archefluxx's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Archari & Tune Down! - Beyond The Stars]

Nice to see a familiar name on NG! Great work on this track! Great to see Archari's name back next to a Hardcore track too. I'm looking forward to hearing more!

TuneDown responds:

Thanks, I've been on newgrounds for years! Always lovely to see archari around, we'll definitely be working on more stuff together.

[Rising]

Good work on this. With your next production, try and work on using a Limiter to prevent the clipping distortion that's worked its way into this track.

Are you Mastering your own music? If so, export a wave that's way below peaking at 0db, and master that wave with compression and limiting to add the loudness with care not to overdo it and make it clip/distort

Mockany responds:

It was made in FL Studio Mobile, I'll try to improve

[Electro stuffs]

Really like the drop. So understated, but clever! Out of interest, was there a reason you exported this at like 92kbps? :3

bobyolo responds:

Nope i just randomly did what i thought was right ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

[when we were all here]

This is a beautiful piece

Troisnyx responds:

Aaa, thank you 😭❤️

[The Garden - Teaser]

This is beautiful, from the piano and the vocals right down to the brilliant mix-down and delicate sound selection. Nice!

Troisnyx responds:

Ah thank you, glad you enjoyed this. ☺️ I want to expand upon it when I have the spoons for it.

[Darude - Sandstorm (Beatzpunk 2k18 Hardstyle remix)]

Production quality is great. Drops like an absolute wrecking ball. Great work!

The second breakdown and build up is insane. The pitch bending is awesome. Great quality work!

djkevin-l responds:

i really apreciate that, Thank you very much!!.

[Horn Town [Happy Hardcore]]

I can understand Joe's opinion with the kick drum. It does take over the mix a little, but Happy Hardcore is kick-drum-led. The music moves around the kick, as the kick is the driving factor of the track. However, the kick is strange and it has a tuning that sort of throws out the rest of the track.

If you listen to Hardstyle, the kick tends to modulate with the bassline. I think the kick here may need a similar modulation, or perhaps select a punchier kick with an off-beat bassline stab.

Hope that makes sense! The track is great. The horns and the riffs all work really well!

hardcorescm responds:

Heya

the kick does have strong tone that is on the fourth of the root of the track but i liked the way it worked with the bass, maybe its a bit marmite

i did try doing the middle section with the kick pitching about in tune with the chords but didnt feel it worked with this kick and arrangement as i wanted it to be mostly about the horns

thanks for your comment, it all makes sense :)