TAGPilot101YT's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[*:[GH]:* "Eat Your Brain"]

Honestly, I really see the idea here. I can't remember the artist's name rn but this seems inspired by someone. However, I'm gonna explain my score.

Offbeat

Usually, songs follow a certain "criteria" to have some kind of new thing/change I guess every 4 beats. This helps people to expect smthn to hit to bop their heads to. What you have here, it started out with you on beat. When the loud melody thing came in, that's when it started to kinda fall apart.

The drums were still copy pasted in the 1, 2 , 1, 2 pattern so it's fine but the melody hit parts late making everything sound off. Honestly even if you don't vibe to it at first, it's sometimes those kind of things that fit the best. Make it hit every half bar so it's a bit quicker but still on beat. It doesn't have to be exactly that, but it's again, a suggestion to help it out. As for everything else, it still has the same problem. The build-up came in to sudden, the drops didn't sync with the drums, etc.

Transitions

I'm not totally sure if you know, but there are distinct parts of songs that help the flow of the song. The intro, bridge/verse, build-up, (usually for very certain songs or genres) pre-drop, drop then the rest depends on how you make the song. Although yours was somewhat distinct, some parts felt sudden and empty. Things like ambience, risers and sound fx (please don't overuse or make them loud if it's not really needed) help ease things in. Of course, this is easier to execute if your following the 4-bar rule.

Volume

Some aspects of the song seemed to loud and especially for their placements. The song starts off with drums. Ok, that's fine, it's not a crime or anything. However, they were too loud especially for starting off the song. However, I noticed that the drums were essentially the same volume throughout and I feel like that kinda ruins the punch they were supposed to have in the drop.

For example, the build-up is supposed to build energy for the drop; it should never have the exact same volume as the drop. Otherwise, it'll just make the drop seem less significant. The drums were the same volume again, the risers were too loud ammd the original volume was actually starting to drown. Although I usually make melodic tracks, I still feel like risers are the type of thing to add as an element to add energy rather than be a blatant part of the energy if that makes sense.

Mixing

This topic is kind of a sensitive topic since not everyone is a master at it including me, but I'm not gonna be hypocritical. Volume is just the start of mixing. Compression, delay, eq, panning, sidechain, etc. is where its at.

In the drop, I've been hearing a bit of distortion in the drop and realized that, it's either the fact that your sidechain is too quiet, or it's the fact you have no sidechain. If you you dont have sidechain, refer to some tutorials on sidechain on YouTube. At the end of the track, you have the drop ending with a huge delay. In my opinion, it's a bit too much for this genre considering it takes up around 12 seconds on its own.

As an extra thing, you could add a slight left to right pan on each time that loud melody hits for more variety but if it doesn't work out or you don't want to, that's totally fine. Just a suggestion.

Other

There are things like consistency issues like at 1:23 and 3:11. I'm not sure if this is a glitch in during the export of the mp3, but this feels random. If you were going for the vibe people do when they let rhe drop play for a couple seconds then let the drums come back in, then let the drop play instead of yeeting some of the drop a few bars away.

The second drop, although I understand you wanted it to be longer than the first one, this is too long. Especially at the cut I explain earlier, it just continues on with the same pattern and ends off with a drop. I've been in the same boat with my older songs for years where the second drop would be so extra long lol. Just keep at it and you'll understand and grow.

I hope you find my essay of wht I call feedback helpful lol. If you have more questions, lmk on discord. I'm TheCreatorPilot in the gc.

- TCP

GregHeffley2039 responds:

there is a lot of information, bro !!!!

[melodic dubstep drop [poop]]

Literal fire... the sensation of this heat is immaculate

JoeBurgerr responds:

:3!

[SnipeShot x Zoftle x Whirl x Driftt - Snicker Gang]

Uw~

SnipeShotUnOfficial responds:

thx

[Solitude old ewww]

This is definitely straight chillstep/ambient.

As usual for some reason, your atmospheres are just so sick it's a sin. This kind of genre relies on atmospheres so this was perfect. Great job man, I don't know how else to feedback like critique or anything. Ig go ahead and finish it first.

drifttmusic responds:

aw thank you so much for the kind words :) i kinda realized the melody wasn't catchy enough, so i'll be working on that. But again, thanks for enjoying!

btw i made the atmosphere from 0:30 to the rest of the drop lol

[Uxvellda - Eclipse]

DUDE THIS IS SICKKK

I seriously see the Hans Zimmer inspiration, unless it was intentional, maybe there could have been more action a little earlier in the track too? Still really good mate.

Also what happened to your older tracks?

Uxvellda responds:

Lol, I was really wanting to add some action and moving feel to the track, but there was a specific need in my school project. Don't worry though, there's an upcoming action-y music ;)
Thank you for the review too <3

PS: My style is actually kind of gradually leaning towards more intimate and emotional music too lol, also I unpublished the older tracks from Newgrounds, I feel like they doesn't represent my current taste and skill anymore

[Enhaze - Fracture (Drop Preview)]

Rlly frickin awesome, counter melody could he slightly more obvious tho but thts probably cuz I don't have headphones anymore lol

Atlex44 responds:

thanksk :DDD

[downpour]

damn I love this

atmosphere is 10/10
drop is 9/10
breaks are 10/10
keep it up! :)

Samuel-Mossa responds:

thanks! It's sorta a new style I've been trying out :)

[Enhaze - Stay (WIP #2)]

Ok the starting ambience sounds really nice. However as already said, the drums feel a lil weak at 0:19 but raising the volume and some reeverb can fix that. Imo the buildup could have just a lil bit more volume because it feel wayyy to weak compared to the drop but don't overdo it so its more powerful than the drop. Apart from that, the saws threw me off... interesting sound I like it a lot! :) Finish this, I love it.

Atlex44 responds:

Thanks for the review! I just made the drums louder and made the percussion deeper and more reverbed and sounds a lot better than before. I've also fixed the volumes of the drop/buildup.

[Rose VIP (GD Edit)]

Yooo LXVT introduced to me a lil while back and I still love this, awesome work! :)

Btw why did you block me?

EruptionMusic responds:

i dont think i blocked you, and if that is the case, this hasnt always been my account, sorry bro

[Clean Bandit - Rather Be ft. Jess Glynne (bootleg)]

Yooo!!! This is really nice!! :)

DJY2zbo responds:

Thank you for the support! I'm uploading most for my newer stuff on soundcloud as "Jann Carino" if you would like to give those a listen!