sumguy720's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[[Fiji_&_RNG] Infused]

Way cool maing!

By the Gods Mr. Fijiwigi you've gotten eight thousand times better than when I listened to your stuff back in May. You making a professional album now? This stuff is sick!

[[Fiji]Revival]

That is--- sweet!

Very cool. I like your melody, it's catchy, it's long, it works. Your intro bass is fab, your percussion is right where it needs to be. Nicely mixed and mastered. But I'm not here to shell out lengthy compliments, because you clearly know what you are doing in those areas.

NOW, the piece seems a little disjointed- You go onto what seems to be a transition at 1:10, until your second melody comes in at 2:16, now, that's a little long for a transition, it's passable, but your second melody is not quite as driving as your first, it's fine, no serious complaints, but next to your intro/outro it's really not comparable. I think what the middle of this needs is a little more punch. I like it better when the kick is going, less when it's not for a long period of time, and I think this is way kick ass when your awesome lead melody comes in. I'd like to see that come in more toward the middle too, rather than leaving it arranged at the two ends of the song.

Finally: ENDING SUCKS!!!!! But I mean what the hell, the beginning was fantastic, and the near-ending was great too.

More specifically: one rough spot I noticed was when your lead came in for the first time. It sounds cool, but it kind of surprises me, in a way that scares and confuses me-- Maybe put in a 'winding up' effect or a very short buildup to that opening, so it doesn't come across as so... surprising? That's my personal opinion, I have no technical knowledge to back that up, so do it or don't do it, you know.

from 0:00 to 1:10 - 5/5 15/10
from 1:10 to 2:42 - 4/5 7/10
from 2:42 to 3:26 - 5/5 8.5/10
from 3:26 to 4:21 - 4/5 8/10
from 4:21 to 5:17 - 5/5 10/10
from 5:17 to 5:27 - 2/5 4/10

Overall: 5/5 8.5/10 =9/10 Nice job. Very strong introduction, some misleading transition, a shakey ending, but awesome awesome foundation. If you keep that up you could start getting money for your projects (not from me, I'm poor).
I'd come back to this later too, if I were you.

MrFijiWiji responds:

finaly! i have somewhat pleased the impossible critic! thank you man.....and money? wow ... i mean thats a stretch... but just i cant help dreamin hahaha

[-PM- Canon x Canon]

Oh cool-- WAIT AAHHG!

Dude, I like your composition, but I gotta say, the autotune sort of ruins it for me. It'd be sweet if you could have a vocalist sing without it and slice and arrange it the same way, I'd like it so much better.
Your intro was attractive, well balanced, well arranged, the piano was a cool element, and your bass is WIGgety WHACK in a good way. Didn't really seem like canon at first, but you know what- there was some of that in there, so cool, whatever!

Yeah, so all I can say is I'd ditch the autotune and cut a little of the treble on the lead singer.
There's so much that's good about this song that's lost to the lyrics! But anyway, good job otherwise.
5/5 8-10
I want to give you 6-7/10, but I just gave a song 7/10 that wasn't as good at this, and your composition is just fantastic, but AUGH the vocals. Keep it up. (some of it)

[Space Ambiance]

Sure, yeah, a title.

Dude you tooootally need some little beep sounds and radio chatter, the kind of stuff I'm thinking of is exampled in this video of the moon landing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD 7MmT4&feature=fvw
You should totally try adding some sort of discrete radio chatter and effects, that'd be awesome. Like, space for me isn't really space without that stuff.

otherwise, it's pretty sweet, nice ambient track, not too melodic, sort of mysterious, good sound. It's a little flat too, which I guess would be a good thing for ambient tracks in general, but it would be cool if you could make those warm strings pop out a little more, I can only barely hear them when they cut into their own melody at like.... 2:20 maybe? I think it'd be cool to soften your general ambient sound to emphasize thatm.

The fade out at the end does alright, but if I wanted to loop this, the fadeout would be too noticeable I think. Don't know how one would work around that, or even if one would want to, but just keep that in mind.

