Score: 6

"Sooooooooo cheeeeeeesyyyyyy"

submission: Speeding Through Infinity

date: December 12, 2009

The synths in here are, unfortunately, painfully cheezy and overly phased. Ignoring that, the basic idea and melody here is actually fairly good, if a bit random. The drum sidechaining is also totally absurd, as is much of the FX, which doesn't usually help. Try to avoid such an extended outro where everything is so filtered out you can't even make it out anyway. The percussion samples all suck but that doesn't really matter at this point since the drum lines are horrible anyway. You've got the right idea on some of the addin percussion, but without a real drumline they do nothing to help the song.

Seriously though, the volume is just going crazy with all that sidechaining (although you likely don't know what that is, so its limiter abuse). Go read that EQing tutorial again. The piano solo is commendable, but it swaps into major key in an offsetting manner, so you still need to work on the melodies.

Also this entire song never actually uses a pad. Ever.

6/10
5/5 cuz 0 bombers suck.

Score: 8

"YES."

submission: [DjBjra] - The Decisive Battle

date: December 10, 2009

Honestly it could be a lot better if given more time (FASTER damn it!), but I like the song too much to care. Now remix the 20 minute long final boss battle suite! -shot-

8/10
5/5

Score: 9

"It's that damn melody again"

submission: [DjBjra] - Eternal Fire

date: December 10, 2009

I don't even care what the first part of the song is like. The melody takes this thing and throws it into the sky, on fire.

9/10
5/5

Score: 10

"Jesus"

submission: [DjBjra] Visions of the Divine

date: December 10, 2009

The melody in this song is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard in my life. Sure, there's lots of cool synths and drums and nice production, but holy mother fucking rabbits on crack, that melody is mind blowing.

10/10
5/5
Fav, added to favorite artists lists.

Score: 6

"Potential"

submission: Sterio_Sun [Box-Killa]

date: December 8, 2009

Isolated portions of this song are very, very good, but the other parts completely ruin the experience. The beginning drumloop is really awesome sounding, but its completely mono, which sounds very weird. You stick a sort-of-ok sounding melody on top of this and then proceed to throw around totally unnecessary FX that becomes very distracting.

Then at 1:36 you bump everything up one or two semitones for absolutely no reason at all. There is no transition, no warning, nothing. Its just OH HEY WE'RE IN A DIFFERENT KEY NOW WTF?! This is a baaaaad idea. People don't want songs changing keys randomly (I know this from experience). The melody at this point is still only so-so.

1:51 adds in a really nice additional percussive layer, and then at 2:17 the song becomes totally awesome for exactly 20 seconds and then you destroy it again with an ending that came way too soon.

Execution, poor. Production, superb. Melody, awesome for exactly 20 seconds and otherwise not particularly interesting. You seem to have this unending obsession with excessive random sounds that take away from the song because they fail to enhance the soundscape.

6/10
3/5

Score: 10

"Wow!"

submission: Absolutia

date: December 3, 2009

This is the best song I've ever heard! I'm almost tempted to steal it!

Oh wait.

Score: 9

"I love you."

submission: Cave Story War

date: November 9, 2009

I actually keep trying to remix this song myself but I can never seem to do it justice. Clearly, I needed guitars. xD The most amazing part of this song is definitely the background piano near the last section leading up to the climax.

I can't really comment on whats "wrong" here because I don't listen to heavy metal... at all, really. I can say, however, that I would like to hear the melody take a stronger place in the mix, and maybe to lay off some of the power chords in favor of actually getting the chord progression itself to be heard, since its half the reason why the song is so amazing. Other then that, GO CAVE STORY.

9/10
5/5

Score: 10

"Brilliant"

submission: 8-Bit Fireflies

date: November 9, 2009

What the FUCK is this doing with a score lower then 4.5? This song is absolutely brilliant. It's beautiful beyond words. It's done with 8-bit instruments, and yet it evokes such an incredible scene, and the audioscape is just masterful. There is no possible way that someone could do any better with 8-bit instruments on this.

10/10
5/5

brb submitting to newgrounds underdog list.

Score: 8

"Missing atmosphere"

submission: ~-Chrono Trigger-~

date: October 27, 2009

I like the melodic interpretations on this theme, and the actual song itself is done very well, but for most of the song its missing the atmosphere and it feels very empty. In particular, there need to be more tonic notes to establish the chords your using. The beats seem a little random too, plus there's little bits of clipping all over the place. Your stereo balance seems a bit off to the left, mostly because of the strings, and the instruments really never break out of the middle. The most glaring omission here is the fact that there is no reverb, and the lack of proper delay techniques. Without reverb, your songs sound flat.

8/10
5/5

Score: 7

"EQ!"

submission: Flying High - Epilogue

date: October 26, 2009

Look at this: http://www.blackspherestudios.com/sub mission.php5?ID=359

That'll help you out on fixing the massive clipping issues on the drums. The piano sample sounds pretty bad too, so I'd suggest either 1. getting a new sample or 2. EQing and putting reverb on the existing one. The strings in this song actually sound very good. It's weird hearing a cringe-worthy piano sample playing along with those wonderful strings in the background.

Outside of the technical details, I love the actual motif playing in this song. It really feels like an ending theme. Unfortunately, the variations you put in (such as 3:20) feel random and out of place. The one at 3:20 actually sounds off key. The melody in general in many places could use a little work, since it sounds kind of like a really good idea that you didn't quite know how to expand on. I'm sorely tempted to do a re-interpretation of this myself.

5:25 was a very nice key change, but the ending would be vastly improved not by a better sample, but simply by echoes and reverb (and of course, some EQ, but the whole song needs that). Either way, very good idea, fair execution, needs some work, so a 7/10

7/10
5/5