ksthultz15's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Derelict]

Been a while since I've listened to your tracks, and let me say first that the mix is way cleaner and more professional sounding. It progresses very nicely. However...
- The sound design is good, but its basic. While you don't need to reinvent the wheel, it would still be nice to hear some sound or FX that makes me say "Whoa, how'd he do that"
- And it seems a bit longer than 3:42. If you added a thing or two that were noticeably changing how the track progresses, it would be more interesting, and would be more catchy.

Overall, nice track. You have improved a lot.
Keep up the good work!
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My ratings:
Originality- 7/10
Relevance- 30/30
Composition- 25/25
Instrumentation- 8/15
Mixing/Mastering- 9/10
Emotion/Interest- 8/10
Total: 87/100 (NG: 4.5 stars)

Lethal-Input responds:

Thanks for the detailed review! Yeah I do feel like this track ends up getting stagnant in some ways. It has not aged well with me well at all tbh

[[WIP] Psychopath Bunny]

This reminds me of Lonely Island. Lol. So in this case is a good thing. I wouldnt mind a better beat tho. At the point this is at production wise, id give it a 4. If this was the finished product, itd be more like 2.5-3.

Free2Play responds:

I totally agree, that's my biggest problem right now is I don't know how to further the production. This kind of rap is weird for me, and my lack of sample and practice in the genre is making finishing the song hard.

I think I just need to get more samples and presets, I recently realized just how old my library is since most of it is free and I use a lot of FL default stuff. Thus I spend a lot of my time tweaking crappy sounds to make them sound just right, and often time its a bit of a

I'm sorry that my response was longer than your review lol.

[Universal]

0:20 and throughout. Turn down your sweeps and whitenoise a few dB.
The melody was....idk...it was just awesome. I love the filter every 4 bars or so. However, i did expect it, so maybe double the time between filter. 8 bars is a good number. The mixdown could use some work, but thats a journey in and of itself. The synths/sound design was tremenous. Very good. If you fixed a few of those minor mixing issues, I would play this in my DJ sets. Fantastic job. I'd like to collaborate with you.

Jedfiery responds:

Thank you for the kind words and I completely agree with you.

I know I could have done way better work with the audio mixing, I think I was just being too hasty here.
I might reupload the track at some point with those improvements. :)

[Xtrullor - I'm So Free]

Going into this song, I was like..ehhh. It doesnt sound quite there. But then the drop. Which was amazing. Only taking off .5 stars cause of the intro. I dont know what was wrong, I was just expecting a little bit more. Cant believe you made this in 2 days. This is really good. The mixdown could use a little work, but the composition was good. Fanned.

Xtrullor responds:

You know what? Screw that intro, I couldn't figure out what I should do with it at all. So there you have it, I don't I will change it from there anymore.

All in all, I agree with you. I should fan myself too.

[1 Project - 6 Trackz[De4dl0ck]]

We should collaborate. https://instaud.io/1dk (progressive trap house), https://instaud.io/1bY (dance), https://instaud.io/1dA (trap), and https://instaud.io/1dB (electro) are some of my latest works in progress. PM me if you're interested. :)

De4dl0ck responds:

i'm gonna pm you soon ;)

[Sonnet 71]

Good idea here. The mix down and mastering wasn't quite there, but that takes time to learn. The drums were good, but quiet. I thought the vocal samples were a little bit too quiet. The lead was overpowered, but it was a good cheery melody. The the bass line was a little weird, but I saw what couldve been a really cool bass. Again, the mixing was off, the bass had some mids and not enough bass. You did say it was quick, so i'll give you that. Overall, If you took more time to compose it, I think it would be quite popular.

CzeryWassierSwizier responds:

What I find surprising is that a lot people spend as much time composing as they do mixing and mastering their piece. For me, I'll take 10 minutes, slap on some soundgoodizer and call it done. :) Guess I'll have to work on that.

[Ghost Train remastered]

Like Biokiller8 said, excellent song. But yea, you for sure need better plugins. The idea is there though.

Azhthar responds:

Thx for the nice reviews here! I already talked to Biokiller8 for some suggestions about the plugins. Actually I thoght the sounds were quite ok. For the organ it´s sonokinetic carousel and I actually don´t know a better barrel organ plugin. If you mean the percussion: It´s also from carousel. I tried different better sounding percussion but then I was missing the fairground character... Any suggestions?