ThisIsAnEmergency's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[A Fleeting Life]

Beautiful

I loved absolutely everything about this! Especially the piano and many different melodies you tried to throw in there. You "out of sync" does show up at some parts, but that makes it so much more real and so live. This is just a really beautiful masterpiece you've crafted here, and I definitely have to give you some props for this.

The only thing I can say about this, is to truly turn it into a masterpiece of pure perfection would make it longer and add more scenes it. Add more scores to it and more epic moments. Possibly consider adding some sort of Classical percussion to a certain part to make it more epic and wonderful. Such as, some sort of loud Toms or Gong sounds to it.

I wish I could give you more critique on it, but unfortunately for you..
I found this to be just beautiful and nearly perfect as it is.

-Emergency
-Review Request Club

[Sir Sirius - Electrostep 2.3]

Unique

Your first melody, just sounded gorgeous. It didn't seem to go into each variation of it as well as it could have, but at the time same time, it was a very unique pattern.

Both melody patterns, including the drums, sounded great. I loved them!

However, the blending of your two melodies at about 1:56 didn't seem to fit. They didn't really blend together in my opinion.

Also, you could have EQ'ed the drums a bit better, they seem to take over almost the entire song. You also could have probably tried to find some better drums to use in this. The drums you used in this sounded a little more suited for Pop/HipHop/RnB.

With all of that being said, I did enjoy this.

-Emergency
-Review Request Club

SirSirius responds:

Thanks for this in-depth feedback! You are right about the drums. I am unhappy myself about them. I tried really hard and spend lots of hours trying to fix the drums (I'm still new to producing) but failed quite hard :d

Tried lots of different samples and played a lot with the EQ, but it didn't help :/

[~SW~ (Caelum) Blood is Shed]

Deep

I'll start off by saying at about 0:15, it all sounded kind of off-place for the whole song.

I loved the slowing down of the song at 0:40, however, the thing I most enjoyed about this was the intro-melody you had with the guitar. That was definitely the best thing about this song as a whole. As far as the bends.. I really enjoyed them, it did make it sound more realistic. (Which realism is always better for music in my opinion)

I would have probably gone with a different Snare instrument and possibly a little different pattern to it. As I mentioned before, I like the sounding of realism better than anything, and that snare definitely sounded fake to me. I did like the toms roll you had in there though.

This definitely belongs in a Flash Animation.

Overall, my biggest problem with this is the blending together of the instruments. It just didn't sound like they blended well enough to me, mainly because of the main pad you used in there. Maybe go for a tad different sounding pad? Or try combing a couple pads along with EQ'ing them to make it sound better. Ah, and thats another thing, as a whole this song needs to be EQ'ed a little bit better.

I personally think, this song may not have needed the percussion, but adding the percussion was a good idea. It was just like icing on the cake of a good piece of art!

This surely does mix a Dance-type asian feel/ambient feel together and that's something new to me that I really enjoyed.

-Emergency
-Review Request Club

SkyeWint responds:

Ah, EQing, my greatest enemy.

First of all, thanks for the in-depth review, I really appreciate it.

"at about 0:15, it all sounded kind of off-place for the whole song."

Not completely sure what you mean there, though I think I can guess, it does seem to pop up a few notches there. But then, double-timing in a song is a common thing for more jazzy songs. Admittedly, this isn't totally jazz, but... double-timing isn't necessarily a bad thing. If you could tell me more of how it sounded off-place, that would be helpful. (Your choice though. I'm always open to PMs.)

"that snare definitely sounded fake to me."

Agreed. I'll try to fix that.

"Overall, my biggest problem with this is the blending together of the instruments."

...as I said before. EQing, my greatest enemy... I'm actually trained in composition rather than music production. I could DEFINITELY use some pointers on how to do this better, I tried hard to EQ this properly. The main problem I could see was at a certain point with the violin. I'll definitely try the idea of layering pads together and EQing them. With the blending-together of instruments (just realized you meant something other than EQing there), I think EQing would go a long way towards putting them together more, the pad thing might help, and... I thought the instruments went together pretty well. :< Aw. I'll do my best to fix it up though.

Thanks again!

[solidify and coagulate]

Interesting

This was a very interesting piece here.

I loved how you blended elements together and constantly added new ones. The melodies you use also sounded great to the ear.

However, some of the instruments used in this, such as the Kick-Drum, sounded out-of-place to me. You should try finding a more "realistic" kick-drum to put in place of the one you have here, and maybe EQ its volume up a little higher.

This is really something that I can appreciate and I'd love to hear more!

