i voted for waterflame but this is still rerally good man, better than what ive made so far, great job!
Reviews for "Symphony (GB)"
GrantBowtie responds:
Thanks :D
That's awesome you sang on this! We need more vocalists on newgrounds, even if they're vocoder'd to hell and back! The voice is a useful instrument to create flavor and it's awesome you did. You've probably heard the whole limiter thing by now. No matter how low I turned it, it still seemed too loud. The effects and all that are interesting and diverse otherwise!
Great track, man <:
GrantBowtie responds:
Thanks man - Ya, I sang in "Sirens" too - you're right about it adding another instrument, and people really connect to it. thanks for the review.
NGADM 3 and stuff.
I really wanted to like this, I really did, because on the composition side of things, I thought it sounded great, everything fit together so well.
However... one word... Brickwalled... This song was pushed so hard against the limiter that it made it painful to listen to, vocals should never, NEVER be that loud... actually, nothing in this song should ever be as loud as it was. Regardless, I found it very, very difficult to listen past the brickwall to actually judge the composition of this one, by the time the song was over, I had a major headache. Your songs so far have all been pushed pretty hard, but none seemed to be nearly as blatantly rammed right up against that limiter as this one.
Sorry to say, but as cool as the song itself was, the fact that it was so tightly crammed against that brickwall made it headache inducing to listen to. 7/10.
Here's your round 3 review! It'll be a bit harsher than your previous reviews once more. Harsher the closer to the end we get!
And like I said to Waterflame, sorry if this sounds a bit harsh. :c I was not feeling very generous toward repetition in this round.
The Good:
-Hahahaha, that intro sounds very nice. It has some really cool sounds in it. I'm glad you changed up your synths some.
-I like the usage of all those cool little FX sounds throughout. They keep it a bit more interesting than what it'd otherwise be.
-SNAPS! Niiiiiice. I love snaps. You may not use them much but they sound really nice.
-A lot of the instruments sound pretty darn cool, you really know how made EDM.
The Not-So-Good:
-Okay, I turned my volume down to 13/100, and it STILL gave me a headache from the volume of it. Not everything needs to be so compressed that it's blasting out of my speakers.
-The vocals sound louder than the actual music. This isn't a good thing. For an intro where the volume is coming up, vocals should be turned down to the volume of the rest of the song. As-is, they overpower EVERYTHING in the build-ups.
-It gets very dubstep-monotonous at about 1:00-2:00 and 3:00-4:00. It's also varily monotonous in the 2:00-3:00 part simply due to lack of variation.
-Some of your wobble basses are out-of tune which doesn't sound very good.
-Outro isn't all that good, try having a little bit extra sound dying down rather than a single synth doing an arpeggio which I noticed you did in your round 1 song. I believe I commented on it then too.
Overall: This is pretty nice, but REALLY repetitive and overcompressed to a crazy amount. Unfortunately, it's not very different from your other songs either, so... This'll get a 5.5/10 from me.
This sounds more dubstep than house to me personally, and the mixing was okay,
if not great. The entire track was WAY too hot and the waveform was practically
bulging the edges the whole way through. There was absolutely no dynamic
range that I could hear occurring during this track.
GrantBowtie responds:
Thanks for the review. Ya it was a little too hyped probably; I'll consider it in my next ones.