Cyberdevil's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tunetober24 #04]

Tearout huh, a mix between riddim death step and dubstep... I'm learning new things here.

For the first half minute or so I was starting to think I might have to rap on this one too, such a good build, atmospheric, rythmic and ominous... but then ehh. XD

I wonder if I've ever run into more than 1 of the aforementioned four genres earlier myself... this is new to me. May take some time to appreciate. The genre definitely suits the season, and the sound design's hella elaborate here, if a bit repetitive in beat beyond the screams and all. Not as huge a fan of this style (yet) but who knows, maybe in time...

Props on trying new things man. Composition/mix = solid! 👍✨

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larrynachos responds:

It's definitely an acquired taste! Real tearout artists have sound design so dense and crazy, I crank that shit UP even though it's basically just a tinnitus giver xD

Here is some tearout by some real artists lol:

https://soundcloud.com/kaifuaudio/wastebeing-2024-05-31-0144
https://soundcloud.com/veksyu/hell-siren
https://soundcloud.com/maraudamusic/heave
https://soundcloud.com/nimda_uk/nimda-id-showcase-2022

shit goes so hard *^* I played some at work once and my manager told me it made her want to kill herself lmfao

[Survive the Night]

A whole album for Halloween, both the sounds and the stories, an air of eerie and spooky-faring soundscapes that both sooth and pursue you...

This is amazing man. A grand compendium for the season of seasons this year. Very nice work!

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Tangerine responds:

Thank you! I hope you have a lovely month :)

[Tracid Loop]

lmao! XD Momentarily it'd be just perfect really but then that BPM just goes haywire!

At a certain tempo this really reminds me of some ParagonX9 track btw... cool stuff.

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Father-of-Death responds:

its 2:30am i was gana go to sleep but fuck it ill try to make something again... 3..2..1... HERE I GO!

[Tunetober24 #03]

Woo this was a good one too! Rich sound. Many layers. Seems like you're stepping up composition and production complexity overall here, although structure's maybe simpler; more rtythmic than say the first one this sounds big man, like something WaterFlame could've done for one, drips and drops and all kinds of pleasing little bits and bobs in the audio (chime and kero samples huh XD) too... that worked great. I like the icy/ambient/watery feel of it all.

Bit sudden fade and all, if this wasn't a Tunetober thing I reckon you'd have built further but NICE!!! Still feels complete. And so clean. And different from what I typically hear from you.

Really impressive for a daily.

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larrynachos responds:

Thanks CD! I think this one I will turn into a real song once tubetober is over :)

[Twelve Cheese Pizzas]

Funky! :D Vocals fit in so well too, nice voice chops, good vibes, catchy beat in the background...

Just gets better and better towards the end too. Never dulls. Good stuff.

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stevetherapper responds:

preciate it man

all i did was some of the voice lines lmaoo

[Welcome Back To Podunkton]

Man this was solid!!! Good rhymes, good flow, great switch up on the lady line, good disses, though as for the recording itself the volume wavers a bit when the bass comes in, wonder if you might've recorded vocals with the instrumental playing in the background; the bass takes over when it kicks in? If so you probably could up the quality significantly if you just listen to the beat via headphones and layer it in after recording. If that's not how you did this maybe it's a mix thing. Curious what kind of equipment you're using here?

Dope work. A little improvement on the production side and this is professional level stuff for real. :)

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stevetherapper responds:

Appreciate it cd, this was fun as hell to make.

As for the volume levels and recording equipment, I literally used my headphones to record the vocals lmao. When recording I js had the volume really low, high enough to hear the beat progression, but low enough so that the beat isn’t heard in the recorded product. If anything, I probably made the bass too loud. Thanks for the review though, and welcome back!

[Ghost chords]

Was considering trying to actually rap something over this one but... nah, maybe not this one. XD

It is crazy!!! Very cool though. Crazy energy and a calm bit for the middle... unique and magnifique man.

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Father-of-Death responds:

yea i know ima try to make some better stuff to rap too for ya!

[It's the fire]

And you can sing!!! This reminds me of A-ha a bit, both your voice and the words... mighty voice. It's the fire inside your heart huh? :P

Also pretty cool how the vocal strength clashes with the music itself, which is so much calmer...

It works surprisingly well. This was really good.

I do feel like the structure could probably be polished a bit more, the vocals are great but not timed in a way where it's easy to sing along, or where you know when to expect to 'em, it's somehow a little unnerving when there's seemingly no real pattern to 'em in particular when they're so loud, so you're listening to a soothing tune and then FROM NOWHERE A FIRE INSIDE MY HEARD and then it's soothing once more. XD With some structure to it I feel like this is the type of stuff that'd get on a radio really, it's powerful, catchy, meaningful, not too complicated either...

But other than that man... this is fantastic. The free-form style's all the more artistic too for sure.

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Aalasteir responds:

Thank you so much, @Cyberdevil

Yes, you're right.

I'm trying out different styles and figuring out how to structure songs. I also struggle with coming up with lyrics, which is why there aren't that many in my songs.

[ADR3-N / 2 / 17 / A200]

No worries on the questions! Got a rare AI assisted presentation of those final answers as a result, that was fun. :) The voice model really is on point too, like a subtle autotune filter for professional speaking kinda, a little blander, but still with plenty of emotional emphasis. I wonder if an entirely speech-based model would be all the more seamless, you can hear *at least I imagine I hear* that the tone's aimed more at song with this one, like the overall pitch is a little different, but maybe it's just a certain lack of variety with similar annunciations (that'd be naturally varied in regular speech) that gives that impression... very cool anyhow. If I didn't know it was AI I wonder if I'd wonder if it was at all...

Thanks for the answers. I definitely should do the hard things too. Continually. Lest keep regretting indecisions and a lack of major changes in direction in life. If you know you need to do something, gotta do it... goals are difficult to both figure out and formulate though for sure.

And you know Arabic too?! Enough to speak?

The um part lmao. XD Uh-men!

This was fun. Great chat.

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ADR3-N responds:

I don't know arabic like I used to! And I learned classical arabic, so like, Quranic arabic. Far and away from anything spoken today!

Speaking of indecision, I feel that! I just FINALLY got a car after almost 30 years, trying to quit smoking, got ADHD meds, because I couldn't deal with the indecision paralysis anymore. I just had to do something!

Re: voice model, yeah, you can definitely tell it's for singing/rapping. It's actually based on harsh vocals, rap, and throat singing. When I hear the difference between it and my real voice, I wish I talked like that more often hahahah

[Happy Days!]

Is FL Studio really supposed to eat that much RAM?! Seems 32GB would be more than enough.

Anyway Congrats on the 420! And the 69 before it! You deserve any counts you get good dude, you're truly a benefactor of this awesome artistic abode, with so much passion and prowess shining through all things you do. I wish you many more milestones; appreciate being included in this goodness too! It really is a happy piece. Pompous, orchestral and awesome.

BANZAI!

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Tangerine responds:

Thank you! The reason why FL takes up so much RAM is that I have a million vst plugin libraries open at the same time during the later stages of my songs. This makes it pretty tough on memory.

Thank you for the kind comment! Looking forward to October. I wonder what we should do. A spooky-themed track, a steampunk one? Who knows, guess we'll see when we get there xd