EctiBot's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Nescada's Theme]

Yet another great piece. Think you've become a Review Request club favourite at this point X3.
All I can ask myself is how in the world did you do that buildup halfway through o_O? It was just too amazing and pure genius.
You've got yourself another perfect score and another fan. Great job :D!

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sleepFacingWest responds:

Thank you! That buildup was actually very difficult, but was requested by the client. The motives that were set up early on could have been extended and developed, but the piece needed to be ~3:00 (or at least that's all I was getting paid for). The project specs demanded that the piece go to a more turbulent place with "tribal" percussion and electric guitars. I sort of forced the transition, then tried to smooth things over through orchestration and arranging. I'm glad it seems to have worked out.

[~Lost in Fantasy~]

Huwii, ths is awesome. The intro was misleading, which I love btw. Caught me by surprise when it suddenly became super catchy. As taintedLogic mentioned, the ending was a bit too sudden.
The mixing is spot on, and the structure is pretty good. I kinda missed an arpeggio laye, just to not make the track to repetetive, but that's really just my style and my preference X3.
Great track yet again :) larry.

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larrynachos responds:

I'm kind of worried that maybe the misleading intro led people to click away, which would have sucked lol.

This track is short and undeveloped because I was worried that if I touched it any more I would break it and it would suck.

Thanks for the review!

[Blue Jay]

Pretty nice tune. This is a genre that seems to fit you. t's a bit repetetive though. With "repetetive" I don't only mean that the melody is repetetive, but my main issue with this track is that it has consistent dynamics throughout the entire song. I never feel like the energy level of the song varies at all. If youl isten to a lot of the 8 bit music in games like super mario, you notice thatthe composer varies the energy level of the song by adding parts with rapid notes for an instance.
Easier to explain with an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH8mQRXemuo

Listen to how the composer around 2:33 adds a part where there are more inbetween notes and runs. This really helps to vary the dynamics of the song as well as the melody. Hope you get my point XD.

Other than that, this is a pretty solid composition. Would sound great in a video game :).

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[Phantom Shadows]

Most of what need to be said has already been said. this just sound like one big buildup really, and I just found myself waiting for a transition that never came :/. You pretty much nailed what you did do, love it. Think Drum N Bass is a genre that fits you, but need that melodic gold ;).

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Xstar7 responds:

thx. im still a bit new to making songs though x3

[the stage]

The chord progression and arrangement of this was pretty good :D. I actually love the track apart from the mixing . I think the main problem is that you don't eq your synths properly. I advise you to go through a tutorial on eq'ing . A good or bad eq makes or breaks a track like this.
I agree with Keitomine that compression is important as well, but if the eq is bad, compression will only make it worse. concentrate on learning proper eq'ing for now, and I promise you that you won't regret it :).

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[Where The Madness Lies]

Awesome track again lokimiah :). Though the 8bit sounds you experimented with were really good :D. The arrangement of this was pretty awesome, and it really gives the feel of fighting a villian in a video game. I agree with larrynachos about the high pitched tick. at the beginning. doesn't really fit IMO.
Also the track ends a bit too abruptly and this doesn't loop around at all which you probably should do something about.

Great 8bit track again :).

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[The Abyss]

Pretty rad track this. A very original concept, and I low the synhs you use, the mixing is generall pretty good, and the arrangementi s pretty good. Only thing I want to comment is that the robotic wobble synth that comes in around 0:10 could use a tiny little bit of high frequencies. Just the highest ones really, because it's kinda clashing with some of your more high pitched synths.
another thing, the clap around 1:27 is a bit too loud. had to turn down my volume dow when it came in. Just turn the level down slightly and it should be ok :).

I'm just nitpicking really because I think that this was really good. No real major faults with it :D.

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Felocai responds:

I'va noticed that the clap is to loud few days after I finished the track becouse I was working with really bad speakers when uploading that, so I didn't notice that.
Now I bought better speakers, so problems like that shouldnt occur anymore :)
Thanks for reviewing!