DarkBlueFX's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[-Golden Disc-]

I actually really like this! I'm diggin the synths, the abrupt silencing in the lead were well executed. If I were to suggest any improvement, feel free to get a little more dynamic in your instruments (simply put, play with more knobs). Also, when the lead is in solo, I can kinda hear a beat in it (I think that's due to the silent kick sound when that generator turns off). I think that is kinda cool, and when I hear that in any of my songs I try to mimic that beat in my percussion. Love it, keep it up!

Aquaninja360 responds:

thx I love great reviews!!!

[-Corpse Smash-]

I like how the percussion captures the dark feel of the song and especially the background sounds in the intro. With dubstep, you can go all over the place, feel free to throw in some other nasty shit in there to avoid being repetitive. You can let the bassline notes stay the same, but change up the sound in some locations maybe. What I've noticed a lot of people do is make their second drop slightly different than their first (with gating or other instruments or even a different tempo). So like similar enough to keep the same theme and idea but different enough to sound like something new (I know that sounds kinda vague, this song depicts what I mean by this https://soundcloud.com/fuckourordinarylives/fool-slayer ). I agree with JaThu, you have gotten better and so you should definitely keep making more! Can't wait to hear it!

Applesnitch responds:

Thanks! I can only work with the demo of FL Studio 12 (I know right ☹) but I will be getting the full version here pretty soon. Maybe another month and I will have it. For now though, I can't go back and work on the song. I may be getting ProTools soon though. :D Thanks for the ideas!

-Applesnitch

[Fucked up!]

I'm actually diggin this, you might want to give the voice a little more presence over the mix because it's a little difficult for me to hear on my speakers at least (my speakers are kinda shitty so maybe it's just me). One thing that might make the "fucked up" part be more distinct is to duplicate that part of the sample, lower it an octave or two and then layer that over the original, try that and how that sounds. I love the buildup and the drum fill leading into the drop. You've used the filters tastefully here and I fukin love violins.

The-Cockenator responds:

Haha Thanks man i really appreciate your hints and yes!!!! over dubing the fucked up part with a non echoing part might make it work :D and violins are just the cherry on the top :D and boosting the volume for the voice might make it 2 :D and thanks again for your lovely comment :D

[Inexpressible Stars]

Okay so last time I reviewed you, "NNN" was literally the only song I had listened to and I kinda based my judgement of your work completely off that song. I can definitely see now that you are experienced. You nailed your theme here; actually it made me want to play kerbal space program whilst listening to this song. So I did that for a while. My favorite thing is the background ambiance here and I actually don't have anything to say to be improved here. The reverb is tasteful, and the leads continue to add depth to your theme. If I ever make a space related animation/movie, I'm coming back here.

Syzion responds:

Thank you, DarkBlueFX! You certainly understand the theme.
Though, I must tell you, this wasn't done with FL Studio, it was made with LMMS(Linux Multimedia Studio, not just for Linux!). Like I said, I'm rather new to FL Studio. There are things on FL Studio that I have to completely work out for anything to sound good. The NNN project could take until October to be at its best, because of all the research and practice. I hope it turns out well...
Again, thank you!

[Dispatch (Dance)]

Not gonna lie here, it sounds great, like I've listened to it three times all the way through voluntarily. Venture out of your comfort zone a little. Techno music will always have a sidechained bassline and that kick-hat-snare-hat, but there's always a way to add your own signature spice to your work. Don't get me wrong it still sounds great (I'm listening a fourth time) and I really had to try in order to think of a comment you might find helpful.

PhatBoiJ responds:

Yeah man, I always get the "finding my own style comment" :P I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[Always Forever]

I think you should consider throwing a limiter over your master track. It sounds like you're getting some clipping due to having too many overpowering sounds. Everything you have here is great and I especially like the melodies, usually that is hard to come by. So all the musical talent and creativity is there, but there's just some technical issues.

Gravidi responds:

Thanks for the feedback, it is super helpful. I do agree with what you are saying about limiting the sounds. The technical stuff is really my only problem in production, I'm just not sure how to do all that yet.

[- Trinket -]

You should try delving into your percussion a little more here. Also, the saw that comes in at around 18 seconds in comes in a little abruptly. You could just be basic and have it come in via a low pass filter, or maybe something else would work. I think everything else is great, but if you had some solid, dynamic percussion throughout this song, I think this would really kick ass. Hell, if you could send me this without the percussion, I'd love to send you back my take on the drums in this.

Be4tyMu5ic responds:

Thanks for reviewing! I know that saw comes out abruptly but when I tried with filters I didn't like much the results... And for the percussions me too I think they should be more solid...Unfortunately idk how I could separate the drums from the other tracks (i'm noob xD) but thanks by the way xD!

[- Data Transfer -]

Just curious, was the bassline beginning inspired by "Blast Processing" in Geometry Dash? I'm pretty satisfied with this track, I would like to hear some changes on you initial idea later in the song in order to avoid being repetitive. Then again, repetition seems to be pretty common among dance music. Also, I can hear that you are using the presets in "Gross Beat". Although they work well here, try to avoid using too many of them. Gross beat is also pretty cool to use separately on bass tracks or percussion as opposed to just throwing it on the master track. Keep it up man!

Be4tyMu5ic responds:

Hi! Thanks for reviewing! Well I realized after finishing the song that those basses were similar to blast processing's ones (and in some ways Hexagon Force's ones too).Btw I'm working right now on a Remake of the song and it's coming out well! So it'll be less repetitive and so. About GB the fact is... I like it too much! If I could i would put it everywhere xD Thanks again!

[L-55 - Factory of Memories]

That was your voice!! HAHA that's awesome! You should totally record your self multiple times in different locations of a room and try to make a choir of yourself to get that EPIC choir Jo-B is talking about like right in the middle of the song.

L-55 responds:

:), im happy because you liked a remix of my voice, my voice is really deep, incredibly deep. Me and Skrillex made a beatifull remix of my voice for starting. :)

[NK217 - Prot0tron [bass boost]]

I can dig this. I love that grungey feel to the song with the DnB-ish percussion. It gets kinda weird to me, but after listening it to a few times I started getting used to it. As I kept listening to it though, I think your biggest strength is your percussion, I fucking love that shit! Keep it up man!

nitrokill217 responds:

Thanks, still finding ways to improve this but you can tell the small differences between this and the normal version.