23i's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Rutra - Prelude]

This is amazing and really loud, love it.

RutraOfficiel responds:

thank you very much! :)

[Imaginary Reality (Soundtrack Mix)]

It's a cool thing to revisit old projects and remaster them. Have you tried recreating an old project with a new set of eyes before? It's amazing to compare an old project to a new one of the same song where you redo the sound design.

I really like the synth introduced at 1:05. Sounds very melancholic and dark. It's a very creative way to use dissonance the way you do it at 0:52 and it comes a surprise and takes you on a turn. Reintroduced at 1:21 as well. I think it's brave to make these kind of decisions.

Logickin responds:

Thank for your review!

I do often remaster or re-work my tracks. In fact, I am currently re-working all the chiptune because after I have revisit my old tracks, I found they were a bit awkward, especially keeping sounds in harmony and controlling the length of the tracks. After I have completed some of those, I always shocked how far I have gone after a couple of years of making music.

If you are curious about my "original" version or some legacy tracks, you may consider:
https://soundcloud.com/logickinlambda/imaginary-realm
https://audius.co/LogickinLambda/imaginary-realm-58006

[For You]

You've got a somewhat cool song here, it's not primarily my type of music but I'll try to review this one as fairly as possible as I have gotten some experience for EDM through the years of producing.

It's a pretty nice travel sound your main synth arp gives, especially when it starts to travel through the left and right channel. I approve of having alot of things happening at the same time, especially in a song like this. I assume your original thoughts were that you wanted a song for people to dance to. I also like how the main arp synth is kinda off-beat from time to time, giving the song a different type of sound. The EQ levels seem to be kinda off from time to time, giving a feeling of clutch in a bad way.

Some breaking down:
Intro - I hate to bring it to you but I really dislike the default voices you can mixture with. I think the buildup is neat tho. The main arp starts to become just abit too repetive untill it starts to travel through stereo.
Somewhat 1:30 - Melody could be improved in various ways, not making it so typical with one note on each beat. Goes on like this for a while untill it also starts to get abit repetive.
Around 3:15 - Melody ends and arp finds it way back in the song, rather neat transicion but then again, I would love to see some more variation throughout the song.

Main improvement:
EQ levels - Clean up your mix
Melodies - Variation is key to success, doesn't have to be alot of variation, just barely something to illuminate the feeling that the song changes pace.

I'd like to scout you for the Audio portal but you need atleast a couple of more songs before I can safely scout you. Please send me a PM once you upload more songs and I will happily scout you for the AP.

23i

BFeltMusic responds:

Hey, thanks for the review. I'll try to keep in mind the variation and do a bit more to try and clean up the EQ next time around. The default voice thing... Yeah, I tried to find something that fit in somewhat but that's not easily done. Next time, if I use a voice, I might look into one from a free site I know of so that it is actually a human voice.

There are a few other songs in the works and I will definitely let you know when they're done, though it might be a while as I'm currently a graduate student. I only get to work on songs when I have some free time.

[Piano In C Minor]

Dissonant

This little piece is beautiful but dissonant like hell, I believe that's why you got the stupid 0 bombers. I do enjoy this piece tho and I think you've created a nice feeling with it.

To the review,

With a new DAW and all, the work is nicely done. I think you can change the levels of the piano abit in order to make it abit more "human". Right now I think it sounds like a machine playing it with all notes on X level. Change that abit and it'll feel more alive.
The arrangement is nice, the pauses feels abit empty tho (the pauses when you strike the keys and it just goes to flat silence) . Sometimes the pauses are random, like around the 22 second mark. If you can get it to flow together better, you can probably get a better production out. I'm not saying remove all pauses but you could overlook some of them. I really like the dissonance and it's beautiful in it's own way.

I imagine a pool of water with a footprint underneath it, printed in dirt but heavily damaged by the weather. The water dissapears and it lightens up, leaving nothing but the dirt left. Suddenly an army appears, soldiers walking towards the horizon with sadness in their eyes. They proceed to think about what they've just been witnessing. They march like zombies and no one is speaking, walking over the dirt with their already broken shoes. It starts to rain as they dissapear in the horizon.

That's my "song-story" of this piece.

I say you did a good job composing it but there are things to improve on.

