InvisibleObserver's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[>TK< Gonna find you]

My review, your song.

Opens with distorted lead guitar.

Breif pause, drums come in and the guitar sound like its chorused, but no bass or further accompaniment to the melody is introduced.

Then song progresses, nothing after the little bridge at 0:30ish stands out.

A common problem with songs featuring distorted guitars is that they get this grainy white noise esque sound to them, and it makes focusing on them a bit difficult. Where as say the intro, outro and bridge were done with something less distorted, you'd suddenly create a huge dynamic change in pacing and sound style, and the minute peice you have so far would be far more diverse, and interesting to listen to.

Drums are decent, they're mixed up a bit and sound alright. Might just be my currently bad headphones, but the drum kick was a little bit weak.

Song felt a bit mono, or atleast not utilising stereo to its fullest.

The melody playing I quite liked.

Overall, not bad, but lacking focus.

3/5 7/10

TorkKey responds:

Thank you for the review! I really appreciate all the advice and everything.

I'm going to take everything you said into account when creating another track and/or redoing this one.

"Overall, not bad, but lacking focus." I agree completely. I actually had no idea what I was doing. Just making something that sounded decent. I'm still working on making a song to an idea. I usually come up with an idea/vision to the song. (oops)

As for utilizing stereo, I'm using 2 speakers on my moniter. Lol. I'm working on it though. :)

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>TK<

[Fall Rain]

My review, your song.

Normally I write really exaustive reviews, but in this case I'm loving the song and not finding much to say.

Perhaps remove the rain sample from the middle section so the nature of the rythmn can be followed without the equivalent of recogniseable white noise.

As for genre of music, this is IDM/Ambient.

Could use some more break down clips like at 1:56 scaling up and down.

5/5 9/10

dj5p00n responds:

jim, you boost my ego. thats why your awesome

[-=rollacoastah=-]

My review, your song.

Figured I'd drop you some votes and a review.

Enjoying the intro electro. Drums are superbly mix, they could vary a bit more for my likes, but as is their dandy.

Bassline/melody is simple but mixes up often enough to maintain interest.

I felt the high gritty synth didn't add very well to the melody. It wasn't bad, but didn't add a lot, it was very very back groundish, and not expansive in what it played.

1:20 the quavery bass made for nice change, playing a simple melody, the oscillation is addicting though. Might be cool to experiement playing with automating it.

2:00 tempo change and transition was quite excellent, however could have been a far more explosive and dynamic change by introducing a new synth or two.

Melody from that point I didn't like very much, I think thats the hard style section, and its just a genre where the musical writing I find to be like children s nursery rhymes, repetitive and annoying.

3:27 is more housey and the arping synths works well. I think the high synth could have been brought to the foreground there for a sweet chane of focuse.

Song didn't have a proper outro.

Overall, seeing genre changes within a song of yours I think is a great move to be making, I personally love blending styles and genres.

Your mixing abilities are spot on, my only recommendation would be that not too much reliance is put on the melody synth.

Needs an outro that perhaps leads the song into a decent spot to loop into itself. I can imagine a lot of people leaving this on loop and only realizing its been playing non stop.

As per usual, expand you writing, and I'll became enamored in you.

4/5 8/10

[Demon Opera]

My review, your song.

Intro to 0:27 is dandy, melody is quite nice.

I may be mistaken, but it just sounds like a distorted guitar playing lead, no bass/accompaniment (for now of course).

Feels like the guitar should be mixed to have a stereo boost.

Some of the pauses in the song like 1:39 could benefit from a drum fill/solo.

Song has what suonds like an incomplete outro, then sort of loops back into the beginning. (Bit jumpy sounding, it lpays smoothly but doesn't sound good.)

Itsplays out well, but this has an incomplete feel as you've mentioned and my votes I'd say are a bit generous. Be sure to take this down when a more complete version is uploaded so you can get fresh reviews/votes.

4/5 7/10

Dimoria responds:

There is bass , but cause of my programs not working I can't mix it right , this is a rough version and the pause you are reffering to is supposed to be an intervall with Strings etc. Or just vocals. Thx for your kind review

[Acid Glitch]

My review, your song.

Post complete worth while songs, and you'll have a much larger haul of ears.

This was kind of a waste of time, its short, a 4/4 kick loop and 2 scratchy drums playing simple rhythms. While it is usable in a song, on its own its pretty boring, and doesn't loop very well. Nor is it mixed to have a more full sound.

Sounds as if time investment on this was minimal.

Having checked your other songs, most of them lack a mix, feel free to PM me about that if you'd like a bit of direction.

2/5 4/10

aloneagainfriend responds:

Well, Thank you. This track was just for fun, and it took all of 10 minutes XD. It got a fair review.

My other songs "lack mix"? Hum, now this is intriguing. I would love to hear what you have to say... I'll pm l8r, but plz keep in mind, this is only a test. Alot of the stuff I post here at NG is just stuff I like but cant figure out how to progress them correctly. So I post them hear to try for the rare, yet so true reviews like this one (In some last ditch effort for help).
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[underrated and hated]

My review, your song.

Mix your slayer a ton. Its a pretty awful imitation of guitar sounds and requires heavy EQ, some distortion, reverb, and chords. Keep in mind guitar songs are often built upon power chords and whatnot, not just individual strumming.

