Warhector's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[March (A.I.M. Submission)]

This reminded me of Radioactive - Imagine dragons. But when I searched up ad compared the songs, they fall quite different. I do not know why it reminded me. Other than that, I like the progression. The emotions could I imagine is from a futuristic game. Nothing much to say for the mixing either. Maybe a little less distortion on the bass in the intro. But overall its a good work!

I listened to all the entries and your piece in my opinion is within the top 13.5 at least! Keep it up, and good luck!

Souldran responds:

Awesome, thanks for the feedback! Since the deadline got extended a bit I'm probably going to redo the outro and play with the mix a tad, so hopefully it'll be even better.

[Your Mudkip Has Evolved]

Haha, the intro reminded me like a old dial-up modem! You have here a short chipstep song. The mix is great, but I think it falls a bit short. If you had little time prior to the deadline, I understand! Good luck man!

Quarl responds:

I threw this together in a couple of hours. I could fix it up but given the priceless piece of fine art this song is based off of...

yeah fuck it.

[A Love Unforgotten]

This reminds me a lot of The Witcher 2 in game atmospheric music. Search up some footage and see/hear for yourself. The transitions flows nice and the library/sounds are pretty good! Love the melody! And the vocals sounds authentic, and so do the ethnic instruments. In the terms of arranging, melody and the composition I have no bad thing to say. Just beautiful.

The mixing however there is some tiny small adjustments that could be done. My suggestion is: the intro synth/stings needs a tiny frequency cut at about 400hz, and the flute about 1300hz. Nothing much; like 3db. It's a very subtle thing. I notice tiny details like that, that is my curse! You get highest score from me nontheless.

10/10, 5/5. Keep up with good work. See ya around!

Bosa responds:

I've never played The Witcher 2 myself, nor have I played the first one. However, I heard good reports about the games.

Thank you for the suggestions and review, my friend!

[Final Siege]

This is one of the better in the competition! And the best of your entries as well. I associate this song, and the art as well, with Age of Empires! Has that kind of wibe. I dont know if you purposely added some glitch in the mix, but I like this piece of music nonetheless. keep making music! And good luck.

Emid responds:

Thank you very much for your kind words. Yes the art piece has AoE type of vibe and I really like samulis work. I liked that glitch in the guitar notes which is showing closeness to real if you are pointing towards it. Good luck to you as well. Yours is awesome too :)

[Bordello Frostbite]

Well since you were kind and write me a review. I'm not often hear or produce much Industrial, so I have little knowledge about different sub-genres. It may be some called steam-punk or gritty. I guess there is a genre called creepy. And here goes!

This is very Interesting. As a piano player you did not play the most advanced progression, and I think that is what needed. (Never play more than needed ;) ). The devil chord is creeping out the song, which fits the art well. The amount of effects used is not to much as well. This is a kind of song that not builds much up, as the modern electronic does.

I can not say much bad for the mixing. You cleaned the mix pretty much up good. The one thing you can add more is distortion. It fits the industrial aspect. Find a good one for your song and add some on the master channel and or all channels.

Else keep up the music making. And good luck on the competition!

Quarl responds:

ahahaha, thanks man. I usually get a hard time for using too much distortion but it's nice to see someone encourage it for a change. Also: tritones ftw.

[Revolution]

What I think Backspace is trying to say is, that you need to use more techniques that a house artists arsenals uses. Try some kick sidechaining the bass and leads. Maximize the master track for mastering to bring more power to your mix. Use some more compression on the drums. That is for the technical aspect. You are not a bad musician. Keep it up, and you will create great songs!

ForeverBound responds:

lol well the kicks are already compressed pretty hard also some sidechain might work but i like a bit of reverb like it is now more also i think i forgot something now u said about maximizing will try to do that as soon as possible

also thank u for the review

[The Uncharted Voyage]

congratz with your song in 2nd place! Between you and me; I like this song more than the 1nd place. Now for the review:
I like the sound the library produces. The composition was awesome done. I like the twist you have done with the 1st melody and 2nd melody. "Painting" a song with a picture as a inspiration source is something I have to try one day. What kind of experience do you have with classical/orchestra music?

deadlyfishes responds:

I have a lot of experience growing up from a very strong compositional background. I began studying theory and orchestration while I was still in elementary school. I am still a student at a music college undertaking Film Scoring and Music Composition as my majors. I record a lot of my own orchestra music in recording studios for film projects for school and outside of school. I occasionally submit my compositions for readings where orchestras do a quick run through of your music, and sometimes I have my pieces featured in some concerts here and there. I am not just an orchestral buff though, I produce and compose many other styles as a game and film composer. You should check out my website sometime and see my other tracks. You might be surprised of all the many styles I am well-versed in. I think it's important for composers to try different things out once in a while. Knowing other styles really does give you an edge on other composers in the competitive music industry, so I think it is important for anyone going into the professional music industry to try to do those other genres. Anyways, sorry for all the rambling, I am glad you enjoyed it!

[Arabic Ectasy]

Jøss.
Nice piece:) what kind of library do you use?
It is hard to pull of good Arabic theme. I've heard too many fail to make any good ones. But you pulled it off with a cinematic twist. I suppose I just used to ethnic percussion to this kind of music. Cause I didn't expect you using this percussion. Overall very good, good luck in the contest :D
cheers

Emid responds:

Thanks a bunch for your input. I used EWSO, LASS and Best service Ethno world. Some free vsts' as well. Glad you enjoyed it but I am not participating in the contest.

[Tech House Test]

Inspired by thee mau5 ?
I hear you made this slower than normally (128-130 bpm). That's cool. You should extend this to a song. Not many who listen to this kind of music, unfortunately. Take a listen to my tech house if you like! :)

K-POW responds:

Haha yeah, deadmau5 is a fucking genious. He's one of my all time favorite artists.

I kinda want to make this into a song, I do. But i'm working on some other songs currently so this won't be finished in a while unfortunately.

If i'm not mistaken the BPM is 112 - 114. (the pulse feels better when the bpm is around 100 bpm I think).

I surely will listen to your songs, since you spent your time listening to mine :)

Peace

[Cloudless Sky]

Very good played, well put together and vocals are awesome :D But the mixing is the only thing you should work with. There is not much low end. That's why I give 9/10.

question: Do you have a higher quality version? If not, and if you're interested, PM me and I'll give you an sample to help your mix/mastering :)

SharedFate responds:

Hello Warhector!
Thank you for your review, we really appreciate it.
We know that this was not the best mix, but it was probably cause we wanted to get a 'real drumkit' and messed up the whole mix with that - that's a known issue : /
We usually master with iZotope's Ozone 5 cause it was pretty cheap and looked good for the first steps in mastering-business :)

I'll PM ya, thanks again for listening and reviewing.