la-yinn's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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

[Substitute - [IZK] & Ackute]

Holy f*#%

I'm in love with the ambience man. Holy crap, that intro was superb.

Really looking forward to the full version, you two. This is a major tune judging on what I've heard so far. Absolutely no criticism here, just two thumbs in the air.

9.9/10 [Demo]
5/5

I demand a PM when the full version's done. :3

~ La_Yinn, --'

Jenni-Harry4eva3 responds:

Full version is already done lol. Just not posted here ;3

[[SD] Fallen Temple {D1}]

Oooo, nice.

Well, you're going for dungeon themes and this one is very fitting to your description. Although this doesn't make me think of Zelda. You know what this makes me think about? Golden Sun. Seriously, you've totally capped the style of that soundtrack and made your own track with it. Some of the synths sound really similar, yet distinguished. Taking that, it has a nostalgic feeling for me without ruining the suspense. Very, very good job.

I personally think there are to many stretched out melodies in this track, some faster-paced melodic work would go well I think.

Percussion is tiiiiiight! That's really outstanding in this track and it's thoroughly mixed. Good job!

9.1/10
5/5

Overall, creepy. But not to creepy. Just good for a RPG game so all in all, well done.

~ La_Yinn, --'

SupraDarky responds:

Ahh Golden Sun, such a great game. :) I see why it would remind you of that game though, you're right. I'm glad you like the percussion since that took quite some work. Thanks for the review!

[Rucklo - Fear t. Flight REJECT]

Ehh..

Meh, it starts out real good actually. The first few seconds were good, but then you add arps and white noise that TOTALLY sound like Sytrus presets. :-/

I think what would've worked better is some very clear drums over the synth after 8/16 bars and go from there.

Remove that arp. >.<

6/10
3/5

You've done better. :f

Rucklo responds:

well, all synths are crafted from scratch, so there's your sytrus-presets...

if this woulod have stayed in the game, i most likley would have worked it out a bit more, but meh it was rejected for a reason. :)

[GlockenSaw (Demo) ~P~]

Noo, that's a bad melody. :C

Using the standard kick and snare samples from FL. I've noticed you've done that in every track of yours so far, and I would've expected that you knew better by now. :3

Other than that, it's quite a catchy melody and it's good to see how you're improving in your synthwork. The gated sort of synth coming in midway sounds really nice. :-)

6.5/10
5/5

As i said, a nice catchy melody. But please use some original samples, or at last other stock samples. :)

~ La_Yinn, --'

Phyrnna responds:

I know I know. xDDD I started this track on a computer that only had FL Core so hence I used those for the percussion. I'll change those later on.

As for the other tracks, I've actually used a decent number of VEC stuff. o__o

Thanks for the support nonetheless!

^_^

[MH16: Over And Over]

That's pretty kewl. :3

Yeah I think it's a nicely made loop.

There's a few things I would've changed though. That's making either the flute or bass play longer notes, because they sound so flat if they both play short notes.

But other than that I think you pulled this off nicely.

7.5/10
5/5

:)
~ La_Yinn, --'

FairSquare responds:

Well, actually there are some strings in the background that play long notes. But i think you're right, it does sound flat, so thanks for pointing that out to me :-)
Thanks for the review, i really appreciate it. Expect a review on one of your tracks too, but it may take a week or so.

[ChaozFantasy-Metaljonus]

Woah.

The intro melody was slightly recognizable, but not entirely spot-on. It honestly doesn't matter cause when the riffs hit you seriously blew my fucking mind away. Talk about energy, DAMN.

9/10
5/5

Not much to say. Have a 5, LOL.

~ La_Yinn, --'

Metaljonus responds:

Yeah, it's not entirely spot on but its something like it lol.

[Rucklo - Deeper Again WIP]

Sure I'll spit over this!

Lols. ;p

Has a wicked beat man. Lovin' it. I'm not really sure about the strange choice of melodic synths. They sound so dark and draining. They go together well with the bass though, so it's all good. I imagine it would be harder to rap over this because it's not any ordinary hip hop beat, but props to whoever's creative enough to come up with some lyrics.

8/10
5/5

I think this could turn out to be a massive tune. Keep it up Ruckflow.

~ La_Yinn, --'

Rucklo responds:

weird synthwork is what i'm all about man :D

i got some rapping coming up for this tune right here, and it's some kickassrhymes by a kickass rapper, so this could turn out to be pretty wicked in the end!

and of course the final product will be ALOT more versatile and worked over, this is hardly a skeleton, i need to cover it with muscles, skin, blood and a brain.

thanks for the review man, great feedback right there!

[Swerve - Rip]

Quite decent, it lacks some drive though.

At first I was going to write that the percussion in the start was off, since it has an usual time structure, but after listening to it a few times it starts to fit more. What really helps is when the kick comes in, that gives the track some more power.

I'm not at all a fan of the strange bass that comes in around 0:15. It sounds so lo-fi and distorted in a bad way. Think I recognize the preset from somewhere aswell. ~.~ But nevermind that if you didn't use a preset, hehe. :P

I think you should remove the bass. Instead, have a slightly distorted bass and add some sinewaved subbass for the feel together with the 4x4 kicks.

Good use of Rig's samplepack, though I'm not really a fan of the scraping cardboard sounds. ._. But that's my taste I suppose.

7.4/10
4/5

Pretty nice outcome for a quickie. ;) If you're planning on continuing with this track, I would suggest that you throw in some more percussion that's panned all over the place when the melody comes in. The percussion as it is right now is just *slightly* lacking.

~ La_Yinn, --'

Swerve responds:

Thanks for your review!
That strange bass there is a really basic reese thrown together in like 10 seconds. It's not a preset though! ;) I only use presets as a starting point to edit further. I never use them raw. But this one was synthesized with 3xOsc.
I don't know if I'm gonna continue it.. I don't know if it has potential enough to make into a full fledged song. Ah well, I'm gonna try atleast. Thanks for the tips n review.

Swerve.