phosphorusprocedure's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Wolfie - The White Knight]

Love the sample at :33 (or whatever the instrument is). The piano's great. The drums sound pretty good, but something bugs me about the snare. Part of it sounds crunchy, but I keep hearing this water bottle quality to it. You might be able to tweak the EQ around 250 Hz to fix that. And at 1:47, a similar problem with the hat/snare thing - around 3 kHz, there's definitely something you can suck out. If you listen to that sound enough, you'll know what I mean - there's this pang to it that'll give you a headache after a while. Like I said, attenuate somewhere around 3kHz, it'll fix that completely. Otherwise, nicely done. The kick sounds fucking fantastic. Your voice sounds good, mixed well. I dig the bassline. Nice work.

Wolfie responds:

Hah, yeah, I like the guitar at 0:33, too.

I've re-recorded the verse, so I was planning to upload the song again. Before I do that, I'll be sure to take your suggestions and improve the instrumental. I meant to give the drums a lo-fi-like sound at 1:47, but I didn't mean to make it a bother to listen to, you know? So I'll be sure to address that.

I appreciate the critique, thanks for that!

[Roma [Int.]]

Really like the dissonance at 2:41. 3:26 sounds like Knocks Me Off My Feet by Stevie Wonder (I've no clue why I heard it like that). Overall, the piece was very interesting and had great structure. Impressive work. And great research too!

samulis responds:

Hey there,

Glad to see you like the piece, it was a lot of fun to write honestly, but I have to hand it to Steven Saylor for writing such a perfect and expressive novel... I find it rather entertaining you found the start of the third movement sounding like Stevie Wonder. XD

[The Trecherous Knight]

Nice. I first heard of you from the Zelazon collab. Nice work you did there. Anyway, I quite enjoyed this. If it wasn't in 7/8 (or whatever crazy time signature it was) the intro could've fooled me into thinking it was Coldplay. Might I ask: where do you get these instrument sounds from? I have a hunch it's one of those bajillion dollar Kontakt packs or something, but I could be wrong. My strings sound like junk so I never use them. Also, the piece was structured really well - I mean, whenever it jumps back to the beginning of the loop, I don't notice it. Actually, I think you're going to the next NEXT part of the piece, and then I look up and it's at the beginning, and I'm kinda disappointed. This thing could definitely be fleshed out. Nicely done - cheers!

samulis responds:

The instruments are from EWQL Symphonic Orchestra, which fits in your description of "bajillion dollar packs", although it isn't designed to work with Kontakt.

After I finished the first part on the strings, I did think of Viva La Vida, but the progression is different and the orchestration considerably different as well. (VLV is in 4/4, not 7/8, I believe).

[Deus Ex - Unatco (remix)]

Hmm. I was kinda ambivalent about the instrument you used at the beginning. The orchestra BWOOOM sounded really cool though. I really enjoyed what you did with the strings in the 2nd half, I just think they were a bit loud. I kinda lost track of what the theme originally was with all this other stuff going on. I noticed as of now you have only 3 audio submissions, all remixes. Do you do original music too? I'd like to hear some of that.

neyus99 responds:

Thanks for listening! Yea the second half pretty much becomes something else. Like I would be building the song around the original melody with different sound and thats what it turned out in the end.

I do have originals, in fact I'm working on a EP with 4 or 5 track. It will be electronic/dance, greatly influenced by BT and Solar Field. Aside from that I've recently stopped trying to make remixes, instead just going to concentrate on originals.

So more to come in time.

[Wolfie - Journey]

I really like the jingly things at the beginning. The synth playing the chords sounds real nice. The drums work well with the track. I'm not an expert on rap, so I don't know how to critique your rapping. I can say it's definitely NOT buried. Good mixing. By "A Horse With No Name" do you mean the song by America? I never heard it; I just googled it and it came up. Might be interesting to listen to. Nice work - cheers!

Wolfie responds:

Thanks for checking this out!

I'm glad you like the production. And about the rapping, I agree with others, that I could use work. So I went ahead and re-recorded this (and the rest of my songs). I'll be re-uploading them over the weekend, for sure. I find them to be an improvement. And yes, that's the song I was referring to. I thought it was a good song, and I liked the lyrics, so I kinda used some lines in my verse. It's a nice song, I think you might like it.

Thanks for the review!

[The Portraits]

This is great. It reminds me of the hospital in Super Meat Boy, without all the crazy percussion cluttering up the clever melodies. Not that crazy percussion's a bad thing. I like the discordant harmony at in the middle of the loop. I also really like what's going on at 1:12. Your sense of harmony is impressive. And it definitely matches the short story. Nicely done.

S3C responds:

Thanks bro. Super Meat Boy eh? Can't say I remember the hospital level. Maybe I never got that far.

[[ f ] Pushin]

I'm impressed. The kick has the right amount of bass, the claps/snares have sizzle, the crash isn't overwhelming, the synths mesh together. There's not much I can pick out that detracts from this beat. Well, there's this weird squeaky percussive sound that happens once or twice every bar. I don't know what is is, or how to describe it, but I think it's a touch loud. Otherwise, nicely done.

[Circus (Instr)]

Dude, that melody's gonna give me nightmares. It doesn't help I'm typing this review alone in a dark house right now. Kidding. I felt the clap wasn't quite balanced with the kick, and if it was a touch louder, I could nod my head instead of almost nodding it and then getting confused for a second thinking the clap is a hat every single bar. Hats sounded good. The cool little synth siren thingy at 2:11 ish sounded cool. I'd say experiment with adding things to the beat so the listener doesn't get bored. I mean, I'm kinda bored by this, but you could fix that with a) a rapper, or b) more instruments. I don't mean to be harsh; it's just that the freaky clown melody's getting to me.

ThisIsAnEmergency responds:

Thank you, and yea almost all of my beats are made to rap on. So I'd like to hear any version in-which a rapper fills the void.

[Slow Motion (Instr)]

Normally, I get extremely annoyed when DJs/producers plaster their tag all over their beats to the point it's impossible to listen to the beat, but when I heard "this is an emergency" and checked your username, it screamed clever. I lol'd. As for the beat, at 1:01 I really enjoyed the low-freq drone of the kick. It helped fill the otherwise empty drum beat. I think there could've been more instruments, though. I mean, there was the bassline, but it was only three notes. I really thought there would be more to the track, and I think you can really go places with this. I was kinda bummed when I found out it was just drums and bass. Well, that's my two cents. Keep up the nice work.

ThisIsAnEmergency responds:

Thanks, I made it as a really quick club song and I'll take your valid points into consideration throughout my other beats.