PERVOK's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[-=LJC=- ILL]

I swear your on drugs.

Man, i thought that the beginning of this track was iffy...I didn't much care fro the beginning with the retro drums.
But when you brought in the glitch work, holy shit.

THATS when i got impressed. It was a very sketchy glitch, t was a little offbeat, but it brought in the feeling for the rest of the glitch you are about to bring in.

Lovin it. Your bell melody is slightly detuned, and that makes it feel ever so DIRTY, even though its a clean and smooth synth.

I think it would be sweet that at near the end of the track, you got rid of the hardcore reverbed drums, and made the drums entirely glitch work.

Then I would love you long time.

Freakin awesome work, all it needs to be is 10 minutes long so i can sleep to it...

Awesome. Just plain awesome.

100,000,000,000/10 from me.

-zenon-

LJCoffee responds:

And you get 72,004,563 points for being the first to review it!

It should feel a little off in places, I recorded everything very loosely and decided not to tighten up or quantize anything so it would have a sickly feel to it.

Glad you liked it - I'll work on that 10 minute version for ya!

Thanks

[Dark Matter (to be continued)]

You better respond

Or I'll cry.

lol, anyways, to the review.

I like the beginning. But I'm kind of wondering where you could go with this song, since i think its a bit too 'subtle' for me.
The whole soft arp and kick thing, ya know.

The whole white noise you have going with the bassline is very nice, but it sounds off tune everyonce and a while with the little arp you hav ein the backround?
I dunno, it just sounds like that.

I like your drum work, but i don't really like how your drum breaks are very simply put: Drum breaks.
Theres so synth work or anything when the drums are breaking in and out and all that. Don't get me wrong, i like the kick rolls and the beat breaks. I'd just like to see it sound a little more like it has a flow to it.

Overall, i like it, it reminds me of a NES soundtrack or something :D

Good work man, keep it up!

-zenon-

attemptedperfection responds:

I could've sworn I had already written a long, detailed response to this... friggin' NewGrounds... anyway, thanks much for the thoughtful input and constructive criticism; I was worried that there was some synth clashing, but I'll try to fix the issue and clean it up a bit for the final version. I'll also be adding a nice, low, rythmic bass-line.

Thanks again for the review!

[-> Err0r [0.9] <-]

Someone sure likes acid :P

I like the beginning, very nice drum slicing, but i think that it may have sounded nicer if you added a little more of a beat to it and not slice every part of the loop?

Just a suggestion.

The loops you used are obviously FL presets, but it doesnt matter cause you screwed with them enough to make them original.

Very nice original FX you used, i find a liking to them.
Sounds like a disc is being scratched, or maggots are crawling down your back. Either way it sounds downright disturbing.

I love it.

Great work, in the full version, try adding some nice arps, basslines, or even possibly an acid melody, instead of just those voices.

Awesome, keep it up!

-zenon-

Distortzion responds:

Hey Zenon! =D

Thank you for the suggestion, maybe I really going to add some of those things. And the FX? Easy, just Wave Traveller al the way. ^_^

Thnx for the rev and see you around on Audiogrounds! :D

[RemedyX - Paralyze Infinity v1]

Goa trance, eh?

If you wanna hear the best goa trance in the world, listen to Infected mushrooms newest CD, called 'I'm the supervisor'.

Great music.

Anyways, i like this. Very chilled, very slow, hi ended song.
The only things i didnt like were, your open hi hat was good, but a tad bit too loud.
The soft arp you brought in sounded a little bit random, also.

Other than that, great song!
Fifened.

-zenon-

PS: I also liked that gun shot like effect. Awesome.

RemedyX responds:

Thank you! And from now on I'm putting a link to Audiogrounds in my audio comments.

[--__AXLE F REMIX__--]

Good job

Its not amazing, but its good.

I am pleased with the fact that you got all the notes right, and that you chose some nice pads to goin the backround.

But I didnt relly like the random sounding piano thing in the backround.

You kick is running at 16th notes, man. Its cause the whole song to distort.
Make the kick only go once in a beat, it'll make the song not distort and itll sound more solid.

The add some nice hi hats, and then your done.

Good work.

-zenon-

MarioMusicMaker3 responds:

thankyou vary much! ill take that into conccideration but i have no GOOD hi hats. that sux ea? but ill do my best to clean it up!

[4 Minute drum solo :D]

Nice.

It was good...but your tuning really bugged me.

Your snare is so low tuned man, gave the drum solo a 'weak' feeling.

Now, about the volume. How i mic my drums so that its all cool, volume wise, is that i have my mic stand lodged right between my toms, but the mic is still like, 3 inches away from my toms.

I then have my mic tilted toward my bassdrum.
Then your bassdrum is nice and punchy, your snare is not overpowered, and you can hear the toms great, same with the cymbals.

Listen to ZENON drum solo if you wanna know how that set up sounds.

Nice solo.

-zenon-

FlameMesial responds:

Cheers dood.

