SourJovis's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Wet Grass]

Good song. Very organic and interesting. I like live instruments. I agree with what MetalRenard said though. It would have been better if the audio quality and mix were better. There's a ground noise I don't like. A few clicks. And with the violin being covered up I think Renard means the violin is difficult to hear at times because it's drowned out by the other instruments. I think you could've improved it by cutting away some of the frequencies of the guitar to make more room for the violin. Compressing the violin a little and increase the overall volume of the violin to make the low volume parts better audible. For the ground noise and the clicks you should've used better recording equipment. You could improve these things in the mix, with tools such as a noise gate and other. I don 't intend to be mean. Just trying to give helpful advice.

MilkyChocolate responds:

Thank you. Your advice is helpful, you don't come across as mean.

[The Fall of Heroic Dreams]

Great. I like how you make an orchestral piece and still use live instruments. I mean here on newgrounds orchestra equals samples, so this is kind of unique. It also gives this heroic feel.

deadlyfishes responds:

Just wait until you hear my MAC 13 submission, it's all real instruments :3

[Death and Rebirth]

Those soft horns give a nice atmosphere. Nice bass at 3:12, sounds a little unexpected. I wonder how the lyrics would have fit in.

bassfiddlejones responds:

I liked the horns too, haha. Maybe someday I'll decide to add the vocals to this. We shall see!

[~SW~ Astral Nation]

Long reviews. Sorry I won't write anything that long. I just wanted to say how much I liked this song. A journey through sound.

SkyeWint responds:

Yay. Thank you!

[-The Journey Home-]

Fantastic. Really beautiful. I like the combination of the instruments. Especially the piano and the drums.

Back-From-Purgatory responds:

Thanks, glad you like it!

[Bosa Piano Intro]

Good song as always (at least as all the songs I've heard by you). I too hope this will be in future flash productions. If not watch a film in my mind while listening to this song.

Bosa responds:

Thank you, sir. You are greatly appreciated!

[Dryfter]

Not sure if I'd call this rock. It seems very synth heavy, or maybe some of the guitars sound too much like synthesizers now I think of it. Nice combination of rock and electronic. Good song.

TheyCallMeCaudex responds:

I really wasn't sure where exactly to put it, either. I based the sound off of certian J-Pop which combines rock, electronic, and chiptune.

[The Golden Toilet]

Great song. I think your mixing skills for chipstep is improving. I think you got the volume levels right in this track, better than in some of the previous tracks in retrospect. The drums sound very good for 8-bit. The kick has quite an impact. The bass isn't too overbearing. I like how the song really picks up after the halfway point. Good melody and countermelodies. The title is brilliant.

wandschrank responds:

Thanks! This song is hard to compare to "This is Chipstep", it is more laid-back, slow and has less synths playing at the same time. It is incredibly hart to mix many of those simple waveforms together as you get a wall of beeping noise in the end. :D

I took a lot of time to mix the bass and compared it to normal, old Dubstep tracks until I got the everything right. Enough subbass, but not too much in the higher frequencies to prevent it from going on your nerves with constant "impact". Which may sound not bassy enough for people with bad speakers, but I can't help them. ;D I'm glad you noticed it, though.

Thanks for your review!

wandschrank

[Pathe The Way (Contest)]

Great song. I like how it alternates between the light and heavy parts. The drums sound a bit distant. The snare could've had more attack. But that's just a matter of taste. It fits better with the rest like this. I like the sound of the guitars.

MetalRenard responds:

Indeed, the drums are a touch distant here but as you said, they wouldn't work so well if they were closer since I feel it would become too driven rather than thematic (It's a kind of soundtrack more than a rock song as such).
Over all, I prefer those kinds of drums to be honest, I'm a big fan of 80's sounds and I don't like where modern mixing has taken music at all. :)

Thanks! :D

[This is Chipstep]

Hey, why does Chipstep get an own category when Duptune doesn't >:( Anyways nice track. I expected faster drums, with more impact, but I'm not sure if that would make it better. I like the instruments you used. The furby especially.

wandschrank responds:

Yep, I also wonder where the categories for chip & bass and darkchip are. And were is wandschrankstep?

Anyhow, it's hard to make drums with a lot of impact using old soundchips as they mostly consist of noise. I did not want to compress them to death.. maybe I can achieve "better" sounding drums the next time with more tweaking. :D

I recorded the Furby with my Shure SM-58. I guess I have to buy a better microphone for my next track so that the furby sounds even nicer. And, like already mentioned, it caught a cold. Let's all pray Furby recovers from it soon. :(

Thanks for your review!