Suspended-3rd-Chord's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[==(The First Flight)==]

SBB bring great honor to newground

very visual intro...a samurai warrior stands along the cliff of a mountain, and slowly transforms into an eagle and flys away. this has a quite a relaxing atmosphere with some serious sounding melodies in the lead.

sweet grand pads. the woodwindish synth sounds really cool, and fits a theme of "honor" perfectly. the pace is great, and the piano melodies drift gracely across the track. I love the chord progression around 1:50..the melodical work around 2:20 is excellent, great job of introducing the main melodies and expanding on them to add more emotion and color to the track. the beat is good again, more varied snare dynamics would be nice-o. the jingle bells were worked in more then adequately.

when the second half ot the track starts after the tom hits-a possible idea would be to use some steadier, slightly louder percussion(like a shaker to replace the hi hats and maybe a lower tom to replace the bass kick).

one thing that really strikes a chord with me is the flute solo in the end...very serious sounding, and its a dagger when it takes that emotional bend, and slides right back in, perfect resolution to the track.

perfect levels of reverb(how many times have I said this to you in my reviews? haha) to illustrate the endless sky.

good job SBB(swedish badass buddy)

[Wooden Blades]

On fire

sweet joy this one's hot and funkee. great track. love the organs, and jazzyish percussion hits over the hip hop beat. Love how you work in the shakers and those bells(?). sounds authentic and chill yo. perfect for laying over an early 90s type of rap. really cool melodies. I love that synth around 1:30 that slowly slides around. crisp clarity, great flow, and tight man! no real criticism over here, but some scratch FX would be sick as hell.

TimeBender responds:

I wish I could scratch lol Thanks for the advice man, this is good.

[Double Helix]

an old man

this has a really cool opening, sweet piano riffs. it actually sounds more like an old school sound with the antique piano and opening beat. That synth doesn't lay well over the piano melodies tho, not sure if its off key or whatever, but it doesnt gel together with me. the sub bass hits were nice, I would like to hear more of that. The clearer drum beat that you place on the top of the mix at the end is decent, but it doesnt sound too go over the other beat...the reverse effects came to suddenly, and I think you could have made a smoother finish...

alright ideas, but you just need to combine all the instruments so they make a more fitting harmony.

TimeBender responds:

Thanks for the advice! Your music is a big inspiration for me now.

[(WF1) On Angels Hair]

tighty whitey

the opening guitar parts sound something out of modern alternative rock song, and then when you add the bells and synths it kinda fuses an 80s electro type a sound, so pretty sweet parts. I love the piano ideas, you should expand on this bit a more. (I would've opened up more on this section and added maybe some soft strings after 4 bars or so) drums are pretty nice, could use a little more dynamics, and a more consistent, faster beat in the second half of the track.

really cool melodical work-and interesting use of synths. i dont really like FL slayer, but what you gonna do? the lead fl slayer riffs kinda drowns out the rest of the track, so I'd lower these volume levls 2-3 DB or so. the tone around 2:05 was too screechy for me, so experiment with different presets! i always sucked at making a good slayer tone..

this could use some bass for sure... the second riff you introduce around 0:10, you could copy and lower that an octave and it would be a perfect bassline IMO.

Good stuff once again wyldfyre!

wyldfyre1 responds:

lol there's bass there man! haha. In fact 2 different riffs of bass They are so identical though that its probably easy to miss it. FL slayer is used way to much now adays and i can understand alot of people's problems with it however i've heard it used NICELY in the past and would like to use it nicely myself. LOL can't really play the guitar so i'm gonna emulate it haha. Yeah the piano was something i was originally gonna expand upon also! I may even add more into it in the long run. The Guitar riffs with the actual accustic in the background *(mind my speling) just blows my mind for some reason i think it sounds damn good haha. But i may see what i can do about turning it down some. Thanks for another great review man!

[(WF1) Mythago 2.1]

werd

this is definetly a blend of weird/unique sounds...but its pretty cool. nice layer of instruments going on decent flow. Does sound partially Asian, and kinda honorable like the scenes right before a warrior's battle(pretty much like you described). I like the experimental sound effect stuff around 1:00-although its a bit random. some definetly interesting melodies in here. in scenes like this, you need a woodwind of sorts.

one thing that would make this better is tweak the presets a little more and add varying amounts of reverbs and other effects. it sounds like you're using presets straight outta FL sytrus. I don't mean that as an insult at all tho, and it doesnt sound bad, it would just add some personal character to your music and make a more unique sound. The drums could be a bit better, the simple rhythms suit the themes, but you could change the samples and possibly use a taiko or some ethnic based samples in here. I like the wobbly piano tone. the synth strings create a nice atmosphere. you could EQ and adjust volumes levels around the chorus sections like 1:15 too balance all the instruments more equally-love the weird choir/orchestra hit sounds and how you used them.

still good enjoyable stuff, keep at it for sure.

wyldfyre1 responds:

beleive it or not there are alot of tweaks already in this song. It has several FX in it. Some of the sounds are sounds from FL studio because really thats all i have haha i've just recently started searching for new sounds and what not. I may end up adding some windflutes or some sort of pipe sound in there here soon. The actual song was ment to tell a story. You basicly got the idea from what i read here haha. thanks for the review and i'll be sure to add more to this when i'm mused enough to work on it again =).

