beatmasterJAG's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Morphone - Blue-Horned Rhino]

beg to differ

@ Droghead: this track has some pretty sick drum sequences. Not crappy sounding at all.

A little short and sorta repititve but the drums keep it interesting.
Cool track man.

~JAG

Morphone responds:

Thanks, you seem to be loving my musical varieties 'round here. It never became a full song, but meh.

[Morphone - This Is Dubstep]

well 'ard haha

I've been playing the hell out of this genre lately. You seem to recognize the formula but i think you can hone in on your synth sounds and your drum samples. Although collectively the song sounds great small changes will make this iconic dubstep and bring it to the next level.

For example your kick could use a replacement or some eq'ing to get rid of some of those un wanted artifacts and frequencies. Altho on looping the track it sounds like you may have added a rimshot on the same hits as the kick-personally I find it an undesirable effect when the mix is primarily drums. But in the entire mix the rimshot helps draw out the kick hits. Another way to do this is to grab some high end in a narrow band where the "pedal" freq is hitting the drum head typically around 1k (hope that made sense).

One more personal opinion: the bass line sounds cool and I enjoy it, but when looking for a dubstep sound I want more distinct wobble and low end control versus your high ends. This balance is drawing the line between the pros and newbies, IMO. Try experimenting with filter types and settings, focus especially on LFO modulating the freq cut off, and also on envelope settings-mostly att and sus.

I wish I had some of my work up so we could bounce ideas off each other as I am just getting into dubstep creation myself and haven't had time to upload. Sorry for the long review as well.

Keep it wildstyle,
~JAG

Morphone responds:

Long review is fine. This is one of my older pieces, so of course, you know when you make something and you think "This is amazing!" and then you listen later and it's all "Wtf this is bad". It happens to every single song you make.

[Morphone - GJ#2 Wait You Arse]

good 4 intermissions

Bells/xylophones seemed a bit too loud in the mix. Nice laid back beat.

~JAG

Morphone responds:

Thanks.

[Morphone - GJ#2 Slap Dem Kids!]

nice :)

Quite possibly my favorite part of the walrus game is this song. So much so that I had to grab my mixing head phones and plug them into my druid. Yes I am surfing newgrounds on my druid. Life is good-gotta love technology.

So not much to critique here, more so just praise. Killer lead-classic VG sound simply love it. Cool rhythms with the drums. Short but not boring and repetitive plays over and over again.

I'll check out the rest from the collection...

~BeatmasterJAG

5/t

Morphone responds:

Thanks mate. I enjoy this song a lot too, it's just so classic feeling, and then it kicks in with the unexpected brutal drums that just give it a good kick.

[Solus- TD (Jump Drive Mix)]

I'm back...

Thought I'd drop into NG to download some new electronic goodies for a series of levels I am test running and needed some bg gaming music. Thus, I figured I would drop by your playlist to pay tribute and after listening to a bunch I finally felt compelled to review again. I almost backed out of this song...about halfway thru-lol.

Yep thought I might have noticed a similarity a third way thru, like the key scale was similar to something I have heard. And then I heard the classic TD melody and my brain went "Oh yeaaahhhh" Now I remember. Frankly, it sorta saved the song for me. Kinda cool hearing an artist's own remixes of songs that were popular on a an epic scale. For example: Junkie XL has like a hundred remixes of their song Today.

Anyway, sorry to say but nothing to special about this track other than my subtle opposition to the some what over repetitive phase pad. The master compression feels like it is squeezing the HELL out of everything too.

But like you said you were bored. Cool mashup! Believe it or not I enjoyed it.

Keep it wildstyle!
~JAG

-5/5
-8*s cuz I'm a realist. :p

SolusLunes responds:

Oh, I realize the song wasn't really even all that good. :D

But hey, I need to do more self-remixes.

[Dimrain47 Every End (Remi]

Innovative for a remix!?

The power lead that comes in close to 30 secs is crazy, it sounds like you have the attack slower - never tried that before for this type of song. Kind of a funny ending just droppin the tempo like that with a fade out. Interesting ideas hear -short track tho. Suppose I should go listen to the original now...

~JAG

DJ-Babokon responds:

I did make the attack slower and the same kind of fade out happens in the original except that strings come in after a while. Anyway thanks. Oh, .02 sec of attack + 30% Glide time = kick ass lead synth. :)

[Dj Crystallize-Bad Stylez RMX]

Nice work!

This track has all the classic elements of hardstyle. Gritty basslines and crunchy breaks. Classic rev up alarm sound. Thank god you finally came with the lead. I was waiting for it. Enjoyed the small breakdown almost solo-like bass part after the lead which could have progressed back into the lead part eventually. This track could be longer and detailed a little more to take it to the next and complete level!!

Keep it wildstyle!
~JAG

Crystallize responds:

In my (Dj Crystallize's) version i have the lead earlier but this is a remix and i dont have contact with the man who did the remix on it. But thanks for the reviwe!

[-NB- [Waters Incandescence]]

All too loud-but all happy sounding

Easy way to start fixing distortion-TURN DOWN your synths. All the synths are blasting thru the mix and drowning out the drums. Use compressors to squelch certain elements as desired. But definately start with just getting a good balance of levels.

~JAG

NubbyCakums responds:

Thanks man,
I thought about turning it down.
[But I like loudness, as you can see in my other songs]

As for compressors, I have no clue to what those are.
[But I'll be sure to look into that]

[Perilous Morning]

A decentstart IMO

I like the delay on the lead but I think it drags on a little too much and could use a compressor to control the occasional loud spots. I think you are missing the drums. Although some songs are cool as pure instramentals so far the sequencing and lack of melodies could really use some percussion of any type.
Keep learning FL -good luck!

~JAG

djzimman responds:

Thx for commenting and i dont know how to use the compressor :/ i didnt even know there was one.

[Tuneit - PrinterBass]

Kachink-ink Reeeahhreeeeeeee

Cool song...did you record the printer yourself? That is very cool if you did, good initiative. It is interesting that you created separate parts of the song with separate selections of the printer sample. Good edits on the cuts. Compared to some of the other songs out there somewhat prefer your attempt-due to the dry use of the printer sample. The only thing that would take this song to the next level is by adding more sample layers that tweak the printer samples. Get all glitchy and nasty with it.

d/l 5/5 - cuz we all need a helping hand.
~JAG

zenodio responds:

Yo thanks a lot man =D
But no, i didn't record the printer samples myself, i downloaded Rig's pack with printer samples.

So tons of thanks to him =)
Now when i hear it through a few times, then i think i can do some more with it too.

Yeah, i could prpobably make it more glitchy too.

Thanks for the 5, the 10 and the download! =)

Tuneit