tox's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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.

[The Land of Mistery]

very commonly i close my eyes and listen to peoples creations and then, see where my imagination takes me...
from a nice flowing stream... or maybe feeling how your heart fluctuates as a chickadee lands on your hand to feed on the seed in your palm...

i close my eyes to this song... and it is just dizzy... revolving... painful... bad...

start with simple sounds.. a chime... a bell... maybe a combo of the two...
then go out... dont try to add 7 things and mismatch them into a song

balancedbirds responds:

To be honest,I use only two hours to make this music and a little time to check it.
So the first and last is so simple that the music is ...^_^
Lots of music of Shadow Meadow were composed when I was twelwe.this is one of them.

Thanks for your advice!I'll find better melody and instrument group to make better music!

[Storm]

i would start with listening to other people and how they put music together, start talking to others about their techniques...

in absolute honesty... this song.... sounds.. really bad...

balancedbirds responds:

I'm just a learner.I can't compare with others^_^
I'll learn how to make better music here.Maybe after 7 years,my music will make you amazed^o^

[Bull In Field - Let It Go]

who sung this song?

yeah lets keep it that way -.-

chicken-tits responds:

so hursh, u brek r herts </3

[Forest]

delicate all the way though, it was a nice song for that reason

would be interested to hear what you would do with a dueling harp and saxophone

DinkBot responds:

Thanks for the review! I enjoyed this one a lot. I'll have to give the sax/harp duet a try fersure.

[The Last Dance]

we all know that this is going to the front page.

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

How so o.O?
Thanks for being so confident about it though! :3

[artans]

remember that a background beat cannot follow the same pattern for more then roughly 25 seconds.
you have the roughly the same background beat play through the entire song,
1-2-3-4 increase pitch 1-2-3-4 increase pitch, repeat 2 more times then do it all over again

this kind of thing is ok to do twice if it is followed by a break or insection with a different background beat, a solo, or a "wild mix up" of the frontal beats (your lead singer) if you will

other then that, its the same copy paste over and over again

if you are working on a trance theme and are getting stuck in a loop listen to something like Keamg3Uydi4 on youtube and listen how break of the background beat happens every 10 seconds alternating with a 20 second repeater.

it makes it all fresh, and gives a great GREAT illusion of complexity even though he repeats himself a lot

JMSy responds:

ok but thats not trance more like dubstep...old skool and even modern trance does not break up the music every 20sec for 10sec different beat...

[Aero]

one of the better songs i have listened to tonight

keep that up yo

Shozi responds:

thanks man. glad you like it :)

[Snow Park']

given that you "just wanted to make a odd song" you did a bang up job.
keep that up... i think

jonadrew responds:

Haha! Glad you enjoyed it? Sadly, it's only every once in a while I can make a decent song in like this...Thanks for reviewing though :P

[Pure Imagination]

I would have liked to listen to the mashup if the voice had mated the audio better

Maybe try to find the lyrics as a voice only and then overlap it so you can play with both the song and the mans voice independently...
Good try at this

putzpie responds:

Yeah I can dig that, I'll have to keep that in mind.

Thanks though.