Box-Killa's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Rig - 8-bit Village]

yay 8-bit

The melody is fantastical, it is stuck in my head now. This is a very happy song. Even too happy for a village! Maybe like a carousel or festival.

Good job anyway :D

Rig responds:

Thanks! :D

[SN/ Spirits of the Fifth Floor]

ehhhh

It wasn't as bad as my song, but it wasn't that great. It was really boring, Needs BASSSSS.

I like the pad, that is about it, the drums were mildly interesting.

Dude you totally need to get out and make something different. Im not trying to be mean or anything, but this is boring.

Also put this in dnb lol, its dnb, put it in dnb.

sorry, piece out :D Make something different :D

SessileNomad responds:

lol i make alot of the same stuff cuz im thinking about releasing an Ambient/IDM EP/Album soon, i gotta make sure i know what im doing xD

meh, the next track im working on has some bass in it, but its the same genre.....sorta, i dont think bass simply being in the song would magically make it better

pad was just strings, well the main one was at least

boring is all relative

[City Block - needs guitars]

awesome

IT's a really nice song, but those drums are so not jazz. NEeds more ride

Rig responds:

Alrighty.

[[e99] Children remix]

nice remix

I like the bongos. I dont like the bass though at the start, it needs some reverb. That guitar is amazing :D

good job :D

e991e responds:

Alright cool, I'll fix up the bass :)
Thanks Box

[BPSTech4]

good but

it needs mastering, maybe put some reverb on your drums. The drum patterns in this were AWESOME. You need so spend some more time making it all sound high quality :D

Play with reverb,chorus,phaser, maximus, fruity filter, fruity limiter, fruity eq. :D I asssume you use FL, well if not, most of those things exist in others :D Good luck

BudGPStudios responds:

This was a wayy old song, I have better FL skills now. I could redo it but I haven't felt like revisiting this lately.

[{BPS} Summer Nights]

pretty good

I liked the wierd sort of ambient thing. Except that open hat was way to loud...

keep trying :D

BudGPStudios responds:

I can't fix it now... the weird tinkle sound was actually a glitch with one of my synths... Downloading the patch changed it.

Thanks for the review

[.:D:. Stay With Me]

lovely

Its starts of very sad but then gets sort of dramatic :D

but it has a wierd melody. MEh It was fun to listen to :D

DofS responds:

Thanks.

[Solus- Shatterface]

Yeah

I think I might actually give you a proper review, just to let you know that I am actually not some dumb ass who can just midi rip. But anyway lol...

This is definitely not drum and bass, but I can sort of tell you were going for it. Possibly something techno or experimental/misc? I suppose everyone is better at different things. Like for instance, I know you can create some really good melodies and bass lines. You also have some nice structure and arrangement with your songs in general.

I suppose on the modern sort of effects/repetitive/all that sort of stuff, isn't where your skills really lye. Not to say you can't create some really awesome sounding synths.

For starters this is way to slow for any sort of dnb association, second of all the bass doesn't really sound all that drum and bass like.

You should be able to take away all other instruments except for the drums and the bass and it should still sound awesome. Really, the sound of the bass and the high speed flowing drums is what gives a dnb song a dnb feel, in my opinion any who.

This has a real nice melody to it and some really nice alternating drum patterns and it is a good song but it isn't that catchy and doesn't excite any strong emotions. Take a Paragonx9 song for instance. It does have some strong drum arrangements and usually a kick ass reese bass, but it also has some kick ass video game type melodies. It has building up and climax's and all that sort of stuff.

This song on the other hand, compared with "she" for instance, doesn't have much going for it. Maybe you could have at least sped it up for some sort of climax, or taken away the drums for a while, for some sort of breakdown.

Well I am no master of dnb but I hope I helped you out :D

now go check this out :D

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/
listen/287762

Peaceout XD

SolusLunes responds:

lulz, I know you're not just "some dumbass who can midi rip", I mean, srsly, the Synthesis remix made me lol harder than most anything ever :D

I've listened to your music (ninja listening ftw!) and you're probably better than I am.

But yes, I was going for DnB- it's something I've never done before, I kind of did no research at all, it was effectively "RAWR LET'S DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS".

Sounds like how I write most of my music.

But yes! You have helped me! For I intend to continue writing... um... whatever this is... and possibly getting closer to actual DnB!

That kinda seems to be my main problem- I can't do mainstream, no matter how hard I try to. And goddamn, I do try. :p

(Also please note that the description was only a semi-joke. I really have no idea how this got here.)