Score: 10

"rawr!"

submission: Biolysis [Synthetica Demo]

date: September 11, 2009

haha, fuck yes to the sounds. It seems like there's something missing but the track does pretty well as is. All in all, I wish you well sir. Good luck!

Score: 10

"meow"

submission: Wrong for the right reasons

date: August 16, 2009

haha, fucking awesome drum programing there and nice pads. I'm curious what the other reviewers are talking about in terms of the drum beat not fitting. Let's see here, it's all divisible by a constant measure... yep. That's a coherent beat alright. People get so thrown off when they hear things that syncopate. People need to learn to just throw their biased subjective opinions out the window when it comes to music. I'm guessing you're a follower of squarepusher and aphex twin? Also curious, what program do you use sir?

Score: 9

"lulz."

submission: Rig - Print 'n Bass

date: August 16, 2009

The review below gave me an image of a happier world where printers actually have a soul/ enjoy what they do. I've said it before and I'll say it again, just entering comps makes you the default winner. Looks like you'll have to mail $40 to yourself... I took a point off so I could feign objectivity. Seriously, there's something wrong with this mix and someone out there knows what it is.

Score: 10

"EPIC WIN!"

submission: Printer-of-Death

date: August 14, 2009

How do you do it fod? How the fuck do you do it? This composition had so many dynamic elements to it! The sound! The flare! The pizzaz! Everything came together to make something truly wonderful and mind blowing. When it comes right down to it, I know I'll never be as good as you at anything. I feel compromised listening to this. Can I... can I have a lock of your hair? p.o. box 946 wainscott NY 11975. Please, I need it :(

Score: 10

"meow"

submission: The No Name Wonder

date: August 14, 2009

Hey, not a bad go sir! After quickly running through your other tracks, I'd like to say that you could learn a lot from the drums in this track. A primary focus of a lot of electronic genres is a good balance in the sound spectrum. Drum kits need to hit all areas of the spectrum. You got the foundations for a great sound. Try this next time you produce a track: layer more drum sounds. Find a snare piece that hits just the lows, find a snare that hits primarily highs, then grab a snare that sits in the middle. You should also grab one that adds character. Then combine them all. This will create a new snare sound out of lets say four or five different ones. It's a rough technique to try to get at first but with a little practice it will come though. You can do that for everything else on your kit too, granted I'd stick to maybe two or three different kicks... which leads me to a little bit on dynamics...

Dynamics is the softness or loudness of a sound or note. All the sounds in this piece sound like they have constant unchanging dynamics which becomes really static sounding. If you layer your drums, you can utilize all of your kicks on lets say the count of one, then come in at a later time with just one of your three kicks and that will automatically create a softer sound and a greater dynamic range overall. You can also program your drums to play at different velocities over time which might be easier to do in a song like this where there really isn't any layering going on. Dunno, try it out if you can figure it. Another way to get better dynamics I've found is to just throw some delay on to the hi hats and have them sync to the tempo. I've gotten kind of wacky with that lately though. Speaking of the hi hats, most contemporary dnb down plays them in favor of the rest of the kit. You might want to turn them down just a tad.

Just a suggestion, but you might be able to slap a bit of reverb on the lead synth melody. I hear it at the beginning but I think the instrument transposes at around 25 seconds. I'm not sure if you know how to automate yet, but if there's actually two instruments there, try slapping reverb on them so they can take up a bit more space.

I don't want to bore you/ make you read more than you already have so let's just call it a day. Overall, great song sir! Keep producing, you got skill here. Just gotta keep on keeping on :)

Score: 10

"kittens."

submission: NIN-Survivalism (house remix)

date: August 14, 2009

Never heard the original and I haven't checked out your page in a long time, but this tune is great sir! Loved the synth work. The lead had some interesting syncopations, as did the drums. Fuck it, the whole track had some sexy rhythms sitting behind that four to the floor. There's not a lot I can say except that at times there might have been some pads working in the background to create some atmosphere, but that's a subjective opinion. Another way of looking at it is that the emptiness of a major pad kind of helps the track create it's own atmosphere.

Again, great work sir! Mraw!

Score: 9

"wow."

submission: Prepubescent Biggie Smalls

date: August 9, 2009

How do you make such amazing music? It's as if you have two sets of testicles. I took off one point for it being so short. Seriously, stop teasing us.

Score: 10

"WTF is wrong with the guy below ME?"

submission: Syndrome AS

date: August 8, 2009

Being a girl has everything to do with your skill. It's just not possible to have female genitalia AND be good at making music. Skill is directly linked to your testicles. Women don't have testicles to naturally produce skill for them. It's kind of like the way men can't produce milk. We just don't have the right bodily functions for it. We're not trying to be stereotypical retards jumpstyle. Hell I'd gladly give one of my testicles for a breast. It just is what it is. Despite these facts, everynow and then a girl comes around that shows promise. We still havn't figured out why this is but I hypothesize it has something to do with lols. Take paragonX9 for example. "Shes" not really a girl. He changed his gender way back when and has since become newgrounds most popular music artist. Because of this, paragon has become the biggest lol in the audio forum. In fact amongst newgrounds audio artists, gender swapping is one of the most common lols. I can assure you that 90% of the girls in the audio portal or actually guys. I knew most of them before they changed their genders. Also, the guy who reviewed below me was just trying to seduce you on feigned chivalry. He should know better. Gender and age don't actually exist on the internet. Just lols.

Wait a second... I was supposed to write something about your song? Welp... until we can prove that your actually a guy, congratz on it. It sounds good :P

Score: 10

"meowstep"

submission: Para - Smog Step Sanctuary

date: August 7, 2009

Insane work sir. To everyone complaining about the "lack of rhythm," try counting in 4/4 or 8/8. The structure is there. You just fail to hear divisions between measures because the artist chose awkward syncopations. The time signature remains constant through out.

Really sir, this song is crazy.

Score: 10

"meow :3"

submission: Infinity (W.i.P)

date: August 6, 2009

I'm not sure what program you're using so I can only give you general advice. It's your choice to take it as helpful or unnecessary but understand I'm just trying to help you out a bit.

You can add some umpf to this track with some harder drums. This technique will take a little while to perfect, but you can get a wider sound by layering your drum kit with more pieces. Take the snare for example. It's all high end. find another snare sound that has some good mid and lo frequencies and layer them under what you currently have. Then you should find some clever sounds that will give character to the snare. You can do the same thing for all your other kit pieces. This technique will allow you to have your drums attacking the entire sound spectrum and not just one area of it. Once you have a few sounds you like, learn to use an equalizer and a compressor to boost/ cut specific sounds. The rhythms themselves sound fine and dandy so great job with that.

Layering can be a tricky bitch when your first trying to get it so I'll leave my review at that. Try it out. It's really fun when you nail a nice powerful "full" sounding drum kit.