p4c's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Inspiration to Make a Move]

very nice!

this was VERY catchy and very cool for a house song. the vox were too muddy and unclear though, sadly, since they could have made the song even better. the song definately did vary enough for me, though it was drawn out a bit long for my liking. mixing was good, and though some of the melodies seemed to jive in strange keys, they still fit in with the mellow, carefree mood. so good job! :)

check my stuff out too if you have time, its only fair :)

endlessnumber responds:

I have to improve my technique of recording with a microphone, so that makes sense. Thanks for the review, I'll try and get to your stuff asap...

[Inspiration (Nav's Broken Mix)]

catchyy

hehe the mellow bassline just screamed house, so i listened to the track and i gotta admit taht stuff is pretty catchy. hehehe.

i think this was pretty cool to listen to, the breaks nice and clean [no i dont know what they are lol] and the melodies smooth. though, my main complaint is that at times, it just seemed a little empty and colorless. it didn't really capture the mellow, chill-out feel that the instruments seemed to try to make, and at some points the melodies just seemed a bit too simplistic--i guess the catchy melodies in house might need some more tweaking and involved patterns in this kind of song lol.

one thing that may have made me feel that way was the mixing. the drums seemed too weak on the bass side wiht heavy influence on the high frequencies, which is fine in other contexts but not here I think. so boost up bass levels, i want it in my breakbeats :)

finally, the synth that came in at 3:26-ish seemed a bit annoying to me, too basic, juicy, and flatulent for the much more organic feel of the song.

thats my opinion, at least. hope i helped out, though you're pretty good so you can make the decisionto listen to my crit lol. btw, check my stuff out if you got time, its only fair :)

Nav responds:

Hm, yeah its mellow, but I tried to make it... less mellow. W/e...

I actually noticed that too. Beforehand, the drums had too much bass and it was crowding the low end. It was really boomy. I couldn't remove it without removing lots of the bass, so it ended up lacking it. Sorry =\... If you want, I could send over an "unmastered" version, without the master EQing.

The 303? Its a classic sound, and it was actually all over throughout the song. Only then did I lift up the preamp, so it really had been there all along.

Thanks for the review! I'll take a look later tonight or tomorrow.

[(-Frigate Veclem VU 527-)]

cool stuff

the atmosphere you made in this song was really interesting and nice, starting you out ambient and going all idm on you... it was really cool to listen to. when hte breakbeat came in (3:20something) that was a really good choice, puts a cap onto the piece.

i think that it can be improved by 1) fixing levels--bass is a bit too loud on the idm drums, making the drum arrangement sound too muddy [but the breakbeat's levels were perfect, don't change that]

2) the drum arrangements should be more varied - it just repeats every four beats for both the idm beat and the breakbeat, but you should make it have subtle differences and changes all the time, espcially in the idm section where it ideally would vary constantly.

3) i wish that you also made the background pads change and escalate with the rest of the song more, like a more intense arrangement, distortion, or more instruments/more layers as the song progressed.

overall, though, this is definately a relaxing song to listen to. good job, boy, i definately approve!

[oh, and thanks for stopping by and reviewing. it was my original intent to continue that song but i have a tendency to get tired of developing single songs and moving on to new ideas that i have, which basically explains why i have a ton of unifnished songs posted up here on ng. i might come back if i feel so inclined, though. i should just roll through all the songs i never finished, because it seems like those are my best lol]

scoutzero responds:

Thanks for dropping by again! I'm thinking of improving a few of my songs, and I'll be paying attention closely to the reviews so I know what to change. The drum samples are definitely going to be replaced, and there will probably be more variation.

Thanks again for the review and good luck!

[Opaquely Clouds]

nice and relaxing

thanks for dropping by and giving a review :)

i thought the composition was really nice and this was very relaxing to listen to, so i dont really have much to complain in terms of chord progressions or the synth used. i just wish that there was more variation and experimentation with other sounds to make the song produce a bit more immersive soundscape, but as it is, it's really nice to just sit back and listen to and fall asleep. good job!

Semaphore responds:

hehe thanks =)
yeah I started to make songs for a week and I will improve my skills in FL studio everytime I use it ;)
I know my songs are a little empty as yet
but I try to insert more and more instruments to let sound the songs more powerful
my next projects won't be quiete like this rather rock ;)
thanks for the review p4c
I appreciate your advice ;)

[The Horns of Odin]

yummmm

hehe this was fun to listen to. very chill, very solid. everything was pretty much clear and mixed well, and the melody was catchy and nice, i enjoye listening :) some suggestions for improvement:

first, the bass drum would be nicer IMO if you brought out the higher frequencies, a lot of this song gets a little too unbalanced on the bass side.

the synths overall seem a bit too cheezy and overly retro-sounding. the lead melody is nice, but the synth is just okay IMO. i think its a little too far between sounding like a real brassy instrument, and getting to that synth style. it makes it have that weird norweigian folk-tune sound lol, but it just seems a little too cheesy. i guess the same kind of criticism goes to the bass - its that weird retro fart bass and might just sound better updated. though it might jst be me lol.

the song did develop well, i have to credit you on that. i wish a little more came in though as it started culminating in the 3:30s though.
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i dont really know what to say else, those things make it rub me a bit weird, but you definately achieved the drunken norweigian folk-tune vibe, and gj for that! woo partay! and if u got time, check my stuff out too :)

SkyMarshall responds:

Thanks for this one :) The cheesyness I am sorry about, and I agree with you totally on every point actually. The reason for that beeing that this was the first song I ever made in FLStudio - and every damn second of sound in here is original bundled sample-packs from Fruityloops 3 or something. In other words, I wasnt that familiar with FL at the time. And yes, I'll have another go at this someday. (actually I already have a 2007-version half-finished somewhere). So you're pretty much right about everything you said :) But Im glad you liked it nevertheless.

