itsameyayo's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Awake - Listen]

I am in love with this remix.

By far, this is the best remix of a song I've ever heard in my life. Very original style to tackle "Listen to Your Heart" with, but it's the greatest mix. The structure was amazing, as well as the instrumentation. Sir, I like your style. Thank you for making my day.

And btw, the small section of hardstyle around 2:50 was a genius transition to the end.

-ImperfectDisciple

Rawrthaas responds:

well that's quite an honor. thanks :D

[(WF1) F-777- Phantom (Fin]

Critique

+I am enjoying the musical theming going on here. It is spectacular. Very nice color with the harpsichord. The synthesizer add on brings the seemingly orchestral piece to a new level, along with the nice filtered drums coming it. I can definitely see this in an up and coming video game of sorts.

-Way too much reverb/echo, or whatever it is that makes this piece sound so loud and mushy. I can tell the tonal qualities of this piece are spectacular, but the reverb causes distortion of the piece. I dislike this.

-Work on getting a sharper image for the sound and I think this will be ace. Very nice. :)

-ImperfectDisciple

wyldfyre1 responds:

Thanks for the critique, its always welcome =).

[Halcyon Lights]

Awesome!

I feel like you have a insanely good intro here right now. From 0:00-0:12, I like the synth work. From 0:12 on, I feel like the lead synths are quite muddy. Maybe if that underlying harmony from one of the synths was put an octave higher? Either that, or put a harmony working in thirds above the lead synth you have now. If you don't know what I mean, lemmy know, and I can get you an example.

I am digging the sound between the bass synth and the kick drum. It is a nice balance, not too overwhelming, but it makes you want to groove. Top notch.

I feel like a syncopated string stab of some sort would work with this as well. Something that goes against the four on the floor, but makes the piece sound even more groovy.

If I were thinking beyond what you have so far (as far as what comes next), perhaps the next section of the piece would be calmer with a melodic lead taking over with a slightly different chord structure.

-I hope this sparks up some new ideas!

-ImperfectDisciple

-I have a work in progress that I'm interesting in hearing about, could you leave a review?

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/liste n/296420

thatguy669606 responds:

Well I will surely listen to your WIP, and thanks for the constructive critisism. I get what you're saying and I'll try messing around with the harmony. I like your string stab idea as well I can really here that now that you mentioned it. Anyway thanks for help!

[Awake - Raven Song (preview)]

Transformers much?

I feel like this is what would happen if Linkin Park did dubstep, not sure though. I like where it is going, very nice :)

-ImperfectDisciple

-Could you perhaps review my newest demo, Hope?

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/liste n/296420

Rawrthaas responds:

LOL. Yeah I'm gonna agree with you on the Linkin Park thing.

[Yurei]

Cruisin'

-The first thing that came to mind was this piece's ability to be in a racing game. Hearing stuff like this totally makes my day.

-Not as diverse as I hoped it to be, but honestly, it's still extremely diverse compared to the majority of dance that I hear, so props for that.

-Once again, an open soundscape, and it sounds great! The variety of tone and color is fascinating.

-I don't have much to say for this one. It's definitely thrilling. Some of the transitions reminded me of the band Family Force 5. Very intense piece. Keep it up!

-ImperfectDisciple-

Music-story responds:

Hi IM,

Thanks for review. Interesting, I was going for this ghost feeling...but sure a racing feeling is close enough. I think I recognize your username from somewhere. Maybe I reviewed a past song of yours? I'll check out your latest.

Bye for now

[Planet Seoul]

Chilltastic

-The diversity present in this piece is quite fascinating. This is definitely not your run of the mill electronic music. There is a broader variety, a vast spectrum of creative sound use.

-I wish the bass had more variety as far as supporting the chord structure. It seems as though the bass is riding on the root note of the chord most of the time. Why not dance around the chord structure? You have a piece in A minor with some blues stuff in there, perhaps on the A minor, throw the bass in the current rhythm into a pattern with more notes of the chord, like the C and E. The rhythm was awesome, I loved it, but I feel like more tonal support could come from the bass.

-The leads were amazing. This track reminded me of a game called Trackmania Nations. Very professional piece. Tons of variety, in the melodies and I also must mention the percussion. Top notch, keep it up!

-ImperfectDisciple-

Music-story responds:

Maybe the bass part was what sleepysrh was talking about. If only he is more clear in his review then I would have understood what he meant.

This song I tried to be original. Took quite some time to make just for that original factor and it looks like I got it from your comments. All I need to do now is make a song original and more better sounding.

The key is A minor. Correct you are. I would have added more diversity in this song but every song I make I hesitate whether a song is too repetitive or not. Before I used to get a lot of complaints saying my music was too diverse and had no structure. That is why I make my stuff repeat more than I usually would like. However, by the looks of things, all those guys against diversity don't even bother listening to my music. Heck its a milestone for me to get 200 listens and more than 20 downloads in all my songs now. So from now on I'm going to make music solely for me and who cares about pleasing those other people. Thanks for the insightful review....particularly the diversity part.

Bye for now

[Carol of the Bells (Remix)]

Sounds like you used a MOTIF?

I mean, I could be wrong, but it kinda sounds like some of the samples from there. MOTIFS are fun :)

Aside from that, I didn't feel like this was anything energizing as a remix. Nice sound and dynamics, but I still felt it wasn't an original remix, though I suppose that in itself could be an oxymoron.

Neato...

XXMisterFiyahXX responds:

MOTIF? No idea what you're talking about. I use Nexus. XD

-DJF!-

[[MC] My Last Step]

The work shows immensly :)

Great sound. Lovely harmonics.

-With this setup, I daresay a more romantic era approach to dynamics and tempo would suit you nicely. It's too straightforward. One part of the story is being explained and then whoops! Equal time is given to every part of the story, accenting of the story isn't found because the juicy and the bland are both explain in equally great detail. Make the story epic, not just tender.

-ImperfectDisciple

[_Theme Orchestration 2009_]

Eh...

Neat idea, terrible execution. Wasn't produced well. Some of it might have to do with the fake guitar. The highs were certainly lacking crispness and the lows were too distorted.

vanguard182 responds:

points well taken. thanks for the feedback!

['09 Orchestration Contest]

Thank you

I really don't care, submitted or not, this was a good learning experience to listen to. I hope to write stuff like this one day :)

-ImperfectDisciple

EvilRaccoon responds:

Thats a really nice complement, thankyou very much!

I listened to some of your music. I'm sure you would be able to make something like this with the right samples and instruments. :)

Your music is fun to listen to!