anthonyragus's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[digital souls]

Super cool. I like the space you've created, nice panning and combination of reverb'd and dry elements, along with the subtle flange in that FM-sounding loop. Great work (i cri evertim)

PinkShirtDude responds:

thank you for this review, really inspiring, hope you'll check out the rest of my work to see what's up, all the best!!!

[life is too much]

I like this one a lot. The composition is so clean and intentional. Super cool three against two grove. Those textures leave me wondering what sorts granular processing you used, and if FM was involved.

Wilieu responds:

At its most simple, fm for bass, and scattered granular for percs 🙂

[߈ߍߛ߱ߋߙ߁ߓߖߨߤ߮I]

What an immersive and eclectic combination of sampling, synthesis, distortion, and time-based effects. ງrēคt ຟ໐rk

Wilieu responds:

Happy you recognised the tempo shifting 🙂

[Pretty Red Rose]

Eyy this is a cool instrumental. This is a personal preference, but at the end of each cycle, that lowest octave in the melody seems to clash with the lower frequency things. Always great to hear some Ｖｙｂｅｓ™

[WOW]

I click; is sick. Great garage sound

[race car]

I agree with the hamsterman below me. This is an interesting combination of chill guitar and breakbeat. Cool intro as well; it makes me wonder....

....still wondering....

[Dorkus64 - Amidst Clouds]

Gentle, atmospheric, lovely phrasing, subtle yet powerful sound design, immersive, super cool. Fantastic work!

[Scorial Allurement]

This track captures the spirit of Newgrounds so well. It takes me back to the mid 2000s: fast tempo, acid lines, catchy melody, phat bass, and that quintissential brickwall slamming limiter.

I think most of your mixing issues can be fixed with some high pass filters and other EQ to iron out the spots where instruments are fighting for space, and some dynamic EQ like TDR Nova if it's really spaghetti. Some of the space might clear up by letting off the limiter input, and the sweet spot would not sound any quiter, but that's a stylistic choice.

Your music is super captivating and immersive. Holy moly

YoriYakuza responds:

Thank you so very much! High pass and EQ could definitely be used more, I agree. I'm really glad you like it!

[The Latest Fantasy]

This is a cool piece. Great proto-stride feel, catchy melody, tension and release.

I would love to hear some realism and breath injected, to match the lovely notation. Pianists almost always pedal after notes begin for a legato sound and to avoid sudden drops in volume, apart from the times you intentionally want that. Slightly randomize note-on and velocity. Most importantly, go nuts with tempo automation; shape tempo and velocity with the phrasing like a concert pianist. Contrast is king.

Side note: There's some clipping in spots like the initial phrase and it's recap at 1:50, which could be a gainstage issue within the sampler itself. I used to have that problem in Keyscape, and I solved it by going into Settings, lowering Gain to -10dB, and then bumping up the volume in my daw before the signal hits the master limiter.

Great work dude. With some humanizing and gainstage adjustment, this could sound like a legit concert recording.

Strimlarn87 responds:

Alright thanks. Something to think about here. I'll start working on this again when I'm not tired and I might take some of your suggestions into account, because you do have a point. In my opinion this could also be a bit longer, so that you have something to immerse yourself into. But the things you said in the side note are true, I'm just too lazy to fix those kind of issues that actually are important to fix to make this sound authentic.

[The Vast and the Vurious]

Space is my favorite location.