Nav's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[~'{Fire Aura}'~]

ok...

First constructive review.

Right of the bat, the kick is really annoying. Its obviously an FL preset kick. Try EQing and layering, along with compression, to make the kick sound less like a preset XD

I thought the bass was a bit loud. When I hear a trance song, I expect the bass and kick to blend, so I can listen for one and hear both. When I listen to this, I hear the bass with that phaser and the kick, but not together.

The arps are nice, and so are the harmonies and melodies.

Its a bit repetitve though, and by that, I mean... There are no new synths. Of course, the melody changes, but the song just pounds and pounds... It doesn't breathe through breaks, like all good dance songs do.

Also... Why the hell did the kick suddenly get louder at 3:10?! That seems really noobish... volume changes, if included at all, should be automations, not just loudness increase.

Overall, the synths were either well made, or Sytrus presets. No matter which, they sounded good, but the panning was a bit weird even on speakers.

Well man, it looks like you know how to get NG to love you, I just think that all artists need some constructive criticism, so they can improve! Well, keep it up!

Kid2Will responds:

YAY! constructive finally. Yeah you caught me, im a noob. No idea what you mean about layering and EQing. Ive just been lowing the volume to avoid the crackling noise.

So either the bass was too loud, or the kick not strong enough.

The arps, are arps XD.

Yeah the synths are pretty repetitive.

I meant it to be like a big finale, and i guess i forgot to build up to it. And i put in another drum beat that i didnt mean to do.* Didnt realize it, this showed me.*

Every sound is preset. =(. Maybe a few soundfonts here and there. + reverb on some.

Thanks for the review man, first constructive and it really helped alot. I will take this into mind for Earth Aura, which is a WIP atm.

[I Love Cock 2]

This song made me love it too

I told Drury...

Its like (gabber please) tehn BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM...

<3 <3

cornandbeans responds:

no, it's like gabber please then COCK

get it right

[Outside: Short loop]

I love you

I listened to this track for an hour straight, and it never got old.

<3

[==(Frozen Planet)==]

OMG A NEW SBB SONG

*Waits for it to get top 30*

Review time. I like the res synth, it sounds kewl :)

Nice snow sound, the drums don't fit well, even though you did highpass them <3

What matters is not what I say, NG will love it because they're rodents. Enjoy your fame mister I CAN MAKE A GOOD PIANO

lol10-10

[B0unc3 New Test Omg!!!]

Wewt

Superb masterage... Yum... Yeah right...

What was up with that break at 0:26... It just kinda fades...

Love that saw rez arp!

Really happy tune, great melody, and counter melody... Nice end, who doesn't love pitch effects?

Overall, absolutely Yummy, 10/10, as far as trance goes. Keep it up man!!

:P Navij11

By the way, did Ina help you with this song?

[p4c-GameOver[hi qual]]

Dude

This isn't mastered, its mixed. I can hear crackles that mastering would eliminate. Its mixed, and nicely, although a bit loud.

That kick has too much reverb on it. Turn it down, and EQ it up at 1k for more texture.

There is no tension, but the melody is nice, and the synth is cool, although it sounds a bit lo-fi. The clap is OK, but it fits, I guess.

The vocal sample was cool, as were the FX.

I hear a build coming, I like the tempo changes, but I was expecting something bigger at 2:25 then what I got, maybe something huge, but really the song never climaxed... The mixing kinda killed it. Make sure that the new elements you introduce are audible, or I wont be able to tell what happened.

Overall 7/10

p4c responds:

haha good to see a serious review, judging by the six below i know i cant actually be as awesome as they say :)

hehe i guess im too scrub to know the difference between mixing and mastering at this point, jst learned how to make decent sounding stuff on reason now and im getting over myself :D ill keep tension and stuff in mind, i made the original one of this a while ago when i was still learning the program. thx for the construct. crit!

[[mechanics]]

Time for a review.

I've been looking through your music, and I've concluded that you are one of the better artists here. The mixing is excellent, and are these songs professionally mastered?

The percussion in this song is excellent, but I'm not so sure about the voice. Sounds like it needs a bit more EQing, its kinda plain.

The slightly acidic sounds are really cool, and I like them! Its a bit short, but at least its high quality!

10/10

v150r responds:

hi navij, yes, these tracks are mastered. some of them fully eq-ed, and mastered, some of them not. i this "track" made just for fun, that voice just an extra stuff :). thanks ur review ;)

[Salvation Eternal--_--]

Lol@

Pendulum kit.

Well, nice strings, sounded like trance but really... Too melodic near the end. Needs moar bass. And more distortion on the master bus.

Just kidding, keep up the nice work.

[[ not another love song ]]

Nice song, one small issue

As always, awesome guitar and vocals! Really nice.

One issue I had was STATIC. Plain and simple. As a professional artist, I'm sure that you hear it, and probably know how to remove it. If you don't have the mastering tools to get rid of it, I can send you Waves X-Noise, which is all you should need to get good mastering on your acoustic tracks.

For the vocals, I would EQ up a bit around 4k to 8k, for increased upper vocal clarity. If you do that after removing the noise, it will sound nice and clear. If you do not remove the static before EQing, then it will emphasize the noise, and it will be bad.

Overall, it is a good quality song, and the guitar is nice and calm, I like your music! 10/10

Kingbastard responds:

yeah, it's a demo song.
You think too much:) Personally I like a little 'static'

[[Vacuum g-R]]

progressions?

Nice kick, I like its texture... Feels a bit like Pulstate's kick sample :P. I think it needs to be "phatter" though. Try EQing up the low and sub more.

What's with that annoying noise sweeps? They really give me a headache =\ Not sure If I like them.

I like that opening square synth, and the melodic progression. WTF is with that weird bubbly synth? It feels out of place... And ahhh, into a generic rave synth.

I am still having the same problem with most of you music... It has no progression or repetition... It just goes and goes, different parts, different notes, different synths, with only a few repeated aspects, which are repeated throughout, rather than in sections. You need to have a chorus, or some logical progression XD!

Otherwise, it was good, and NG will love it!