Soapbubble's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[J@Ks Zoom Guitar Jam 2]

I guess I don't really need to mention that the volume is a bit low, but still, make sure it's better in future jams :)

Not a bad little jam, you've seem to pretty much got the flow of a jam going, but there is a bit too much noise, in my opinion, at least during the beginning. It's also a bit short. I'd like to hear longer jams from you :)

gamejunkie responds:

Thanks SB. Totally agree with everything you said. This was one of our earliest and probably the most tragic of all the sessions.

Cheers gamejunkie.

[Heartbrat]

I think it's a pretty good track, I really enjoyed it. It was relaxing all the way through, while still being pretty catchy. When the beat came in, especially. Think that might've been the highlight of this track for me.

Only thing I could ask for is just a tad more variation. Right now it feels more like you just add one something at certain intervals, which sounds a bit odd. I'd love to hear a more complete track with more variation throughout the entire piece.

Fudgehog7 responds:

Thanks for feedback.

[Viet]

That's cool.

Kind of wish I'd reviewed this before the weekend, could've gone well down at the afterparty.

Anyway, I think this one's really cool. I don't really know how this is related to Vietnam, if it were regarding the Vietnam war I'd expect a much more downbeat track and probably not of the electronic genre.

This track is more original than most else I'll find on here. These minor things really make it stand out, like random flute parts in the middle of it, well-done transitions and a melody that works out throughout the entire thing. To me this sounds professionally produced. I think the ending is a bit weird, with it speeding up before cutting off. It works out, I just felt like pointing out that it does seem somewhat odd.

Anyway, it's a great track and I wouldn't want to improve much on it. You do say there were vocals on top of it, and when I do listen it feels a bit empty, like it is missing something that the vocals would fill.

WizMystery responds:

Thanks for the review!

The assignment that this was made for was a Vietnam rap, but having never written hip hop I wanted to continue my attempt at making fidgety... anything. Also, I kept throwing out ideas and by the time I had a week left to finish it I just said "screw it" and decided to go with whatever. I wished it could have been more on the ball, and hopefully I can practice working with writing prompts that will teach me how to stay more on the task and focused.

Also, WELL-DONE TRANSITIONS? You have no idea how much I was dreading people remarking how piecemeal this was and how horrible the transitions were. I guess that's just me being paranoid. The speeding up thing was just to get an extra chorus in there (I called that a chorus. The shame...) that would have been too slow otherwise. I should have had a vocal-driven chorus which would actually make it a chorus...

I'll keep this in mind as I still have no clue what to think about this one.

[City Vibes]

Interesting track, but I have to agree with Haggard here, it really does lack some power.

My question is whether you went for an atmospheric feel with this or rather something with a nice beat that you can really nod your head to.

You've used some nice synths, and I really enjoy the bass in the piece, which is why I'd like to hear more focus on it. That said the melody is also absolutely amazing. I'm just having a hard time deciding whether this is a rather relaxing atmospheric track or more of a fun energetic track with a catchy beat.

Hikari responds:

It was supposed to be more of a atmospheric track. Thats why I hate the intro because it misconstrues the intention of the song. Im thinking of making the bass pattern more active in my remix.

[Not Enough {Dj-Abbic}]

In my opinion this just takes far too long before it really starts. Not having any bass at the beginning of a track isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the fact that for so long it seemed like it was only these two keys that went all by themselves it felt highly repetitive for the first two minutes and easily got boring.

Once the bass kicked in and the song really took shape, it immediately sounded a bit better. The nice little buildup wasn't bad at all. It even builds up further. I do think you could've varied up the keys a bit, and even atabout 4.15 or so when it again builds up, it doesn't feel like that much has changed. It sounds good, it just isn't anything new.

All in all the track feels very dragged out, with long segments and little variation overall. I do like the synths and especially the keyboard samples you used, but add some more variation, please.

DjAbbic responds:

I agree with most of what you have said. It IS quite dragged out with little variation and I really could have done better. I also made the patterns rather short, which meant the same thing would be looping for more times than a longer pattern.

Thanks a lot for the constructive review, hopefully I tend to these mistakes in future :)

[Stuff]

Well, it's not terrible for the first track you've finished, but it definitely could do with some work.

First off, the volume is really really low for me. Crank that up a bit, so people don't have to turn their speakers up to max to hear what's going on.

The buildup is far too slow at the beginning IMO. It takes about a moment for the heavier synths to kick in. Even when they do, they seem a bit distorted.

The biggest issue I have with this track is that it's very very repetitive. There are some effects lain on top of it, but the fact is that it's very much the same all throughout with the same beats, same synths and fairly similar melodic line. The outro is also very dragged out, and it doesn't really feel like an ending to the song, it rather just drags out.

Experiment with using more layers, and especially experiment with the beats. They can do wonders. Variation is a must, don't force yourself to make a long track if you don't know what to put in it. A 2-minute track with variation is better than a 4-minute track that gets stale really fast.

Good luck
K

Rizy26 responds:

Thanks a lot for the feedback and sorry about the volume I didn't do great at mixing it and a lot of it kept getting messed up everytime I exported it so I had to take a lot of the levels down so it wouldn't worse than it already does.

As for the intro I wasn't sure what to do there tbh. At first I had a piano line but that didn't really work so I had to take it out. Ended up with a long intro of just drums and ended up thinking "meh its ok", just the product of my terrible laziness.

And a lot of the synths were really gotten by accident I was hoping to go for a Justice style distorted thing but I couldn't really get it to work. And thanks for the comment on variation I didn't know I was doing that, I guess I was just sticking to the one riff I was happy with.

Thanks a lot for the review, they only people who have properly commented on this are a couple of my friends so its nice to get an honest opinion and something that will actually help me.

[FS: Hard sun (acoustic)]

Your voice quite reminds me of The Very Foundation. I really like it. I'm not sure if it's the microphone or your voice, but I feel you could... put more into it? Feels like you've got more power to it but you're not using it.

FairSquare responds:

Thanks!
And yeah, i'm still improving and stuff.. i find it hard to really give it my all without worrying about what my neighbours might think :p
That, plus what i said in a response to the review below this one.

[Unicorns and Hallucinogenic]

Not a bad track, but the audio quality seems to be a bit lacking in some parts. I'm not entirely sure if the static I hear in a lot of the parts is intentional or not, but I'm fairly certain I'm hearing it. However, that might be due to the frantic and fast-paced nature of the track.

Seems like a good track for raves, but it also feels like three or so tracks mashed together. Some of the transitions, or bridges, could just be removed, and the parts of the track could be split into different tracks.

It's not a repetitive track, it's quite varied, but it does feel a bit dragged out. The synths you used were decent, and I'm sure this entire track would be really appealing to the right demographics.

Dj-GST responds:

I don't hear any static, it could just be all of the reverb you're hearing.

Yeah, now that I listen to it, the progression of this track is lacking a bit, I'll work on that more in my next one.

I wish I had a better Supersaw, I used to have Nexus, but it's not working properly....

Thanks for the review!!

3S