Darthfett's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Chaoz Fantasy reFX DnB reMIX]

Meh

Considering you didn't have to write any of the tune yourself, it's not that great, to put it bluntly.

A remix is about re-mixing the original track completely, so that all you can hear is the basic themes, and sometimes melodies. However, you didn't change up the notes much at all. This makes it more of a re-arrangement.

And with a rearrangement, you have to do a spectacular job with the instrumentation, which you didn't, really. It's one synth playing all the notes, and then the drums. Not much depth to it.

Sorry to be so harsh, but I don't think you should get a higher score just because you used good material to start with. A good artist should be able to start from a decent song, and make it spectacular.

reFX-Audio responds:

Thank you anyway!

and thanks for the comment. I'm prety sure that you will like my next version!
-reFX

[Don't Say A Word]

Needs work

It may need work, but it still has a great tune. :)

A lot of your song needs syncopation (Ra-tata-Tah!), with more off-beat rhythms to mix it up a little bit, and to make it less generic.

I also suggest you add more effects to your channels, and try messing around with all the knobs on the channels themselves. The way it is right now, I can recognize just about every single one of these channels as FL presets. Using a Eurogate is kind of cheating, since you only made some of the notes, while the channel does the rest :P (It's different if you created the arp yourself)

I also very much dislike the generic FL Kick, it's in every beginner song, and anyone who's ever touched FL Studios can recognize that it is a beginner song, and will tend to rate it so.

The rhythm and tunes aren't too bad at all. You're one of the luckier ones that only really needs practice with the program, not practice with music theory. :)

thatguy669606 responds:

Thanks for the review. Yeah I'm pretty new to FL so I'm still working on it. Would love to make my own arp but have no idea how. Any pointers? Anyway appreciate the time to review it. I recently got VECS and z3ta+ so hopefully I'll be putting out some better quality material. Thanks taking the time to review this.

[Nathan Rain - Odyssey]

Some cool effects in there. :)

I'm unfamiliar with House music, so I can't give you too much criticism that will be useful.

I liked the intro, and I thought it had a very unique feel to it. The jungle-like drums were my favorite part of the song, they sounded great, and made me feel as if I was in a war in the jungle. The suspense from the song was cool, though I thought the guitar was a little odd. (maybe a little bit out of place?)

It reminds me of some of the music from a game I played as a kid: Red Alert 2. The heavy kick and combination of some electronic-sounds with a war-like feel is what I really liked about it.

Thanks for your reviews! :D

NathanRain responds:

Thanks :)

Those aren't actually guitar lines, they're synths with fuzz distortion on them.

[Nathan Rain - Stars At Dawn]

Ooh, different. :)

This is great. It has a really nice feel to it, a bit relaxing, while at the same time keeping it interesting with some nice sounding drums (with great filters on them!) I loved the pads, they really made the song give a feel of awe and peace, while the light bells gave it a happy and relaxing feeling.

It reminds me a lot of some of the songs on ocremix (songs I have on my mp3 player).

I think the transitions at ~2:30 could use some work though. It was kind of out of place sounding.

Other than that, I couldn't find anything else wrong with the song. I'm probably not as music-knowledgeable as you.

I'm sorry to advertise, but it seems that reviews are the only place that you can actually get people to view your songs. I think it's only fair that I review you, you review me, but you don't have to if you don't feel like it (obviously :P)

NathanRain responds:

Well I appreciate it, and I left you two different reviews for the trouble.

As for the transitions, I somewhat disagree, though I understand your point about them sounding out of place, I believe it's just the layering.

Respect.

[David Sonar Practice]

Short, worse than New Stuff Demo

New Stuff Demo was a lot better. You already used the tune in that song, but this one seems to have almost no variation compared to that song.

Good, but I'd rather see something like New Stuff Demo again. :)

Pyroific responds:

lol, it's worse probably because i made the kick myself in this, where as i used a sample in the other.

[p4c-nightlife [unfinished]]

Neat effects. :D

I've listened to 3 of your songs so far, and they seem to be very different from the typical songs on Newgrounds. I wasn't sure if I liked this at first, but when it hit 0:45, I got happy. :P What software do you use to make your music?

The dirty sounding bass and high pitched beeping noises really gave the song a good feeling, its name suits it well. It reminds me of the kind of feel you get in a nightclub.

I noticed the strange synth at 1:07 around the 2nd/3rd time I listened, and I liked the feel that it gave the song, but it ended early (probably because the song is unfinished), but I feel that it should go on further to develop the song even more.

MOAR! :D

p4c responds:

yeah, i started this and posted this up a while back but then just lost the urge to finish it, but it seems like it was really well received... maybe ill come back :) ill see.

thanks for listening thru, btw, haha too many ppl here just stop. the strange synth was actually some crazy fx processing on the bass. it was definately going to get more intensely active in concept but i just stopped haha. thx for lookin!

oh, and i use propellerheads reason 4.

[New Stuff Demo]

You're ALMOST there.

Wow, this is strange, but I can hear a lot of potential. It reminds me of a lot of good songs, that need just a tiny bit more smoothing out before being finished.

Keep working on it, you're ALMOST there! :D

Pyroific responds:

I'll be finishing 2 of these songs ;)

[UGO - Universe is Dancing]

WOW, very nice!!

Wow, this shows that you have music talent, even if you aren't perfect with the software. I'm giving this a 10 solely to help you get further on this site. You definitely need to keep working with FL Studios, and keep getting better with it.

A few things I'll say about why I normally would give this about an 8 is that it isn't very full in my ears. (at the 2:43 mark it gets better, but before that, it is missing something). You also used a drumloop, which is bad unless you use the slicer tool to mix it up a lot.

The kick should have been more powerful as well, I thought.

Great work!! Lovely melody!

~Darthfett

Juguito responds:

i love when my music is critiziced!

well lets see...
it lacks of melody before the 'chorus' .. i know but i thought of doing a simple music
(maybe this is too simple ehehehe)
the 2:43 mark is the middle part (in spanish -my language- its called 'bridge'
i dunno if in english too)
an in these bridges i allways try to do more interesting the music, so it worked!! hehe
i didint understand why is it bad to use a drumloop! ... though i dont use them a lot
but i love oldschool-DnB rythms/drumloops and i decided to do a song with those.
i think the same about the kick... but sometimes ive problems when i EQ
bcause it ends to sound very noisy! and distorted (bcause of the noise)

thanks!!!! a lot

[Pokemon Sinnoh Pokerap (FULL)]

LOL!

LOL. The pokemon world is full of uncreative and hard to pronounce pokemon.

Good job making a parody of the sellout pokemon has become.

:D

sonicmega responds:

I hear Nintendo just trademarked the versions Opal and Quartz...

BUM BUM BUUUUMMMMMM.