DSMagnum's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[~Girl in Love~ hania]

Good

It's rare to get such amazing talent here on Newgrounds. :)

hania responds:

Yay!! I'm so glad you liked it... my mastering equip was being stupid and so it sounds really tunel-like... but I'm happy you see past that little problem and focus on the song itself ;)
Thanks so much for your review!!!
-hania
xox

[*[GloW]*]

Eh...

Well, I'll give you some credit for effort, but that's about it. It's a really basic melody with generic trance sounds, some which are used improperly. The appregio that plays practically the entire time is really annoying. The other leads are some pretty poor samples. A few changes in sounds would've made this a tad better.

Sp1r1T responds:

Yeeah I guess, I spent about 6 hours on this, so If I would've spent a week on it, then maybe it would be better. Or its just not your taste :P

[{Trainwrecker} Preview]

FUCK ME.

Gritty bass, mmmmm. Drums are also good. That FUCK ME thing gets old quick though. Don't use it so much. Nice job overall. :)

[Calypso--_--(FIXED)]

Fairly Good

Though what you did with the phaser on the drums was cool at first, it should not have stayed the entire song. For the main bassline part, you should have removed the phaser and added more power to the drums. Other than that, no complaints.

PERVOK responds:

You're not very good at saying what you mean; I never had any "phase" effect on my drums. No phase effect on anything, actually.

[.televisience.]

Haha Cool

You gave me a harsh review, but that won't change my opinion on how cool this is. I really liked when he was screaming, especially the LOOK AT ME. Reminded me a lot of The Suffering. However, I have to take off points since this isn't 100% original, was fairly simple when it came to diversity, and really probably wasn't that hard to do the voice editing. Sounds just like a whole bunch of reverb effects thrown on in different manners. If not, I would like to know what you did. It sounds very cool. I could see you doing voice altering for a video game someday. :)

5/5

~ DSM

VegetarianMeat responds:

Heh, sorry about the review a gave you, I was in a bad mood when I wrote it :P I also happened to take a look at some of your other stuff, which was much better than what I had listened to. As for what I did: first of all I put massive reverb, as you already mentioned, and after that all I did was adjust the, "MUL," knob in the channel settings, which slowed down the speed of whatever the person was saying. It also gave it a very metallic sound, which was originally unintended, but I thought sounded great. Anyhow, glad you liked it, and remind me when your next song comes out so I can review it :D

[-=/Oboed\=-]

Sounds better than your DNB

Heh, this is pretty cool. I liked the first half of the song over the second half. It was lighter on the ears. I liked how you threw the strings in there. This could have used a bunch more elements though. All sorts of different instruments. That would have made the piece very great. :)

~ DSM

TMM43 responds:

Thanks DSMagnum for your time and review.
The second half was meant to be more of a climax than anything.
I'm happy that you liked the strings, I liked them too. xD
As I said in response to other reviews, I AM going to add more to this. Such as drums, and other wood wind instruments.
Again, thanks for the review!

[*Atomic Trigger 3* / ZeRo BaSs]

My goodness

This is such an awesome track man! I don't really have much else to say. If you have AIM or MSN, I'd really like to talk to you. I wanna learn how to make stuff like this. Great job. 5/5 from me.

~ DSM

ZeRo-BaSs responds:

Thanks!!!! check pm

[ParagonX9 - Chaoz Fantasy]

OMG NEW FAP MATERIAL

omg liek paragonx4 i luv u ur the bestest artist eber.

In all seriousness, glad to see you finally got something new out there. I've been quite a fan of this style of music. Love the Trance + DNB combination. It's great to see that you did something like this. Makes me all happy inside. :)

Now for a suggestion: make the drums a little more powerful. The kick seemed too damp. Could have used a little boost of something. The snare was pretty cool, but could have been a little more powerful. Maybe some reverb or something. Give it a punch that last.

Other than that great job. 5/5 from me. :)

~ DSM

[[TMM43] Heavy (?)]

Not DnB

Have you ever heard a Drum N' Bass song? If so, you would know that this is clearly not Drum N' Bass. This is Techno. Go to http://www.liftedmusic.co.uk/ and listen to some of the stuff on there. That's real Drum N' Bass.

Anyways, interesting song. It's poorly mastered in my opinion. Clips quite a bit. Another thing is those hard kicks every now and then confuse me. They just don't seem to belong.

~ DSM

TMM43 responds:

Thanks for your review DSMagnum.
Yeah, DNB really isn't my thing...and I guess it shows. I didn't even create a DNB track here. haha
The song clips!? I listened to this song through my speakers and through my headphones, both seemed to be ok.
The kick every so often I could have done without I suppose. After reading this review and listening to the song again, it is rather confusing I guess... And yes, they do seem to be out of place.
Well, I really admire your honesty. That's what I look for in reviews. Thanks a lot.

[The Blue Trough]

BLUES D:

Many things that could be improve. Recording could be improved, but you don't really have much control over that. The drums sounded a little off and didn't entirely match the guitar. A little alterations would have made them perfect. Though I'm not a big fan of Blues, I can see that this is a pretty good song for it's style.

~ DSM

FlameMesial responds:

Ahhh, well, cheers for the review, I know what you're talking about. The drums maybe be a little flat, but I used drum samples that are soft to the ear for people with hangovers, which is what inspired me to make this song, along with the trough :P

Thanks for the review.