23i's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Deepsea Disco]

This is a bop for sure. Great mix.

[Rutra - Velocity]

Lol this are some crazy vibes, love it!

RutraOfficiel responds:

thank you!!!

[Temple of flowers]

Hey! I just wanted to say that I think your song is really cool! It's awesome to hear you're feeling inspired again. Can't wait to see what you create next—keep it up!

[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

[XTACY]

I like the part where the drop arrived, with the small wubs. Builds in a coherent way up to a the drop. It sounds like the song idea is a stadium anthem and I think you capture it with the smoothly mixed, hectic buildup and heavy saw. Your fills are really nice at 0:54 as well.

[DeseNutz - Other Reality]

Progressive and different.

I haven't heard any songs of this type in the techno genre really, this sounds more like a mashup of trance and progressive house. The progression is nice and smooth really. I do think it is abit too out of the box for my taste so to speak.

My current headphones are shit but I'll try to say something about the mixing:
I'd say the hats are really well mixed, they are there and they are not all over the place. The whole music parts are neat too, nothing overlapping too much and I can't really hear anything pumping. The bass maybe abit too heavy for progressive music like this, eats alot on higher freqs. Maybe change it and make it heavy but not as present in the 1k parts of the mix.

I'd really like a finished verision (or WIP but full song) of this for reviewal, I think you can make a really nice track out of this.

Cheers mate

[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.