Zafrece's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Stab Victims!]

I love the bass on this one, very mellow yet it pops enough to give a nice groove to it.I almost feel as if these could be three separate songs the way they transition is a bit rigid, but nothing too notable.

Another one going on the fave list, thanks again =p

(Love and trance

OcularNebula responds:

I appreciate that you noticed the quality of the bass sound

in the past, I've frequently used bass sounds that were either too muddy or too in-your-face, so having a smooth, balanced bass is a nice thing to have accomplished for this track

[Journey (FINAL MIX)]

Ahh ya, I love the blip that was added to the segments that were rather barren previously. As i said in the previous upload of this song, amazing quality as it seems is standard for you. Great job on eqing, mastering and general song composition. It pushed me into a calm state of mellow only to pull me back out with energy. Very nice work, your best work that i have listened to as of yet. I hope to see more of you in the future =)

182blink69 responds:

Thanks a lot man, also my best in my opinion too. And you'll be sure to hear some more, I am hoping to get the my two chillstep tracks finished soon.
Like always, thanks for the awesome review!!

[Carbide Iterations]

Ahh good ol baroque chord progressions. Vivaldi would be proud. As much as i love each piece you do, i have to agree with the comment below. The synth could have indeed used a change through the song.

OcularNebula responds:

dat circle of fiffz, brah

[Please Remember.. (Sample]

Loved it, very nice use of verb. Extremely relaxing and chill. Mixing and mastering was superb as usual it would seem. Again, i have nothing really negative to say about this piece. Keep up the good work, and i look forward to hearing the full version.

182blink69 responds:

Thanks alot!
This is a part 2 of two tracks, and i'm planing on uploading them both quite soon.
I'm really getting more and more into this genre, and I also hope you're songs are up soon :)

[Pluvialis]

So jay, when did you have malmsteen over to do a recording? I loved it man, very neoclassical sounding. It's rather a shame you have all but vanished from the internet as of late.

[Flare]

Up until one min the song was amazing, then right after that something horrible happened to it. The key changes went... i have no idea how to describe it. Most of your other works seemingly do this aswell. 90% of the song is fine, then those sour notes you throw in there just ruin it for me.

I would like to give you higher star on this one, but after one min the song went crazy.

benc98 responds:

I Appreciate your honest feedback and i never would've thought that such a short section would ruin a song. Guess i learn something everyday :P I Did kind of rush that section however, so i'm not to surprised that it was the least likable part of the song.

Thanks for the review.

[Days Ahead]

Where have you been this entire time on ng? Also why have i not seen you around? You are producing amazing music across the board. I really don't understand why i have yet to see you or any of your songs.

I have nothing really to say about something in a review for once that is negative. Amazing job on the mastering and eqing. The whole song was very professionally done.

Hats off
Zafrece

182blink69 responds:

because i'm just a 16 year old from a small town in new zealand that is trying to live a dream.
Nah haha, but honestly thanks you so much for the awesome words, I really appreciate it from someone like you (Having just listened to some of your tracks).
I take everything you say as a great compliment by the way. And honestly posting songs here on newgrounds and spaming the comment section on youtube is the only two ways that have been working for me at the moment.
So anyway, thanks for making my day, and i really wasn't expecting a review as awesome as your's :)

[Momentum]

Gasp, Geo making trance?! It was indeed good, however i wouldn't call it trance exactly. It had trance elements in it, but it seems your house and dance style leaked it's way into this song. We need more trance being thrown around here on NG to be honest, it's a lonely road however here on ng lol. Hats off to the attempt at a branch out, i would like to see you post some more trance if you ever feel up to it. Over all i feel it was a tad on the repetitive side, however most standard trance progressions aside from deep trance and a few other minor branches tend to be as well.

Good job on this one and grats on front page.

Zafrece

Geoplex responds:

Oh, you got me excited for a sec with the frontpage thing lol. It's just a feature, not a frontpage :P Thanks though.

EDM songs are kinda difficult to categorize, and I'm not very experienced with any of that anyway. I do want to be making some more dnb, but I will probably give trance another shot soon ^^

Thanks for the feedback :D

[Horizon]

Very nice sir, keep up the good work. I need more songs on my ipod lol.

Geoplex responds:

Thanks :P

[Battle Network Fight!]

Whoah ho ho! Hello there epic old school style music, i havn't seen you on ng in a while. I'm glad i found you again, you were missed. I loved this piece off the bat, I sat there listening to this and let it loop literally like 13 times. This is a great piece and really captures the feel of the epicness of the megaman series. I can't tell if this was an original piece or a remix of several songs. It all sounds so familiar, yet it doesn't at the same time. I loved the chord progressions. The drums were great and fit right into the style. Slapping this sucker on my faves m8 great piece. I'm a sucker for this style game music.

One of the few things i can say is that the whole thing is a little muddy, but that could just be those older sounds being used. I know allot of times if you are using some of the game library sounds (i know some people do rather than making the sounds), they can tend to lack a bit of crispness.

One thing about the acid bass,(personal opinion) when used in the mid ranges like you did around 50 i find it to kinda of suck all the attention from everything else.

The ending didn't loop all that well back into the start, what allot of loopers tend to do with their music is make circle progressions. That basicly eliminates any notice that the song is looping. Also the ending climax was too different from the start up of the song to loop and transition with out noticing. It's too much of a difference in things going on from 1;23 back into 000.

Other than very small things this piece really took me in. Like i said before i'm a huge sucker for this style of music so needless to say i loved the song.

You should ask people on the forums to scout you, im pretty sure sonic did. But it seems he and i aren't enough to approve you alone.

5/5

StaticBlu responds:

Thanks for the review. I did the sounds from scratch so I guess I need to keep a better ear on them. The looping was tricky to figure out. It probably would have been better to let everything die down first with the same cord progression then connect it so the large mass of sounds just don't cut off like that.

SonicJ did say that he would scout me on the condition that I make another Jet Set like piece because he loved the one I made before so much so gonna start figuring that out.

Really appreciate the feedback for this. It will help me to look for better sound quality in my work!