fSYNCLIPSE's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Forever Mortal]

Good song! I'd say this was a little bit more dubstep but I haven't heard enough d'n'b to judge.

[Around (First Move)]

I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but the listening experience is poor due to too much clipping. Way too loud m8.

emseeemotion responds:

I wanted really blown out drums for it. I think it fits for the panic attack-esque vibe of the track. Clipping to me is an evocative way to immerse the listener into that while still maintaining elements of pop structure and form. Totally cool that it wasn't for you though, thanks for listening!

[WANDERANG]

I feel like I know what you're trying to do... but it's not really done right, or at least it feels like that.

Alright, big problems: The first few snares in the intro are too loud. Also, the snare at 00:41 are so loud they are basically jumpscares. Actually the snare in several places are louder than desired, especially when there's a part with four snares in a row. It sounds a lot like you accidentally have duplicate snares on top of each other.

The piano sounds out of place. Try replacing it with a synth. The steel drums part is just weird... I think you were trying to have a calming moment before the last part, but it's either too short or the instrument is wrong or both.

Other than that, nice song!

DooarDz responds:

oh my god, well xD, the truth when i do this kind of things, I don’t think much, this is a product of a few free hours, but, I thank you, this is a version with a random beat, the only thing I liked was the piano part (sorry for my bad english)... and thank you for the comment, I will try to improve

[Marble]

Although this is out of my style of music, I gotta say the melody in 1:17 becomes weird and awkward for a moment.

Also your song could use a music editing software like Audacity to normalize the volume of the track.

Other than that, I like it!

[World Bowser - SM3DW]

Really catchy tune! Although I have to say the synth that gets introduced at 0:50 just sounds a tiny bit out of place, perhaps you're using the wrong sound? Still really good though, would love to hear more from ya!

Waddoop responds:

It's actually Bowser's Theme from Mario 64! Same instruments and all. Initially my ear told me it fit with simple transposing but maybe I should've changed some notes to fit to the key better?

Thanks a ton for taking the time to listen and review, even! Honestly didn't think unapproved artists got much attention here, glad to be proven wrong.

[Sober Driver Pipe Bomb]

I feel like this song could be almost perfect... but at the same time I don't really know how to fix this... but I'll try. I don't really know that much in this type of music...

To me, the guitars sound perfect. It's just the piano that's disrupting the flow. I feel like the piano bits are unnecessary and just takes you out of the immersion.
Also the ending sounds a little awkward, but I don't really know what's wrong with it.

Other than that, good music!

Zaffarathyx responds:

Im actually fixing the whole song for the same, i guess is the wind and piano parts

["Synth Madness" (September 26, 2020)]

Important things first, perhaps you should use an audio editing software to normalize the volume of the music. The listening experience definitely gets better the louder the song is from the start (although you don't want to clip it unless you're into that or it's absolutely necessary). I recommend Audacity for this since it's free.

Other than that, I'd say it'd be favourable if the song had more variety than the single repeating melody pattern you got there. I mean you could compensate by adding more instruments or making it sound more varied but at the moment I keep hearing the same three tones, and by the middle of the song it becomes... well... to be blunt: boring. I also feel like the last drum bit felt out of place, or left the song sounding incomplete.

Nice song though, and congrats on your longest song!

Voxalice responds:

Thank you for the feedback, I appreciate it and hope to improve in the future.

Looking back on this song, I did find the problems you found with the song to be very prevalent. I don't have fantastic listening equipment at the moment, so I doubt I would've ever noticed the volume problem without being told about it.

The melody is a little too short and repetitive, and I went out of my way to try to make it sound less monotonous, but I may not have been as successful as I wanted to be in that regard.

Again, thank you for the criticism!

[Matsuko's Lab!]

The sounds are overall okay, but the melody sounds... weird. Perhaps you aren't placing the notes where they should be. Try looking into chords and scales.

ButterBees responds:

Thanks for the feedback! I'm still pretty new to composing, so every bit of advice really helps. I'll try to look into more of that, cause I have trouble sometimes coming up with a melody.