InvisibleObserver's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Shared Wavelength]

Are you the mystery Lucky Charm?

Real cool down-tempo song.

Overall mastering is really solid, all you need to do is up the drums a bit, and add dynamics to them so it flows without the fear of being repetitive.

Guitar plucky sound I think could use a bit of modulation so it is perceived to be ever changing, which will in a way distract from the fact it is playing a very simple melody. Do what I do and add dual filters, reverb, flange, on-off chorus and stuttering effects, cause that always spunks things up.

Loops nicely which makes up for the shortness of it.

Enjoyed the drum work at 1:05ish.

As for naming it, sometimes I come up dry too, I get how it is, but get a name for this soon, something deep and meaningful like "Homo-Erotic Leprechaunic Tectonic Hunger Strike" or "Thistle and Children". Or more seriously (not that the first two weren't) "Unshared Contemplation". I find this song has a sort of inward awareness to it.

Neurotangent responds:

Edited this piece with some changes, thank you for the helpful review. :)

[waisted time]

Listen closely...

You can hear your guitar beckoning for its lady love - drums.

Not much to say, this strictly follows a rhythm, melody is quite nice, distortion effects are great and not over done. I'm a fan of shredding so naturally I'd like to hear some.

Needs drums.

Make an acoustic cover of this, wear jeans (if you aren't already), a button up shirt and sing about the "Wind I Never Kissed", where 'Wind' cleverly means 'girl', and you'll be a hit immediately.

Near 3:30 the high notes could use a slight volume dampen.

And needs drums.

Good work.

waiting2exist responds:

lol if i was a drummer i would definitely add them but sense its just me if you want drums your welcome to DL it and add them your self just e-mail me the link so i can here what it sounds like with it's lady love

thanks for the review

[volcanize]

Clean and dirty mix ftw.

I highly approve of the use of clean and dirty sounds mixed in one piece, it makes fora very nice auditory contrast.

Nothings squawking, mix is decent. Lots of stereo, bass in kick is present and in the synth at 3:50. I think at parts its a bit difficult to tell whats supposed to be carrying the song, whilst it creates this feeling that alot is going on, it also has the downside of making the listener tune things out and feel as if the piece is sloppy. My acutely tuned ears however don't have that problem... Obviously.

Overall, I like this song, very different, kind of mysterious, quite atmospheric, the sort of thing one may forget their listening to as they do other things only to realise its been playing for a half-hour.

As for genre, it is electronic, vaguely orchestral in some sounds, sort of mysterious, not fast. So we could call it something under the main heading of 'Down tempo', which is mainly ambient. So ambient something if we're gonna split hairs, so it has a beat... Which puts it in the realm of ambient-house/psy/trance.

I'd call it Ambient-Psy since its a little moody.

wood1pushr responds:

3:50?
that doesnt exist

[Pawty mix]

Potty Mix.

This kind of sounds like a bunch of preset loops being played one after another or something.

They sound nice, but if an artist where able to make a good sounding loop... I suspect they would also have the where-with all to not mash them into each other, at least not this tastelessly.

I simply question whether this is in fact yours.

0 For the horrendous mash-up of what may haev originally sounded nice.

theBrownOne responds:

I do not know what you mean by "preset loops", but if you are assuming these are not mine you are wrong.
These clips come from complete songs i made.
Also, the reason I put them together was to show variety in what i make, and receive advice from listeners on which to dedicate more time with.
man that was harsh!

[{WIP} Chill With It [WS]]

High-ho, High-ho! Were off to where we go.

In terms of not judging the music, and solely based on likes/dislikes, this one didn't do anything for me.

Listening more closely though...

Length is good, nothing is painfully loud, though as mentioned on TH you have yet to balance/eq/do panning type stuff to it. Go the extra step and put some effects on the piano / strings to make them sound more vibrant/less flat. Epiano sound I think could use a more crisp initial note strike sound, there are a few parts where it gets blurry.

