AndrewCr's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[ColBreakz - Blocked]

I know that it is intentional, but the clipping is at this weird mid range where it's not subtle, nor overwhelming. And that makes it sound unintentional

It's a really good song otherwise, but the clipping does make it sound weird

ColBreakz responds:

Blocked 🚫 You gave me 4 stars and a half instead of 5

[-Reality-]

(I saw your post about telling you how you can improve, so I will be really picky xd)

So first I wanted to say that I have no knowledge of Bandlab, but the stuff I'll say applies to every DAW. The song starts alright, aside from the bass, which doesn't quite match the chords. I have no idea how much you know about music theory, but in simple terms: The bass sometimes sounds weird

At 22 seconds, something called clipping happens. Clipping is a thing in electronic music that happens when the audio gets too loud. It's the "crunchy" sound you hear on the louder notes. (if you really want to learn about this, search it up on youtube.) Every advanced composer does their best to avoid this, and you can too by just making the song a little quieter!

At 28 seconds, when the new instrument comes in, it doesn't sound right. It's probably because some notes aren't in the scale of the song. If you don't know what a scale is, it's a group of notes that sound good together. There are 2 main types of scales - major and minor. It's not always like this, but major scales sound happy and minor scales sound sad. If your melody is made up of notes from one singular scale, it will probably sound solid. Maybe there's a function in Bandlab that highlights a scale?

And for the rest of the song, those two problems just repeat. So here's how you can improve - try to avoid clipping (again, search it up on youtube) and learn the very basics of music theory. But just the basics. You could spend years and years learning full theory lol

TryingDino7 responds:

Oke thx 🙏

[AndrewCR - Malware (Upcoda Remix)]

Oh okay, this was quick (for context to anyone reading this, he asked me to send stems just yesterday)

Love the remix, awesome job! The mixing sounds clean despite utilizing distortion, I've never been very good at that

upcoda responds:

i'm glad you liked it! I think you can try using a clipper, it would be nice in your songs

[ME-OS OST 50 - Keyccordion Dawn - Glorious Morning Keygen Remix]

Wow, very accurate!

I mean, not that I would know haha don't worry about it

octopus58 responds:

Haha thank you!!

[s·hr.ed_ded-]

I see what you did there with the title

Pretty cool song, the synths sound great. The ride cymbals feel too compressed though

upcoda responds:

i think I have an obsession with compressing cymbals

[DATN OST - Cutscene]

"Allow embedding" allows embedding. :O

Embedding is simply inserting a piece of another web into your web. For example, when you read some article and you see a few Youtube videos in the article, that's embedding

Creeperforce24 responds:

Ohhh! Ok! Thank you!

[Savage]

One of my favourites out of the final round submissions. There is a tiny bit of subbass clashing at 1:30 though. But it isn't too noticable if you aren't wearing high quality headphones

JoeStasi responds:

Hi Andrew! Thank you for your comment and your rating much love <3

[Way Back Home]

How am I supposed to win when there are songs like this lol

Great job - clean mixing, beautiful chords and lyrics, decent sound design and melodies

AveragePhoe responds:

Thank you so much!!! And I'm sure you're underselling yourself. We've all made it this far!