[Twisted Travels]

I dont see whats wrong with it...

first off, I would like someone to explain how this doesnt have any emotion. Personally I do feel that this has a little something lacking compared to the rsst of your tracks TT, like it doesnt have one of those completely remorable melodies that makes me go "Wow thats defintely TT!". dont get me wrong, thats just because I've been spoiled by your other music :P this is still a great track.

I think its serves its purpose, some interesting conga percussive riffs to fit the travel theme, and some subtle, yet interesting tribal sounding melodies. Great use of the pan flute and the twinkle bell sound. I like when you pick up with the acoustic guitar, its adds some more intensity and has a real crips sound. I guess one thing it lacks is an epic build-although in a sense something more active couldp possibly ruin the laid-back atmosphere, but of course if you wanted to go down that track some more faster, "active" drums a lot like the ones that you've implemented into the collab were doing, and some strings would sound tight.

So good stuff once again, this a great track man.

Twistedtechnology responds:

yea, i wanted to keep this one pretty laid back, didn't want to make it too active. I tried putting in some strings but i didn't really do a good job at it so i just left them out.

Im glad you enjoyed the piece though man.

Ima take another crack at that collab. It seems to be the only piece i can work on atm......lol

[Untitled Piano II]

England 1920

It certainly started off somewhat slow, but until the middle I could really appreciate this track for it was.

I personally think there is some flaws in this track...the improv in the intro seems a bit sloppy. But once the high pitched notes hit every sounds very nice. Varying dynamics and levels of wide reverb sound awesome in here. Great creativity, as the amount of reverb decays as the song progresses. I really love the meat of the song, sounds like one huge delay effect bouncing off two giant, dark walls, in the middle of a once barren desert, under an evil, dark night sky. and you can still pick up some very attractive high pitched melodies. It almost sounds like a pad. (it almost sounds like there's also a clarinet and flute at some points)..

Now the latter half of the track....I too appreciate listening to the beauty of rain. If it ever rained where I live I would sleep like a baby every night. so I listened to it three times now, and noticed the variations(or atleast the ones my mind invoked). I still would say it could use some more stuff over the top to make it interesting add diversity, such as light thunder crackles, maybe an animal sound, some feedback or a atmospheric synth, something exactly like what you have at the end of the track. More ambience wouldn't hurt IMO.

as always, pleasure listening to your music.

Gillenium responds:

Thanks for the in-depth review! As for the critiques, the track is what it is. I recorded rain earlier in the week, and I wanted improv to go with it, so I played that. That's basically it. The intro is sloppy, because it was completely improvised. When I finally hit a nice melody, I was quite surprised, haha. I kept it rolling for as long as I could. I played it back one time and improv'd the reverb fx, and that was it. I did hope for thunder when I was recording the rain, but unfortunately, it didn't happen. I did get a nice effect when the wind swept more rain in. You can hear that near the end. The track isn't so much about a song, but the processes going on. You can hear how I find the melody, you can hear how the rain changes, and like you said - you can imagine what the song sounds like when the reverb is overwhelming. What's in your mind is usually better than what you're precieving anyway. I don't expect people to treat this like a best-effort Gillenium track, so I'm glad you didn't!

[65% incomplete repost]

sounds great!

i'm not going to leave the long detailed review like I did last time-but this version sounds a bit clearer. Still love this track man I putting it in my top 4 favorites for now!!! just wish it could be finished because i love this....

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

...well i got the day off tomorrow so i'm gonna try and do a new version of this. gonna be hard to recreate, prolly gonna sound quite different. gonna try and keep the main structure and instrumental ideas tho.
wish me luck
;ped

[==(Celestial Swamp Life)=]

Ladies and Gentleman we have a winner

IMO, this a near perfect ambient track.

I love the synths and sounds used in here. The muffled sub synth sounds like a bubbly, dark sludge swamp...the feedback reminds me of fading eletric box...The other sounds are great over it. The big phasers are sweet. Not so much of a melodic track, but the blend of notes and sounds creates a sick as hell atmospheric feeling. Love the murky drums to compliment the environment, and sick as hell EQ settings and FX. The little taps that are panned add some nice creepiness, and I like how they mold into the higher percs once the main drums hit around 1:30ish...

I thought the buildup was perfect to lead right into the meat of the track. I just wish it could be 1 min longer, as it got started around 1:30 and ended 1 min later. it does feel just a tad unfinished to me. I would love to play a futuristic FPS shooter were you shoot aliens while listening to this!

great stuff, I know its early in the competition but you would get my vote at this point if users were allowed.