Chepaki's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Riders Ascend Upon the Cursed Mountains to Storm Heaven’s Gate]

Damn, just discovered you and your music really exude originality and emotions, this is simply fantastic

[Onwards]

Good track and cool ideas but the amount of sidechain/compression you put on the whole track when the main kick is there seems kinda off: the synths you use for melody from 0:30 to 1:45 are completely "eaten" by it

skydev responds:

thank you for the feedback, it means a lot for my development. i totally get what you're getting at, i'll keep it in mind. thank you once again!

[Pangaea Ultima]

Nice! Well first of all, good job on the 5/4 time signature, and really great track overall
Only thing I can point out is the difference of volume between the tracker and FL studio parts: I guess it's intentional but the result is that one of them always sounds either too loud or too quiet, probably would've been better if the two were around the same volume.

skydev responds:

thank you for the response! this was my second time experimenting with this kind of thing, mistakes were bound to be made haha, i suppose at the time it sounded alright, but listening back i get whatcha mean. thanks again! (late response, my bad hah)

[meteor]

Hey, so I listened to some of your stuff and yeah everything still sound very "wip" to me, but you could definitely make some cool stuff from that. Start by adding instruments and/or try to structure things a bit, I guess

buggagumpus responds:

yeah pretty much everything i upload is unfinished, though as of now i dont really know how to go about turning them into full tracks.

[Throwaway Soulmates]

Hell yeah be proud of it this is super good!

Codefreq responds:

Thank you! :D

[Blood on the Horizon (Airplane Dogfighting)]

Super nice and well yeah really fitting the setting you're describing!
Now time for 100% subjective remarks: I know the intro is obviously not supposed to be as loud as the rest of the track but here I really had to turn up the volume at the beginning of the song and immediately turned it down at the end of the intro
And then uuuuuh I'd say that the first "kick" of each beat stands out too much? Like, not always but sometimes I feel like he can get slightly distracting
That's all I could think of!

Codefreq responds:

Thanks for your review! I'm happy to give your suggestions a try. It's a pretty old song, and at the time I hadn't developed my mixing strategies I have now.

I appreciate the feedback. :)

[W8 UP]

Can't really find anything to improve here
Especially love the different reverbs on the vocals and backing vocals!

ph4de responds:

Damn!! Much much appreciated!

[LORD (Wip)]

Great stuff as always, but I must say that I usually really appreciate how you manage to make your songs so long but still interesting all the way through, but here I think it was a bit too much for me. Maybe because of the very "intense" nature of the song but idk again that's totally up to taste.

JamesHeart responds:

This is a work in progress so things are still being worked out. This song may change a little and it may change a lot

It’s a bit plane right know so you are right in thinking this

[Neon Loneliness]

Nice! I feel like the "climatic" sections of the track (1:43-2:53 and 3:27-4:02) don't have much impact compared to the rest of it because of the amount of reverb on every instrument... So maybe just less reverb on the leads from time to time, or even another lead exclusive to these sections? Idk it's up to taste

[Ultrawave Galaxy]

Well you got a lot of things right but not the mixing...
I really think you should eq/pan a lot of the instruments so it doesn't sound so "messy" when they're all playing
I feel like the loud percussion you used gets in front of everything during the whole track too