3manonMusic's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[AIM - Darkness]

I like the metal vibe dude! Nice shit. A big point of critique I have though is that the lyrics feel really a.i. generated. If that is the case, please work on better songwriting when it comes to this genre, cus the rest you have here is really really solid.

satanicpotatoe responds:

Thanks for the feedback!
I agree that the lyrics were a little too quickly done. I usually do a placeholder recording of the vocals and then write a slightly more coherent text, but for this one I kept the placeholder on the final version. Guilty as charged haha

[AIM - VIOLETSYSTEMx64]

I like the energetic vibe you have with it, but I don't really like the overly distorted drums, cus they really hold back a lot of other instruments. I like the groove in it though, but you should more careful with loudness in your mix. Cus right now you can already see by just lookin at the waveshape that there's almost no dynamics going on, meanwhile if you look into the composition you'd say there would be quieter parts here and there. The whole idea is very cool though, so good job

AnxietySewer responds:

TY! <3

[AIM - Nurture]

I like the creative rhythmic changes! Also very cutesy vibe, so definitely nailed the art comparison part. I do think that the whole song just overall sounds a bit thin. You would've definitely profited from more layering. I also think it's quite a bit repetitive, although I don't really think it's an issue due to the simple theme.
Good luck with the AIM!
Also lmao did you just hear mango eating asmr at the end that's hilarious af

Latadenata responds:

Thank you very much! I really appreciate it <3

["I was there." [Art Inspired Music 2024]]

I love the piano and the soft melancholic melody. I think that if you added some ambience in the background, like some village sfx or whatever would fit the image, it would help filling in the many many silences there are. Also I think that the piano could have had a bigger dynamic range, cus like previously said already, this is very quiet. That's about it

LANPartyAnimal responds:

thank you for the feedback

[Cold Pillow]

This is very nice, although it would be a lot better if you put some more effort into making the piano more dynamic: right now it feels like a person is constantly hitting the piano very hard, which also makes it resonate a bit too much. You can see it very clearly in the audio itself: whenever the piano is gone, the db drops significantly
It's definitely somewhat repetitive as well, could use some variation
I like the strings though.

vietanh266 responds:

Thanks for the feedback, I will definitely try that in the future

[ENTROPIC EQUILIBRIUM]

Darude sandstorm got me like

Arcerion responds:

this is so real and true and real and true and real and true and real and true and

[letloose [UNUSED]]

I really don't like the screechy nature of this song... but apart from that it's really well mixed and a good composition, so props

beenibroh responds:

I chose a screechy nature as this is a chaotic boss fight theme for a project. Thanks for the feedback tho!

[The Ending Draws Near (NGUAC Knockout Round)]

So there's this kick thing that starts at 0:48 that kinda is a little bit too loud. I really like, even love how you managed to do the piano solo. And it's very loopable so that's a cool thing! Maybe it's because of the 2 hours (I wouldn't have been able to make this in 2 hours), but the overall quality of the percs and drums seem a tad low, I'm sure with some effects over it, it would definitely work for a good fixer-upper.

Interloping responds:

My percussion is actually just the standard DAC Drumset from the Sega Megadrive, so its naturally going to sound a bit cheap, but the cymbal crashes are from the Megaman Battle Network 5 drumkit specifically. I like to stick to old tools to give an authentic feel

As for my production speed, I spent 2 years of my life messing around on a composition program back in school called "Opticode Musicshop" and it really gave me a chance to learn the fundamentals of note placement and structure, so its not hard for me to fly through a project provided that I already have an idea of what its going to sound like, but most of the time I really just write as I go and wing it

Im trying to find the kick youre talking about, it might be an overlapped kick note from when I looped the two halves, so Ill do my best to find it

Thank you so much for the feedback

[Crystal]

Dude this sounds great, very unique, and this is one of the few cases where your robotic vocoding works (maybe not completely when you reach higher notes), but it definitely sounds wicked. It sounds like if a booting up system would be turned into a "lyrical" song, if you know what I'm sayin'. Great effort.

VibrantMan responds:

Thanks 3manon, I am particularly proud of this track. This is a part of Vocoder experiments that I have been working on, I hope to use it to better effect in the future with better instrumentation.