DjGubkafish's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Psychotic Corruption]

It has a cinematic quality to it . Would be nice for atmosphere in a gloomy game . Music like this just needs story and visuals. Nothing to critique here. I like it

bdog705 responds:

thank you very much, fun fact this will be featured in a game...well maybe,
no song is 100% perfect, I actually think I screwed this whole song up, I had such a great depressing melody going and at 1:46 I just killed it and fucked the song up, uhhh there's a lot about this song im starting to regret ever doing, I like it when my music sounds depressing and when its not I just feel weird about ever making it and I just think I screwed a lot of this song up so badly that I should just remove it ...

[Well Of Ascension]

Very beautiful . Whoever voted 0 deserves kick in the balls . Just saying

This would be perfect as environmental song for adventure game .

FirewallParadox responds:

Thanks a lot man, appreciate it!

[Excellent Disco]

I can barely hear the analog lead . Make sure analog or your main melody is louder than background and beat

I am guessing that you were going for downbeat house . One important thing that is missing for me here is lack of chords . You kept the same beat and background most of the songs so it felt overused .

I couldn't feel the progression ,again because threes no chords . Think of music as of 3 parts build,middle and ending . Each part needs different lead ,background and beat.

Sorry i am just trying to be constructive because i think its better than pretending to like something . I hate sounding like a jerk :(

jawalker213 responds:

Thanks for taking the time to listen and give me feedback as you honestly see it. Since I appreciate honesty, I'll be honest as well! As far as this review, I think you may be overlooking style and form. Those two things are the whole point of a track like this.

In this one, there are three sections. I've taken the second section and expanded on it to create perhaps the "downbeat" idea that you mentioned. Still, throughout the track, I use a variety of chords, though because they are more jazzy chords, perhaps they aren't as apparent at a first glance. This is a stylistic choice. Another is the fact that I didn't make the bass the lowest instrument. I could then express mood while still putting rhythm at the center of this track. Nonetheless, you will observe different harmonies just by the movement of the bass through the different sections.

Melodically speaking, there are various moments when the melody is spread between various instruments. Usually though, it's the piano melody, very simple, no chords. I'm surprised that was an issue! Throughout my tracks I often disagree that there must be one main melody, which is why many of my tracks have repeated sections with polyphony (sometimes with several melodies of equal importance), which to my mind, make for worthwhile repetitions. This is also style.

Finally, as far as structure, I suppose I've fought against a standard progression that may include things like "drops," "intros" "buildups". Instead, I find more interest in exploring style in the form of several sections within a track. For me, that's more important than fitting into a more standardized sound.

Of course we are always learning and growing, and I hope this review of your review was in some way interesting! Perhaps the thing you may be able to take from it is to consider style as something that may be beyond the critique!

[Never Be Alone]

Overall i think you put a lot of effort in this . Although because you change pace so often it may be difficult to apprehend the melody .

Try to hold the melody for about 4 loops before you transition .

Versety responds:

dude...you cant hold the melody for soo long in drum and bass because
it gets boring,you must do a vast dynamic range of sounds to hold the crowd
in head all the time,this is drum and bass mate.

[Lamm - Jump n Fall]

can't get much better with chiptune music . Now you just need to travel back in time to put in on a NES game

MetalRenard responds:

That would be awesome! :D
Thanks!

[Butterfly Effect]

For a disco setting it would work nicely

Although I would try to stay away from distortion a little bit . Its better to have a clear melody with some noise background but don't go over the top

fxarchive responds:

hahaha, that was the thing i had the most trouble deciding about :P

[Broken (壊れた)]

Which parts of this song did you make? Music and singing or one or the other ?

The atmosphere feels very suspenseful I am really digging it . Singing sounds pretty emotions too although i can't really tell XD Those guitar and pad leads are F@cken great too

I think I like . ...... I like it

larrynachos responds:

I made everything. The lyrics were created via Vocaloid, and everything else was done in fl studio. I'm glad you like it. I poured pretty much everything I had into this track.

[Indoctrination Redux]

Pretty sweat . I especially like utilizing of pads in this song . Also lots of swing here and there and they all seem to be in pace with beat .

Although you may have overused razor lead because its a bit difficult to follow the song . I think it would be better if there were some tender moments just to give listeners a brake .

TheComet responds:

razor lead? I built all of my synths from scratch in Harmor, no presets here! ^^

Thanks for the review!

[The Signalist]

2:35> don't really go together . You should stay more consistent to the original melody

Also when you transition from build up to brakedown try to add another pattern with main instrument instead of just adding background noise otherwise you playing the same melody for 2 minutes .

The music is crisp but it just feels porrly put together sorry don't hate :(

OcularNebula responds:

yeah, very on point - those are basically most of the reasons I was hesitant to come back to this one, and it's so hard to just flat out scrap parts of the song that don't work together, but sometimes you just have to do it, I guess

anyway, thanks for listening!

[End of Days]

Try to stay away from low quality sounds like at 0:22 . I would have preferred if you carried that melody at the start and build lairs around it .

Voladous responds:

I understand what you are saying and I thank you for your input. I didn't want to keep the same melody throughout the entire song because I tried doing that for one of my other songs (one that I removed from Newgrounds) and it was terrible. Thank you for spending time to post a review to my song. It really helps me a lot. :)