E-o-e's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[~Electro House 2012~]

Mixing is nearly flawless man, in my opinion the snare could could come out more. Not sure about the little break in the middle, sounds like two separate songs. But you're sound scaping is nice! And you're leads, just need to find a better way to link your sections,

Keep it up!

-EoE-

keosni391 responds:

Yeah, a big mistake from me. The second part took me quite some time, so i didn't wan't to remove it. Just have too keep practicing :D

[First Song I Made in FL]

This song entrains we me so much :'D

you need to work on your mixing :P If you're not sure what that means, its making sure all the sounds are at the right levels. So there is no frequency overlapping.

Try adding some cymbals in there, and a snare! The melodies are good though man. Keep at it and you'll go far. No one is born amazing at producing, its just the people who keep practising :)

-EoE-

Dj-ReVeRsE responds:

Yeah I made this with Fl9 Demo like 2 years ago lol I have better stuff on my account now. Infact I've made a new account .. sadly I don't have this .flp anymore.. I liked the melody lol :( I would love to remake it xD..

[Hardstyle WIP 2]

Sounds a bit like jumpstyle :P

You're kick sounds really hollow like a jumpstyle kick, a hardstyle kick should be more distorted and have more sub bass :) Also there is no clear structure in your song!

I'm not sure if you listen to hardstyle, but I do. :) Basically, you typical hardstyle has an intro (just kick and a bassy lead) then a break down and a build up to the melody and kick and finally the intro again but modified for the outro. You also need to work on your trasitions! They're a lil jumpy :) I use to try and make hardstyle but the kicks are so good damn hard. I would recommend you get HYRDA VSTi! There are lot's of tutorials on it.

I also recommend you listen to a lot of different sub genres of hardstyle and different hardstyle artists to get some good influence for your own hardstyle.

Nice try,

-EoE-

TechnicolourNuance responds:

Thank you. :D
I know. I don't like the kick. -.- Do you have any help for the main melody? Did I at least get the lead sound down?

I listen to lots of hardstyle. Probably favourite genre other than metalcore haha. :3

I'mma pm you. Think you can help me with hardstyle as a whole?:o

[Troopas March -WIP- hardstyle]

Nice song :D

Ill review as I go
The first 20 seconds, seems very irrelevant to me, nicely done, but irrelevant. :D

I'm liking the melody (simple), good for an intro :D The intro first lead my need less delay.

Ok the kick needs a lot of work, more overdrive and more layers of eq and distort will do it some good. At the moment there's to much sub bass, not enough punch or kick.

At 1 minute, I'm not really sure of that new lead that's introduced, it detracts from the song.

1:26 you may need to take off the heavy reverb on those claps, the track is becoming a little bit too cloudy, with the kick having so much sub bass and all.

1:40 You need to work on transitions :D reverse effects, snare rolls. Anything to stop those transitions from sounding so sudden.

2:15 the kick should stop here, it should go into a build up/climax with an epic melody. This is hardstyle after all. But it ain't here. :(

2.40 This sounds kinda like what I was on about :D but there should be a break down and a build up from the intro sounds into the melody.

Well your main melody needs to be longer and less complicated, at the moment its a little confusing, and it would be hard to dance to this. (To many different rhythms).

4.05 The breath is a nice touch, it could do with quieter though

4.38 again no transition. It is all a little to sudden

All in all, I'd say there's to many melodies dotted around the place. The leads are not different enough from the intro, to the main section, to the outro, and there is no clear break downs, so it is unclear where the different sections :D

This is all constructive criticism, this is a good try since you've only started producing this year :D

-EoE-

TheShowGuy responds:

haha thank you so much for the review (: it stills needs alot of work ill highly take your advice since i did just start producing thank you! :D

[holy shit i did it again]

D: dist much?

There's no drums at all! and i can't listen to the song properly because of the horrible distort! turn your levels down man!

R3troGuy responds:

what the fuck man it sounded different in fl studio

also the percussion sucked

[The Last Summer]

I love the melodies

I have to say, you may need a new kick, and the bass needs to be louder.
Although, you have mastered the leads, but it is definitely missing the bass. You can't really feel the urge to dance to it. Have a louder saw bass through out the song, and a nice hard kick. I would recommend one from Vengeance Essential House Pack!

Also, some of mixing need improving and at 3:00, the transition needs to be smoother, along with replacing the detune from the bass, it sounds off key from the piano!

Otherwise good job man! Keep 'em coming!

Also, quick side note, working on one song for such a long time may not be advisable. The more you do, the more you learn!

-EoE-

halfdeadorfull responds:

Thank you :) This is an insanely helpful review, I really appreciate it ^_^ I'll work on stuff like that in the future :D

[RD2011-It Had A Heart]

Nice track

You should try getting a double ended audio jack (male to male), which is really cheap. Then just play your song and get your recording program to record it! quality problem solved! :D

-EoE-

Croire responds:

I have one but because the GB i was using didn't have a prosound modit sounded even worse.

[My Dreams -Lakloplak-]

Nice song!

But the technical side is holding you. You may need to improve the mixing on this song as through out it there is unnecessary bass, which eats up some of your leads and the some of the levels are out. Try getting it so each one is equal on the mixer :L

The melodies are spot on! The sample and lead choice is excellent! 1:20 the transition sweep was a little quite :D

all in!
9/10
5/5

Well done man! good effort

-EoE-

Lakloplak responds:

I have never been good at mixing and I agree with you that the bass sometimes is too much. Maybe the sweep is a bit quite, but there isn't any there. Just a cut-off filter. But thank you for your supportive review!

[Who Are We - BeefourMusic]

I like it :D

The song overall is really good, but I think there's a few issues that need addressing here.
1) The Defcon 1 vocals are epic, they can be really be used to emphasise drops, so I'd recommend they be louder than they are now.
2) At some points I could here it clipping. Only slight, but it is noticeable :D

Otherwise good effort man! Keep it up, hopefully I could see you see you there :P

SUB4RU responds:

Sweet, I will check it out tonight and sort those issues out.

- BeefourMusic -

[/_Control Yourself_\]

urggh trance :P

I don't listen to much trance or like it that much. But I can tell technicals on a song :D it's a nice track, lot's of good synths to keep it interesting, although it does get a tad repetitive.

WildeKeizer responds:

Trance is repetitive music, it needs to be. I guess people have different attention spans than mine. :)