Catstuffer's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[~NK~ "Fear Me" (NGADm Entry)]

production

What you have going on here is very well put together. I thought it sounded very good. The only thing I can hear that would put this under any big label artist is the mastering. There is a lot of auto leveling going on by a limiter, or Maximus I do believe. It just means that your lead ins and breaks get pushed into the background with a random note coming out louder than the others. I would prefer to hear each track stable at a constant veloctiy.

This is very noticeable at 2:27-2:30.

The crash is ringing out, and it pushes the synth/piano intot he background, and as the crash fades out, the synth/piano fades in MUCH louder than it was while the crash was ringing.

You did an extremely good job peicing this track together, and I very much think it's top notch! Just would like to be able to hear everything seperated and not "smudged" together at times.

Keep up the good work and best of luck with the contest to you! :D

[~NK~ "Take Me Away"]

Wow, impressed!

You certainly have found a groove here in the Dubstep genre. This track really is a big step above your others in my opinion. The dubstep was top notch! Thanks for sharing!

[TI:.Devious Angel]

haha!

I like the part after 9 seconds! xD I mean no offense to your friend, she obviously has not been producing as long as you have. Not my favourite style, but this works very well when playing a game of bejeweled! haha!

TIMarbury responds:

lmao yea she just started to mess around and sent me some stuff and i made the best of it :P

[TI:.Brutal Bass]

Perfectly mixed much!?

The mix is superb. I really like it on my audio technica headphones. I also like how you incorporated paino, and trance in your dupstep. Exactly how I would approach it. Very nice! I can tell a LOT of work was put into this. Thanks for taking the time to edit even more!

TIMarbury responds:

idk about a perfect mix xD, but yea i put some time into this. yea this started out as a trance song and i made a bassline and it reminded me of some dubstep i was listening to so it quickly changed into a dubstep song but i wanted to keep the trancy feel i started with. I really liked your dubstep song as well dirty overture, had the trance in there so that song might have had some impact on how i went about making this track so you should feel good about that :).

[TI:.Alternate Attention]

This is deep!

I really like how you opened it. You have a very nice string pad too I might add! I can't believe I havn't given your music a run through in the past! Your intro is as long as some of my full songs :S But I liked it. This song reminds me of exploring an underwater city for some reason. Keep up the great work!

TIMarbury responds:

haha thanks a lot dude. definitely will be coming up with new submission this summer.

[Madness Party]

This is your best

I listened to about a dozen of your works, and this one was my favourite. I feel that you put more focus onto the melody in this one than in your other works. The sub-bass kinda overpowers the piano to me however. I use Audio-Technica Cans for mixing and critical listening, but at 1:41 the other synth comes in and it sounds more balanced. I noticed you have put out a lot of stuff here in 2011. I think you could expand your music if you dedicated say an entire month or at least a week or two on just one piece to polish it up to the point where it would really shine!

You could also check out www.fl-underground.com . Its an fl studio forum with links to some really amazing VST's (thats where I found a lot of mine) that can really help with your submissions. Also you might want to consider exploring Fruity Limiter and Maximus if your version of Fl studio has them. They would help keep all your sounds balanced out for you!! :D

I'd like to hear your future works and I think you should continue to explore your music. You've imporved a lot from your first submissions!

(oh and low bass on newgrounds for some reason always has feedback.... if you download the song and lsiten to it, you won't hear it, but something about how newgrounds and flash compresses the music, it creates that annoying feedback :S)

Omega-Ravager responds:

Awesome, thanks for some great advice! It's funny you should mention spending a little more time on my songs, I'm currently working on the demo I put out, I've already put a good 15 hours or so into it and I'm not going to stop working on it till I am totally satisfied with it.

I've only been using FL for about 2.5 months, so most of my songs are experimenting and trying out my techniques, I'm just now feeling confident enough to play my music for my friends and stuff.

Thanks for some really detailed feedback, I need it to improve!

Omega

[Kw- Wasted Recess Lighting]

B0UNC3

You SOOO got your melody from B0UNC3 don't even lie... lol, regardless it's still pretty good, I think the trebles overpower however... Like... really quite a lot. Its starting to hurt...

But The idea is good!

nightsurfermusic responds:

Lies. The melody was written by myself, somewhere around 2 in the morning as I recall. I didn't want an overpowering bass, you know? I wanted to make dubstep out of the norm, where it wasn't based completely on wobbles.

[Moon on the Water, cover, demo]

tune?

your guitar is very out of tune you do know right?

MushmouthTB responds:

I did indeed know that. :D I can't find my guitar tuner, though I could have used the keyboard to tune it- but I'm being lazy. Astute of you to notice, though. All the same, this is just a demo to make sure I have the song down. Thanks for your comment. ^^

[-:HaloTopic:- a Bit Retro]

good stuff!!

Sounds like a lot of work went into this. LOTS of tracks going on here! I'm sure you've been working on this for quite a while. Very good. Keep it up!

Halotopic responds:

Yes! It took some time, and i had to fiddle around with the details. But It turned out nicely =)

Thank you!