Cyberdevil's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Over your Shoulder]

Foreboding and vibrant... I love the style! Getting some Resident Evil-like vibes too, eerie in a good kind of way, a suspense that builds thoroughly, and when it goes full orchestral towards the end: woah... masterful work here. Maybe not as eerie an ending but: pompous! For the right scene this'd be perfect. Something really going on there...

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ChordC responds:

Appreciate the feedback, I guess I can tweak this when the scene is finished, we'll see.

[Holidays Under Construction]

Well this was definitely different! :D Was expecting to go all punk rock for a moment after the intro but it took a totally industrial tone instead allofa sudden... title fits well, but definitely not your conventional Holiday kind of music! I mean I can't really imagine playing this over a Christmas dinner/party/present-opening kinda event. XD Or whilst attempting to just get into the seasonal spirit/feel the winter and all, even if the elements do be there.

Maybe a bit like a Santa's workshop type thing though... intriguing mix; props on the idea! It's definitely fun to listen to regardless.

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GoodL responds:

Thank you so much, cd! I'm glad you found it interesting :)

[Tundrata]

This is just radiating chillness and wintery Christmas spirit. :) Really cool.

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TeraVex responds:

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the listen!

[Slow Motion]

Love the instrumental, and the lyrics, and the overall tone of it, but feels like the vocal processing doesn't really match; sometimes gets lost to the music? Seems like a somewhat grungy/modern/heavily processed style that contrasts maybe a bit much with the upbeat/airy instrumental. Imagining that a bit brighter, clearer, more in the front, without as heavy effects or autotune, and it'd maybe have that nostalgic link it seems it might be intended to have? No idea how to best emulate the vocal style of old but that's the one bit that feels a bit off to me here.

Going by the 'all in one vocal processor' question I hope maybe you're thinking the same; this isn't exactly the vocal style you were going for, in which case above suggestions may seem misplaced. :P I do not know of any miracle one click things of such sort unfortunately! Would be nice though.

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ADR3-N responds:

You know, I actually laid down the vocals while my roommates were having a party in the next room over, and a loud phone call was in the kitchen LOL. So I'm about three inches from the mic with the input turned all the way down. And to top that off I was really sick. I was going for a more industrial vibe and then realized at the end I'd written a K-Mart drum track hahaha. So I guess it's a fusion of 80's pop, 2000's Imma Be vibes, and modern pop.

The closest I've found to a one click is Butch Vig Vocals from waves. I found myself falling in love with distortion on literally everything, so that's primarily what I use it for. Then I use ERA-R and ERA-N for removing reverb and noise. They also have a delay remover I thought about putting on. But too much of them and you get a hollow tube sound that sucks the life out of your vocals. It's a game of experimenting

[sweden - Plastic People]

This is great but... I gotta ask about sweden? As a Swede this clearly caught my eye. :P

Love the vibe. Love the crisp and somewhat saturated style of sound. Vocals sometimes maybe a little unclearly enunciated but overall you got a great voice too. Music's all but plastic here!

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TheRealFool responds:

Thanks! Sweden is an acronym by the way, you can fill in the first two with whatever you like, the rest is every day, every night. :)

[This and That]

But Midorichan17 doesn't have testicles right? As to provide a voice that seems credible and true, more so than easy to listen to and pure, would the voice choice be appropriate? Though then again there is that 'mom' at the end of this...

This was something else hmm, is it fiction? Is it based upon a real experience? Real thoughts? Partially meant to not make sense or always trying to? If it's the latter I feel like you lose me sometimes. I was following along nicely with the eye exercise bit, but after that it moves from context to context in ways I don't really follow. But alright starting off:

