DreamEater's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Aviator Tune]

Nice and clean

Reminds me of something that you would hear from Adam K & Soha or even Deadmau5 back in the day :)

I really enjoyed the very progressive-house elements, and soft instrumentation; very smooth on the ears.
The drum track was really impressive, and I loved how full of energy your drop sounds :). I really love a lot of what you did with this song; a lot of these melodies remind me of video game stuff :D

Things to look at:
- The Mixing mastering could use a bit of work/ boosting
- I would have liked to hear more effects/ delay samples in this song

Overall though; really impressive piece! :D
~Sonik

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RetromanOMG responds:

You know, I took that Adam K and Soha thing as a recommendation, and I'm astounded by what I heard. Thanks for exposing me to this.

As for the mixing, I've never been good at that at all. I did have enough sense to go back and fix the low end on the kicks, but on the whole, I've never put much work into EQing my songs completely. I'll definitely put in that extra effort for my next song, whatever it may be.

Thanks for the review.

[BAZ - TranceBastard (upda]

UNfinished :C

although I can see what you are going for, this song is kinda repetitive.
I liked the idea of starting out with a low pass filter, but you ended up bogging the rest of your track down way to much by filtering your master track :(
I really expected more out of this track based off of the intro, but the leads never seemed to rise up into full dominance, and the drum track didn't seem to be very"driving" at all :(

Things to look at:
- Trance/ Dance requires a strong bass-line, and driving beats; be careful when you filter your drums not to hide them from the listener :L
- If you are going to filter things, make sure that they get a chance to rise above everything else.

Overall this track is okay, but needs some work
~Sonik

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BAZmotherfucker responds:

Haha. I didn't actually LIKE this song enough to want to finish it or take it too seriously.

[Berlin (Final Version)]

Very Nice!

Right off the bat I really love the driving trance beat, and bright key samples!
This song has a very retro trance feel, reminds me of early trance music from 2001 like Tiesto :). I love the saw instruments that you brought in, and the bass-line complemented everything pretty nicely; although it is kinda simple.

Things I would take a second look at:
- I think this drum sequence is great, but it could use a little more power behind it (the older drum kits make this sound like it was produced years ago imo)
- The Build-up/ drops were cool, but very generic; make it your own

All in all though...
This song is actually pretty dope, I can dig it :}
~Sonik

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[Call to Arms (descara)]

The intro sounded slightly influenced by music frm

Shaw-shank Redemption (or one of the other suggested movie soundtracks below)

The orchestral elements of this song are wonderful, the strings sound brilliant, and I was most impressed the the melodic annunciation of the strings between 0:58-1:13 (Really awesome dude). By 1:37-1:57 this song has pretty much unfolded into some seriously epic movie soundtrack material.

I really would have liked to hear you continue on with this song though, Most times when you hear tracks like this...They tend to be pretty long, While this song is less then 2:00 long.

overall though; This is a wonderful piece of work!
~Sonik

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descara responds:

Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback! :)

02:00 was as far as I was allowed to go when writing writing this track, otherwise I might've expanded it.

[Antiskill- State of Absence]

Interesting House jam :p

The drums all sound pretty nice here, and you did an interesting job of building your intro/ buildup here :D. Your instruments all sound generally nice, but nothing really rocked my world about this melody though. I enjoyed where you were going with the vocal chops and everything, but after 3 minutes I pretty much realized that you weren't going to bring in a full vocal part for the chorus. :{

I really enjoyed certain elements of this song, but at the same time others could have used some work.

Things I would take a second look at:
- That bass-line could use something more
- The leads were a tad bit plain, and I felt they could have used some layering.
- The drum dynamics were a bit confusing
- Chorus build-up; but no chorus :[

Overall good effort, but needs a little work
~Sonik

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YakovlevArt responds:

I know what your saying.
This track was different then most in that the structure was less intended.
---there isn't a full vocal chorus, this is just a sample---

There are many things i hear i could have done to bring complexity while clearing things up, but i wasn't sure on how to implement them into the track without restarting.

This definitely not something i usually do, I don't know, I was just exploring with the glitching and beat patterns.

Thanks for the great review =]

[RPG: Town of Dawn]

Relaxing and beautiful

This is really beautiful, and totally reminded me of epic RPG music. :D
The orchestral elements of this song were great, and really sounded incredible.
The soft bell samples and other pluck leads we're very nicely blended during the intro, and I really loved the dynamic build and fall of this song as well.

The overall feel of this song was truly enchanting, and instantly transported me to a field of green under a setting sun. A giant castle stands in the distance, and a hero begins his journey through the mountain pass to get to town; Its getting dark, and creatures are starting to roam the plains. Tensions rise, and as the sun falls over the pass our hero begins to battle for his life...

The creatures fall silent, and the hero continues on towards his goal.

Overall; there's not to much I would change about this
Really great work!
~Sonik

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CheckeredZebra responds:

Thanks! I love the little concept you put into your review. I can really see it happening that way.

Much appreciated :)

[Broken People]

Interesting forsure

This song was different compared to most forsure, and I could see why you would have trouble giving it a proper genre.

The lyrics are really good, and I really enjoyed your sense of poetry. The song was named well, as most of the samples/ instruments in this song sounded pretty broken and distorted. Overall this was seriously an interesting submission; very experimental.

Things to take a second look at:
- Although the lyrics are good, the vocal elements of this song weren't so great.
- The lead instruments really clashed with that bass sample that you used; made things sound slightly grimy

Overall not bad work. but could use some polishing up
~Sonik

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SoulSecure responds:

Grimey=a good thing in my book.

The vocals clash with the song because my mic sucks balls.

[LS&L - The Sandman (clip)]

sick drop :]

I really enjoyed the dub-bass work in this song bro, very nicely done. The drums are simple, but still clean; I really liked how they have that almost hip-hop sound to them. The lead melody sounds alright, but the piano seemed to sound a bit dry imo. The drop in this song really made up for my major dislikes though :p

Things to take a second look at:
- The lead melody seemed a bit repetitive, and I really did NOT like the lead @ 0:27-0:40
- The piano sample in this really seemed to be a bit much. maybe it could use some reverb/ eq work?

Overall not a bad piece, but I definitely would have done a couple things differently x.x
Great work though :D
~Sonik

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LightsideandLegend responds:

Thanks for the review XsakuX. I'll add a bit more character to my sounds and maybe scramble up my composition to make it feel a bit more alive.