sleepFacingWest's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[AIM - North Morithria]

This is really well mixed. And the clarinet sounds amazing.

Everratic responds:

Thank you!

[AIM 2024 - Beach Side]

Love this one! Really fun blend of instruments and that slide guitar is perfect! Well done

[TL - Summer Glare]

Another banger! Love the playful piano gliss in the 2nd half.

TaintedLogic responds:

Thanks so much for the review, SFW! I love glisses too, and used to use them a lot more often. ^_^

[anxiety]

Great work! You always manage to surprise me with a different genre, but this one feels especially different. I think the brighter tempo feels good here…it creates a bit of tension between the lyrics. It would be interesting to hear a version at the original tempo just to see how much that affects interpretation.
Lovely as always!

Troisnyx responds:

Thank you so much!

I do still have the original draft; I'll ask Christoph and see if he's okay with me putting up a link.

[NoVinum & J V N - Sky Is Falling]

This is really great. I usually try to be constructive but I've got nothing for this. Mix sounds really good, no peaking, no issues with the low or high end, the sound design is sufficiently detailed and cohesive, song structure is great, wide mix but no phasing issues, you develop the musical ideas really well...just...good job. That's all I got.

NoVinum responds:

Thx a lot for nice comment and feedback to it :)

[Jay Eskar & Kris Kiss - Fire]

Great work! Only suggestion is that maybe the quieter section could be boosted just a bit to be a little closer to the level of the drop. Obviously you want the latter section to be bigger, but the difference is a touch extreme to my ears. Totally a personal opinion, though.
Very professional work all around, though. You know what you're doing and use that knowledge wisely. Well done.

[Funky Flashbacks]

I'm a sucker for that retro MIDI slap bass guitar sample. So A E S T H E T I C. This is a fun retro jaunt. Well done.

[Hunter Milo - Toys]

Great sound design. There's a lot of color in this, but everything feels very cohesive. Love it.

[Painter]

kawaii hyperpop dream. Great work!

[Chak (Synthwave + Metal) Videogame Music]

nice! Those vocal chops at the end slayed me. Really dig the vibe you have set up here.
I think the guitars (or guitary synths) could feel a touch wider. There are chug chord things that I almost want quadruple tracked. If you're using live guitar in parts, you can do 4 different takes, pan 2 far L and far R, then pan the other two like maybe 25% to either side? For synths doing that role, I'd try to eq them all somewhat differently, then pan them the same. Perhaps play them in live with a keyboard to get some minor discrepancies in performance. In any case, I'd put those 4 tracked chuggs on a master fader so you could pull them all down proportionally if you want.

Nice work otherwise. The drum programming is sick, and the piano breakdown before the final 3rd is really effective. Great work!

Napbak responds:

Wow very cool tips, I will keep them in mind. Thank you so much friend!!