pitbulljones's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[chipper]

Yea okay I can buy into this. You mixing a clavinet with a harp there, or is it just too high key wise.

Ooooooo the synth, the ambient bitcrushed beat, This is an interesting piece. I'm undecided if the groove is or not. I don't know if the harp is too busy for them to sit well. Definitely verb your harp though.

I keep hearing little flourishes of synth and texture. And I really like what I hear.

Yea your beat is definitely off. The harp is just a tiiiiiiny bit loud overall. I'd try and find/make a new groove with a bit more volume and more bit depth, try running dbglitch on it. Maybe a single note string bass too, maybe .

5 my good man

pitbulljones

[A Dance with Quetzalcoatl]

Jesus man 12 minutes and change!

Your open, though low and drowning in reverb is interesting. Its a guitar I here, but it's so dull it's really hard to hear the chords. I play myself and I know how hard a good guitar take is, but you need to run a louder line with a preamp and work in post.

You know, with a rhythm section this could be some very early joy division or grateful dead. I would be interested in working with you on this, refine it and really get a track going. You're missing a menacing doom bass with a simple bass snare 1 2 pattern. If you redid this, with a better line in, a tad less reverb. Compressed and brightened eq, with a metronome you really could have something. Pm if you fancy working with me.

5

pitbulljones

sames responds:

I'm actually currently working on getting a preamp, the lack of one has limited several things. That said, the intro was barely grazed with finger picking on purpose to produce a muted and eerie beginning.

Aside from that you're more or less right on every point and i'm a terrible composition musician, but i sort of enjoy seeing where i can go and what i can do with single tracks and single takes, developing styles from it.

Thank you for the insights and the offer, though i'll have to decline, i am glad you enjoyed what it did bring to the table.

[Sadness]

Nice idea. I'd open quicker to 30 seconds in. There's a potential groove there.

I highly recommend you try and find a better piano plugin to use.

https://www.audiopluginsforfree.com/piano-one/

That is a free plugin and its fairly decent. You also need to apply some reverb, it'll make it sound more natural. Roll your volume a couple of db back and vary your expression. You have work to do, but im still gonna 5 you :)

pitbulljones

[surfBoards of Canada]

its a nice synth. a nice track even. But its not mixed to great. Your bass is too low key wise. And there's a loud of overlap in your mids. Be judicious with your eq, cut some high on the low, some low on the high. Roll the general volume back, utilize some panning and diversify the sample choice. Add some reverb too to make the track sound more live. If all that sounds negative I don't mean it to be. It has loads of potential. Still gonna 5.

pitbulljones

bryce responds:

I was trying to copy the lo-fi aesthetic of Boards of Canada, which embraces imperfections. So I made a lot of choices that went against typical mastering conventions. BOC's basslines are quite low. And I actually did use panning and reverb effects in this one.

In fact, I could have just applied a resonant low pass filter to the whole thing, since a lot of BOC's music barely use frequencies over 15 kHz... seriously.

Appreciate your thoughts, but I'm not sure I'd change anything (this was just a 'demo' practice track really, but I could return to this style again).

Cheers

[Voyager (remastered)]

That's a solid pad open, crikey. I love stereo field abuse.

You're right in my ballpark here, ambient, dissonance, but chill. Your bass drone is a bit too loud, its clipping your mix. The spaciousness and hidden melody though, yeahhhh. i'm at 250. Where's that glitch beat. It would elevate this, get that groove going.

Saws, sines, tris. lovely. Its tickling my brain. You must be using crystal on this, too many tones i recognise which is no bad thing.

5 mins in....love it. You have beautiful tone. Your mix is just too heavy, work on eq, high pass your lows, low pass your highs, let it breathe. Roll your reverb back, about 12% max room verb. You want space but not overlap.

7 mins. I'm waiting for this breakbeat. Drop it with that vocal sample, reward me. There's so much build but no release reward.

I absolutely adore this track. It really tingles my synapses. Its a 5 all day. But hopefully you can rebalance the mix, drop that beat in and create a monster.

5

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Midnights-Ocean responds:

Very cool. Glad you liked. Yeah there’s a few more corners to iron out on this one. I probably missed a clip here and there. Might also be an artifact in the original recording though. This tune is made from many older takes I did on my pedal rig, so there’s some grudge in there.

I wanted to elaborate the grove part but was afraid I’d make this track even longer lol. Maybe next pass I’ll extend it, just a little.

No crystal. A patch on big tick’s rhino plugin and pitched up idiopan tongue drum.

Thanks! I was very pleased with the sound palette on this one. Yeah lol I tend to be a lead foot on the mix. I’ll thin it out a little next pass.

It’s difficult to decide if I want this beat driven or atmosphere driven. So much easier to make the pads sound huge when there’s little beat to eat up dynamic space. I’ll keep your critique in mind though : )

Epic review dude! Thanks so much ^_^ I definitely will re-read this before I work on the tune next time!

[Make Believe]

You know it's a 5.

Mate that is some solid open. Then your guitar and affected vocals come in. I think your synth is too forward. your vocal is clipping because of it.

There's so much good here. But i recommend you roll the mix back. let it breathe

[Dawjacker]

Ah this a balloon track.

Man, those lefty/righty back track delay verbs, sooooooo good.

love this grimier side, its primal scream.

I can see how this may be off putting to a majority of listeners, to me though its just groovy.

Your mix is flawless, I somewhat envy your consistency. I believe me and you could collaborate and make something truly special

5

pitbulljones

[Barely Papa]

yup.

That vocal, that is something. This you bro, cos it's very pro.

[Ascension]

my bro. You need to have better line ins. I love dissonance. Awkward ambient is in my park. I recommend you go back and rebalance your mix though.

CoolStap responds:

I'll try make something like this, with better mix than there.

[A.P.Earth | Experiments | Experimental Flight]

dude run your mix a few db back. love your tone. But let the track breathe. Seriously change your samples. FL is horrible. I like it though.