Zafrece's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tetris Remix]

The lead was syncopated well for the first few notes, then it was simply off beat. You needed to add a pick up note and a small gap to reset the note lag if you will.
The lead was also entirely too loud for the mix itself. It was even over powering the drums and bass.
Ease up on that lead a bit, set each sound to a different channel and make sure to adjust the volumes accordingly. The lead was rather harsh and although it was a decent saw sound you had nothing to lessen its harshness. If you are going to carry the lead with a sharp saw/triangle wave set generally try to balance out that fact by adding sounds based on a soft square or sin wave pattern.

It seemed you were missing a few elements in the song itself, generally you need a bass to aid in carrying the over all key and brings life to the melody. Chords or ambient back ground chords, these help establish the specific musical mode with in a key, it also aids in establishing an over all feeling for the music. I could pick out a piano at times however silent it was, and it seems out of key several times i took note of it.

Transitions- Although you had the song broken up into general AB format, it lacked transitions through the song to give a heads up that the next section was coming.

I hope this helps in some way

=)

[ForgiveYou - B4M Grae SJD]

just wow

BeefourMusic responds:

Thanks dude, just checked out "Standing Alone"... that track has potential! As people have told you, the vocals need to be louder. Feel free to check out my tracks and send through some vocals for them which I can add and play around with a bit.

- BeefourMusic -

[merry fun piano]

Whats with all the haters votes? This was catchy and i feel like it could a great intro to an epic trance song. i loved the piano, pretty mellow yet up beat.

Suggestions - Place this into a full length song plx 0-0

flashmakeit responds:

Thank you for your positive respond. I am very flattered because you are a great musician and I appreciate very word you wrote.

[One]

LOL. This kicked my early songs butts hands down. The detuned saw you are using as the chords at 50: were a tad detuned, some times putting a little reverb can make lower the harshness of them. Good white noise flare at 48.
39-40 that measure seems out of key on a note.

Try fade ins and fade outs on certain sounds when you are transitioning measures or sounds( something i need work on myself). Measure transitions can be as simple as dropping the bass drum for a single 4 count. just something to feel like a change is coming.

Hope to see more in the future, keeping tabs on you sir

benc98 responds:

Thank you for the advice, i'll take it in to consideration in future songs.

[Take My Heart (Prex)]

Over all it was a great song, one part however stood out as not fitting in exactly 1:50 seemed a tad sporadic and out of the usual, it kinda ruined the flow of the song for me. the lead at 2:34 seemed out of key and clashed with the bass you had set.
Your drums are amazing, the strings you have are ambient and clean. Good use of blending sounds, nothing stuck out as too much saw or sin through out the song.

Catchy and well blended, crisp sound. Over all i liked it and will keep tabs on your future songs =)

[[MS] - Rebirth]

wow 0-0

This is pretty inspiring stuff. smooth transitions, catchy tune, well blended.

Nexus312 responds:

Thanks :)

[Dual Ascension]

I like the use of sounds, they blend together very well and smoothly. They also surprisingly come together well at the end. over all i loved it, keep it up

[Third Substitution]

Magnus choir i would suggest as a plug in for the singing ooohs rather than fls default. Over all i liked it, it seemed like it was missing parts like a bass and ambient chords to aid in carrying the over tune. 147 when your square lead comes in you seem to forget there is a key change and leave the note pinging on the same thing through out the rest of the song.

[Final Metathesis]

I had a hard time telling where this was going and coming from. That lead(the name escapes me) has too much detune to be using as a main soft lead intro with out a decent bass line to cover it.