There is little variance in the drums, they seem to be applied in block formation, so like 30 seconds is loop A, next 30 seconds are loop B. This could benefit from switching it up some more, and using the drums a bit like punctuation, where its not a monotonous drone, but increases auditory pleasure by having it come in and out, and be an instrument all its own.

I'd would highly suggest editing the hihat sounds a bit, to sound better so the repetition is more tolerable, or really diversify the drum loops.

Overall, not bad, but I don't feel this is particularly spectacular as of the moment either.

[Eternity :: Pom]

Frodo's no tricky hobbit.

5'd, some people apear to be down voting this, for what will remain to be unknown reasons.

Variant drum beats, a number of very smooth synths all worked in, good length, nice stereo, all balanced, kick sounds are great, and bass adds a lot without being intrusive.

Nothing needs improving, this is a solid track, however if I had my way with this, I would have expanded on the complexity of the piano bits that were played and mix some classical piano type stuff with the trance.

No author comments? I suggest you add some, if you aren't willing to write a breif blurb, people may be less inclined to write some back about the song.

MusicByPom responds:

Thanks for the review, I appreciate it. And thanks for the tip, I'll just have to write something then :P

[Hardcore Precore]

3'd foo cake.

This is pretty simple in make, and I think a better kick sound is in dire need here.

Its got a distorted bass sound which makes it sound dumb and honky, where if it had a bit less of the bass sound, it would be more gritty and fit in better.

I'd also recomend adding a second synth to fill it out towards the half way point.

The samples are cool, and I actually liked the beginning 30 seconds or so.

st91 responds:

lol i didnt make the kicks. im using reason. i used the drum samples from the "hardcore" section. sooo sue me. and i haven't really made any songs of this genre before. its not speedcore obviously. its technically not gabber. so its inbetween hstyle and hcore

[The Phresh Fag Of BS]

Lol at your rapper voice.

I chuckled, my only recommendation would be raise the volume of the voice, and get the mp3 and render them together for a higher quality sound.

Long live "Joe".

Whats your rapper name? :P

Joshandrobo responds:

Thanx, next time I'll try to amplify it some more. :P

[Universe X]

Drums are strong point, like man on bowflex.

I really liked the drums in this, I think they carried the song. (Compress/make them louder)

Synth melodies were alright, low on effects which I think could have added alot, especially to the build up of the song.

Some panning on the bass synth that comes in near 0:35 would be cool too.

Over all its mastering and post production is good, but the song doesn't that extra cherry on top where the song is epic beyond sliced bread.

Very first synth could use a few alternate melodies to banish any possibility of it being repetitive.

The name is a little cliche, it is a mashup of a space term, and an un-common letter, unless you feel really good about the name, or a dieing grandmother told you to call it this, I think a name change might make the anonymous internet listener slightly more enticed to click and listen to this.

Overall, though, I enjoyed listening to this.

duckson responds:

Wonderful, I appreciate the input greatly and I will use it to better my song. As for the name, Its meant to be cliche, all my songs are named as such, as I dont think a songs name is as important as the song itself.

Thanks :)

[Schranzista!]

If my childs a midget, I'll name them Schranzista.

Didn't like this, but I'll take your word for it that it does fall into some sort of category of repetitive genre, so it is forgiven.

However, even when first exposed to it, it wasn't too good. Putting some fat bass synth on it would juice this up, and probably take you relatively little effort.

:P Someone's been fiving their own work (You!).

This isn't easily acceptable by the minds of the public, and really could use some extra spice. I've got a few 6-7 minute long songs myself that I'm iffy about putting up, cause while I love them, other people are like "cut 4 minutes out". So as a musician, you've got some guts for putting this up.

Z-Tone responds:

thanks dude for the review
yeah im not a big fan of the genre
but i want to be able to say to people well atleast i tried
and yes ive been 5ing my own work its the only way to get notice besides luck
i got the 14 place on the all time best tracks(on my other account hotplurplegnome) just because of that:D
and yeah this is very technoy percussion heavy genre and not much room for synths
and all the bass comes from the kick
and concerning the lenth....
what people say is bull shit!
the length of the song is decided only by the producer/composer and then it can be mixed(like club mixes)