies though, I'll apply that next time, see how it sounds, and I'll look into the autotuners. Thanks again! :)

[Random soloing]

Decent

Hey man pretty neat solo, what did you use to make that distortion?!? That's crazy! I have a digital amp myself but i've never managed to create anything as rough as the sounds you're using here.

There's not much to say about this track, it's a guitar solo, though i thought you could've used a less distorted sound for your guitar, it sounded good when played in the high bands but when you go low it seems too noisy and stuff...

You obviously have talents for playing guitar, now what you need is the rest of the music;)

T7

Quoteman responds:

Hey, thx for the review!, Back when I did this all I did was use a bunch of pedals (crybaby and TS-9DX) and send them through an amp (MG30DFX) then into the CPU, it came out rather primitive. With Cakewalk/Music Creator pro 2 and Audacity I can master the sounds better as heard in both "All I ever wanted"s and Both "Hey Joe"s.

[Tears of Divinity]

Excellent!

Wow, what a great and harmonic track, i can't believe i've neverd heard of you before! The piano sounds great, did you use samples for it? In that case, which ones?!? Sounds like Ivory or something...

The background strings sounds perfect, smooth and chilled.

The flute is cool, although you could work a bit on the realism on this one, maybe add some (more) reverb or use other samples...

What i like the most about this piece is the composition, the complex piano built on the simple string chords, the flute walking up and down the chords and generating great harmonic sounds.

What program did you use to compose this? Reason?

Man, if i had a dime for every time i heard someone (without record label) compose this well...i'd have a dime!

Feel free to check out my tracks as well, i'd appreciate it.

Regards,

T7

MilkMan-Dan responds:

Of course good sir... I'd love to check out a few of your tracks. lol if I had a dime for everytime someone asked me "What I use" to make my music... I'd have quite a few. My answer is always the same. I use a keyboard... nothing more nothing less... just a Yamaha DGX personal home keyboard. I just make the most of it. :)... Thankyou so much for the long review and your attention and flattery... I look forward to viewing your work.

[Flashburn - Crystal Keys]

Good

This is a pretty cool song. Not ambient though. More like, downbeat or trance.

I do like the piano(like the rest:P), i believe you worked quite hard on it. I like the melody of the song in general. Also the arp is quite catchy. I like that.

Things to consider changing:

Get a deeper bass. You know, a bass that really rocks the floor. Its quite weak.

You need a bit more "beat" to the song. Try turning up the drums a bit, maybe, add a funkier beat to it.

Get the bass melody more clear. This seems to be a common problem in most of your songs. A clearer bass, or a deep pad, that really shows the "BASS note" would help.

Hope i helped.

T7

[E.lectro M.agnetic P.ulse]

Sorry but...

..this techno is quite poor. The melody is not nearly clear enough, not to mention that the volume overrides all the time(the volume goes so high that the music distorts) this is a bery common problem. I do like the lead though. Pretty catchy. Sorry, but i believe you can do much better than this.

T7