Geekygami's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Sub Nautical]

Nice, makes me think of Terraria for some reason
Personally I don't see any problem with the mix

Midnights-Ocean responds:

Thanks! Not the first time my stuff has reminded people of Terraria. : )

[Hey Suse On The Beach (Instrumental)]

Getting Terraria vibes from this one

Midnights-Ocean responds:

Cool beans. <:3

[Kick]

Those pads give me massive Aphex Twin vibes

Midnights-Ocean responds:

Way back from the days. Getting the pads right, is the most involved thing, and the most rewarding IMO. Thanks for the 5!

[after medi]

While it's overall quite dissonant, I think it's interesting.
I like your choices of instruments, but I feel that the mixing needs a lot of work.

As it is I can't be entirely certain that the song is intended to be incredibly muddy.
The instruments being used suggests otherwise, as they otherwise seem like very harsh instruments (Not that that's a problem, mind you, I just think the global reverb is doing them a disservice.)

If I would give a recommendation, it would be to have duplicated signals for each instrument in their own bus, and making those duplicates have fully wet reverb until you can't hear the dry signal anymore, right.
If you do that, and then sidechain the reverb with the dry signal, you'll get nice, harsh instruments with much more controlled reverb, and you'll be able to tweak it for each instrument individually, which would serve to remove basically all of the mud in the mix.

(Sidechaining is essentially auto ducking the volume of a signal based on another signal, generally speaking. I'd recommend doing that between your drums and the rest of the instruments as well. It doesn't need to be extreme, or even perceptibly audible, it'll just make the mix clearer again.)

... Ah. Remember to cut off unused frequencies from all of your bus signals, and make sure to be selective about which instruments you allow to have sub bass or high amounts of high end.

One more thing. If you were trying to go for wide sounds, using reverb for that will just muddy up the mix, again. You'll want to pan your instruments instead, you can go by ear for that usually. That'll create differing signals in both ears, which creates the wideness you want without muddying the mix.

Circleguy78 responds:

hey geekygami, thank you so much for the constructive feedback :}

(also sorry for my tardy response.)

ye a lot of the decisions I made with this song were a combination of my lack of knowledge in music theory and mixing. at the time, I tried to rework a song I had made previously and give it a more weird dreamy feeling to it. I ended up slowing the tempo, dumping some reverb, and rearranging the instruments for the most part.

sorry if I couldn't delve into specifics here since my knowledge and lingo is still pretty subpar.

again, thank you for the feedback. I will try to apply these suggestions if I decide to do a similar project in the future :D every tip helps

[Metroid]

This is bloody fantastic!

I love everything about it.

Midnights-Ocean responds:

Awesome! Thank you! I had fun with this one. :3

[Planet Escape (remastered)]

When the song started I had an inkling of a doubt I was supposed to keep listening for a long while.

That was the right choice. Despite the very eclectic scales being used, the song kind of grows on you over time.

The production value is definitely up there, everything is perfectly crisp and audible, any distortion that's part of the song isn't due to clipping.

Overall it's impressive.

Happy New Year!

Midnights-Ocean responds:

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen! I think a lot of my music is that way. So happy the production is getting good responses. : )

[Remaster/Arrange: Bad Apple]

I was going to do a remix of A Sacred Lot, and then I stumbled upon this

This is the kind of remix I'm aiming for if I'm being perfectly honest

I'm not entirely sure about the note changes done all over the place, but this is otherwise pretty close to perfect I think

sylvysprit responds:

Best of luck with it!

[Hell's Inferno]

Yup, you definitely did this one very well!
The choir and organ were a good idea, and there's one thing I really like here.
The EQ.
We can hear everything in high quality synths which normally blend together in a way that sounds like
a mess up of echoes.
Oh, and I don't know if I said this, but welcome back

NexhasUnleashed responds:

Thanks man its good to be back :P

[Ancriloga: Beyond The Stars]

Le gasp!

This was epic.
Seriously, this is simply great.
It's not too repetitive, you can hear every little instrument in it correctly,
and the switch between instruments is great.
All the layers of the song fit the rythm, compared to some other peoples'
original songs.
It is also pretty big for an original composition, so kudo on that.
I guess i SHOULD've paid attention to peoples' actions over on newgrounds. This simply mind blowing, but i think i should stop that review here, i'm starting ot get repetitive.
Can't wait to see more.

NeXsard responds:

woow thank you very much dude, i really appreciate it

[The Light Inside My Heart]

You know what?

I haven't seen a hikari remix i liked as much as this one.
Very soothing, if you ask me.
Very nice drums as well.
It kinda makes me feel like an army of keyblade masters are going to fights against evil. No idea why.
Annyways, welcome back i guess.

Shanath responds:

Haha... that's a nice thought. Glad you liked it, and thanks for the welcome!