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.

[[Crysis] Risky Business]

This is definitely something I could hear in an elevator, or a videogame where the protagonist's waiting around in an elevator, etc. The story behind piecing together the sax melody is interesting, and I can relate: listening to some crazy 70s album in its entirety, waiting for the one moment the sax (or whatever instrument you need) jumps out so you can grab it. And it's nice, too. The only thing that bugs me is: I heard the bassline, which near the end really stuck out, and it's more of an old school jazz snap-your-fingers type bassline, which to me didn't fit with the guitar/piano all that much, since they were playing in some completely different style (subdued bossa nova, I think?) Rhythmically, they felt at odds with each other. Like, one was in triplets and the other in quarter notes? I don't know. But otherwise, nicely done.

JackRocker responds:

Ha, yeah, this is an old beat, one that should have never happened. It's horribly off beat, and just, really, not a good one at all. Team-Dix, boney-man, and TheFantasyClub all did remixes of it, much better than this. Thanks for the review though.