To be lazy 8ths will help fill out the guitar sound.

Drums here are pretty good, they are clearly FL presets though. Limmit and compress your drums.

Song progression is a bit lazy, just kind of plays and plays a constant bridge. A chorus didn't sound evident, but to be totally honest I zoned out while listening to this the 3 times I played it over.

The song writing needs more contrast, and you need more experience with mixing. (Or just a better guitar plugin.)

4/5 7/10

[Classical Spectre]

My review, your song.

I'm going to state quite blatantly that while this uses 'real' instruments, its not orchestral, sounds like a typical cookie-cutter trance song.

Intro rev cymbal works.

Pulsing strings is alright.

Woodwind instrument has a neat tongue-ing sound to it. I'd have liked to have heard it carry the melody. (Post listening thought, I'd like it to carry a different melody then whats currently here.)

Piano comes in playing same melody with a slight variation.

Orchestral drums come in doing a timbre heavy beat.

So far the song is purely layering of the same melody with various bits and pieces of accompaniment.

1:31 Feels like things are going to start rolling, its pretty layered at this point.

I notice the song time... its nearly over.

Overall;

Sounds are of good quality, mix on the instruments is odd, for example piano playing in C5-C6 range shouldn't have more bass then brass instruments.

Nothing about this is written in an orchestral fashion, it just loops and loops adding a small new piece one at a time. I felt like this could have built up to something quite cool, but it just deflated at the end.

Needs melodic diversity.

3/5 7/10

[A Spiritual Message]

My review, your song.

Ghandi's sample should have the high freq dropped off with EQ to remove some ambient white noise, and the rest where it falls on the sound spectrum have a very fine tuned frequency drop off. Then add a bit of bass to his voice.

If his sentences were all cut separate and placed on beat, and pauses in his speech were removed, he'd make a very good unintentional rapper.

Bit fuzzy at parts with the song and speech not syncing very well, but still a trippy song with great back drop.

5/5 8/10

[Bitfeel]

My review, your song.

So very chill.

Loving the melody and sound set, gritty in nature but playing such easy going music. Sounds like good morgue waiting room music.

The only thing I think this needs is the drums to be a bit more in the forefront of the song, and a more looping ending/beginning so I can forget I'm listening to this, and only realize after 20 play throughs its still tickling my ear drums.

5/5 8/10

On a side note, it would be bad ass to have some turn-tablism going on a vocal track, but that either requires the expensive hardware, or hours of tweaking some vocal samples. :P

[Kick Pulse (Round I)]

My review, your song.

Liked the intro montage of noises. I got really excited at the possibility of the whole song being like that. (Though writing that would be a night mare.)

0:15 it hops into 4/4 kicks with bass on the off beat and a growing synth.

0:34 is detuned and off key sounding. (but just for a few seconds)

0:51 bass sound you expect to drop another note, but it goes back up, caught me off guard and not in a good way.

Melody so far has been all over the place, while the drums are simple in structure, and the bass is a very linear acompaniment to the melody.

Kick sounds like a water drop-esque kick sound.

1:50 bridge is nice, song begins taking another direction.

The Gretch toilings FL preset sound stands out. Add some reverb and paser to it, stretch it longer. It stands out badly.

2:30 gated strings are nice, needs to sound more full in its mix though.

2:56 new synth is grainy in sound and slightly detuned. This song could benefit from a more controlled setting of tuned/detuned instruments. Some of them are iffy with eachother.

3:23 Theres the pretty sound again. Glee.

3:26 some new section begins, leaving me to believe someone hit you over the head with a heavy object, and you lost consciousness, came too, and just picked up writing music. Its an odd change, and nice one. Drums don't fit well here though. Hats good, the rest just doesn't fit.

4:30 nice synth lead with some slides. On the off beat bass and droplet kick sound returns. This synth needs to be mixed into the forground. (Parametric EQ with the volume adjust knob raised will do this in one quick FX addition.)

5:45 songs outro begins by just taking off layers of the song. Simple outro, it works.

Overall this song is quite cool, its weaknesses are:

-Poor mix
-Some of the drum sounds just don't mesh well (FL preset crashes, and the droplet sounding kick at sections)
-Predictable off-beat bass gets a bit boring
-Simple drums

Strengths are:
-Very diverse in melody
-Tasteful and many changes in instrumentation
-Progression flows

You need to add more bass to your bass instruments, bring the melodies to the forground, mix your drums to be a bit more punchy (and usually to sound 'in front' of the bass too).

Send drums to effects channels so you can edit the preset FL drums to sound more different then out of the box sounds. Add reverb/bass, more grit, less grit, w/e. The preset drums in FL are pretty weak unless mixed and edited.

Just lacks good production.

4/5 8/10

NightcoreVII responds:

Wow, this helps a ton. =) Especially the last part, when you summed everything up. It kinda gives me a checklist for my next song, lol. I was confused a couple times though; for instance, when you mentioned the "Gretch Toilings" preset (I've never heard of that one... in fact, I didn't use any FL sounds in that section), and the "Gated Strings" your referring to, I believe, is the reverb... lol. =) No worries... I REALLY appreciate this review!!!