Stargenx's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[World Of Sound (DRX)]

Very basic.

This song is very basic and FL sounding. It reminds me of the kind of music you'd hear during 2008 in the trance genre here. It demands some melody and some PUMPING stuff in it. The vocal sample is great in the beginning and the piano is clear and harmonic.

The intermittent vocal samples are pretty nice but the song never goes over the top with it. It needs more crescendo with maybe a HUGE climax with some MASSIVE bass. That would already set it apart from the millions of other songs that sound like this. Like you said, it is repetitive. I would make a HUGE finish for the ending.
~Stargenx

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[Electrohunter {Dj-Abbic}]

Slidey

This song attempts to have that "professional" sound by making it sound very slippery and smooth. It feels like rubstone that's not on the coffee but still has that sharp spike of the java in the glass essence of walls of crystal.

Yeah. That's what I "got" out of this song. Very smooth. Like glass. Nice atmospheric effects. Yes. I like those. Anyway, I feel like saying that you might want some more melody in there or at least more variety. The same drums with the same bass for most of the song really wear a little and degrade the sort of "professional" feel. The bass is nice. I like this one.

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DjAbbic responds:

Thanks Stargenx, I always like how you always have something to criticise, it makes me improve more and more :) Also, I'm glad you like this one. It's a real honour for me having you say those words :P

[-RG- In a Teardrop]

Insaneraeno.

Epic song. The beginning sounded sort of like the theme from that one movie requiem for a dream, yet it was great. I liked it a lot. Sorry I don't have much else to say as I'm strapped for time.

Raven-Guard responds:

Hm yeah, people tell us that it sound a lot like Requiem for a Dream. I don't think it was intentional anyway.

No worries if you're stressed for time. Thanks for taking the time to review!
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Supersteph54

[Piano Memories]

Eh...

I found it to be a tad boring. It was very repetitive. The instruments used were bland but what can you expect from Garageband. I thought that the song was too long because of the lack of new content. I am a sophomore. :)
Check out my songs if you feel like it.

[[SxHx] Prfkt.Tempo (REFIX)]

Eh.

It's probably good for the genre it's in but to me it literally made my headache pulse in waves to the music. ^_^ The vocals had some good effects on them. The synths started to get boring after a while. I agree that the kick needs to be more ...Kicking. You could have added some more stuff like maybe a solo. Like I said, I don't listen to hardstyle so I don't really know the music. I'm just going by what I thought about it.

shesmackshard responds:

Well Im at least interested in the production crits, but as you dont like hardstyle doesnt value too much lol.

I do however appreciate the review, absolutely. thanks

[Syd's Resonance (redone)]

Mellow

Some of the synths sounded confined to one speaker and muted. The main instrument didn't sound much like a guitar.
The broken chords from the twangy guitar sounded nice. The drums were nothing special.

SydRic responds:

I see what you mean. I'll work on more variance with the music moving around a bit. I've never really done that. and ya drums are just plain. Im not to good at making them work well with the songs flow, but ill definitely try to improve the quality of this. Ya the main guitar sounds a bit unreal, there's lots of customization with the sound you can make, so I was just playing around with them.

Thanks for the review, will definitely implement what your saying into this song.

-SydRic

[HW - Organic (Sample)]

Nice.

The one thing I didn't like was the fact that it wasn't long enough but I read your comment on it so I only took off one point for that. The song sounded lucid and clear. It reminded me of crystals.
The drums perhaps needed a little more variety to them but that's not really an issue because of the length of the song. The little piano bits were nice. They were like little pieces of a bacon on a slice of pizza. You start taking bites and every so often you get a tangy flavour. Great song.

haywirehaywire responds:

haha why would you take a point off for that if you read that this was just a sample of the full version. the only reason why i did that was to prevent everyone from downloading the full version of the song for free. thanks for the review though.

[Trapped In Space]

Well...

The song starts off with some weird noise which sounds like you're recording this from somewhere. The whole thing sounded kind of muted. The weird cutoff at 38 was not good. The next part just wobbled all over the place and sounded way too muddled and garbled. It didn't sound like space. Just mud. When the drums were alone they were too loud. There wasn't enough variation in the drums. The parts seemed random and in no particular order. The part at 1:38 should have been a song in itself but with more variation and less repetitive elements. In general this song needs a ton of work. You should NEVER have random cutoffs like that. If you can't think of a good transition then just don't release the song until you have. I don't know why you call this a song. This may just be a bunch of stuff you found online.

Darklinkfighter responds:

Its not stuff I found online 1st of all and the random cuttoff was kinda something I expected to be cool but it was kinda too abrupt so yeah I guess your right

[requiem fo' a dream DNB RMX]

Dissonant.

The first strings didn't really match up at all. It made it sound very harsh. When the bass came in it made things a little better but it still needs work. After the synth came in the song because repetitive for a while until you had just the synth alone which was somehow much louder than everything else was. (Compresser maybe? I don't know)

The song went on a for a while in the same fashion as it had before the bass-less five-odd second interlude and then reverted back to the very first part. It could use a lot of improvement. I felt like it didn't capture the spirit of the original piece. It didn't remind me of it at all.
-Stargenx
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jpgregorio responds:

thx, the louderness was caused by the synth an the strings playing at the same time i think, but thx anyway.