Shenkhar's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Snapdragon]

Great work!

Man, you included one of my favorite things - acoustic guitar. Great job on the composition and mastering, really enjoyed this piece.

NemesisTheory responds:

Acoustic guitar really does sound nice. <3
I think the best trio for bringing out emotion is Violins, Piano and Acoustic guitar. :)

Anyway thanks, happy to hear it. :D

[Planet Reloaded]

House for sure :D

This is a pretty tight mix, although it feels a bit empty on the melody/music side. Try adding in a pad or something to fill it out. Your SFX and over all mix is good though. Nice track.

Airprogressive responds:

When you say that I should add a pad or something, what are you refering exactly? to add a new melody and include more variation to it, or just adding a pad to the main melody. If so, where you think I should add that?

thanks!!

[:=>Donkey Kong 9-8 Remix<=:]

Nice work

Well done - but bring your master volume down, its clipping to hell.

Moltov responds:

Yeah, I noticed, it sounded fine in my speakers but I will make sure of that next time.

[She Was Dreaming In The Rain]

Thanks :D

One of my ALL TIME favorites - I've loved this song for years. A good rendition of the original - in my books far superior.

TenchuX responds:

thanks saying a lot, thanks

[Kazmo & Lira - Still Alive RMX]

Nice job!

Song is great, well mastered. Only complaint is that the vocals are being hidden behind the instruments, I can only pick out a few words at a time. Try "Companding" them a bit, (expanding the dynamic range, then compressing it - in order to get a "louder" over all vocal take, its explained on Wikipedia a bit more, also called Serial compression). The soundscape of the instrumentals is impressive, the reverbs match and the individual channels don't interfer with each other.

Kazmo responds:

That's the thing, in the original, that problem was even worse, the vocals could barely be heard over all the other sounds. This time around, I turned down the hats, the lead, and increased the vocals accordingly. There may be a few trouble spots still, but there are a lot less now.

Thanks for the feedback and advice! :D

[Late Night Awakening [SMD]]

Pretty good

Hmmm, it felt like the mastering was cluttered on this track. Instruments and channels were colliding with each other, while this gives is a "full" sound it also hurts its clarity and stereo image. As Sycross said, the drums were spread too far from the center of the stereo image, and the reverb that was on them didn't match the rest of the track. If you cleaned up the mastering and fixed the drums I think that this would be an enjoyable song - keep it up!

- Shenkhar

SmdSkata responds:

Thanks for the review... Yeah, I'm trying to get better at mixing down but it's taking me time to find my way up the learning curve. I got sometime today, I'll go back and see what I can do. Thanks.

[It's Over Now HHC RMX]

Awesome!

Awesome, just need a more "persistant"(?) synth along side the pluck/arp synth to make it more lively and fill it out. I'd be glad to give you some ideas - or help ya out.

Besides that I absolutely loved the track, vocals are perfectly processed and chopped, and the exisiting synths are well chosen and balanced!

- Shenkhar

Kazmo responds:

I'm glad you like it!

What do you mean by persistant though? Ahaha PM the details... :P

Thank you for the review!

[Castles in the Sky (Vocal Mix)]

A decent remix of a favorite song of mine

If you use Fl studio you can fix the vocal sync by simply dragging the acapella into the automation section, it'll show the full waveform and you can chop it up into easily sychable parts.

Nice work!

paranoiddj001 responds:

Thanks :)

[Rig & Spawn - 16 Bar Assassin]

YEEAAAH

I LOVE YOU RIG PLEASE COME BACK.

Rig responds:

I LOVE YOU TOO BUT MY HEART LIES IN MONTREAL :(

[Rig & Mihai - City Block loop]

Sweet rythyms.

YESSS Live samples. Now I need to get sorohan to record me some stuff >:(

I'm going to get a friend of mine to record some guitar.. we'll see where It gets me.

Nice work!

Rig responds:

Thanks, it turned out nicely!