WOW.
Great sound quality! What equipment do you use? Was an awesome song too.(For a mellow one) You have a nice voice.
5
Reviews for "Without Knowing"
xXChrissyXx responds:
regular old analog microphone,
and a computer with Cool Edit Pro 2...
if you want technical specifications, you'd have to ask my friend who did all the "work". i just wrote it/sang it. >_>
Well for being Newgrounds...
...this is original indeed, but listening on the radio, it´ll unfortunatley fall into the "radio mess".
But maybe not, because this song is actually really really good. Im not a person who´s into lyrics that much, but these feel really good. It has a good poetric depth, i taste some emo in it but thats all good. Point with these kinds of lyrics many times are to get people to recognise themselves, so they feel "this is about me" kindof. And i´m sure this is bulls eye for many NG people, many creative artistic souls hang around here. The lyrics are bulls eye in many senteces for me, anyhow.
About the guitar playing, it´s really good, but I cant really decide if it´s one guitar or if it´s two??? Judging that from the plectrum sound on the chords, i guess its two :) Really great composition, ánd with the vocals it gets very rich and full. I´d love to hear this live on a pub somewhere, with a beer in my hand.
You have a great voice as well (i assume thats you). ABout the recording and mastering, i can only find one thing that irritatest me a little, and thats the room-echo. Not sure wether you´ve recorded this in your bedroom, but thats a little what it sounds like. Could be just a bad reverb effect, but it sounds "un clear" in that way.
Great job, i really hope to hear more stuff from you here on NG!
/Rucklo
xXChrissyXx responds:
hehe, yeah it is pretty "pop"ish.
nothing like the stuff you make. lol
thanks for all the kind words; it means alot coming from someone who creates music themselves.
yes, there are two guitar tracks on it. if you want any more detail than that, you'd have to ask my friend who played & recorded the guitars.
it's not my bedroom, but pretty close! >_<
standard echonomy homerecording.
Well im not rly into this type of genre...
The thing that gets MY attention is that your score is still a V5...no fair(=C). I'll make it even V'er by Keep it a V5! Now lets get to the review. Well i can't really grade you on originality cause...im not used to listening to this genre of music. Effort I give every one tens cause i know they work hard on there audio...not all of them but most. Diversity it's ok but not very different. Clarity was ok...you rly could of spiced this up though! If you would of added an ambient background like "clocks" ambient background. This would of been alot better. Whatever though...
Keep it \V/ girl!
_V=v_-|V|-_v=V_
-m->M\m/M<-m-
xXChrissyXx responds:
uhm, ok. >_<
\V/ right back at ya!
wonderful stuff
This is a quality song, your vocal style suits the guitar well, and i don't think it needs much more in the background, a small brush beat, or an underlying string/synth section would give it that 'wow' factor. A small reverb on your voice would help too, but as a song it's a quality tune. I haven't played songs like this for a long time or listened to one either, maybe i should go back to simple stuff. anyways keep it up, seem to have a lot of potential and i look forward to hearing more from you in the future.
5/5
pitters
xXChrissyXx responds:
Hehe, no I realize Newgrounds isn't the most fitting place to post this kind of music, but this is what I make so it will have to do.
Heart-warming...
Beautiful and very sweet.
You adopt a sway motion while listening to this. Your voice is soothing and pleasant. I want to listen to it again and again.
I'm going download this and keep it close. I'd like to have this close to me when I'm alone.
xXChrissyXx responds:
awww, thank you so much!