tox's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Volt-1]

Hard trance! hmmm!

Use more then one repeated drum sync... Its a good base line but there are many instruments that can create your bass lines for your song

[Volcanic (UGO Cover)]

This should be reclassed as a house techno not a video game tune bud...

Its way to "all over the place" to go in a video game

[Halogen]

Variety
Non repetitive
Stepping away from conventional drum... Drum sounds..
Would like to hear a different clap sync used for your song
Equally a deum and bass sonfs are allowed to be variable to different tunes... You had the right idea at the beginning but then transitioned into your main set and then forgot about the heart of a drum and bass
Steady hard bass, a solid drum line, and then variablea that interact with each to make it fluid and flowing...

A song thats as hard and solid as rock... Yet as soft as silk and the ripple of a water pond

[Manray!]

One word. Dang.
Dig the use of Patrick and spongebob in this!

A grea use of the splice tool and you equally did a great job of cutting audio here and there to make it non repetitive.

Could have sounded better with more variety but! I did like the aidio you put together

More variety in voices.
Step away from the dubstep/drum and base background sounds a few times
Keep making music

Zanzlanz responds:

Thanks tox, I really appreciate your review man! I'm pretty sure I've improved a lot since I made this track a couple years ago, but the advice is still really helpful :D

"Keep making music"
Thank you!!

[Cinema/Theater Logo]

Why do your actuated themes soom to cut off at about 60%done

Dont get that

Again... Same star stuff as last time

deadlyfishes responds:

Yeah these are logos/jingles for the podcast. Most of them are direct cuts/excerpts from longer tracks that ARE more developed. This one is a small segment from this piece: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/526947

[Dramatic Incidental Cue]

Short, sweet, right to the point, easy to use in every game.

Perfect.

Boring too.... Do something creative... Make a song... Sing... Hum... Rap.. Mix something noone likes and make it funky fresh

1 star for usefulness
-4 stars for being... Soooooo.... So... Generic

deadlyfishes responds:

Again this was uploaded for a specific purpose. You may want to look at the rest of my profile. I just uploaded this really epic track here: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/609697

[deos]

for such a simple loop, i ahve been listening to it for a long time now...
not bad

would love to hear what you do with more advanced songs

[Sereve Cold Valley]

holy crap. even on my low setting for audio volume this is ear bleeding loud

whats up with that

balancedbirds responds:

That's what I want to say after"however"......
It's a big problem.

[Audition Piece #2]

you might want to look into games from the 90s to start off your "bit" training
on youtube----- watch?v=823IWWc7mag

there are plenty of video games out there that have, and can give you ideas on music you can make

but most video game music is fairly simplistic...
without the Mr. Rob Zombie singing, listen to just the background music...

that's a very basic video game loop...

good job so far though

[Rain All The Time]

Slow down your repeater by a bit at the beginning, remember rain is slow, yet deliberate

peaceful yet powerful

a little slow haunting trance is nice...

as a rule of thumb for new people that are coming into the audio world... you might try to think of a song that you want to make by humming it
in any given situation, hum the song out and remember it...
record it
then play it back to yourself at your computer when you have the availability and then make a song that follows the tune that you make

make some noise with your given sound maker :3
then let it flow through you and out through your fingers ^.^

balancedbirds responds:

WoW...
I'll do as what you said.