x-Exodus-X's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[another garbage FL...]

this one is better than the least one, at least

i dont think you should give up on FL! this one had a cool beat and eerie feel, pretty much all i like in a song. nice synth, which one did you use? just work on length and diversity, and there's alot of FL tutorials around, you just have to look! nice job! 4/5

BigD88 responds:

I don't remember, but i guess i can keep workin with it. I GREATLY APPRECIATE THE REVIEW!!! T_T ppl recognize me lol

[Listen To Your Heart DV Mix[D]]

nice work

thanks for crediting me! this is a good song. nice build up to the melody, you're good at that. great trance filter fade in. i love the heavy beat, this song just has that energetic and inspirational feeling too it. my only 2 suggestions would be work on the heart noise, it's pretty cheap, and work on the bass. it sounds relly messy when it hits that low note. great so far! keep it up! 5/5!

DJ-DaVinster responds:

Thanks for the review, first off.

Hey, you asked me to credit you. Oh, and I'm moving to The Music Repository. Newgrounds is just for practices & demos now.

Yeah, I'm better at beats & making basslines than melodies, as you can tell.

I took out the heartbeat, 'cause it didn't really fit, lol. I'll work on mastering the bass later.

[Technical Breakdown]

nice

this is cool, and the name defintley fits the title. how did you make that one awesome, wavy sound? was that already on cakewalk? nice beat too, it was all faded out. only, the song was kind of repetitive. it only had that beat and synth thing, and nothing else. it had a great feel to it, but just go for a little more diversity!

-Exodus

amilicious responds:

Thanks, I'm working on my diversity in peices, and yes I used cakewalk! Thanks for the positive reviews.

[taxafuller]

nice!

this is a good mix of jazz and dance, with an industrial beat. i can see why you put it in misc., it had an awesome blend of instruments.

5/5 for sure. the sax was cool, where did you get that sample? and yea, what program do you use? great percussion, i loved the beat, good mastering too. i think that it could use a little more diversity though. diversity is a broad word, i dont exactly mean vartiey, this song changed alot. i mean instrument wise. all the instruments you used were great, and i wante to use more of them! ah well, great song, good structure, nice blend = 5/5+download!
nice song man!
-Exodus

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

chars my man,
i know what you mean, i think the end section needs some real beefing, was quite lazy, just layered it up and hoped for the best.
peas
;ped

2013 is a problem with a lot of these old tunes that I love in a lot of ways. they have a lot of naiveties like beats sticking too long without doing much or certain sections begging for development. pisses me off. the only way to salvage all this toot is to start from scratch.
Px

[Uncolored]

cool

yea, this is dark and distorted all right. try to take the fuzziness out, that annoyed me after a while. you used a good variety of instruments on this, i liked it. cool effects. this is really great for a first submittion. that's a pretty cool drum you. you should probably try putting in a melody though, i dunno. that higher pitched synth was close enough i guess. it was great at the end, with all the dark instruments going at the same time, it gave the song a cool feel (not just dark and distorted, more like, 'hectic'). you should have had more of an ending though. keep it up, your doing great so far! check out my page too, i just got a new song out! a review would be nice too :P

-Exodus

monochromatic responds:

Hey, thanks. I put a lot of effort into this song, i guess it payed off.
I'll give your stuff a look in a little while, as I have work to do.

[[Clown}{Revived]]

yea this is pretty cool

you probably should have added more stuff though. i know it's all circusey, but you should have not made it sound so empty. another happy synth would have done it. it never really had a melody too. the whole song didnt really go anywhere. i like that flute like thing that you bring in though, it sounds almost, arabian. cool beat too. all you need to do is add some variety. this had wht, 4 instruments? 4/5. check out my page too, i could use your feedback on my new song.

C3NTAURI0N responds:

If you want more shorter versions go to my 3rd page, there are 3 more mixes there.
c3

[{ANT} - Hyped!]

yea

this definetley hyped me up! what was up with that intro though? it seemed pretty random to me. you should probably diversify it out more next time though. this had like, 5 insturments. i dunno, you used a lot of diffrent melodies and fx and beats though, and i liked that. one thing about the song is that it didnt go anywhere. you always had it build up, but then it would just repeat that bouncey, pumpy, happy part again. pretty cool song. 4/5. check out my page too i have a new song out and i cud use your feedback.
-Exodus

Anth0n responds:

I wanted to try something different from what I usually make. I like how it turned out, but I do agree with your suggestions.

