xxxZigZagxxx's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[H~ "Melancholy tune"]

This is really beautiful <3 love the composition and strings <3

[Desert Chant (ft. Holly Fresh)]

Yes this is innovative and great. The mixing, the innovation, the way it is all cacophonous and yet incredibly contained and massive. The freestyle beatless poetry that makes its way through weaselling and just easing through is so evocative. <3 excellent all the way through. Cooked to crisp.

Libby-Shimmz responds:

Thank you!

[Retro Riddim (WIP2)]

Whoooaaaaaa that part at the end. You're doing great sounds. I like! It's massive :)

You've got a new fan hehe ^_^

VaraXMusic responds:

Thank you!!!

[Resentment]

Yo this is siiiiiiiick. Love the loop! You've done great touches throughout too to keep it interesting. Real nice! You have a new fan :)

CyniR responds:

I appreciate it, thank you!

[bit coin]

WOW. Incredible. I love the loop and the great way that you've EQ'd the snare, the percs on the right ear. The eerie "music box"-ness of it all. The scratching at 0:25. The progression of the "old radio" sound that happens at 0:45. The subtle "taking out" of the beat at 0:56.

This is really good! Love it <3 You have a new fan :)

[tree root]

Whoa! This is greeeat :) I like the little clinks and clanks you can hear without, and the semi "2-step garage" type feel you got going. It's sort of Moby-ish too ^_^

I like! You got a fan :)

gamerjaym responds:

thanks hard being crative sometimes

[Alone]

Wow, this is excellent! I love this <3 So epic. I love your piano playing, the epicness of your tone and your light touch.

The arpeggios. Then the strings or whatever you start to bring in at 00:35 are very evocative. I wonder if it's supposed to be quite retro sounding? A lot of the high end is taken away. It's still great, though, mostly because of the epic composition.

1:11 Heck those melodies are soaring! Grats!

yeah this whole thing is exceptional, what can i tell ya? Brilliant.

[Logic Gate]

0:00 It starts quite slow but getting there I suppose!
0:25 The bass here is taking up quite a few frequencies. It's quite all-encompassing. Perhaps you could choose a sound that is less massive? Or just turning it down a bit? Not sure
1:06 I do like the sounds here though! Quite interesting scales, mending together of diff melodies. That part is great.
1:24 Nice contemplative ending. The bass is quite all-encompassing, though! Might need some EQ'ing to make it less annihilating XD

Overall great song! I like its playfulness, the interesting things you are doing with scale, and the original groove. Keep creating! You're great :)

RetroCore responds:

Thanks for you feedback! :D

[Journey]

0:00 Ooh I love the arps! Very nice!
0:35 I love your melodies. They are exceptional. They work really well together, especially here.
0:56 The "007 style" staccato is working well here.
1:12 The kick is a little bit weak (i think could use some high end) but still groovy
1:24 OOOOOH i do like the groove to this piece. Disco-ish! I think that your main synth could use perhaps a bit less low-mid? It's muddying up the mix a bit. But it's still groovy!
2:10 I like the overall feel of this!

Wow, this one is actually pretty great. I like the progression of it. Really builds. I do think that the major improvement here would be mixing, because there seems to be a lot of synths taking up some of your low-mid space... and then even some clashing on the high parts. So experiment a bit with taking some low end out of those "lead synths" to give them colour and make them stop from competing for your low end.

Other than that, very solid! This is real nice and danceable :)

[EverythingYouWish - Envy]

0:00 Ooh some pitch bend? Interesting... not sure what it's going for yet
0:15 There's some dissonance here, still kind of unsure what's happening
0:30 Okay the melodies and chords are sort of at dissonance here, I don't think they cohere very well
0:50 I feel like there needs to be some understanding of scales going on here, otherwise if you already know, and are breaking the rules on purpose, I feel like there needs to be a greater sense of melody and harmony.
1:27 I feel like I can skip ahead
2:36 Sheesh, more of the same!
Skipped to 3:30 Oh, I really think there needs to be more harmony here. Something seems out of key.
Skipped to 4:09 It's less obvious when the bass isn't happening underneath. Wow, it finished.

I think that even though I could see what you were trying to go for here, there is a lot of dissonance that isn't quite working in favour of the track, at least to my ears. I'm not sure if you are quite well-versed in chord theory or not, but I think it would be good to learn which notes go well with others. So that it can sound harmonious rather than in dissonance all the time. Don't get me wrong, a bit of dissonance is good, but only when it seems intentional.

So I do think that studying chord theory or looking up a YouTube video on scales would do some good. Keep it up!

EverythingYouWish responds:

Thank you for the building feedback, I will try to look more into the chords and learn from it.
I understand your opinion and I will consider it next time.

Honestly, some other guy would just write: trash song.