Cyberdevil's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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.

[Loco Excelente]

Wooaa the mixing on this one! Top tier. And there's so much going on. Just the percussion's amazing, but the pans, the pauses, that brighter scratchier sound too, it's a bit chaotic but so good too. Wonder if it'd even be possible to have this kind of dopeness under more controllable; predictable; traditional song-type structure...

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[Tunetober24 #02]

You're a beast on making them filthy beats man! Fast work too.

Sounds like something I could vibe to some day... I like the Egyptian-like flare midway through. A little dubstep-like sometimes, a little industrial... varied sound savagery. Good stuff.

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[Tunetober24 #01]

Man this is a cool first for the month! Sounding intergalactical and otherworldly and all already, unconventional and vibrant flows, and a little reverse sound at the end? Not sure the pause around 0:47 makes it better, it seems almost unintentional, but otherwise this is gooood.

And all this in just two hours! You're fast. Awesome stuff.

Hey I could probably use those Inktober prompts for my raps though. XD A verse on backpacking hmm... for an instrumental I suppose you could have something on the theme of journey there, an instrumental adventure, an audial trek to accompany you as you set out on new adventures? But if inspiration flows without prompts even better though IMO. :)

A few random prompts that may fare better in sound if you need 'em: Cyberdevil as a dinosaur, wormholes in the cosmos, endless handbag loop remix, a track made entirely of a single sample, mathematical formulas transformed into melodies/rhythms - numbers to tempo, a happy robot dog trying to sing, the afterlife, reaching for a cookie jar that falls and breaks and all those cookies crumble, the Terminator theme but Super Mario style, surfing, a rain of oranges, something that gets slower and slower and slower...

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[smooth beat loop]

Now this is a pretty smooth beat loop yo!

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[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