TH-J's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[ToRtiK-ProjectZ OpenningTheme]

I see...I see the intro theme from the exorcist...no wait I begin hearing a powerful guitar lead with huge snares! :O...And now...I see a 5 star rating, my god!...congrats! XD~

ToRtiK responds:

I thank you very much.
About those comments I am very pleased.
by the way. I'm make soon the full version. :)

[I got Nexus!]

Nicely done my freind nicely done!, quite well mixed and GAH NEXUS PIANOS ARE BEAUTIFUL ;_;...I do however like to shun nexus quite a bit for its overuse by professionals (GUETTA, *Cough cough*) As I feel its quite lazy not to make your own synth sounds. But I digress, the quality is great here just try not to use nexus as a crutch to much in the future :)...so I don't really understand why you would want to get some expansions for this.~

Cacola responds:

Glad you like it! And Nexus pianos are awesome!
I agree that Nexus is overused, so I won't use it EXCLUSIVELY, and I'll probably mostly use modified presets in the future, since I'm not great at making synths from scratch yet.
And I don't plan on getting ALL of those expansions, just some.

[Turn around]

Ooo I sure do love those bells :3, this is a nice little trance song you got there. Maybe you might want to pitch up those 909 hats a little just to get a crispier high end and perhaps layer the snare a little to give it more of a body. But nice man i like it :)~

Shinodan360 responds:

Thankyou :)

[Coldplay-Fix You (vd RMX)]

You know with me being pretty new around here, this is the first dance song I've heard on here that I deem to have a great mixdown :). Not as many people consider that as important on here and that's a shame, Personally I thought this was pretty cool adding a happy hardcore beat and bass to the original. Great job man :)~

viewtifulday responds:

Haha the way I see it, Newgrounds is more of a place for artists to develop their talent rather than showcase it :) Thanks for the feedback! Appreciate it

[Rose Inn (NAL)]

My god is this cool!, the strings are lush and diverse, the brass just rasps excellently through the mix (I thought that was really frigging awesome!). Asides from being a great composition my one criticism is a bit of a lack of anything in the low frequency range, just by EQ boosting in that area on the brass would have been awesome!...you could almost feel the power behind it if you did that and honestly that would just 'make' the song for me. But either way this is a fantastic orchestration and I'll be sure to follow your work further buddy. I tip my hat to you good sir :)~

Bosa responds:

Next time I will let you EQ everything.

[Jungle Steak]

Hnng!, you see I quite like this man but I can't help but be bothered by the mixing of the drums!. You've either set all your synths a little to loud or you haven't EQed your hats correctly, hi hats are used to fill out the high end of your mix and provide a crisp character to the sound. The complex glitchy stuff was pretty cool though but it probably could have worked allot better if you kept your levels a little more the same with them, overall though I guess its pretty cool. Keep it up buddy :)~

Thefur responds:

Thanks alot for the advice Woof! Will try harder for a no sleep crash course!!!

[Demonicity - Untitled]

The structure in this is pretty cool!, its awesome how you go from something trancey to dropping into half time and becoming more of a glitch hop track :). One thing you could have done that would have helped to fill out the stereo field a little is to add maybe a little ping-pong delay seeing as there's plenty of room in the mix for something like that when its quite needed, maybe try bring the kick up on a limiter or compressor perhaps or just boosting the low end to make it become more prevalent seeing as im finding it surprisingly quiet. All that aside the structure is interesting enough to keep me listening so I'll give you a 3/5 :).~

Demonicity responds:

FLS 9 is a bit quiet im tried to make the volume as best as i could half of the sounds are at max in the plugs :/
AAAND OFC the part where comes the Trap :D it kinda fucked up :P

[After Future]

Now this is just cool!, the reversed drums are just awesome. The snare maybe you could have left alone a bit when reversing to maintain the initial punch but this is pretty cool I guess :). I ESPECIALLY like the bit around 1:55 where you start reversing the kicks and then you start flanging everything!..pretty creative man and I'll give you props for that :)~

Alyctro responds:

thank you,ill look forward to your opinion

[Zinc Dub]

I like this man great job!, I love the garage beat you put to this (Even though the snare could use a teensy bit more mid-low end, just to give it a bit more body). The bleepy synth thing is pretty cool to and Its nice that you've emphasised it and the dissonance in places is cool to even if it may seem out of tune to some which would be a valid critisism, one thing you would also want to do a little more as well perhaps is layering your kick or compressing it and carefully playing with the ratio to get the right level of punch through but overall...I liked it :). Keep it up~

jawalker213 responds:

Thanks for your ideas and taking the time to carefully review! I'd like to play around with just how much mid-low I can put on a snare sometime, interesting tip! I will check out your stuff as soon as im at a computer that lets me play audio through newgrounds!!