-Emergency
-Review Request Club

Horsenwelles responds:

i wasn't too concerned with the realism of the percussion honestly... this was originally a template for a universal contributor project for a live copy of this song, so its technicially incomplete, but i still liked it enough to UL it.

oh, and i agree that i pushed the volume of the kick too low... i usually don't lol

thank you for the nice words =)

[Fly With Me WIP]

Intriguing

I'm going to start off by complimenting your melodies here. I really liked them, you definitely have tons of potential in you.

The instruments you used for the drum-kick did not belong. Try finding something that sounds a little better. The intro to your overall drum pattern in the 2nd song also did not fit the song.

I have to say, you should try finding some better instruments to use. Try messing around with some presets or something, or combine instruments with others and just see how it sounds.

However, the drum pattern after the intro to it in the 2nd song sounded elementary to me, you could try switching around some notes, adding some snares or claps to it, anything ya know? Just fool around with the notes and instruments. Have fun with it!

The Hat pattern, seemed like a perfect to me. You definitely perfected that.

I'm ready to hear more from you.

-Emergency

[Rage Racer V.V.]

Enjoyable

I absolutely loved the quick little melody at 2:57.

With that being said, I'm gonna try to break this down.

I noticed you liked doing change-ups, I would recommend changing up the drum-instrument itself for a time or two in a couple more "breakdowns" like you had at 0:50, to make it more of a remix. I would have probably called this a cover, not a remix, because in the end it doesn't sound like you remixed much of it or added anything new to it overall.

Other than the breakdown, I liked the sounds you used in this a lot better than the instruments used in the original. This is definitely something worth listening to and I can truly appreciate this.

-Emergency

Rinileki14 responds:

I wanted to keep the original tone and feel of the song. That's why I remade the initial opening to the song and the section starting at 2:03. Thanks!!

[Converge]

Appreciated

This is a piece of art.

I have to start off by saying, I love that melody and pad, along with the drums. I truly enjoyed each guitar switch-up/solo you added into it. That really gave it a better feeling as a whole. The instruments you used in this were a joy to the ear as well.

I definitely get the creepy but epic feeling from this.

The vocals, could have possible been better. For example, I could hardly hear them or understand them the first time they showed up. Although, the second time, they sounded perfect.

I would have also tried to add a better intro and a better ending in this. You could have let it build up for about 20 to 30 seconds before putting everything into it. The ending seemed to abrupt as well, you could have spent a little more time on it.

I gotta say though, I really loved this work of art!

-Emergency

Jasonatron responds:

Thanks! I really appreciate you taking the time to listen and offer feedback. :) I've tweaked the song in some of the ways you mentioned.

[necromancing tribal people]

Different

This is definitely different.

I'll start off by saying, I enjoyed all of the melody sounds and patterns as well as the entire dark feeling I get from the track. They also build-up a little bit throughout the song and really brought a few epic parts to it.

Now, I believe I need to mention the shaker throughout the song, it played through the entire song and eventually got pretty annoying. I would probably add that to some parts and take it out of others. The song, also changes up a little much for me to consider it one entire song.. like at 1:52, you should have taken that and tried to turn it into an entirely different song. I probably enjoyed that melody the most out of anything in this.

Your drum/snare pattern was very enjoyable but the kick in itself sounded too generic of an instrument. You should probably fool around with all the kicks in FL Studio, add reverb and such, or combine some, or possibly look for new drum packs.

This belongs in a Flash Animation, I hope an animator here uses it.

With all that being said, I would've probably placed this in the Miscellaneous category because I personally believe it takes more than just a Hip-Hop type of recurring drum pattern to consider something Hip-Hop.

I hope my few words have helped you're future producing in any way possible.

-Emergency

WallofYawn responds:

Thank you E, that was a good critique. This is just a base audio. A teaser if you will. I'm definitely gonna remake/master this, and I'll take into account your critique.

The shaker: yea, I noticed that, too. I'll change it up tomorrow or the next day, when I have free reign of the computer.

I'll see about making it more consistent. I try too hard sometimes at trying to make an epic song, and sometimes I change it up too often. I need to get my production/song writing skills to be a bit better, but I'll try to perfect this.

Also, the kick was not from FL. It is from a drumpack, but I agree, I need a better kickdrum. Maybe a more bassy/thumpy one.

I placed it in hip hop, because to me that's the closest label I could place on it. I didn't put it in Miscellaneous, because I thought it might have more views under hip hop.

Anywho, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and hopefully I can fix all the issues, master it, and put it on an album some day. Thank you,

Chris