Silta's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[~Delight~ (Test)]

Man, I love the vibe!
I would've given a full 10 if it weren't for I think it was either the kick or another bass in the same register that hits on a few of the offbeats. It trips up the groove you have going with the amazing-sounding kick you have and if people are gonna be out on the dancefloor to this it's gonna feel like their feet just got tangled for a bit. Also I personally would label this as house - I think it just fits right in with the style of Mossy's and Roald Velden's and Fade's progressive house. Awesome track though, can't wait til it's done!

Cahzmana responds:

hey thanks for the amazing review Silta!
ye i labeled it as house in the first place tho..
but the house section is just dying at the moment.
so im just doing this to get some reviews.

personally i love offbeats.
but never know how to place them properly if thats what you meant.
ill also look into the artist names you mentioned. i already knew mossy, he's really something if its aboutp rogressive stuff. amazing artist.

[FEAST - Lift]

Even though it has percussion, so do most of Ulrich Schnauss' works. I think you should've labeled this as Ambient, becuase it's just got SUCH an awesome atmosphere. Love it!

FEAST responds:

You know where I get the atmosphere from right? It is imported directly from the moon. Optimus prime brings it to me.

[Zafrece - Morning Sun]

So you said you wanted people to comment on stuff they didn't like so that you could do it better in future tracks, so here it comes.

I understand the power of a nice saturated bass, but your Digi bass is just too overpowering. It's getting in the way of the kick, which is actually fantastic in a way that's really hard to get, and because of the bass' mix level it's also overtriggering the master limiter which is keeping your track from being as generally loud as it could be. I personally don't like having the Digi as my offbeat sub bass. Youtube has a couple great tutorials on how to make a wonderful sounding sub bass with other plugins that won't overpower your mix and in fact give it more power than the Digi, so I recommend you go check those out. Also, as a general word of advice, never discount the value of YouTube tutorials, even if you don't presently have anything in mind that you feel the need to work on. Every little bit you learn helps you get a better sound. I don't know your tendencies so I may be totally preaching to the choir but hey it never hurts to have some affirmation.

But, I love your percussion. It's simple, but it's tight and sounds soul-suckingly just mmmff. Bring your snare just a TINY BIT out of the mix more, I like it.

I can tell you're using a ton of Sytrus presets. Try and find other VSTi's to use; Sytrus is nice, but I've found through experience that somehow if you have all of your channels as the same plugin (especially the case with Sytrus) it gets to sound really muddy and convoluted. My favorite non-native VSTi's are Sylenth1, z3ta+, reFX Nexus, NI Massive, Zebra2, and DUNE. Of course those took a heck of a long time to all find and I still have yet to buy and register many of those, but start searching for new plugins online now. Down-the-road-producer-you will thank you for it.

In the minimal intro which I love, with that sweet Acid line you have running, I believe I hear two copies of the same pattern that are exactly alike. They each cover one full cycle of the chord progression, and to make it more interesting you should do something with the second one. What I had in mind was perhaps suddenly enable a reverb and delay when the second pattern comes along, so that when your awesome pad comes in in the third chord progression cycle the ambience of it has already been partially set up.

That's all the feedback I have to give. Happy musicmaking! :)

Peace&trance,
-Sapphire Nine

Zafrece responds:

Wow, thank you very much! This is the whole reason i started uploading things to NG, the feed back you have given me i will take and put in my newer songs. I would really appreciate it if you would continue to offer your advice/services in my future songs i post. Again thank you in great amounts for the feed back you have given me. I hope i can take in everything you said.

[Feisty Day]

Transitions from major section to major section aren't particularly stellar. But very good besides that, very good instrumentation within each section, though I felt you could've brought up the cello and bass more in the mix. My favorite part is definitely the piano at 1:21 - I can tell that was a very ordinary soundfont and you made it sound gorgeous. I also really like the little interludes of the kick just cause they're mixed fantastically and tightly. Keep up the great work with that!

-Sapphire Nine

BlueAngelEagle responds:

Thanks for the review. :)

[Reset]

My favorite game of all time, and my second favorite song from the game. Brilliant job reorchestrating it and reworking the vocal rhythms to fit the English translation! It's not been 2 minutes yet and I've gotten chills 3 times already :)
And my sincere apologies if the star rating is a bit wacky or nonexistent, Newgrounds won't let me select anything :(

Shanath responds:

Sadly, I didn't get to play Okami, though I did read up on the story after playing Okamiden. It's a really beautiful tale and this song just brings everything together really nicely.

I'm glad you loved it! We all worked very hard on it. :3

[PX9 - Metropolis (Masq Remix)]

I love the soundscape.

I love the envornment created by the richness of the driving bass and the twinkly reverb of the lead. It's overall an incredible orchestration, and it sounds incredible because it all fits together so tightly.

Downloaded, 5'd, and faved. What a great remix; it has such a nice rhythmic and yet calm feel to it that's truly rare and special in DnB.

jpbear responds:

With such a widely worded review i decided to glance through your tunes, awesome stuff man fav'd n fived a lot of stuff.

Thanks!

[DJ Babokon - Tonight We Fly]

YEAHH YEAHH YAWH...

I absolutely LOVE the orchestral feel, it's so majestic yet still keeping true to the best aspects of electronic music. AND OH MY GOD I LOVE THAT LEAD SYNTH ITS SO TASTY; and I don't care that the progression is extremely mainstream because you manipulated the harmonies really well.
Oh wait...
YAAWH YAAWH YAWH YEAAH YEAAH YAH YAAWWW YAWW YAHW YAHH YAHH YAAH Y-Y-Y-Y-YAWH YAWH.
Keep it up, love the FX, love the harmony manipulation, again I think that covers for the progression. Although sometimes the bitcrusher (I think?) distortion detracts from the formant wobble lead. But other than that nice feel all around, 5/5 9/10. Minus one for two reasons: first of all for the progression (sorry but it is still there :P) and second of all for the mix at times sounding a little but muddy and heavy on the bass 250-500 Hz range. But nice work, keep em comin'! :D

:N

DJ-Babokon responds:

Thanks bro. :) Lol btw the lead synth was the Ebbing waves Flute. :P

[Super Massive Black Hole]

Sweeeeet.

Excellent work. To me it sounds as though if all the instruments except the portamento synth and the other pluck were re-arranged for orchestral instruments, this would make a great Super Mario Galaxy track for an epic level. And that takes a lot of skill. ;D
Keep it up,
:N

Trash-Man-1 responds:

Yeah, I get that a lot. Even when I compose in contests where you use really deranged samples provided by the contestants. I guess I just have orchestral in my blood.

Thanks

[TI:.Alternate Attention]

Awesome feel to this track...

Also loved how it had the same chord progression and basic melody as TMM43 & Electrogirl's Sad Melodies, but I think you did this better than they did.

TIMarbury responds:

wow thanks means a lot to be compared to these. Songs that i would look up to.