Decibel's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[~Alfa~ Fair Game]

Haha, Noice

Now Be Serious, you did get some inspiration for the synth-y sine thing from my song 'Masquerade, Right?
Now in all seriousness, the song is very nice, very ambient and suspenseful.
The Bass is awesome, My favourite one is the first bass in the bass sequence. I'm guessing, Sytrus?
The drums were very dubby, I like, the power in them shook my subwoofer :P.
And the strings were very nice, good job!
What I would owrk on though is the mastering, seems a little rough, dontcha think?
10/10
5/5
[deciBel]

aliaspharow responds:

Lol i just realized that i never responded to this. All the basses were done using Massive actually :3. I agree that this still needs a good deal of mastering to make everything pop like its supposed to.

[System Split - F-777]

Dude!

Awesome, so crazy ** Loved it :P
And I have yet to recieve the album :P I advertised it didn't I? :P
No Probs anyway, Great Job mate =D
[deciBel]

F-777 responds:

Thanks so much!! Yes i will send it as soon as i can ;).

[-ganon95- Bit.trip Part2- CORE]

Returning a Review :)

Hey, this is Decibel, Reviewing your song on behalf of Raven-guard, since you asked for a review back :)

Ok, first of all, I've played the game and it has some quality music, and it was a good idea to remix something like this.
I'll split my review into PROS and CONS.

First, Cons

~To be honest, at most times it felt a bit empty, it could have used some pads, strings, chords, anything like that would be nice :)

~Second, the drums you used weren't very much to my liking, I'll tell you the truth, it sounds pretty mediocre. And Some instruments sound very familiar, FL Plucked perhaps. Or gross beat on one of the gates? :P

~Third, The song seems to be skipping from one track to antoher, I understand it's a remix of multiple songs and all, but you could have made some better transitions. I mean, I know it's 12 minutes and all, but it's too cluttered.

~Fourth, The sounds could be slighty clearer, work some more on the mastering :)

~Fifth, The notes sound slightly discordant at times, like at 05:30-ish and 9:45.

PROS :

~A Very original idea to remix game music like this, It's not everyday people find the patience to remix music like this, note by note.

~Second, The blend of instruments were very nice, I quite liked the mix of chiptune-ish instruments with hip-hop drums.

~Third, The mixing was cool, slightly mateurish because it could have used some more mixing to it, but overall very nice.

~Fourth, The introductory sounds were very cool and that snare fill was to my liking.

~Fifth, Very Retro, Game-y atmosphere you made here, twas quite awesome =)
OK, Five Pros and Five Cons, I'm giving this song an 8 and a Five.

I'm Sure Supersteph54 wil leave you another review, he likes doing that.

-And If you havent' already, put this song's link in the review request club and the audio advertisements thread, so you can get some more exposure.

SUMMARY - For a 12 mintue song, it ;s not all of what it was put up to be, could use some pads, strings, breaks and better percs, if you want, PM Me and I'll give you some ideas :)

8/10
5/5
[deciBel]

ganon95 responds:

thanks for reviewing back :P i did in fact put this in the RRC and got a few reviews.

i do kind of see where you were going with the pads and stuff but there are quite a few sounds packed in already and adding more would make it sound a little too overwhelmed. but i will consider this for part 3 :) this song was actually quite difficult to remix, but i like BIT.TRIP so much i like doing it :D

im still working on my mastering skillz so its not entierly up to snuff with what it could be, but, practice makes perfect :)

the "plucked" sound you heard was sample the hold in sytrus altered to sound like a pluck and some other instruments added in with it. and yes that was gross beat, but it wasn't necessarily a gate as much as a solid note.

im still working on adding more depth to my music :P every attempt gets better

[p4c - Trial and Error]

Such a Nice Song =D

I reviewed the loop thing, so here's the review for the full version.
A nice song, pretty minimal, as you mentioned in the author's comments, To be completely honest, this isn't my favourite by you, I like it, but not THAT.
First of all, it starts off pretty well which builds up to something decent, but it doesn't have a climax, no crescendos, nothing, which disappointed me a little.
Second, The delayed duclimer thing wasn't to my liking, at all. It just didn't blend with the rythm of the song.
Besides that, the main sine, synth thing is distorted waay too much.
I'll give you a 8 for the drums, intro, mastering, originality and effects, but, This doesn't lead up to your standard :/
8/10
5/5
[deciBel]

[Another Night (Electro House)]

Well, Ouch

First of All, I'd like to mention that you should lower the master volume of this song because it's clipping a lot. That's never a good sign because bad quality = no downloads. So, Yeah, Either lower the Master Volume or Lower the volume of each instrument individually.
Next, It's a good song but it isn't going anywhere, no climax, nothing. it's more progressive House if you ask me, but that's my opinion.
Besides that, it's a very good song, melodies are very catchy and the automation is pretty good, it keeps the whole song fresh.
So
8/10
5/5

[IE - Offtune]

The Guy Below Me, lol?

Listen lilbitty6, if you're going to review something leave a clear description of what you like/don't like and don't just give a random 1 to someone without taking into account the amount of work taken into this. And I didn't understand why this supposedly 'sucked' becausse some parts of the song were bomb =D
10/10
5/5
[deciBel]

InternalExtract responds:

hehe thanks for backing me up

[ReMotion (prev) - Kr1z & F-777]

Amazing :')

Nice Job Guys, You Really Impressed Me this time =D Some Amazing Songs on here, too bad I can't buy them =/
Anyway, 10/10 Definitely!
[deciBel]

F-777 responds:

Thanks so much! Contact me if you want to help promote it
to get a free album =).

[[DJ_ITD] - Der Osten (rac5)]

Review ;D

OK, I'll split the review into a Pros and Cons section, that seems the easiest way to go.
~Pros
- A great House track, I constantly found my head bobbing along to the beat, it's an interesting song and a steady beat, Very Danceable
-The Melody you made is very original, both the bass lead thing itself and the melody were original, if not a bit too original.
~Cons
The only two problems I found were these :
-The song is good, don't get me wrong but it;s a bit repetetive, it's like you forced yourself to make the last minute or so.
~The other problem is that the percussion is WAAY on the High end, decrease the treble on the hats and claps, because that's ear-rape central dude, I'm sorry.
Nice Job Anyway, It's :
8/10
5/5
[deciBel]

[Pulstate (DJQ & LT Original)]

Starts off Very Well :)

It's intro is extremely house, and people classify according to first impressions, so I'd leave the genre classification as it is.
Anyway, It starts off with a steady, danceable beat, the only thing I don't like is that hat-line, it just doesn't speak to me, the hats themselves don't sound very good.
Fills are pretty good, They're original and stuff, etcetera. The fade-ins/fade-outs sound painful and stuff =/ But it's still a preview so I understand.
The rest is excellent, It's amazing how you managed to incorporate that house, klaas-ish melody into the trance scene, I absolutely love it!
Anyway, looking forward to the full version =)
9/10
5/5
[deciBel]

DJ-Qwamii responds:

Maybe you were referring to the perc stabs? Cause the real hi hats weren't included in this preview. Anyways, thank you for the thorough review!