la-yinn's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Shake Down]

What it is, is a nice try.

I'll start off with saying that it's obvious to me that you've got a good grasp of modulation. In dubstep, that alone can take you a long way. But only so far.

Your intro was waaaaay too long - or too bland. That doesn't go for your intro, but most parts of your track. When you get to the drums, they sound off-key because your melody is an off key melody. It sounds weird if you don't add any FX to add tension, buildup and release.

I think that your drum patterns are slightly conflicting with your basslines. You have this breakbeat thing going on at first, while you'd expect 2-step percussion. What if you tried a "kick kick snare kick kick kick kick snare" approach, with each hit on a measure - and added some reverb on that snare? It's not a bad snare at all, really, but it sounds more like a house snare than one for dubstep.

When you get to the later parts of your track, you have a tendency to make certain synths go on for too long. If they are leading your track, then let them shine and mix it up a little with other percussion or backing sounds. You could even try layering a soft / medium volume subbass to accompany your leading synths, so that it has more rawr. ;)

I'm confident you'll learn how to make your stuff shine, in time. :3 I'll say it again, you've got some modulation skills - and that's a huge step.

Keep at it!
~ La_Yinn, --'

The-Cockenator responds:

Thanks man and i like comments like these cus then i know what i can fix and yea it still is a bit off at parts but still i like it in a way but Thank you so much for the tips :D

[Dubstep for Dimoria]

Hello.

How've you been du-

<deaded by drop>

Come chat to my ghost on msn ;)

[THC-Renegades]

Damn, heavy breaks.

Very much digging this teaser of yours. I've been listening to it at least 10 times by now due to the ambience of the background hats and congo's - and how well it blends in with the heavy kick, snare and sharp bass. I think the melody shots later on in the track are very fitting aswell, but maybe you should try to throw in a few extra notes or different notes after 16 bars; to spice up the melody further. I'm actually not at all bothered by repetitiveness in this track due to the amount of energy in it, but more often than not that energy only gets fully appreciated during a 'wild 16 bars. (like when you'd scrap the drum pattern and create an entirely new one with lots of fills and small hits)

I'd love to hear the full version when it's done. Fav'd for now. :)

5/5
9/10
~ La_Yinn

[Hammock Song]

Kickin' it the mellow way

Yeah man really cool how you've only used a guitar to compose this. Haven't been this much into your work since deep blue clouds, which sort of stuck around as my late-at-night studying track.

Diggin it.
~ La_Yinn

[Blunt Trauma (Neurofunk)]

Pulled off the ambience, where's the sub?

Well for starters, I love the ambient intro. You get sucked into the vibe of the track immediately and that's a great thing.

What disappointed me ever so slightly was the lack of bass in this track. I'd say your kickdrum would sound a bit better with some added lower frequencies but it's ok the way it is aslong as it is accompanied with a badass reece.

I found the drop a bit lighter than what I was expecting. But it wasn't disappointing. It had more of a groove going on than the overkill of reece automation you hear in a lot of neurofunk. What did disappoint me was the lack of high end on the drums. I'm missing the background hats! Just some hats every 2 steps with a bit of reverb and velocity control to fill up the space more, cause the amazing ambience from the intro doesn't pull through to the drop and that may be your style, I couldn't for the life of me understand it haha.

Also perhaps some techy clicks and what not panned in all directions to give the drop a continuing flow of energy.

8.7/10
5/5

Overall this definately was worth the ten listens while I was typing this review. :P Layer that drop, more, more!

~ La_Yinn, --'

MA3HbO responds:

Thanks for the nice review !
The bass indeed is a bit weak.I'll surely beef it up.
As for the drop, i think i'll add quite alot to it in future versions.I was thinking of some sort of white noise sweeps to sound like everything gets sucked in :D.
And yeah the drums need alot more percussion and stuff.For now its only 1 loop other than the kick and snare.Again thanks for the support.I'll let you know when a newer version comes out.
Cheers !

[InKa - Speed Up [NG Edit]]

What D:

I thought you stopped submitting to NG? Decided to take a look at your profile and to my suprise you have some new submissions. Good to see. :D

Damn man, beyond my league. How do you expect to receive constructive reviews when the melody is catchy, the track has variation and the production values exceed 99% of this site?

9.5/10
5/5

Chill tune man, digging it. You need to give me some pointers on drums sometime haha.

~ La_Yinn, --'

[Go Fu#k Yourself (dubstepdemo)]

Basic, has potential.

Well for starters that intro sound. It sounds cool, melody captures so that's all good, but the volume is WAY to high man. I had to turn down my volume quite a bit cause of your intro, so you need to fix that. As far as the intro goes, it's nice, but you could make it more interesting with some pitch bending or panning. Perhaps one or two FX samples.

Next point you need to improve on is your snare. I've heard dubstep with claps, like this track, but you need the punch man. Layer your clap with a nice mid-freq snare so that it has some more power. Something I do to make my snare extra powerful is loading up my snare in another channel and reversing it on half volume so the full hit sounds like it destroys.

Your selection of synths sound a little cheesy. That doesn't necessarily have to be bad, but the entire track lacks in bass. Where is the bass man?! I feel that if you had an accompanying bassline with this track it would make the synths easier to listen to and it would make the overall track a lot more full.

6.5/10
5/5

I think it was pretty good, but it had some mixing issues and you need to throw in the filthy bass! Keep this stuff up though.

~ La_Yinn, --'

superuberinsaneausm responds:

thanks for the advice!

[White X-Mass]

Oh Mr. Sorohanro, ho ho ho!

Simply beautiful. I really REALLY digged the hip-hop part of this track, even though DnB is more my thing. It just has that jolly christmas feeling. Especially because of the bass.

Sometimes however, the track's a little cluttered. Like there's many things going on and it's not mixed properly. For example, I think the vocals don't have enough low-mids and lows. I know you probably equalised those out for the bass to pop, but the vocals sound violent, instead of soothing. Some sound effects around 1:45 are a nice addition, but they're far off in the background. They sound to 'wide', if you will. No punch, no clarity!

That's pretty much it, though. The composition is brilliant and I'm definately downloading this one!

9.1/10
5/5

Overall, I dig. Great job. :-)

~ La_Yinn, --'
(P.S. thumbs up on the guitar!)

sorohanro responds:

Thanx for review.
Well, this is made quite a while ago, fast (and furious) and have a lot of mistakes in the mixing.
Thanx for feedback, maybe I'll remake it (someday)... maybe...

[Let the Games Begin [ADM]]

Hell yeah.

Big choone, lmfao. It was really weird in the beginning, but the dark buildup was sweet. It was distorted, evil and it made me want to choke a bitch, in the good way.

Quite honestly, no criticism. To short though! EXTEND THIS BEAST.

9/10
5/5

Bangin' track. Good luck in the contest!

~ La_Yinn, --'

djInTheDark responds:

Yeah I gotta fix that intro before the build up. Thanx for the analogy, I'll use as a pick up at my next show (;].

Put her in her place!
DJ InTheDark