DylanGlow's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[.:-{The Approaching Storm]

Enjoyable!

Very well composed! I personally love the full orchestral sound and work within the same area. The biggest problem I found with this piece was the drumming. It was a bit too overpowering and emotionless throughout most the song. It would be perfect I think with a few expression changes and if you quieted it down a bit. I love the strings and other instruments though. The flute with the bassoon or clarinet or whatever in the beginning sounded beautiful. The big bang in the end was very nice as well. Like I said, my only suggestion would be to quiet the snare. Great work guys! Keep at it, I'll be keepin' my eyes open for more of your work!

~Dylan ^_^

BlazingDragon responds:

When you say the drumming, are you reffering to the snare or the hit? (The hit being the lower sounding drum) I did not think the snare was too overpowering, but I suppose I can see where you are coming from. At around 1:30, it is more loud than the winds, which was an unintentional mistake. We would change it, but we wrote this in the FL Studio demo and cannot go back and change anything. :(

Thank you for the helpful review, though. The flute/oboe section part at the beginning which was very fun to write.

~Blaze

[Sun Rise, Sun Set]

Lol!

I enjoyed it! I love the old 8-bit sounds! You never hear any good ol' midi tracks anymore! XD Although, I got to tell you it's not the sound I expected from the title. I don't really get that sun rise and set feeling. Nor do I get that Fiddler On the Roof sound. XD (If you don't understand that comment just ignore it. ^_^) Great work bud!

~Dylan ^_^

BadCommandCo responds:

Thanks, but MIDI =/= 8bit.

[jolly dude]

It could be good!

I'm pretty sure this could be much better. From what I can make out it seems decently rhythmic and well composed. The biggest problem you seem to have right now is your recording equipment. I didn't mark you down on the voting for the equipment of course, 3/5, because believe me, I know how expensive good equipment is. It's just really hard to hear what's going on. As I said, this in no way affected the voting, I was just leavin' it in the review. ^_^ Keep at it!

~Dylan ^_^

cjwood responds:

i agree with you

[Con Te Partiro v1.2 [W98L98]]

Pretty good!

It's a great cover, really. The only problem I have personally with it is that the 1, 2, 3, 4 beats with the pluck sounds is a bit too distorted. Hey, but don't worry too much what the listeners think. Ever heard that saying, "Can't please 'em all"? Well at newgrounds you're lucky to please three people if there's no technotronic eletro whatever with a heavy beat. This is great work. ^_^ Keep at it! I'd love to hear an original at some point too. ^_^

~Dylan ^_^

Wound98Licker98 responds:

Lol, thanks man. Yeah, one thing I don't understand is I fixed it up a lot and my other 2 were scoring way better. 4.43 out of 5 and 4.31 maybe my version was better than what the people wanted. But than again my strongest votes were from those people and they probably haven't logged on, because I'm pretty sure I'd see a small surge of reviews and 5s. Maybe a couple of PMs here and there. Thanks for the kind words and in a way putting my mind at ease. And I'll definitely throw an original, either that or maybe a nice remix! o.0 Who knows? Keep in touch.

[W98L98]

[InG=- Progress -=InG]

Hmm...

None too bad, the only problem I have is at certain points the sounds tend to clash without harmonizing with the other tracks. Also, it irritates me when people vote themselves a five, and since I'm the second viewer and it's at a five... well, "Gee, I wonder what happened". The effects were fun, but the sounds were just... I don't know really how to explain it... too... "synthed"? Anywho, keep writin', you can only get better. ^_^
~Dylan ^_^

InGenius responds:

Thanks for the review. At least you didn't 0 vote and then not leave one.

As for your points, I hear no clashing nor any bad notes, so I'm afraid I have no idea what you're talking about.

It irritates me when I get my first vote as a 0 fifteen seconds after uploading because someone downvoted the track without even listening HALFWAY through the track. Thanks.

It's electronic music. It's not meant to sound like grand pianos and acoustic guitars. It's meant to be "synthed".

Thanks for the review, though, again. It's still impressive whenever someone reviews after a downvote.

