InvisibleObserver's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Breathe With Me]

My review, your song

Smooth and creamy.

I think with future ambient songs of yours you should really push the stereo use boundary and make it entirely enveloping.

FatKidWitAJetPak responds:

I agree. I should work on pushing into the X Y and Z boundaries.

[The Ultimate Beat (for sale)]

Dark Master, my love

I have forwarded the money to your paypal, but I'd like to ensure we get the file to me correctly. I wish there were an easy way of downloading this, but given my torrented linux-mac hybrid OS, I think the only viable form of transfer is for you to zip a .flac file and mail it to me on a USB stick. Don't worry, I'll pay shipping and handling.

Darkmaster603 responds:

Sure thing. I'll also send the sheet music in case you want to hire an orchestra to record this.

[Rig - Demo Reel 2011]

My review, your song(s)

It was alright, it would be better if you used more pro tricks like looping amen breaks, leaving dblue glitch running, and use awesome sequenced presets from sytrus.

Also, be sure to goodize your master track!

You should make it clear if these are songs you've finished, and intend on uploading, or 'releasing' individually. Some of them are quite enjoyable.

Rig responds:

Yeah, I'm too noob for Amen Breaks :(

Most of these are actually in use with other projects, so I won't be uploading them.

[Super Mario Ringtone]

My review, your loop/ringtone.

Drums are dandy, things balance/mix wise are in check, huge boost of insturment quality is noticeable (which overall should be evident in your more 'serious' / worked on stuff).

But yea, Mario... Lol. Its a fair sounding remix/redo at least.

Jakesnke17 responds:

It's been a while, but...thanks for reviewing man, I always appreciate your feedback. :)

[(M) -Guitar shreddage-]

My review, your clip.

Be sure your various instruments have matching or in tune semitone variations from one another.

Set each instrument to their own mixer channel so you can compress them. A lot of metal is often very heavily compressed to get this sort of unchanging/never ending flow of volume type of sound.

On your lead with about a .5 delay 15-25% reverb addition will probably buff it up, widen the sound, and make it a bit more organic.

Play with volume dynamics so the notes rise and swell a little, and so the strum repeats on the guitars aren't machine gunning.

The writing itself is interesting and nicely lined up.

Instruments could use mixer tweaking to get a better/more guitar like sound. Basically if you send your insturments to a channel with reverb to soften the decays of the instruments, chain those to another channel and apply some form of amp or distortion, they will sound far far superior.

CheckMark responds:

sweet I touched it up a little, and added dynamics, but cant figure out how to reverb...

[Hood work( trapademic type)]

My review, your song.

Careful with your mixing.

At 0:25 theres far too much resonance and high freq coming through on the vocaly FX sound, and its rather painful. Lower high freqs with an EQ, limit it, soft clip it, filter it, whatever is necessary to take off the edge. It clips.

With the trance gated synth, make sure the notes its hitting sync in key signature with the backdrop of the song.

The kick-bass-drop sound is EQ'd too loudly and clips. While a heavy kick is certainly desireable in hiphop, to acheive the effect one doesn't just raise its volume until its above everything else. You go through your other tracks/instruments and EQ out the freq range the kick falls under so that when the kick does play, it has no competition in its frequency range, so its heard loud and clear without causing distortion.

Song overall is very repeititve, a simple intro/outro would help.

With a few mixing tweaks this is totally useable for doing some verses on.

Blackhoodkrew responds:

good look brotha. most deffinately need tweaking

[Sunrising Escape]

My review, your song.

Could easily benefit from a bit more instrument variation.

0:14, 0:19. 0:24 many other spots the lower bass note is clipping. Limit the mixer channel the synth is on, don't increase the bass so much. Its blurring over and giving parts a tinnyish sound because its not playing properly (its getting distorted).

Odd melody/progression, but nothing horrendous on the ears. Very wandery.

I'd suggest playing with writing a melody with more complex syncopation, or at least more varied, the entirety of this is on the on-beat and gets a very repetitive nature to it that hurts the piece.

Experiment with some drums, something soft could have really improved this.

Not astounding but certainly not bad. Keep in that direction and you'll do well.

Matakor responds:

0.o I didn't really understand half of what you just said...I'm stupidish. Actually, I didn't mess with the synth at all. I just thought it sounded cool, and then I mashed it all together after I found a little trick with it. The reason it's all wandery is cuz I'm ADHD and didn't really pay attention to that bit. Drums I might do...not sure yet.

Thanks for the memo tho. I will work on this.