Cheers mate

PIED3 responds:

Thank you very much for the review, and the interesting story. I agree on everything you've said, and will pay more attention to the sound of the piano next time, and bear in mind what you've said about the pauses. Thanks again, much appreciated.

[HT || Not So Suspenseful WIP]

Get out there and find the trance

that both suits you and your audience. The intro is way too short, if you're making a trance track, you want to either make sure people can remix it by making it shitlong (+6 min) or call it a "radio-edit" (3:30-6:00 min) . These timemarks doesn't really fit, it all depends on where you want to go with your track. I'd say increase the reverb of ALL melodical channels by a small margin.

You need arps in trance too, either you build them yourself or you go on a free ride with a VST preset. They add a pretty nice feeling to the song, especially if it's trance.

So about the trance, your de-tune/volume trick with the main melody is pretty neat when it starts off. I believe you can change the "bassy" second thing that emerges. The sidechain sounds abit off too at around 0:55 maybe it's just to fool your listeners ears. The third chord doesn't sound very good at all (01:08) . I think it's abit dull in the 01:00 part and forth, not much going on. I do like that saw you're using tho.

And for some structures of trance tracks (remove space)
http://www.you tube.com/watch?v=17vv8tiq7e0
http://www.you tube.com/watch?v=k4wtR2_wS-I
http://www.new grounds.com/audio/listen/451599
http://www.new grounds.com/audio/listen/451932

Some typical trance.
If you need any more help structure-wise, please PM me.

HyperTrough responds:

That was brilliant mate! Thank you sooooo much for the feedback. I've tried fitting in arps which don't seem to be working for unfortunately :(

That nasty chord was an F# diminish. I'm just going off of a neat little sheet I found that helps out a lot with chord progressions. I can send you it if you like. I'll be sure to have listen to those, and take you up on that offer. Expect some messages ;)

Again, thanks! :)

[pow (fuck yeah)]

I really like this piece

because of it's orignality. I think keeping the guitars acoustic is a nice touch to the song and it brings a really nice feeling with the riff of yours. Only thing I'm wondering is did you use a metronome @ 1:20 and forth? I feel like the song speeds up the tempo just abit. May just be my blind ears that tricks me but I keep on listening and it seems like it's still there. Maybe it's just an artistic touch too...

Well done anyhow, I really like this type of music.

Doumaaa responds:

Nope.. I didn't use a metronome, so it's not your blind ears ;). This is one of those songs I just make in like half an hour, they come out of nowhere. I feel a sudden urge to record something so I do. I usually use a metronome on songs, which I put more effort into, but there hasn't been too many of those so far..

thanks for the review

[Tragic Remix]

Dude

wtf is this? did you take this from someone else or did you do it yourself because this is fkin good! I like the first part best though considering the piano and epic intro of drums with the speedup and the piano with the drums that keeps on going and then the hard strings that comes in and the other stuff you throw in there.

The only thing this song misses is structure tbh, it's abit messed up but damn this song is good considering the different parts, if you would throw them together in a organized way it would be good. The ending is pretty random too, just nothing happens after the last snare? :O

You should go further with the intermission parts especially (not the piano solo) because theese parts are the ones that makes the song interesting and great for listening, the piano is there for extra support so to say coherent melody and structure by building your song piece by piece by taking it from your fractured soul.

Make it structured and I promise I'll find a way to give you 11/10.

sykokid3 responds:

Awesome Word Of advice Dude ! Will keep this in mind while making things in the future . And i did this by myself didn't steal it from anyone :P .

[Tetris Steroids (Techno Remix)]

Awesome

LOL This is freakin awesome man! I adore your ability to treat sound as it should be treated! GJ

TristanLuigi responds:

Thanks :D
I just realized I didn't make the electric guitar as audible as I planned, but it sounds better that way. Who knew?

[[DJ-G] Spaceguy]

Sounds good

This piece has a pretty cool sound, although I think I can hear the front/background music be different tones/chords from time to time.

I love the intro, sounds mystic and creative, very nice work on it.

Overall, a good song but with some misses, I'll specify:
The intro sound is played continously through the song, sometimes the intro sound is(? sounds, maybe) abit out of tone, still nothing big, so I'll give you an 8 for this piece.

DJ-Galax responds:

Why thank you~ :D