Overall, good. 8-10 5/5

Chdonga responds:

Yeah, I don't know why it faded out like that, I never made it fade out when I was making it and it's weird because when I played it it doesn't do that.

[-=Beautiful Day=-]

Good.

Nicely done.

I like the melody. It seems just a teensy bit 'arpeggiator', if you know what I mean- and I think it's just that last note on the first part of the melody-- where you have two of the same note play, like you've got the intro point "do de dah, dah duh doh dah dun..-dun" that very last note I would change. maybe even remove-- that is until you get really into the driving part of your song 0:30 or so.

Ah well that's not really important, it's still catchy- cool, sounds good. I'm listening on my laptop speakers and it sounds a little bassed out, which is okay, but on regular speakers it might not have enough treble- 'cos my speaks tend to make things sound tinny .

It would also be cool if you had some segues in there, you have one at 1:20, and it's good, but still too similar to the primary melody to add much variation. This isn't getting boring on the second playthrough, but it would probably have more replay value if you added some more sections, a solo here, a filter bass break there, etc.

9/10
5/5 (4.42) +0.012

[B0UNC3 - Here we go]

Ohhhhhhhh...

Hey this is great! I originally downloaded fail 01 and was looking for a complete version.
I gotta say I really wish you had kept the old intro! I don't like how this one starts up quite as much. So minus one!

But still overall a supreme track. Nice motion throughout, good mixing, good transitions.
I'd still like to give you 10/10 though.
But geez I really liked that old intro.

[Counting Rhyme Remix/Cover]

Oh hey, it's uh...

Hey, I like this better than your remix. See, with the piano you've got a more filled out song. The soundspace is more balanced-- I mean, don't you think so?

Still needs a little touching up, some better mastering-- which is probably related to the piano synth you used, and that's probably limited by the software you have.
But yeah, this one=I like more.

8/10
5/5

G-888 responds:

hey thanks :)

[comptine d'un autre eteTechnoC]

Wiggety whack!

Hey, cool dude. Amélie. Good movie, good song too. You should try to learn it on piano, it's fun to play.

You have got to fill in the emptiness though! Add a little reverb maybe, put some basslines in there, make a more progressing beat, add some echo effects, put in some sound effects, some crashes, etc. It's just sort of blaaaaand right now. Keep practicing-- haha I just listened to the end. That struck me as funny.
Oh, add pads, too. :)
But above all keep practicing!

Make MOooOAR
5/5 6/10

G-888 responds:

I can play it on piano ive never seen the movie(french?) I dont know where I heard this song from but yeah.. just trying to convert it to fl so sure Ill take this into consideration, good feedback and thanks a ton for your review!

[Archive]

Good, now stop trying ot hit me and hit me.

This is pretty cool, I see that you're using garage band-- That's one of my favorite drum loops. BUT GOODNESS don't use it for the whole song! change it up! You're doing a really good job though, you should keep practicing. I bet within a year you'll have some really good stuff up here.

uhh... okay so my real review: This is okay, I see that you have a lot of original ideas, they're fresh, but you've got to work on your composition. This piece is pretty boring after the first minute or so of material. One contributor to this is the fact that you use the same drum loop through the whole song, another thing is that you don't use your sound space to its fullest extent, you kind of stay right in the mid-range spectrum with sort of blendy synths. I don't know exactly how to put it, but everything kind of warps together after 0:24.

My supreme advice of what you should do: MAAaakkkee mOooaaarrr
Practice makes perfect. Back in '08 I was garage banding on NG too, now I'm in full swing with FL studio, compare my first and latest songs if you want a better idea. Keep working on that midi-editor thingy to make your own melodies, you're on your way.
5/10 5/5
I liked it.

DefianceLLK responds:

Thanks for the advice, dude.

[From Paris to Berlin RMX demo]

Hillllalarrrrrious

Haha, I hope you don't take offense, but I think this is really funny. Good job sir!

The opening needs some work, but this is good, overall. I recommend using slightly different samples for your percussion.

ANd it also sound serious some of the time. But still silly.
...
Hahah.
5/9