archefluxx's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Фотографирую закат (K3MP3R remix)]

You know it's going to be interesting when you see a waveform that compressed! The track is really good, especially given it's using a base track thats not optimised. You've done well to mix this down

[Crunchie Crunch]

Nice work on this. Plenty of nice details such as panning and the sound selection is mostly great. The bassline I'm having a hard time enjoying. It's very raw, and would benefit from layering with a sub-bass and something to smoothen out that sawtooth. You may disagree, and thats fine! I am a big fan of the kick though. Not used enough these days!

[Forced Movement]

This is awesome. Really high level of production, and plenty of Infected Mushroom -style transitions.

Qilin responds:

Thank you, that is great to hear. I'm personally not that much an IM fan, so idk much about their transitions :D

[Simple Drum Loop Expanded]

I really appreciate the minimalism here. The effects are subtle, the pitch bending is really delicately done, and that light touch production method really has me head-bopping to this.

I would love to hear this expanded upon.

FluffyBara responds:

Thank you! I really appreciate the feedback. I’ll certainly try to make some more stuff and possibly work with this some more.

[So Dreamy]

I like the ideas in this. There are some riffs which are very nice too - particularly the saw in the second passage

It's possible you're trying to produce something unique, and it's negating the effectiveness of the track. For instance, you have a bass stab which fades in and out. I think you'd benefit more from losing that automation and having it static. The double kick muddies the mix, and you would probably find the track is more defined by having a simple 4/4 style. Where your kick lands on the bassline on it's second hit, it's usually a cardinal sin.

Jeansowaty responds:

I'll be frank, the beat pattern is like that because I recreated it from a song generated with Melobytes playing at 95 BPM. I felt it could sound pretty surreal and innovative if sped up to 137 BPM. As for the bass, I guess I tried to add some variety. And yeah you're very right, I'm not trying to create something generic/typical. Modern techno/trance is usually pretty on the grid and the word "cardinal" you said is pretty much an effect of that, there's barely any place for innovation. I like to experiment, maybe the end result is not gonna be very great, but it's a lesson for me to see what works and what does not :) Your suggestions are easy to apply though. Thanks for the feedback!

[menu]

Very simple set of sounds, but it sounds like you've spent a lot of time getting these sweeping synths right, and it really sets a nice mood. If you were to expand this into a full track, it would need more structure, but if it sat in a game, or a menu of a game, it's super effective

[Infectious]

I think there's plenty of production qualities in here, but I think the track lacks a musical aspect and needs a bassline glueing everything together. By sticking to it's key and not modulating or following a progression, you've ended up having a rigid track falling out of tune that's relying on effects a little too much to remain interesting. That said, taking these sounds and effects and fitting them to a chord progression could really bring this alive

GeometryDashMau5Kids responds:

Tomare en cuenta tus consejos. Muchas gracias

[VaanHeiseR - Comely]

I think this is cool. I love the arrangement, and the piano hook really sets itself up nicely for the glitch effects you've used.

I think swap in some higher quality up and down sweeps, consider using percussion or tweak existing EQs that makes more of the high end you've got a really viable track

[Mistaken Fireball (Tabled)]

I think there's plenty of production merit here. I quite like the sound-selection and style of this.

I think you're being tripped up slightly by the heavily detuned primary sound, and the fact it's audibly falling off key. That said, I don't think it would take much tweaking in the piano roll to have a more complete, and very unique track. I really like the style, even though I'm at a loss of what to call it.

[KCO]

I love the progressive nature of this track, building and building into a crescendo. An observation I would make is that your percussion become very lost in the mix when so many dominant elements are playing.

Мне нравится прогрессивный характер этого трека, нарастающий и нарастающий до крещендо. Я хотел бы отметить, что перкуссия сильно теряется в миксе, когда играет так много доминирующих элементов.

MicroMusician responds:

Да, что-то я не подумал о перкуссии и увлёкся прогрессией. В любом случае спасибо за отзыв! Постараюсь в следующий раз учесть этот недочёт.

Yeah, I didn't think about percussion and got carried away with the progression. Anyway, thanks for the feedback! I'll try to take this into account next time.