xxxZigZagxxx's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[JNIO]

THIS IS A GOOD EVOLUTION

GO THIS WAY PLS PURSUE THIS DIRECTION

[For Zig Zag]

no-one goes harder lol tazprimo for real
five star flow
five star beat lol
five star everything

thanks a lot you're the best for rela

TazPrimo responds:

Anytime broski, thanks for the five star beat lol

[Stop Traffic]

Man this is one of your best imo. slaps so harrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd.

I mean it's more traditional hip-hop style than your regular, but man does it hit hard. i wish i had the chops to go hard on this, and i hope someone recognizes that it's worth goin in over.

phosphorusprocedure responds:

Thanks, the drum pattern was a pain in the neck to get right.

[Jakobe - Kick The Bucket]

awesomeeeeeeeeeeee your voice is so good in quality and your metaphors are so colourful and beautiful.... i wish i could have a mic + eq like yours and also the great timbre that you have. keep goiinnn keep hustlinnnn!!!!!!!

[Glitch in the System]

oh god you're the best firefox.

[Help Me! R&B version]

so #based you are amazing mr J and i hope you sing more. speaking real truth. all we need is more of those lyrics brah catch u on the re-up

liljchosen responds:

thanks alot man, i really appreciate it, it all came from the heart. I can't write music unless it has true meaning to it.

[J'aimerais]

isn't every one of your tracks a dilla tribute? lol. or is this a refix of one of the tunes he creates.

mind you it's got that "donuts" feel with the build-up throughout 0:20-0:35. it's just that i've heard plenty of your other beats that are more "dilla" than this one ;)

keep on

ThaKidd responds:

Well, yeah. He's definitely my fave producer, but I sampled a few of Dilla's sounds to make this. So this is more of a tribute than anything

[One]

I *loved* the elevator theme to it. This one has a lot more melodic interest than your other beats, and for that I enjoy it. It's a great little tune that would be *perfect* for an elevator, but that's not a bad thing as Inhla below me points out. Who says elevator music is bad? more often than not it's pretty awesome and original

anyways ur great

ThaKidd responds:

I'm trying to divert from the same formula so I won't be like 9th Wonder, but I still want the mellow vibe so it's a balance. I'm glad you like it though. I didn't realize it was an elevator style melody, but that's what I love sampling the most so I use it sparingly

[Beautiful Nightmares]

This is so deep. Starts off with the clicking noise which sets the precedent for things to come. Your mixing style has always been on the rough eclectic side, such as loud overpowering snares, or hardly any snare at all. In this one, the clicks dominate almost the entire mix, but this makes the swishing synths behind it all the more foreboding, and the feeling of disorientation even more apparent

in other words, gj bro bangin beat

[Aspects]

Hi TheGreatKhalem

The beginning sounds very "Owl City ft. Carly Rae Jepsen - Good Time", in a good way. 0:16 The sidechaining arrives. But it's not as hard-hitting as the owl city hit. I know everyone doesn't have those mixing skills, and this is a rough, but it just sounds a bit muddy. If you could somehow produce a high-end that has a quick release, then that's how they do it in mainstream I think. 0:52 Standard snare build-up, but it works.

1:00 Double time snares, and the repetition of the synth. But the snare doesn't come out of the mix enough. 1:17 Wow that turned really quiet all of a sudden. Usually you expect the chorus to be louder than the rest. You might have some majorly huge limiter on it or something because it just went *really* quiet. 1:45 You put DB glitch on it or something? Kinda works, but kinda not. You might need to reroute that to only the synth, and not the drums or something. Not sure how they glitch it to sound somewhat more natural on songs such as this.

2:13 You got that build-up down pat though. 2:17 I like that wind-ish sound to calm it down, coming into the piano solo. You've got the good structure of a mega-hit, it's just the mixing that's letting you down. OK I'm gonna stop here.

No wait I'm not 2:49 has a good build-up. It goes very suddenly loud though. If there could be a way to remedy that? I like your cool blipping synths (not sure how to describe at the point of 03:05. Again, 3:18 is *super* quiet. Probably your kick is too loud and overpowering your limiter it sounds like. If you use FL limiter, do you still have it on? I tend not to use a limiter but maybe I'm weird in that aspect.

Well it seems I've come to the end of your song even though I only intended to stay for half the duration. That must mean it's somewhat good. Thanks for your cool hit that perhaps needs a bit more mixing to make it really good.

TheGreatKhalem responds:

Zigzag...

First off lemme start off by saying I love you, and this is the best feed back I have gotten because you use correct terminology, and know what you're talking about. (seems like it at least.)

Also yeah, this is meant to be really radio friendly, easy to sing on and so forth.

I don't really know what you mean by "produce a high-end that has a quick release" ... I'm pretty new to mixing/mastering and I need to learn.

I believe the chorus is lower since the kick is too loud.

The Glitchy sound sound's better routed to the master since the beat adds to it. Also, it's preference to liking it. Some like it and some don't, however, it's only for like 4 seconds. But, you're right about it fitting in this type of track.

It suddenly goes loud at 2:49? I don't really hear it

Also I giggled at you using the word aspect, I couldn't tell if it was intended as a pun or not.

Lastly, I didn't mix this track at all. D:

Thanks alot good sir, you're a great man.