CrowdDoll's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Briddim Demo]

I saw the thread as well and if you fine with that I can give some of my thoughts as well.

vekoN is right that with the usage of OTT and using more modern basses.

But well I have some thoughts or things you can also use to improve the track especially the basses.

The bass is fine dont get me wrong it may sound a little outdate but the bass sounds really good but you lack space and what you can do is automate reverb.... I know people gonna flock and go crazy but you can automate the wet and dry reverb of the bass to fill up the spaces. If you dont want it to sound muddy remove the lower frequencies of the reverb AND use a seperate sub, because its more flexibe to use a seperate sub bass than relying to the riddim bass's sub.

Another thing to fill up your track is layering, layering is key and you should layer but not too much. Layer different kinds of bass in same rythm and compress them to hell and crush them with distortion. Having that distortion is essential to these kinds of songs because you want it to sound HARDDD and what way to make them sound more harder? Distortion, lots of distortion. But EQ them as well because Distortion may introduce new kind of frequencies you might find annoying.

Lastly is experiment, dont just stick on those drag and drop presets that aint gonna teach you something. Tweak your presets, do something new add something new, I know you want to stick to "THAT" sound but if people heard "THAT" sound and "YOUR" sound its gonna pop. If people heard something they can only hear to your music, theyre gonna wait your new releases just to listen to that special sound, this applies to any genre.

So yeah have fun, its just my thoughts tho.

xb32Philya responds:

Thanks for teaching

[-AnxiousBreaks-]

This is really good damn, love the dark vibes here and the sound design in on point especially on 1:35 love that bouncy feeling and the acid bass. Good stuffs.

Creeperforce24 responds:

Thanks man! Originally when I first uploaded this I thought I was gonna fall flat on my face as usual lol. But somehow this ended up being one of my only frontpages!

[Break It Up Collab]

this can break NG fr

xanxoepico responds:

that'd be cool 0_0

[LIVE THIS WAY (internet addiction)]

Holy cow, love the vocals with this one

Ackee39 responds:

thank you so much! i normally stay away from singing myself due to not really knowing anything about singing or processing, so im happy this managed to sound good regardless :>

[Eclipse [NGADM 2023]]

Fire, this burned my house to the ground

Benji-G responds:

Haha thanks man

[Lost in your heatwaves]

This is a nice track, melodies are simple and I love the guitar melody on 1:37.
But what I think a great weakness of this track is the instruments feels too robotic. I think would be nice to play around the velocities and post process some of your sounds. Lastly mixing is pretty bland, the drums are really weak in the hook part, but I really like synths. Overall this is a decent track.

SirSandman0 responds:

thanks for the feedback! I have heard a couple people before you saying that the instruments sound fake and I kind of agree. Usually I try my best to make the MIDI instruments sound as lifelike as possible, but I kind of got a bit lazy with this one.

[X3ll3n - Newgrounds' Yiff Collab 2023]

When I saw the word furry porn I know this is going to be a banger and Im not wrong.

Edit: This is so epic W, giant gay squirrel 💀💀💀

X3LL3N responds:

The squirrel receiving a twirl is a metaphore describing SingPiano sucking Spangles' pp :)

[NG Audio Portal 20th Anniversary Collab]

I and @arbelamram got a lil crazy with sound design hahaha, our beat is in 56:00 if you wanna listen.

arbelamram responds:

SUCH A BANGER♥

[Severman & Chris Ponate - Cry For You (X3ll3n Remix)]

Epic stuff, makes me dance around and really love the lead.

X3LL3N responds:

Hell yeah