- First exercise, what should I be noticing? That my eyes look a bit odd when I'm looking at them from the side, not evenly aligned, as one rotates more than the other to make up for the differing placement as to focus on the same spot? If there was no mirror there indeed you'd be looking at something else than yourself, and never see your eyes, and never notice this interesting effect, if that is the aim?
- Coincidentally there's a great eye exercise where instead of moving your head you move your eyes. In front of a mirror. Focus on one point on the mirror, then focus on one point to the right (without moving your head), then go back. Repeat five times. Do the same to a point to your left. Then up. Then down. Then diagonally in all four directions. Stretches your eye muscles and may improve focus overtime.
- This seems similar to your second part in this experience... is the idea here maybe that VR is faulty? That with current technology you have to move your entire head to shift your gaze, where as in reality this is not the case?
- A technology you could use to look at a woman's body, hands, legs = eyes, as they are? Glasses, if they don't work? VR goggles, if real is not enough? This does class as fictions so...
- Poverty note hopefully part of the fiction - you can do whatever you set your mind to!
- Einstein made more than atom energy and a theory. :) He really led an inspiring life, both before and after the nuclear damage, it's sad that had to be, but if he hadn't invented the hydrogen bomb someone else probably would have; it would've possibly caused all the greater devastation depending on who that was...
- Testicle kick, hopefully also part of the fiction? I don't catch the relation to the food, but yes good simile on the food. Each meal is really like an invention that can only be experienced once...
- Freud's theories have to a large extent been disproven since his day, but they all made so much sense when I read them too... and aren't there more ants than there are chickens? Don't ants count as species? I've wondered if we might reincarnate as them - if we do reincarnate - or if there's just too big a gap in understanding between insects and humans. If the reason for reincarnation is to learn then could we possibly learn anything as an ant? In a way they're like the only ones out there with a civilization in parallel that largely reflects our own; lately it almost seems like we're adopting a hive-mind as well in our strife to all be similar.

If there's additional meaning added in via clever use of punctuation too there's certainty more to this than I'm catching. :) Makes you think, this does, but also feels a bit fragmented; maybe not guiding the listener exactly where you want them to go; bringing across the point you wanted... at the end I'm pondering the correlation between eyes and testicles; the reckless force of the first atomic bomb over Nagasaki playing in my mind...

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Belthagor responds:

Thanks for the good attempt at a review! Good try! :D You're the best.

[Understand]

Now this one's really solid! On beat. Not too generic either. Next step maybe vary the notes a bit? You could have phases, a few bars with different ones, so as to give it a bit more breadth. Also feel like maybe some additional layer here would add depth. Something that flows constantly, a synth or similar? bass? Getting better and better!

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HyBridRiley responds:

Thanks for the idea!

[Credits Roll]

It's like the graduation song but with a bit of a hiphop twist. :) I love this. Also really feels like this'd be perfect for this one thing, I'll get back to ya in a couple days here, hope you approve...

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larrynachos responds:

Thanks so much cyberdevil!

Also now I'm excited! 👀

[Dedicated to the girl reading this no.3 (Classical orchestra cover)]

So beautiful... I wonder how it'd be with a softer tone though, a more soothing/ambient softness to that classic sound... just saw the ninjamuffin one in my feed too, inspiration catching on fast! For a moment I thought this might be like that among us trend I've been totally missing out on. Maybe it is now becoming that next big thing hmm...

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VortexSupernova responds:

Thanks... the melody and the chord progression really got me to make this. It sounds like you are exploring your own childhood but in a song!

[sythe-10]

Ironic that it ended with this one this year... that wasn't the plan was it? Bit of a peak on the volume in the middle, distracts a bit, but otherwise maybe the most introspective one yet...

I did enjoy these! Feels like both intensity and articulation kept improving since the beginning too. That's how I've been feeling with each one of these so far, consistently getting better and better, that it gets easier and easier, eventually the stress of putting out a new one each day starts going away... but then at some point it also stops feeling as inspiring. Gets harder to really push yourself to keep going either way. Like the early anticipation was a part of that pressure you also lost. But, you just have to keep going anyway, that's how you really surpass yourself...

Relate heavily with this. I'm not sure my ratings are all fair with these, conflicting impressions in regard to audio production and to the message itself, since the latter's been solid with every single one of these. But I did enjoy all. Easy; inspiring listening all the way...

If you feel like trying this again, again do let me know. ;) Would be fun to follow.

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davidpuralocura responds:

lol i didnt notice i stoped with sythe kinda like i killed it it it has been killed
the plan was to keep going till the end but idk things change
thank you for enjoying these