conorstrejcek's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[- Seems Simple Enough]

Love the sounds

What do you use to make your 8-bit music?

I'm loving this.

Or4nges responds:

Haha thanks! I tried to be sort of minimalist in this song. The only things I used were 3xOsc, Magical 8-bit Plugin, some bitcrushers, and the usual EQ's and soft clippers where needed.

[Water & Switchblades]

Nice.

You said you'd like some feed back. Well, I think if you want even more variety you should try using different velocities for your hi hat hits, or using more than one sample for them. Also, I would center the snare more in the mix, it seems to be off to the right - either that, you have two snare samples, or you are making the reverb of the snare come out on the right side. Either way I think it should be more centered.

Your use of different effects and sounds are really nice to listen to. You create a really nice atmosphere.

Also, what were you using for your vocal samples? They were really nice.

xxxZigZagxxx responds:

Thanks for the feedback :) That's a good point about varying the velocities of the hi-hats, I must try that :P Also, I can't remember ever using more than one sample for hi-hat, except for closed/open perhaps. So that's a nice suggestion.

I was using an interesting snare sample that went from left to right somehow. I think that perhaps I should center it more. But only a little bit, because maybe that snare adds to the spaced-out feeling of the song.

Thanks about the complement of the atmosphere. I'm really working on layering at the moment, to bring out the individual quality of my songs. To try to create a sort of ambient atmosphere with a cool beat.

Also my vocal sample was pulled from freesound.org, as were a lot of the sounds I meshed together to make this song. I just like layering sounds :P

Benny a.k.a "Silly Boy"

[Enchantrees]

Calm

I like the vocal slicing!

[Duncan Kelly - Mirror]

Pretty Good

I like it, but you could work on intonation with your voice. You are out of tune like 20% of the time.

Other than that, really nice!

[Lost Pictures]

Makes me feel something

You really made me feel something with this. Have you tried writing with anything outside of the piano? I feel like this could be even more powerful with good orchestration. Well, either way, this is a great piece right here.

NordicHazard responds:

i tried yeah, cello's staccato but the sound wasn't clean as only piano so i decided to let it this way. Will try again when i figure out how i can get it better. Thanks!