Decibel's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[xKore - Destroyer (NG Cut)]

Wow.

You Suck-Ass

Nao how do you expect any of us to win?

[Oza & xKore - Serenade]

Amazing, Tearjerking

This is probably the single best piece of music I've heard in my life. You must continue it. It's beautiful.

[Sketch 2: House Idea]

Nice.

Make this a house song, you rarely find house songs of this quality on NG.
-I'd remove the glitchy hats in the intro. Leave out any percussion.
-at 0:14 I'd add a 4 by 4 kick.
-then a reverse cymbal at 0:26 and a reverb kick at 0:27-0:28-ish.
-Then a generic Kick Snare pattern, If you want I can send you a snare.
-And then lots of basses and melody in the shape of Zedd's stuff.
That's my input anyway.

mr-jazzman responds:

Thanks for your input man. I appreciate it, but remember that this is just a sketch lol. Mostly it's just here to show you some of the ideas that I've been playing with lately -- stuff that I'll be screwing around with during the production of my album. But, you've got some really good pointers here. I know that the snare isn't the greatest; I've been experimenting with different snare samples, and trust me, I've got more than enough samples to work with lol. I think that I've come close to perfecting the levels and compression on my drums, although some final tweaking is of course in order before I finalize my album. But, you bring up some really cool things that I'd like to experiment with in the future, so thank you very much for your input! =D

[Please Don't Go Remix (2-in-1)]

I Prefer 2.

In My opinion, 2 is way better. Newgrounds is bombarded with the same style of songs as the first 1 and you rarely find something as well mastered an well made as songs your style.

Nice Job! :)

[[DJ_ITD] - Narcotics (WIP)]

Pretty Sweet

SCTE3, Why do you have to mention an animal in every one of your reviews? ;P

And also, this sounds extremely professional, I like the way you worked with te percussion and the choice of percussion.

It's pretty good up until the bass and drums kicked in, I expected something waay better.

How would you feel if I helped you on this?
We could call it a collab :P

djInTheDark responds:

I would be happy to collab on it. Haven't done a collab in quite a while now, need to get back on the horse. Pm me and we'll work out the details. I've done a little work on it since I posted it, and I have seemed to make myself even MORE unclear in what direction I want to take it in. :P

Thanks for the review!

[Stargenx - Green]

Review Request Club

Very pleasant and soothing, this piece got me very calm, and imagining some farm or grassland, with the sun shining and the birds singing, quite an uplifting piece of music, If I do say so myself.
I listened to the whole song from beginning to end and it didn't get repetetive, no matter how much it looped, and looped. It's just one of those tracks you never get tired of listening to.
The piano and flute were beautiful, the combination brought forth heartfelt melodies, and space.
The introduction to 0:50-ish could use a little more work, rather than 4 notes with a crescendo but other than that, It's amazing.
Likr SeeD said, It has a lack of climax, but that's not a problem, lengthen it, please.

9/10
5/5
[deciBel]
- Review Request Club -

Stargenx responds:

Thanks for the review! Sadly something happened to the project file of this, I can't lengthen it.

[I Conquer The Land Once Again]

Review Request Club

It really sets the scene you promoted in your title, It has that feeling of some Badass villain wrecking everywhere, and 1+ for the NES feel.
To tell you the truth I wasn't enjoying it very much up until the One minute mark, the sounds weren't very pleasing and the melodies were nothing too special, ut when the one minute mark hit I enjoyed it quite a bit =)

The thing that I like is that you managed to incorporate that sort of 'Modern' Feel with the NES, PS1 sorta feel, it really brings me back to some of the old games, my dad used to play with, that is :P
The transition into the 1:00 was very nice, it had that 80s feel :P

So the only bad things are that It wasn't very good until 1:00 and that it got quite repetetive, but the + is that it had nice effects and brought a nostalgic feel :)

so
8/10
5/5
[deciBel]
- Review Request Club -

Oembboe responds:

This was the first song where I actually composed the main melody before I composed the intro, and I will admit that I kind of cut corners on the intro and the melody brought by it. I was very satisfied with the main melody and the outro, however, and yes... the effects too. I used the drumkit that I did out of more necessity than anything (since my toolset is very limited at this point), but I seem to have accidentally blended the old into the new and I think I should really journey more into that theme.

Thank you for the constructive review. It means much :)
-M.B.

[xKore - Bunch of old stuff]

Finish them.

5:30 was one of my absolute favourites, please finish it!
The one at 7:40 was pretty sweet.
and if you do not inish from 8:00 onwards everyone would be missing out.
These were some quality songs, i can't believe you'd just throw them away like this

Seriosuly, finish these, please.

[deciBel]

[ECHO - Faith WIP]

Touching :')

The piano at the beginning was very nice, both the piano itself and the melodies were quite good, however I feel that the melody could use a little more work, despite what I said earlier. The chords were also good, but you should some more minors, it's getting too, major :P
Then the strings come in and I was swept off my feet, it was amazing, the guitar strums were beautiful, I truly loved them :)
The thing I didn't like was the high pitched, one note string, it wasn't very easy on the ears, even though it was E/W.
Nonetheless, a very good WIP.
The percussion was also very good too.
I look forward to the finished version :)
5'd
[deciBel]

[Rig - Demo Reel 2011]

Wut?

Would you mind taking some time to explain to me why you didn't upload these tracks, they're so cool.
First off, I'm not much of a fan of the first one's genre per se, but that's just bias, besides it's still extremely good.
The second one, wow, very crunchy, if you eve submit it, call it 'Toast' :P
The third one was sweet two.
The fourth, now this is my kind of genre =D House! Nice work, Mega liking teh plucks.
5th, pretty sweet, soothing, ambient-y, kinda like slipkn- oh wait, nvm :P
Anyway, pretty sweet job, get uploading, quick =)
[deciBel]

Rig responds:

Most of these were written for specific projects, so I can't upload them separately. The House one is free for uploading, though, so I'm gonna finish it and load it up. :D