Agente001Tomhson's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Xtrullor - Authority (Talurre Remix)]

Vicious!

[Voix De Ce Qui Était]

This is so relaxing...
I really enjoy it!

[There Is No Silence]

I do like it however!

TheVenturer responds:

then I'll publish more!

[Teminite - Believe]

Probably my favourite of yours. I can absolutely relate with the lyrics and I just love how you combined your voice with the vocoder, it is a really nice combo!

[Teminite - Unstoppable]

This is still so good... even nowadays...

[Teminite - Work]

Walking at Ikea like a fricking champ!
This is thick as hell man!

[Dive]

Dude... goosebumps at the lyrics...
This is so fucking well crafted...
Welcome to the realm of music production my friend...

3YEOfficial responds:

thank you so so much dude <3

[Beakfeet and Meremix - Sofabed]

Glad that you aren't dead! I already was wondering where you've been!
Also, something really interesting to note in this track that kept me thinking for a little while...
That sounds like Xtrullor

BurneMusic responds:

indeed

[Hive Mind]

Jesus fucking Christ...
That is fucking tight...maybe even too tight?
but dude, extremly nice sound design!

[Telaris - Nightfall]

See this review how you want, I am just trying to help you:

I seriously have no idea where to start; you seem to not be aware of what is actually possible while creating music, and I think it is already time that somebody clears you up on this.

In all of your tracks there are so many important elements missing, or generally there are instruments/synths/whatever missing in general. There is no introduction to the intro, the intro itself feels empty with just the choir and no FX or additional details whatsoever. There are no transitional elements from section to section and everything feels really cluncky. The only section that I kinda liked was the Chorus/B Section (2:46), because there were more elements that tried to support each other, but each element was fighting for superior volume and that was just a total mess. To put it simply: There is SO MUCH stuff that can be improved.

But what are these important Elements? Well, you are trying to produce Orchestral Dubstep, so...
- You need a sub bass. Without a sub bass, there is no bass. Mostly the sub is simply a sinus/sine wave sitting below the bass element itself. The sub bass will give the actual bass to the bass, if you know what I mean.
- You need a sidechain for your drums. What a sidechain does is that it reduces the volume of, mostly, every single instrument and synth, when a drum hits. You need this because the drums need space to punch through the mix. Simply look up "How to sidechain your drums" on Youtube and you will find plenty of methods, all with their pros and cons.
- You need effects (FX) on ALL of your sections! FX is everything that makes your track feel more alive, for example: certain foley, like sounds of wind or a sample of someone breaking glass, or sounds of birds chirping or samples of footsteps, etc. these are what make a track a track and without them the track would feel empty and hollow
- You need transitional FX. Uplifters, Downlifters, Risers, White Noise that fades in or that fades out (you can also use foleys as transitional FX too!). These will make sure that the listener can follow through the sections, because without them it is like hitting a solid brick wall while running.
- You need audio FX. For example: The Choir could use some reverb, because it feels really dry in that state, you could beef up the Basses with some OTT, you can equalize every single instrument with an EQ to make sure that everyone has space for other elements to fill this space in the frequency spectrum, you can add a Delay to your Arps to make them sound more alive, etc.
Audio FX are in my opinion the second most important thing in music production!

The most important thing in music production for me is to tell a story through your track, but it seems that you kinda got it already. Simply research a topic or use any sort of experience you had in your life as a basis for your composition and arrangement.

Right now I don't want to go into everything technical you might need to know, because I think it is better to test the thing that I have listed up first, and then we can dive deeper into this.

I hope that I could help you with this, and I am sorry if I came out as rude, I didn't want to be, but I felt like I had to do something .

Telaris responds:

So the last thing I expected was to see you here, so first off thank you for dropping a review,

This was kinda rude but VERY helpful, which is most important to me

It is true that I am not aware of true music, part of this is because of Lack of motivation,

But most of this stuff is because Im broke As FUCK.

Music production is beginning to become more of a chore for me than for fun, my best songs (Into the Cluster, HOS) were made when I had all the ideas, but ohh man have I run out now. Im not offended or anything, but I will defend myself because I feel their are somethings I cant change.

The sub is always my Fault, I ALWAYS forget the sub, for this project that was impossible because it broke the CPU.

Sidechain I also need to work on, haven't realized how necessary that is, so that's also my bad

The FX thing ill have to look into, I used to load my songs up with everything, but that was a pain in the ass. This song in particular I got really lazy with. So that's once again my bad.
But the Choirs did have reverb, just a bad plugin, I have REALLY bad plugins (I need a Patron really bad). The Arps could have had delay but im an Idiot. And I do need to work on EQing still.

But yeah, thank you for being rude, you have basically saved my ass. Besides, the way I see it, if I get upset, literally no one would care.

I will all this out next track, and ohhh boy I cant wait for you to see.

Thanks again Agente.001.