darthduba's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Epic Battle Theme by:TM132]

Review it

To start I'll tell you that this review will be pretty negative. Don't bother about it, it's all about helping you get better.
To start of, the melody is rather dull and doesn't seem to follow any chordprogression. The best way to start a melody is to build around a chord progression. From this track I think you probably haven't learned about them. I believe you should reading up about it.

Second , listen to that rythm. It just goes du-du-du-du. Try using some variation. Keep it from getting boring. try adding a chord. Layering notes. Experiment with velocity.

Third. You really want to add in some percussion. Especially if you want to call your song 'epic'. A good percussion build can make a song much better. Most software doesn't include a lot of drumsamples so I think you should check the internet for some.

You probably didn't use the mastering aswell. experiment with reeverbs, delays and filters. Try creating automation clips.

The lenght is too short. Even for a loop.

Overall this doesn't stand out at all. You need to get some tutoring about music theory. Keep sending in tracks to NG. With some luck you will get more constructive reviews and will learn from it. If they just bomb you without reviewing , contact me and I'll be glad to help.

Greetz Duba
Feel free to return the review.

Tankman132 responds:

Thank ill do that wow its nice that people are actually commenting whith some information i really appreciate it =D

[(NUB)Super Amen Brothers]

Haha I was wondering if you'd join or not.

Hence the post on myspace. Quote: " WOOOOT AMEN LOVE IT".

Nice breaks as ever. The melodie is a bit plain.
Good luck on the contest.

Greetz Duba

[DPulse/IxON - Electro Therapy]

Mighty fine track

The bass is lovely, and as said chopped nicely. Mass variation keeps it intresting. The mastering was professional. Plus I find it respectful that you answer every review (no matter how lame they are).

Greetz Duba

DigitalPulse responds:

Chopping FTW :) Yea, I only find it fair to answer everyone, even the random ones XD

Thanks for the review,

Digital Pulse

[// swift [loop]]

Read your tread...

... So here is a review :)

The beat is pretty cool. Altho it is compressed badly scince it doesn't stand out above the synths. You need to lower volume on them or filter them a bit. Never add reeverb to your kicks and snares aswell. They need to be clear instead of blury. Instrumental choice of the high hats is a bit weird. Go look on the internet for some typical DnB drumsamples. I'm sure if you got some you'll bring up a sick beat :) JungleHats are fun to work with. I use em a lot myself.

A good way to know if you are doing it right, is checking others people stuff. Remember, someone else his way shouldn't be the right way. Create your music as you like it yourself best.

As said beneath me. The piano sounds a bit dull.
Tho the melody is pretty nice and energetic. The synths layer correct.

I am a big fan of melodic dnb :p

Greetz Duba
Keep up the DNB !
5'd

alertG responds:

Reverb wasnt added to the snares, but i merged the sound more to reduce it. I found some samples that i havent tried yet so I'll try them out. I worked on the piano and removed some synth reverb. Oh, and i changed the volume of the hats so it may sound better.

Thanks for the review!

[Tetris Remix [Final]]

Midi files ftw

Not a bad remix, but it smells like sytrus presets all over. Also the mastering isn't what it should be. It sounds blury at a lot of moments and the same frequencies are interupting each other. The main synth is too weak . The drums don't stand out above the synths. They need to be compressed more.

Good work. But needs mastering work.

Greetz duba

[Unicorns in Candy Funland]

Nifty beatwork

The beat flows well and I really enjoyed the breakbeat. Tho I think you should upper the volume of the beat a bit or compress it a bit better. It still doesn't overcome this deep bass you made.
The bass is nice. Altho the reese is pretty hard to hear and repeats itself. More Variation makes DnB so great, so that needs to be worked on.
The sub stands out nicely

Greetz Duba
4'd

Feel free to return the favor.

[Time and Space Continuum]

As you asked

Liking the intro

It is a good technique to start a song with random sounds.
The melodies and percussion are very creative. You clearly took your time to come up with this stuff. Acually its very good, seems like a mixture of techno, breakbeats and even metalsounding basses.

The thing that you should work with is brightening it a bit. A good way to start is to remove a reeverb from low frequencie notes. You should lover the volume of some mixer channels equaly. Panning instruments of the same frequencies slightly opposite of each other sometimes does the trick aswell.

Greetz Duba
4'd

Feel free to return the favor :)

[Amateur's Debut]

Love that start

This track is pretty cool for a first timer. You clearly got musical education unlike many other NG artists. You should try to bring out a version that sounds clearer. This one is sometimes a bit blury.

This was a real fun track to listen to and I hope you bring out more.

Duba

4'd Favd

[Silent fear]

FL Keys

FL keys is fun to experiment with. Altho its hard to make it sound like a real piano. I think its only good to make a dance piano with.

Looks like you took your time to lay out the notes untill you liked it.
It could use a string or pad in the back and percussion.

Overall fun to listen but not exeptionally good. It could do with some more work.
Greetz Duba

4'd

Fiffo666 responds:

Thank you for your review, as i said, it was my second project, so i need every help i can take to make my music better^^