NKAT's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[D'n'B Thing]

6ix

Best advice, goto BassDrive.com and listen to them

i had a longer critique but i hit some combo of keys and it sent me back a webpage

Step responds:

Alright, will do ^^. Lol, that happens to me a lot as well, which is why I press Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C every few seconds ;). Thanks for the review, anyway!

[Race On (WIP) [SFPL]]

DJ lessons, maybe you know

A stock sounding dance/trance mix. I didnt care for trance that much, but liked it with a heavier beat and more action, dance it is called. Thank you for opening my ears up to the sound i used to like long ago. Doing wonders for me tonight.

Crits - Well I like, abrupt or not. May not mix well at a club or rave, and this is my biggest thought, to fix most dance/techno songs, think about the club/rave... i.e. a slow build-up to mix into currently playing record, breaks at the right times if you want them, and a slow releasing ending... i.e. meaning you take out certain elements but no to many, this is so because at this point the DJ would be mixing in a new record to fill in the voids. That is what I would buy on vinyl

I like it

SFaPiL2 responds:

Excellent tips. Never thought of it from a DJ's perspective. It's always good to learn something new.

It's pretty flattering to know that my "song" is appreciated.

Cheers!

[Harp and Flutes [WIP]]

Think of soups

no it is good, all parts are nice, watch out on the pan pipes, they are slightly, very slightly to loud/punchy/whatever u call. I would maybe experiment with them a little, melodies/introduction of them.

Other than the pan flutes, man i really like it. I wish i could slow down a little and put sumthin like this out. '-1' point '9/1'0 cuz of flutes, i am being very very picky though, cuz this is pro

SFaPiL2 responds:

"this is pro"? Damn man, thanks (I'd better not get too cocky ^__^).

What pisses me off though is that I have no clue on expanding this! I tried some things but, imo, they suck the big one.

Thanks a bunch for passing by NKAT.

P.S. Being "very very picky" is a good thing for me ^__^

[Game Over (loop) [SFPL]]

Will

as for title it doesn't capture 'Game Over', 'You are dead', but more of a song over the credits....ninja-sad plot-sneak/action game lol.

I would maybe tone down your back synthy element on reverb or w/e, add another background noise to fill that full and keep the rest the same.

This is very emotion-generating, loops well, has some soul.

Add some super crazy breakbeats lol, no dont do that, but it would make my personal day haha.

8/10, u can see that

SFaPiL2 responds:

Yeah, I was actually thinking of the credits when making this loop. The "synthy element" has too much punch, you're right.

Crazy breakbeats? Your wish is my command ^__^... Nah, I'd suck at it. I'd end up making the usual repetitive drum loop...

...Say, if you're interested, I could pass the samples straight to you. Just for fun.

Cheers.

[FXUEM - Traffic Accidents]

Sounds

grimey, like the sounds, the bass could use some remixing, it is loud. Cool track, this would have ppl losing their minds on a dance floor. Sounds like Pendulum

[Dream Eater (Intense Mobility)]

Gr8

It all sounds good, the song is missing a soul though. What I mean is that as is, this is great 'stock' sounds, it needs something to make it stick out. However, this is quite good for this site. Nice mixing and mastering.

[Frozen Forest (Guardia Forest)]

I never played the game, just like the music

awesome, ya man i have this original soundtrack on CD, made one for all my friends too, fav is Guardia Millenial Fair. Great work

Kloudtana responds:

Haha, the sound track is indeed great, but i think you should play the game as well. If you don't have a SNES, the game was recently re-released on the DS.

And thanks for the review.

[Sinister DNB]

Yea

never heard DnB like this. This is rather interesting. Mixing probs at like 0;30. This is quite a busy and noisy tune, chaotic, and has some skills, make more DnB like on BassDrive.com. Great all around, needs a few clean up things as stated above but cool

[old, classical according to NG]

Mud

a little muddy maybe from the reverb, but I really like it, good skills on this.

Kalapsia responds:

i compressed everything like crazy so thats why it sounds really muddy, thanks