Cyberdevil's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[|R|Skipping Through Time]

I'm trying to imagine that time-skipping sensation, but not really getting there!

The musical build-up is nice and ambient, the bass and beat trippy and energetic, but the melody is surprisingly flat somehow. Even when the beat pauses around 1:20 it build-ups in the previous style, and doesn't really morph as much as I'd expected. It'd be good background music for anything really, but that magical or motivating feeling isn't really there, it gets monotone in the long run. Not sure what concrete feedback to suggest other than... maybe vary it up a bit... somehow? As ambient background music it's fine as is, but a broader range of melody wouldn't hurt. Keep it going!

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Radiationator responds:

Thanks for the review :D

[Space Cadet 3D pinball]

Woo, kicks off with a pretty intense DnB beat, it's a trip. I like the spacey melody, feels like it drifts from one place to another, like a comet blazing a trail through a sea of massive distance. Nice work!

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DiroNomer responds:

Thanks man!

[Minuter]

Minuter as in... minutes? Do you have any chance have some link to Sweden? This is an awesome track, so smooth and heavy at the same time, it sounds a bit like electronic metal at the beginning, a bit like Pain, but the guitar that kicks in really breaks out of that pattern. Awesome melody, awesome pace. Wonder if the beat could be heavier somehow, but it sounds awesome. Nice work!

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DiroNomer responds:

Thanks for the review.

I used Addictive Drums for the beat and with AD, the Kick, if loud, tends to really overtake the hats, and cymbals. I didn't want that to happen, so I took the bass out from under them so you could still hear the drum kicks, but also the full cymbals as well. I probably could've mastered the entire drums and gave it just a tad bit more bass, but I didn't want to risk the cymbals being overtaken by the kicks, so I left it as is, just to play it safe.

Also, I usually just name my songs words that I made up. Does minuter mean something in Swedish? I'm also REALLY in love with Swedish metal as well, so there's that...

[Kyrotika]

Woo, what a crazily fast paced introductory theme! :D It's got a pretty intense rythem, energizing and creative, makes me type this review much faster than I usually type reviews. :P Great bass; beat, and the melody makes me think of Tetris somehow. Nice work!

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DiroNomer responds:

Thanks. I was just trying to coming with some random ass crap when I made this...

[Retro 007]

Nice and mystical. I like the melody, but thinking without that same synth from the fun loop it might sound a bit more serious. Potential for even more, nice working!

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DIWAKAR responds:

Thanx

[Fun Loop]

Simple fun! Funky rhythm and good variation, but there's some white noise towards the end. Keep it going!

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[woot_Woot Theme]

I like the beat! Heavy and steady, and the melody's mellow and spacey, but a bit sharp. The instrument that starts around 0:17 is way too sharp IMO, feels like if I didn't have the volume low I'd actually damage my hearing with that. :/ Maybe it has to do with sound quality though? any chance it could be saved at a higher kbps? Good otherwise!

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DIWAKAR responds:

Sorry about that

[Worst Mistake]

The lyrics are great, the flow's good for the most part (gets a bit out of line around 1:55 and onwards) but the music feels overly soft somehow. I like the melody, but the piano is so far in the background it doesn't have that much impact on the track, feels it should enforce the rhyme and not just hide in the shadows of time. The beat stopping for the hooks; piano growing louder is nice, but how about a change of melody at that same time? IMO it grows a bit monotone. Unless that monotony is supposed to be symbolic to the content then it'd be useful variation.

I notice there's a lot of hissing - maybe try to annunciate the S's less? Overall it's an intense track; a messily metaphoric fluency that kinda never reaches the moment of truth and clarity you expect, just fades away, something you can really 'get down' to. :P Nice work!

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