I don't think my snare is low tuned, I just think the actual snare contraption on the bottom is missing a few metal string thingies :)

I mic'd up my toms the way you do it, pretty 3 inches away, and inbetween the toms. I don't think they were that much out of tune, they were 10" and 8" concert toms, so they're quite high-pitched.

I think, in comparison, this sounds MUCH better than my 2 minute drum solo, this is also a way to prove that in that other solo, I wasn't just hitting the bass drum and snare, like you had said to me.

But thanks for the constructive review, it's much appreciated. I listened to your drum solo before, and even though your sound is good, it's just your performance - you lacked a little compassion for a drummer that's played for 9 years :D

Thanks for the review!

[.Into The White.]

Ah, tinny bells.

I like the melody on them, but i would enjoy it a bit more if the bells weent so high ended.

The big sappy pad you bring in is amazing, your hitting all the notes i thought you wouldnt :P
I personally would have just done simple harmonics, but this works too.

When you bring in the low piano arpeggio, the song starts distorting.

Now, i know you said that it sounds better on headphones, but even though, you should use compressors to make sure that it doesnt distort no matter what you listen to it on.

When you bring in the drums, i don't hear a kick!
:(

I don't even hear a bassline!

It sounds so empty, but beautiful.
But it could be POWERFUL if you make a kick drum in there just pumpin out the bass!

So, my summary of this song:

Melody: Great work. If it wasnt so melodic and well written, i would have called it 'random sounding'. But, like i said, its well written. Good job there. But the instruments you used could ahve been a little better mastered, EQed and FXed.

Drums: FL presets... :(
Your drums sounded good, but id suggest to go on the internet and look for some free samples.
Anything is better than FL presets, man.
Trust me.
So, good durm programming.

Bass: Nice pads. But i'd like to hear a big bass blast every half beat.

Mastering: A bit of clippage, but only once or twice in the song. Just needs a little volume reduction.

Good work man. I am thoughroughly impressed.

-zenon-

johnfn responds:

Whoa! Thanks man, this is totally helpful!

Yeah, piano kinda screws it up sometimes... I guess it happened here too. :/

Compressors? Alright. I'll do that next song.

When you bring in the drums, i don't hear a kick!
:(

Yeah. I was trying to keep the drums very simple to point the attention back to the melody. It was tempting to make a cool drum loop but I decided not to because I thought the song could carry itself. In retrospect, it would probably have been better not to.

But it could be POWERFUL if you make a kick drum in there just pumpin out the bass!

Yeah. I think your right. Its just that at the time I didn't want to sacrafice the icy feel, and I wasn't sure how far I could go while retaining that. Turns out, probably quite a bit further. :P

Drums: FL presets... :(
Your drums sounded good, but id suggest to go on the internet and look for some free samples.
Anything is better than FL presets, man.
Trust me.
So, good durm programming.

Yeah, you're right about that. I'll go and do that! ^^

Bass: Nice pads. But i'd like to hear a big bass blast every half beat.

Yeah. I know exactly what you mean. But I really wanted to keep the cold feel, and it was very difficult to find a good strong bass with the icy feel. So in the end I just left it icy. Next song though, I wont have any restrictions on myself. So both drums and bass will be improved upon heavily!

Also, what is clippage? I'm guessing its the thing you get where it gets a little too loud and distorted, but I'ma go look it up...

Anyways, thanks so much for the review. I owe you one.

[CHOP IT UP!]

Funk :P

I like the cheese bassline in here, kinda addds a funk feel to it.

If you slowed down the tempo to like, 100 or 90, then added a funk beat, then you could ahve easily submitted this under 'funk'.

Needs a bit of work when it comes to volume (the crashes and toms are way too loud) but the melody is catchy, and thats all i need.

Good work.

-zenon-

dj-xtatic-addict responds:

I agree about the crashes...kinda went crazy at the end, but hopefully i will someday be able to produce trance/rave music...

I have a question -- for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to make a sound clip longer or shorter than how it is originally played...this really holds me back :(

Well, thanks for the review, (can't get enough of the Oompa Loompa song!!)

[DarkA-Bring PARAGON down(demo)]

Ah, violent distorted synths.

Gotta love them.
The song was good, great work on the drum diversity, but there was only one drum u used i didnt like.

It was a FL preset snare hit that you hit out of the middle of no where.
Change it, maybe?

Your use of filters is good, but...
Gets a tad bit annoying near the end.
Id like if used the filters only sometimes, then possibly switch to a solid main lead or something.

Great work, slow, and violent. 8D

-zenon-

PS check out my stuff sometime, eh?

DJdarkangel responds:

Hey :)
10x for the review :)

Hmm... about the snare... dont really know x.X
Maybe i accidently added it, i'll have to go back and review it, i'll have to anyway seeing as i'm going to work on a full version :)

All in all it needs MAJOR work, mostly on EQ. I just played it on my 5.1 and it sounded HORRIBLE!!

Yeah my idea is to have 2 main basses, this currantly has 1 so with 2 there wont be So much need for filters to make the song more diversile.

10x again for the review and the pointers :)

I will check them out :)

Cyaz
DarkAngel out...