Burn7's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Distant Lands []]

Amazing once again

You're going up there on my fav artist list dude. The metal is definitely rocking ass.

Honestly though I thought the mixing was slightly off in the drums, but you're using a VST so I can't complain THAT much. You also said it's one of your older songs, so that is understandable as well. I personally prefer XLN Audio's Addictive Drums for the snare sounds because they are pretty pimp. I've heard that some people use a combination of EZDrummer and Addictive Drums because they both have their strong points.

deathkllr84 responds:

thanks dude, awesome for the fav artist!

Yeah dude, old song. The kicks are too clicky, snare not chunky enough. I tried Addictive Drums once and didn't really like it, maybe I should give it another shot. But recently I have been using my own samples or mixing it in with ezdrummer.

\m/

[No Remorse []]

Excellent job

Sexy ass guitars, how do you get that sound? (Amp, Effects, Mixing)

It was very... heartfelt. However, I think you should get a singer to complete the badass. That's what I need in my band too, is a good singer. I have this amazing female singer but... it wouldn't work for the kind of sound I want to convey.

deathkllr84 responds:

I actually don't like my guitar tone on here besides the 1:18 area clean guitar. The distortion tone is too fuzzy IMO. I use a Digitech RP250 with custom tones.

Nah, vocals on a song this short would be ehh, and I would like re-record it before vocals ever got on this one. \m/ glad you lked it

[Druox Skype Sounds: Dial]

Holy fuck

I'm so totally downloading this dude.

It's a good loop but I wish the ending actually made it loop completely. It just kinda ends.

[Pokemon G/S Champion Lance]

Very nice :)

You have more balls than I for using the clip in your song :P

I liked the instruments used, the melody was damn good, and it was all pretty well executed EXCEPT...

The percussion. The drums are awesome when they are there, but when they're not it just kinda sounds... empty. I saw your other review where you said that you switch beats every couple measures and also how your drums don't sound too great at this tempo, so you probably didn't have very many samples/loops to work with.

A few suggestions:

1st) I would use crashes to signify the entrance and exits of beats. It helps with the flow of the song. Use reverse crashes before the 1st of the measure that changes so that the listener is readied for a change.

2nd) You could also increase the tempo to twice what it is, and lengthen the notes accordingly so your beats will work better (EX: Quarter Notes become half notes and so on). The melodies and stuff will all be in correct time and your higher BPM beats will fit in just right.

Just some suggestions :)

9/10
5/5
3.80 - 3.92 (+12)

Dachampster responds:

Thanks man! I think I'm going to try doing that. As for the tempo, I'll see what I can do, I probably have drums that work, but the Jampack I got for my program gave me thousands, so I probably only looked in one section for all of the 20 songs I've done with it...
As for the clip, its alright to use because Newgrounds isn't monitored for that kind of stuff as heavily as Youtube is. Thanks for sending me that clip!

[Freezing Moon cover (Mayhem)]

Awesome guitar but...

You need a more convincing drumkit.

I suggest using XLN Audio's Addictive Drums. It's pretty amazing. Any guitarist without a drummer should have at least the demo version. It will blow any fake drumkit you've ever used right the fuck out of the water.

Seriously, then get the Metal Preset pack for it. I'm sure it will extra metalize even your blackest, most soul-splintering riffs and songs.

...Soul-Splinter,

Hmm... I have a new song name.

Demon-Slayer12 responds:

I actually have Superior Drummer 2.0, which is fuckin awesome, I used it on my Blackened cover. Its just very time consuming to map out the drum parts, I managed to do Eternity of Torment, but its not uploaded here. Thanks for the review man, I'll have new tunes with better drums soon...

[KI Gold Theme metalized]

I love you.

I usually hate when people just leave like tiny little reviews on my songs like I'm about to do with you, but I just want you to know that I now idolize you.

[Technic Battle]

Okay this is awesome but...

You know how to make this a 10 for sure? Give it a DnB beat. If you want, I can PM you one. It would make this like 10000x more badasstastic. You just drop the beat at 0:20 and keep it going until it loops.

[[JL] Unreal Superhero]

Roflol!

I didn't read the descrip at first and was like "Dude... what the hell, I've heard this somewhere. KEYGENS! He's a pirate pirating a pirate!" But then I saw your comments and laughed.

Honestly I have to say the original is better because it does have all those awesome solos and all that. But this is a pretty good tribute.

And note sliding uses the "Pitch Bend" automation. At least in the trackers/samplers I've used.

JohnLeprechaun responds:

I've found a few ways to pitch bend, but the good old "slide" option works just fine. Always good to read the author's comments. ;)

[Chimy727 -Horizons.]

You need to work on volume.

The whole song is good, but... It's really fucking loud. Like... turn your speakers up or something because its sooo loud.

Your piano clips when the lower part comes in. The synths are so loud that you can almost not hear the beat. It's like 80/20 Synth to Beat at some points. At least try to keep it a 60/40 if you could.

So.. my suggestion would be to either turn down the mix a little bit, or turn down some parts individually. Otherwise I think this is good... minus the part where you spelled "Horizons" wrong.

8/10
4/5

Keep it up!

Chimy727 responds:

lol i kinda agree not that loud but thanks a ton for the tip!
i need more reviews and i will fix it all.
and LOL thanx for the correction on the spelling! :3
thanks a ton for the review! :D
-chimy727

[[c30] Shadows]

I approve.

Love the 8-bit mixed with newer style sounds. I like it, but I wish you would expand on it a ton more though and maybe bring out the lead at the end a little bit more.

I think it gets kind of buried within the hard beat. But regardless this is very cool. Seems like any time I listen to your shit its always new and sounds like you put effort in there, even if you didn't.

Keep composing and mixing that shit up, my friend.

And btw, I noticed your score was rather low. I wonder why this is? Oh yeah, FUCKING 0 BOMB ASSHOLES. I'm fav'ing this page so I can 5 bomb the shit out of it for the next few days. It's my own personal way of getting back at the 0 bombers. Don't ask why, it makes sense in my fucked up head.

culmor30 responds:

Thanks for the review, glad you liked it enough to write a review that long :D People usually just say "pretty cool" (if anything) instead of giving any helpful advice.

> I'm fav'ing this page so I can 5 bomb the shit out of it for the next few days.

Thanks for doing that, zero-bombers are one of my wost problems with this site. I can't get any publicity because of the fuckers who listen to 5 seconds of a song (if they even listen at all) before voting zero.

Hey assholes, if you're not going to listen to most/all of the song, don't vote zero to kill what might be a good submission. (Doesn't apply to just my submissions, of course.)