Sydosys's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Summertime madness]

it's a little bit hard to hear the drums. the synths are good, but they fight for space with the drums. a good way to solve this is with sidechain, or basically making it so that the volume of the synths goes down for a bit when a drum plays

JMSy responds:

tnx yeh not mastered or eq'd it yet

[2milli]

yuh

[Ballade Pour Adeline (Oldman's "Dubstep" Remix)]

I think some sidechain would go a long way. The mix is pretty loud so I would recomment turning it doen and giving stuff some more room and balance. Aside from that, pretty good!

[Hold Me, Love Me]

Like larrynachos said, layering would really help the lead. Personally, I would suggest layering it with a supersaw stab. If you have FL Studio, FL Flex has some great synthwave sounds to use or maybe base it off of.

[reflections]

Really cool sounds! Actually kind of reminds me of some of my earlier stuff at the supersaw part. The basses starting at like 1:50 are WILD! I would suggest some sidechaining, especially for those supersaws.

Also, gotta love the vocal samples at like 3:00 lmao

[GLitch MOnstER]

The samples and glitchy stuff at the beginning is really cool! I love the sound design and all the different elements. Some of the sounds are kinda wonky like at 1:00, but I think that's just a genre thing. I will note that the part starting at 1:30 is very similar to the first half of the song and so it makes it pretty repetitive. The mix is also a bit loud and that makes it a bit over-compressed in my opinion, so I might suggest turning the levels a bit to give the mix a bit more room.

Really cool, though, pretty F U N K Y .

[AIM 2020 Wake Up Call]

I like this song! Good mix, nice chord progression, good instrumentation, and good vocals. The only thing I would suggest is to just turn the auto tune down a bit, as I think it makes it sound unnatural.

SoulSecure responds:

I used the atrocious amount of autotune for artistic effect lol
I updated the description to explain this.

[Clubringer - Sound Of My Dream (AshuraTH Remix)]

It kind of sounds like there's a lot of stuff fighting for room here. If you look at the waveform, it's kind of smushed at the top, and you can hear that it's a little bit distorted. This means the stuff just be too loud. I would suggest bringing the levels down a bit, and working on EQ so that each sound has more of its own room and doesn't clash with other elements of the song.

However, even though the mix is quite loud, I still think the individual sounds are pretty nice, I like the chord progression, and it has a good melody. I think if you work on having more dynamic range and a better mix, it will be some REALLY good stuff.

AshuraTheHedgehog242 responds:

Thanks man! I appreciate it! More remixes are about to come your way so stay tuned!