Box-Killa's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Fertile Grounds and Open Skies]

lol yea

Lol those wierd voices that dont make sense, kinda cliche Imho

anyway... "stop making glitch/ambient and make something different rant here"

Lol those hat's at like 1:08 made me lol.

You need to just chuck a giant wobble bass in there somewhere, like PX9 style :0

Yeah, the quality was pretty good, but the quality was a bit clearer on the last track

Well then

Yeah and a pro tip with the drums, you should add percussion, mix it up a lil and it will sound so much better.

lol i said pro tip, how egoistic of me lol

well i made a song, just go to my page and check it out, its the latest one

you should also work a bit on stereo shapping! bwaa

like say for example, pan the snare to the left a bit, and then the hat to the right, something like that.

for example, this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKg_q 1Sk9s&feature=related

You should also go for some complex melody lines some of the time

Do you know what a mode is? they can really help you expand on creativity in melody making, instead of just mucking around until you find something you like

experiment with playing different notes over other notes, like have a bass play a D over and over, and then get say a piano to play an e and then a d# or something like that

just trying to help you create something original and nice,

well anyway

take a look at that song i made.

have a good Christmas

buby!

SessileNomad responds:

well the lyrics make sense to me because i know the story behind them xD

i fucking love playing with hats like that

meh i play with stereo shaping in some of my tracks, just not in this one

modes are very hard to write in because most of the time it sounds like your hitting the wrong note, modes take away tonic notes and leading tones so its very hard to make melodies in modes...at least for me

playing the d note over and over and over is called a pedal tone and i usually stay away from them, they cause alot of repetitiveness, the only time u use them is when a pad or somthing is using the same note, but changes the main chord it does...if that makes sense..horay

also....lol d, d#, and E, you know how hard it would be to make a melody with those notes involved, the only way i would do it is if i were playing in like E minor and i wanted to sharp the seventh degree of the scale, which i would not be doing very often xD

ill check it

peace out

[Street Epic]

original

Yeah it was pretty rad, i liked that scratchy thing.

Although the song feels like it needs to go down, like there should be a melody with lower notes. a key change perhapse?

DJ-Chilvan responds:

Hmm, that sounds like a good idea. I might implement that in my next beat. Thanks!

[SN| Riptide Projection |SN]

yea

It was ok. I wasn't really a fan of the quick fade out's here and there. It needs a good melody, not just spastic drums. It seems like you just have drums, and then some random tunes here and there. You should play with sterio shaper, particularly on your drums, they seem a bit mono.

I particularly didnt didnt like the snare and the hats. The snare didnt have enough ka to it, and the hat seemed like a tamborine

I liked what the drums actually played, but I didn't really like there sound. You should also experiment with having multiple drum sounds, esspecially if your songs are going to be mainly drum bassed.

also good to see you actually put this in dnb and not ambient. lol

well peace out, hope you improve. Untill next time my friend.

SessileNomad responds:

i have a good melody....

well i had tambourines and hats ging, so mabye you just couldnt hear the hats...mabye

yeah this one deserved to be in dnb

thanks for review dude

[|2009| Yous A Star]

awesome

love the lyrics, we should do a collab sometime. Love the hiphoppyness of it :D And i like that quiet sax in the background :D

Chista responds:

Thanks, teddygram did the composition. You should check him out

[MH16: Daevil]

wierd

it is a bit to fast for ambient, and the drums sorta kill it. You need to make a nice pad which can create the atmosphere, and then have shakers, maybe some reverb kicks, some wierd effects, and a melody, made with some sorta nice flute or synth,

i dno, this just is not ambient, more like techno or vg game or misc.

FairSquare responds:

Ok, thanks for the advice. But now i want to know what you would've said if i placed this in Misc :p
Ah well, thanks for the review :-)

[Percolating Prevarication]

nice

Funny instruments, kept me entertained. I liked the drum beats, and the wierd sorta melodies you used D:

4/5 8/10

DJ-Chilvan responds:

Haha, thnx! I'm glad it kept you entertained---that was its main purpose =P

[[TIV] Am I Infinity?]

yes u are

IT was ok. I tad repeditive and the quality could be better

Also, this isnt classical (Lol)

classical doesnt really have a beat like that

well

should be misc

This was really nice. I love the clear sound and the slight bit of crackling. It is a little bit repeditive, and it could use some drums fills and changing drum patterns.

Well keep up the good work

hey and if your not busy, would you be able to take a look at my song :D

Thanks A bunch!

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/
listen/290049

TheInfinityVirus responds:

Yeah, when I submitted this, I was iffy on classical, and Misc was my third choice under VG, but VG is for VG remixes. <_<

Next classical pop song I make, I'll improve the drums a lot and throw in more variety. BREAKBEAT TIMPANI! :V

And, uh, I guess I can check out your song. >_>

[Nutshell (cover)]

tis ok

needs drums, and eh autotune

meh

I wouldnt listen to this really because it is not my style, but i dont think many indie fans would like

meh

keep working on it

add more instruments and change the chord prog after a while.

CluppHead responds:

Thanks, yeah, i think i may be getting a little overzealous with the autotuning. It's a new toy that i'll play with a bit till i get bored with it. Kind of like my ex wife.......LOL......wait...... but it was the other way around......damn, fuck that sucks. As far as the chord progression, it's the same as the Alice in Chains version. So...... I dunno what i could have done. Well, i guess staind did have another guitar in there on their version playing more lead. Meh, i'm not that good at guitar. LOL anyway. Thanks again for the review.

[Rig - Stardust Crazy]

mmmmm

push it. Is that what it says at the start? Anyway, lyrics are fantastical. You must do more songs with that chick. It sounds really nice.

This is so faved, this is the first indie song on ng that i like

hey can you check this out 4 meh ??

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/
listen/290049

Rig responds:

She says "spaceship" at the beginning, actually. Thanks for the review!