And ofcourse I will check out your audio.
I'll just have to get home from work first. See you later :)

[~:{DW}:~ Celestia Arabia]

interesting :)

this was pretty cool, i gotta say. pretty well made and nice elements went into this song, but heres some constructive criticism and comments in detail:

the flute was very nice, the melody entrancing and mysterious and pretty convincing. i think it would do well bet louder in the mix in some points though, because as the rest of the song intensified it got lost sometimes.

i liked the string stabs, which you hear a lot in arabic music. though i wish they were stronger and had some lower notes layering over them with maybe some reverb, because they were a little too dry and didn't jive with the rest of the elements of the song as well as i would expect.

i dont know what that heavily pitch-bendy instrument is, but its great with the theme of the song. sometimes it bends too much though, and when they are played at a more rapid succession, they blend together and muddy a little bit much. clear that up and it would sound even awesomer :D

the ethnic percussion was very nice too. very intense, realistic, cool. but, keep in mind that a person would normally play these, so introduce some variation into the arrangemnets--it seemed like they looped too often, like every bar instead of lasting into longer, more interesting arrangements. that loopy feel just kinda gets boring sometimes. try to make it vary in volume and arrangement a little more and itll sound clutch as the song goes through

and i kind of agree with neodrummer down a few reviews from here--the ending was a good idea but production-wise, it let down the rest of the song and ended too early.

finally, some of hte transitions between beats, for example at :39, were rough--try to work them in in better arrangements--maybe go into a rapid roll of drums and kick it off with a bang--don't just make it fade into the background, it sounds kind of dubious lol.

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overall, the individual elements of the song were AWESOME. but, the way you put them together could use some reworking, though i think otherwise this would be pretty awesome. good job! i like i like.

and its only fair to review back B]

Geigamg responds:

Haha thanks alot wow, lol im still really noob at making music soo ^_^". I see where your going with this and i agree i need to diversify the percussion alot more =S. Same for the muddy areas, Btw that bendy sound was a Sitar *string instrument =P.
This was more of a demo that anything else seeing if ppl would like the idea and imma prolly concentrate alot more on this genre thanks to all the good reviews im getting =]. I'll take a look at your stuff when i have a bit more time =].
Thanks alot for your time ~:{DW}:~

[Life Saver--_--]

ooooh intense.

yum, the melodies all complemented each other and the transitions were smooth, mixing good, all the works. good job! but here are some suggestions/complaints:

i think that for that "clubbed to death" feel and to strengthen all those woodwind instruments going around, some warm fuzzy strings would have been really nice.

maybe some subtle crash cymbal usage would have made the beat fit in better too.

sometimes the lead wind instrument sounded a little bit too synthetic, but i guess its hard to get around that electronically. also, the melody at the start seemed to be wandering a bit too much, but once more instruments picked up it got on track.

finally, for hte drum portions, maybe make them build up a little more intensity and have a little more of a change of atmosphere to get a grittier sound. IMO that would be clutch, since the only main change was the beat itself and the piano introduced. let variation occur there too! :)

yeah, thats all i really got to suggest. gj and gl! [if u got time, looka me :D]

[You Make Me Ok]

wow!

very nice vocals! i have to complement you on that, they were great, i don't have much to criticize there. maybe if it utilized panning a little bit more to be like a surrounding voice [panned to either side a bit] would be cool, and some vocal splicing maybe, but otherwise its great.

i think that backtrack was pretty good, but left some to be desired though. i didn't really feel for the intro very much, the synths were a little too basic and swooshy for the rest of hte song IMO.

i think that otherwise the background is fine, though i think it coudl be improved with some instruments having a wetter sound, maybe slapping on some reverb and stuff in there. maybe some of hte synths could be less like basic waveforms, it gets a little too retro-sounding to me sometimes. idk, the song sounds sweet already, thats jst what i got after listening to it a few times lol. best of luck for you and great job!

and if u got time check some of my stuff out too, its only fair :)

xXxtEcHnOFUsIoNxXx responds:

Hey thanks, i'll definetly try some of that and hopefully it sounds better than it already is.

lol ok i'll check out some of ur stuff =P

[Ex Nihilum]

decent

i thought this was pretty good. the melody and bassline are nice, catchy, and chill, and the synths you chose were rock solid. the song flowed well, good job on that too! finally everything was mixed clearly, so props to you.

suggestions: percussion could be better. its good that you spliced that break but i still think that it's a weak loop to start with in the first place. the four ont eh floor beat in the forefront could have used stronger, cooler samples as well.

also, the song progressed slowly and that was fine with me, but it concluded relatively abruptly for the style of the piece.

hope i helped out, but in the end, good job :) [if u have time check out some of my stuff too, its only fair :)]

[[TMM43] Hard Sounds]

yum

i think overall, this was well made. all the synths were rock solid and the melody was fine. but i gotta dock you a bit since it just sounds too cliched, like ive heard this before. idk, i guess thats jst my preference.

some suggestions for improvement: for this song, i think a wetter, heavier reverb sound to the song would be sweet, since a lot of the synths seemed a bit too bland and dry in the context they were in for me. i did like the interlude where all the instruments got a bit weaker and shakier sounding, that was a nice interlude.

finally, the track just seemed to wander a bit too much for me. IMO the transitions and different parts made it an incoherent track.

check out my new loop that i might expand later on for pico punchout :) and btw i personally thought ur robots song was better than mine, i definately did not expect to win the last MAC8 lol