[Gorilla jam(demo)]

ok

i will be frank with you, it has ALOT of room for improvement.

to start out with, you absolutley have to stop using that gay FL voice generator! you're better off recording yourself speaking, it just sucks. the notes have random dynamics, bad pronunciation, and it is just plain cheap and overused.

the brassy synth that comes in right after...well, cool use of a fade in, but you sort of overdid it. it almost killed my ears. it was way too loud. i dunno, it wasnt that great of a synth either. it was pretty low quality and buzzy, choose some better ones, like tweak/master the generator presets on FL.

good beats you have there, im glad you diversified the percussion. you really needed a kick though. the snare was pretty punchy, a sturdy dance snare, but kick/hat isnt really good in techno. not too big of an issue. overall, good job with that.

needs more of a melody though. plus you have what, 5 instruments in there? come on man, diversify it up a little. use a better, stronger bass. more sounds. better sounds. that's all you really need to do. 3/5.

-Exodus

Mr-green-apple responds:

thx for the critique. its very informative. the synth at the begining is supposed to be a bit filthy but ill fix a lil. i know i cam do better im just a huge noob tho.

[Neon Grudge]

pretty cool.

the bass is sorta cheap. i know you spent alot of time mastering it, but it sounds really low quality and buzzy. the string is really buzzy too. i dunno how you do that, but its annoying, expecially with headphones. i like how you switched up the bass around middle of the song. and i love that melody with the string. you did a nice job on that. both parts, the first one and the part with the back up string ,are great.
one other small problem i had with it was when the bass faded out at the one part, it went really fast. i like the beat too, its cool, which snare did you use? you probably should have used a diffrent beat after a while, it got kind of repetitive. you did 'spice up' the hats though, that was pretty cool. oh yea and one more thing, the song had a lot of variety in it, note-wise, but you should have used some more instruments. this only had 3 melodic instruemnts.
5/5 and download, good job. just remember...more instruments and better quality!

-Exodus

Neon-Crepth responds:

Thankyou for the review exodus! i know where you're coming from with most of your comments. however, i do have disagree with some of them. the bass, to me, felt fitting to the song and i didnt hear the buzzyness in the sting. the snare was the third snare in the dance section i think. thank you about the melodies. i realize i should have put alittle more instruments in ther but it was intended to be background music in a game my brothers making.
alsoi i didnt knnow whicg=h part had the fast bass, ill check it out.

thx again. ttyl, and ill review ure songs...

-crepth

[On Fire 2]

lol is it saying 'can't you see i'm on fire?'

great song, you've surpassed my expectations once again. i haven't listened to your original On Fire but i will right after this.

i like the vocals, i dunno if it was you that did it, but the delay on the voice is synced perfectley with the song. also that little distortion fade in with the voice at the very beggining, is very cool. you gotta tell me how you did that!

the build up to the drum break is pretty much perfect. the pads/synth strings you used were absolutley marvelous. which program did you use for this one? yea anyway back to the build. i like how you diversifyed the piano chords there, but throughout the song they were used alot and the same notes everytime. i dunno they were pretty covered up by the other instruments so i guess it doesnt matter that matter that much.

your fx, like usual, is amazing. you just have this magic touch for reverb, delay, filters, it's incredible. but my main problem with this song was that little moogy synth. you would have your awesome filter cut fades with it, but it really bothered me. it was pretty prodominent at most parts of the song and it really was annoying. it was that one at 1:30. yea, it might just be me but it sounded pretty cheap, too poppy.

my other concern was the chime. dont get me wrong, it was awesome at other part, good delay and all, but at 1:46 when it comes in, it is horribley off beat! i dont know if that was an error on your part, or you did that on purpose, but its like one half or one beats off beat and the first time i heard it, i went back and played it like 6 times before being sure.

good job once again EON, this is defineltey one of the best trance songs i have heard in a while. newgrounds is spawning pop ups like crazy, so i have to wrap up the review here. keep em coming!

-Exodus

EON responds:

Thanks for the review. Ok, in order..
Firstly, the 'distortion fade' you referred to was the technique of reverse reverb, where you reverse the sample, add reverb, and then reverse it back again. Clever huh :)
I used FL for everything, apart from sound forge for the reverse reverb.
Yeah I guess it was a little repetitive, but that's why I put it under trance..
And how can you call that 'moogy' synth cheap?? It's an awesome preset on Vanguard, I really liked it. Very Leftfield.
And the chimey fill, I'm pretty sure it's not offbeat. I put it in exactly the same beat of the bar as all the other instances. Interesting you thought that though, maybe it's to do with the speakers, or it could just be the distortion at that point.

Don't forget to vote the track next time! :)

-EON