nightvision's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Psybot - Journey for the light]

Excellent

I would tend to classify this as more DnB, but that's just my personal opinion. I personally feel a few parts are "thin", but your mastering is excellent. Nice melodies, but I find that they could be slighlty less mainstream (diversity = my appeal).

I also noticed quite a long pause at the conclusion of the track, slightly awkward for repeating.

Nonetheless this is a great track. You have a good idea how to universally fit all of your ideas in a fluid manner.

nightvision

(Thanks for your vote, nightvision! You voted 5 for Psybot - Journey for the light, raising its score from 3.67 to 3.77)

[Supa Tunez]

More improvement

Great improvement. Compared to other recent song, it's obvious to see that you have put a tremendous amount of time dedicated to learning what to improve on.

All of my points in previous reviews have been given attention.Improvement wise, this deserves another 5/5 (which is exactly what it got).

I think others may agree with me that you win the "most-improved" award. Keep up the learning curve, my young aspiring musician. :)

nightvision

Father-of-Death responds:

lol "my young aspiring musician" lol

thnx man i'd aprciate all the help i can get!

[Highway To Bliss]

A Job Well Done

I am truely impressed, and I have so much positive to say about this track. I've split my thoughts up into the different parts of the song, hopefully my feedback is more helpful that way.

The Introduction - The fading choir harmonies provides a very unique beginning. The chord progression you use with your guitar is absolutely beautiful, and the clave adds a nice dynamic. I'm quite impressed with the mastering by the way, it sounds very professional.

The Body - Vocals are solid, and are well matched for the emotion you carry in the song (Nice lyrics by the way). One suggestion if I may, try standing furthur from the mic and put a little more air into your notes (try not to shy into the mic, your voice is less shaky if you push the volume). I was wowed once again when I heard the 80's style synth solo come in, very cool ideas are introduced through all of your melodies in the song. The delay on it wasn't quite too much, you seemed to have got it just perfect, nice. With the high standard that you set with the rest of the great samples, I was somewhat disappointed when I heard the cheesy saxophone (Sorry, wasn't a fan). Still some very excellent material here. It deserves a 5/5 regardless of what I heard after the first minute.

The Ending - More smooth fading choir harmonies. I like it. Alot.

In fact, I could consider you one of my top favorite artists just from the effect of this song. This deserves 7/5, but I suppose i'll settle for just a 5/5 and a download. ;)

Take it easy man, you're a fabulous artist in the making,

nightvision

T7online responds:

Wow, that's great feedback man, thanks!

[Gang raped with a rusty spoon]

Way too much gain

You might want to extend this riff into a longer song than it is. Try to add some diversity as well.

First things first though, turn down the gain! It's almost impossible to liten to because of the clipping and distortion.

Not horrible, but definetely needs some attention.

Casualty responds:

I'll try to do that next time! Thanks for the feedback!

[~|Millenial Fair|~]

Good work, but good be even better

This track would gain a tremendous amount if it were quantized. The consistent stuttering is drawn out through the entire piece.

Very good work if this was done by ear. I can't tell if this "piano roll" or authentically recorded. The unnatural pauses make me tend to think this was not recorded live.

But hey, this was great. I distincly remember this song playing Crono Trigger as a boy.

[midnight vylkerie]

What is this excuse for music?

I agree with most of what WinTag said. The exceptio being that this is possibly made by a bass guitar hooked into a computer.

But wow, give your head a shake. Newgrounds isn't a dump like you may think it is.

rioross responds:

i dont think that it is a dump, i actually think it has grown to be sactuary of sorts.

[Dj Cargo = Fears]

Great for dark chillout ambience

Slightly lacking interesting diversity, this piece had a great beat. You may want to increase the gain on your bass channel, sounds like some good stuff.

The reverb perhaps is a bit too much, but generally it had some nice effects.

Great job overall. 5/5

nightvision

bjoaierjbioaerjgoerj responds:

thanx for the review

[Q-Bix: Lightning strike]

Pretty rockin' stuff

This is a great first song, you show quite a bit of potential in this first piece. My recommendation would be to turn down the treble on the melody. It will start to irritate listeners with sensitive ears. But other than the preference of instrumentation, great work! 5/5 considering this is a first piece, normally I would rate this 4/5.

nightvision

bjoaierjbioaerjgoerj responds:

thanx

[Beyond Repair (3min 52sec)]

This was great

Very cool melody. Even better percussion. Great luck in the contest mate, you've got some great material here.

AdmiralConquistador responds:

Wow, thanks man! This contest is going to be great, TONS of great artists are competing... it's gonna be a close one!

-ac-

[Lil bit crazy]

Good effort

Better than your previous work, but it still needs some work.

I find that the notes you chose in this song aren't very coherent, I would recommend a more consistent bass line and melody. People like to hear simple things, with slight diversity. I found this song to be nearly the opposite, which is fine for now, but it is definitely something you'll want to improve on.

Though the melody line was quite distracting from the other elements in this piece, the rythym was a strong point for you. The rythyms that carried your melody were interesting, it was the area I noticed an improvement in. The cutoffs added some nice diversity. Just be sure that your FX are in time. I noticed some things came nearly in the middle of nowhere. I would take those good ideas you had and place them at the end of a four bar rest, rather than a random transition. Nice rythymic ideas though, keep it up.

I would also like to comment on your instrumentation. I noticed the "guitar" seemed to be the only layer on top of the existing rythym. If I were you I would get into the habit of having different samples for your bass and central melody line.

Keep improving Father_of_Death, but you should slow down when you make your songs. Don't make content over quality, music isn't a race. All of the skills you need to brush up on will come with practise. Just keep at her, you'll find yourself making very high quality music if you are consistent to get better. Good job, I decided to give you a 5/5 based on your improvement. I would normally rate this at about 3.5. Keep it up man,

nightvision

Father-of-Death responds:

SWEET! thnx sooo sooo sooo much man

you the bomb!
lots of help here thnx!

p.s. Great Grammer!