Zazzy's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[DeweyDewster09 - Victory]

It was perfectly fine up until your drop, which is full of out of tune notes and just destroyed the whole vibe! I think the problem is that you used a preset that makes chords automatically. Please look into that! I'd encourage you to reupload this if you fix it.

DeweyDewster09 responds:

I finally remixed it! Thank you for the feedback.

[X3LL3N - Higher (Astedroid Remix) / Short Ver.]

Your cut up drums pop at the ends of the sample. To fix this you can put a short decay on them (around 5ms should be fine)

[forbidding jungle]

Pretty good stuff! Just try toning back the reverb a bit eh?

Troisnyx responds:

I don't like it too dry, I guess. Might play around with it when the time comes for me to extrapolate this tune.

[Poppa Wheelie]

Off to a good start here, I think! Kept real simple, which benefits for something like this. Good music for a game, where it's interesting but not too distracting. The main downside though is that it sounds very flat and has no fullness. It sounds as if it's leading up to a spot where it becomes full and the song fully comes in, but instead of that it goes back to the beginning. Essentially, audio blueballs.

ScottJacob responds:

Hey, thanks for the constructive feedback. I've never thought of the term audio bluebalss before lol but i can see how it applies, i might try to make it loop to keep the momentum or just add on to it and flesh it out(pun intended?) Anyway, i appreciate the tip

[[Undertale Original] Timeline]

The clarity and snappiness of your drums is very nice. However, in favor of these you missed out on what makes dubstep great, which is face meltingly nutty sounding bass modulation.

To be frank, the bass sounds are boring. That's about the long and short of it- the production on the rest of the song is great, but the parts that really matter are subpar. That's not to say that they need to be changed, a lot of it is quite usable. However, they have no impact. They do nothing to fill much space, both volume and frequency wise. In this case I'd recommend to put some distortion on them and play with that, however that's not always the solution.

A song I might point to in an attempt to show you what I mean would be Phone Tap by Space Laces (who is actually an ex-Newgrounder himself!) https://soundcloud.com/space-laces/phone-tap-1 There's no crazy obvious reverb, delay, or other effects on his sound, just very creative sound design.

There are a lot of good ideas and some good execution in here, but there's a lot that can be worked on.