5kyLight's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dan Roth - Believe (Breakdown)]

Whoa

Sidechaining's a little strong. Other than that it sounds epic!

[EX!!! - Lucky]

Awesome.

I love your style, man. It's unique and you've got heaps of talent. I agree with haywire though, you need a louder bass to make this track shine :P

Keep it up! :D

-SL-

[Premoeffect - Stroma]

Great work

Your music just keeps getting better and better. All those little ping pong delays at the beginning where the chords are playing, and then the reverse chords AAAAA it sounds so awesome! Also your mixing and mastering is some of the best I've heard on this site. The only thing I have to suggest to you at this point is that 1:45 maybe the kick could be just a little bigger. Then it would be big and pounding! :D
Keep this up, dude. I'm a big fan!

-SL-

PrEmoEffect responds:

Thank you so much for the kind comments! Actually, if you want a little info on the reverse chords they're actually plain saw waves with filter cutoff frequencies modulated as if they were backwards, and strong side chaining. Yeah, as for the kick. At the time, I sort of liked the subtle but powerful sound. But listening to this in retrospect, a deeper sounding kick would have made it really powerful. If this song is still popular in the future, I'll probably make a club mix with a deeper kick.

[Redwood's Furnace]

Delicious

Man, that bass just...tastes awesome :D

And then when the drums come in at 00:36 the track gets awesome. To be honest, it's a little repetitive for my taste but other than that it's great!

-SL-

(P.S. I used to be CookiesAndCoconut, lol. My music's gotten a lot better, you should check some of my stuff out :D)

SHADOWFOX2 responds:

Glad you enjoyed it, repetitive it is indeed, I didn't get to spend more than a day on this one
What happened to your other account?
It doesn't seem to have been banned or anything

[KKS - Glowing Lights]

Fitting title

Man, I love this track. Definitely sounds good with Sony headphones :D
Keep it up!

-SL-

KKSlider60 responds:

Thank you! Long live headphones
KKS

[Business or Pleasure? [Revis.]]

Nice.

The one thing that bothers me in this song is the clap you used (starting at 01:08). It just feels too.....flimsy or something. Other than that, this is totally rad. :D
Good work!

-SL-

[[DJ_ITD] - 8-Trak]

RAD!

DUDE! That's an epic bass. :D

Love this. Keep it up, and thanks for the second comment on Abridged ;)

-SL-

[Adjust to the Light]

Like this

This is good! :D

Not quite sure where the "hard-hitting techno tracks" were, but it's a good song. Please make a longer version because this is awesome :D

-SL-

[= Submerge =]

Could be much more polished

This is a pretty good song in general, I have some suggestions though: Bring the bass down a little, listening to this with headphones/logitech speakers, it sounds a little too loud and drowns out the drums. The kick should be a little bigger in my opinion, if you're trying to make a good trance track the kick needs to be pounding and loud. Also that reverse cymbal thing? That could be better. At least add a reverb/delay to the crash cymbal because it sounds like it ends a little too quickly. Also what was that from 1:03 to 1:09? That was a little weird and it threw me off a lot. Add lots of filter sweeps and some FX here and there, just to give it a bigger atmosphere. If you cushion your main lead synth with a reverb it will sound much bigger and not stop so abruptly like it did a few times in the song. Overall, it's a good start but it could be so much better. :P
(also please read my response to your Abridged review!)

-SL-

inhstudios responds:

Yeah, I've actually updated it since, i should reupload it.

EDIT - didnt upload the newer version.
instead i decided to start from scratch and remaster the whole thing.

[BassMaker]

Decent

Up the bass a little, maybe add a sub or something to make it sound bigger, and this track will really shine. Also, those scratching sounds are a little out of place, I would suggest either just taking them out

Also, in reply to your review of my Cyprus thing:
I actually used to use Reason 5.0 on my Mac laptop but then it crashed on me and I lost all of the data on it. Until I get a new computer I'm stuck with just using the browser-based DAW. :P