["Flood"]

( -_-) //

I really enjoyed this piece, every part of it. Every instrument just flows so well and the vocals are great. Really, it's just a very well done, good sounding song. As SunTzuWoot said, you don't get many full sounding bands on Newgrounds and when you do they usually suck. I very much enjoy this piece! Please, keep playin'. The only few things I noticed that seemed out of place were towards about 3:30 I feel the guitar is a little overpowering, it's nice to get that solo sound but I think it should balance a little more with the rest of the instruments. Other than that it was flawless. Great fret work, vocals, drum patterns and everything. Way to go! ^_^

~Dylan ^_^

DukeAholibamah responds:

Thanks for your review and 10 score! We're glad you like it. I agree the mix isn't perfect, but that's why we call it a demo. For the money we spent recording, I don't think it could've been much better, although I agree that on some speaker systems the guitars do seem a bit much at 3:30 (like my crappy comp speakers).

[{^} Omniscient Eye {^}]

( -_-)// *clap *clap

This is perfect ambient sound; ambience at it's best! It's just there in the background so the ears don't get bored! Wonderfully composed! I can picture many multiple scenes that I could apply this to. I'm actually enterin' a film contest due in March and I can see parts that this would fit perfectly in, so I might contact you, if that's alright, to see if we could possibly use this in the film, all credit due of course. Just really though, perfect.
~Dylan

Omninescience responds:

Sounds like a good idea, perhaps we should talk through a PM and discuss it.

[DbX - Winter's Glare]

Hm...

Not bad DBX. I can sense the ambience you went fo but there a few things in there that really take away from the composition you have. The "tick" on every beat you have really works on the nerves and steers away from the song itself. The transition of bells/ride/cymbals/whatever really works well. When you start adding in the, what I'd call bridge, melody it really picks up. Not too bad. Keep workin'! ^_^

~Dylan Glow ^_^

Shamukh responds:

When you say "tick", do you mean the kick? That seems to be the only thing hitting on each beat, but there's a lot of other high-freq ticking going on during. D:

Anyway, thanks for reviewing! :D

[Im Gettin High Tonight]

...?

My first question is... why? Why do this to music? I'm not sure how long you've been doin' this but maybe, just maybe, you should find a different profession and/or a different style of music at least. The beat wasn't really... "horrible" per se, but it was one of the most repetetive beats I've ever forced my ears to listen to. The "rapping", or whatever that was supposed to be, honestly wasn't the worst I've heard, the chorus, however, was really off tune and made my ears bleed... just a little, don't worry. The concept of the song was one of the dumbest I've ever heard of and didn't even bring it forward in a pressing or even humorous way. I guess all I can say is, keep at it. Hopefully you'll get better. The only reason I gave you a "1" was because you at least put forth some time from your life to make a song that you, obviously, are proud of, due to the fact that you've uploaded it to the public. If this review, to you, was from the perspective of an "ass" I apologize, I'm just trying to let you know what I, personally, think was wrong with this song. Just work harder and focus on your vocals, you're not that bad at actually "rapping" and you have potential. Just keep at it.

~Dylan Glow ^_^

kingj4life3 responds:

you do know this is a rip off of 50 cents "im gonna die tonite"?

[Deadly Nightmare]

Uhh...

There's a few things in here where you can tell you took a nice attempt at the song. The percussion and filler riffs come out every now and then. The title "Deadly Nightmare" just doesn't really seem to fit the piece, I don't really get that feeling of horror or approaching death. Also, if you're going to use Fruity Loops, try to stay away from using the preset voices, it just takes away a lot from the song, I mean, the "148 in progress..." bit just doesn't really fit. Also it's a really repetetive song, try to mix things up a bit, give it a new sounds here and there. For example, the majority of songs are set up as verse, verse, chorus, verse, verse, chorus, bridge... etcetera, and they change but keep the same flow. It was a nice attempt though, keep at it and you'll get much better.

~Dylan Glow ^_^

Joeyjojohn responds:

yeah i usially try n keep away from the preset voices but idk i used em n yeah i cant think of a name so i put a generic 1. Still workin on makin the song into verses n makin a chorus.

thx 4 the actual review... good reviews are rare here on Newgrounds