Everratic's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Once Upon a Time]

it's better than bad mayo

Miyolophone responds:

et tu BO

[Colossal Universe]

If I can make a riser half as good as yours, I'll be content.

[Christmastide Memories]

I love this song :'D
Remember that track that I made for the imitation compo? it was inspired by a version of this song.

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

Thank you! I'm glad you like it, I do too! It's a shame I didn't have time to do anything more special for this year, but I'm sure you know why ^___^
Merry Xmas, and good night :D!!!

P.S. I do :3

[Insomnolence]

These are really nice chords. The white noise makes the atmosphere sound very rich.

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

I like the chords too! I think they are (if I recall)...

D minor (going upwards: D, A, F, D)

F Major 7 (F, C, A, E)

G7 (G, D, F, B)

C Major 7 (C, G, E, B)

A minor 7 (A, E, C, G)

Usually I'd just write the chords, but for this piece the way you play the notes actually make a difference :)
Thanks for checking it out here too!

[Road To Redemption]

<33333333

zybor responds:

(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

[Adventure Awaits!]

This is one of your best songs imo :D
It's so catchy and joyous!

LunacyEcho responds:

Thanks!! I really do agree—I'm pretty proud of this one :)

Thanks for listening!

[LSD Melodica (Free Kontakt VST)]

I forgot to use this :O
I wonder if I could make a cool, unique sound by adding some distortion.

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

Go ahead and try! :D
Good luck ;)

[Summer Days]

The melodies are lovely :D I love how different leads play different parts of it. The sound design is indeed great. With that said, I'm not so fond of how you've been compressing your songs lately; it's mostly subjective, because I can acknowledge that the compression is well executed. I just find it to be too noticeable and distracting, and I feel like it detracts from the liveliness from the music. The leads don't get a chance to shine; they sound glued to the rest of the track.

johnfn responds:

thanks, definitely something to contemplate....... i think i love the big warm sound of the bass and it makes me ignore how the rest of the song sounds lol

[Fresh Lump of Shit]

Thank you for making chips compo better.

[VATstep]

This is impressive for your first attempt at a dance track but not that unexpected :)

I read some of the comments about the mix in #production. I don't think having little bass is necessarily a bad thing; I believe the reason why it doesn't work so well in this case is because of the weight issues I mentioned earlier. There's this one element that serves the role of the bass to some extent, but because it's not quite there frequency-wise, and it's not used constantly during the chorus, it creates a sense of ambiguity as to how light the mix was intended to be.

Miyolophone responds:

Thank you BO! Frankly I don't go into most pieces with an intention to make a light/heavy mix per se, so that may be part of the issue with ambiguity. It's something I'll work on in the future if I every try this kind of thing again.