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power of Drum&Bass.V2

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a new version of the DnB i made.

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Needs more work...

The intro was a bit strange. If i were a regular user who didnt know that some of the best songs have wierd intros, id have stopped listening right there. Luckily, im NOT a regular user, so i continued listening, and when i came to the main section, i was pretty glad i did...

The main synth was amazing, with a great fast-paced melody which set the heart racing and brilliant drums to help it along. I particularly liked the punchy bass drum, whcih however could have been louder. Unfortunately, as the song progressed, some of they synths got even wierder. particularly the one at 3:39 with that wierd whining sound which sounded completely discordant and set my teeth on edge.

The ending was also slightly wierd, with the voice which i didnt particularly like cos of its robotic tone.

Overall, its a decent effort, but it needs loads more work to come up to a better standard.

Darklight17
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jpgregorio responds:

thx, i realy apreciate it. i'll improve when i have time

Nice...

I din't like the beggining, it's very strange, I liked the middle of the music, because the beat is very cool, it's fast and great, I like this, since techno music mst be like this, but, you could made some improvements, since the music is great, but it could be a lot of new things, such as a different beat...

The end was annoying, that beat was so loud, it weren't nice, you could made something more creative, but I know it's har to inovate man, but you have potential to make a way better song...

Anyways, the song was pretty cool, a speedy beat, i liked it, it's pretty creative, but you have a lot more to show, I know this... But, keep it up!!

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Roger

jpgregorio responds:

i'll just keep on improving, i'm gonna remove the synth at the end because i was the only person who liked it so far. :(

Review Request Club

I didn't really like the very first synth, but the drum beat beneath it was pretty good....though when you have the faster fills in the drums, especially on the sanre and bass sounds, it does start to sound a little machine-gun-like, which is a bit of a problem. Especially at 0:18 it kind of did sound like a tired engine starting up instead of a drum riff, and even MORE so at 1:02-1:11 where the drum has these kind of half-solos which is just solid note after note, it just sounded very muddy and a sloppy sounding, which was a shame. I'm not sure whether that was what Coop was referring to, but the way the fills did keep coming back in at the speed they did did remind me of an engine, a little bit, and for the wrong reasons.

The voice...didn't really like the voice last time, still not sure if I like it this time. It sounds like the one you get on Microsoft computers in the speech-to-text function. To the point where I could take a guess which 'person's' voice you used to create it. I think in general, it could use a little more editing just to make it feel less robotic and let it fit more into the piece, instead of just putting it in at the start and end for no visible reason. That being said, I liked the main melodic riff last time, and it's nice to see you haven't gotten rid of that and have indeed still kept that in.

The way the melody changed just before the second minute was also nice, because spending the whole track on the one melody would have been too repetitive; would have been nice to have the bass line change as well, but that's less of a problem. The section with the acoustic guitar (?) was a nice addition, especially when the guitar and the synth play both melodies on top of the other; though the synth did overpower the guitar a whole lot, the melodies did work together.

My only main quarrel with the synth choice (after the intro one :P) was the one that turned up at the end in parts, like 4:12-4:20. REALLY didn't like the sound of it. I think if that synth got changed, the drum fills got a second look or that soundfont got edited a little and the voice was either incorporated MORE into the track or removed entirely, and maybe have the bass line change up, this would be a better track than it is. But I do see a marked improvement from version one, so keep it up.

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jpgregorio responds:

thx,well... the voice is actually from Loquendo's TTS in Text aloud, i'm gonna make moar bass variations as this was only like the 2nd version of the track, and i think that wasn't a guitar , but w/e sounds like one then its probrably one, imma removing the "outro synth" and try to make the intro a little longer so i don't have to drag the song into repetitiveness. thx again.

Some room for more improvement

Not a bad track, but you've got to concentrate on the ending here, I feel.

This dodgy sounding "revving" noise that you've got just sounds awful and out of context of the rest of the track. It doesn't matter if you keep doing things with it, because it was added later to the piece, it just sounds out of place all together.

The vocal samples were good, but with the revs finishing, then us being told that we have just witnessed the power of drum & Bass, I hardly feel that I have. Changing the position of the components around could certainly help you in this respect, as you will be able to show us where there is some power in the drums and the bass, as opposed to this melody, which seems too dominant at present.

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jpgregorio responds:

so you're saying that i should make the drums and the bass louder? and what did you mean by rewing noise?
well i'll try to improve as best as i can, so you can feel the power of drum and bass :p....... for now i think i should remove the last voca,l and add only when the song is relly powerfull.

Getting there.

I'll start by saying this is better than the last version I reviewed, so well done there.

I still hear the issue with the drums, granted it's not as bad as the first version of this but it's still pretty bad. How is this sound coming out when the rest seems so much better?

Drum patterns were good, I liked the little things you added from the last time, nice one there. I also think the drum sounds you're using at the moment aren't really the best as they're not very 'powerful/fat' enough really. oh and that little gap of silence was pretty sick, caught me off guard =P.

The melodic section was much better, I think it's because you removed the choir from the mix and left it at the beginning that it seemed to sound a lot better, the extra sections were pretty neat too. The pluck was a nice touch :D, That synth that came in at like ~2:56. . . What the heck was that? I suppose it could have been random, but it was just off key and was waaaay too loud ):. It also came in near the end, didn't really seem to go with the whole melody whatsoever to me. The fact that it was loud meant it pretty much over powered everything else which was a real shame.

The seemed to be a nice structure in this one, something that kept me going, which was really nice too. Vocals were fine, but I liked the ones in the last edit xD. (What am I like eh?)

Really and truly, it's a good improvement - and it's good to see you've improved, but there's still quite a bit to go for me to consider this perfect. Very well done, it really wasn't what I was expecting at all :D ~I HAVE MY EYE ON YOU (kidding)

Anwar Louis ^_^
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jpgregorio responds:

thanks, that synth at 2:56 was randomly made, i wasn't very happy with it. i gonna try to change the drums and sort the issue with it.^^

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Score
3.43 / 5.00

Uploaded
Mar 19, 2010
2:19 PM EDT
Genre
Drum N Bass
File Info
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5.2 MB
4 min 33 sec

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