HMS-Productions's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Piano evolution]

WOW SO BAD OMG@#$

Nah jokes lol, but when you say don't be harsh people feel like being harsh. Newgrounds Lesson.

So yeah I've already told you what I think of this song, NEEDS MORE TECHNO BEATS
DU-TSHH-DU-TSHH-DU-TSHH-DU-TSHH-DU-TS HH

Can't wait for more of your stuff,

5/5
8/10

- M

[Legend Of Zelda: The Remix]

Enh..

Gonna be blunt, feels like you've killed a classic.

It's hard to call it a remix, nothing "new" or "original" going on other than your random technoish beat going on with some iffy arps.

The original had spectacular flourishes and epic strings and all that jazz, it's what drove the game. Unfortunately this reflects little to none of that.

Overall it end up sounding like a midi rip. I'm practically obsessed with Zelda and points for effort, but it just hurts to see something of this caliber on the weekly top five.. ^_^

2/5
5/10

-M

[Another Child]

<3 lol

Amazing melodies man, such a catchy song. Your musicness does not cease to amaze me (Y).

The guitar arpegs were really chill and felt great, the bass sounded awesome too but It felt a bit hard to listen to, maybe space teh notes?

You still need to learn the technical st00f but w/e man, epic.

9/10
5/5
Awesome.

-M

[A New Energy - F-777]

heh

I'm in a bad mood today so this review might be a bitch, mwahaha >:(

Intro was promising at first but kinda died for for me with the cliche trance arpegs and gates. Loving the melodies though, like damn man, catchy as hell. Bobbing my way through your whole song.

Around 00:50 you kinda went down. The breakdown felt dull compared to the sweeping melodies (your melodies work against you sometimes haha, make me expect too much) and it was mainly the bassline that bugged me, the sidechain wasn't oompfing enough but I think just a note change somewhere along the line would've smoothed things out.

1:16+ is epic, loving that. I like the part when you slowed down the tempo, creative transition there.

Ok, I can't bitch at this song anymore, your melodies are too catchy for me... sorry If I was a bit harsh lol :D

9/10
5/5

-M

[{dj-N} We Want Your Soul]

Damn man

This was INTENSE.

The robotic rant at the beginning was perfect for the buildup to that AMAZING sidechain. You had me at that sidechain, so hardcore.

My only objection is that it was a bit hard to hear the words, that isn't usually too big a deal but I'm really into the political side of this and was kinda waiting for it.

On that note, HMS is planning a documentary revolving around all this, and we'd love to use this song. I'll give you details as they come out, but would you be cool with that?

10/10
5/5
Faved and Downloaded.

-M

dj-Nate responds:

Sure man. Keep me posted.

[We Believe Ep.6 - F-777]

Powerful

There's a lot of emotion behind this one, that much is obvious.

I'm getting a lot of happy, inspirational vibes from the song, and you really pulled that off with the synth melodies and your pad transitions. The breakdowns were just plain amazing and I was really feeling those. Buildups I found a bit simple, but effective so no complaint there.

Haha, I'm loving that random pipe going along with the melody at 1:10. Your choice of synths was great. The off-beat bass however, even though not very noticeable, felt a bit useless and raw. That mega reverbed piano around 1:26 is something I personally wouldn't do, it just kinda sounded off and weak. On the other hand it gives this nice feeling of distance so I think that's what you were getting at.

Overall, this is really fun to listen to, really catchy too =D
Great job!

-M

F-777 responds:

Thanks so much for the great review ;).
HAHA CATCHY?! YES!!! Haha i was hoping
i could get that word in a review from
someone! XD.

Thanks so much!!!

[Dark Techno]

simple but good.

It was fairly catchy, maybe try extending it a bit?

If you make this loop properly it'll be fine

7/10
4/5

-M

[:=>Donkey Kong 9-8 Remix<=:]

Needs touching up

The composition is overall rather catchy and you had some interesting things going on, but it's time you moved away from the presets.

The main issues with this song are technical, you have massive clipping going on or something, there's this constant state of buzzing which means that things are just too loud.

If you still don't know how to master properly, just try turning things down on the mixer track and maybe add Fruity Limiter or Maximus to the master bus. You don't want to use this too excessively cuz it kinda rips off some parts of the song but it might help if you don't want to be to detailed.

If you're really determined to make things loud, add a compressor to seperate instruments on their FX tracks and that way you can make it louder without it clipping.

7/10
4/5

-M

Moltov responds:

Thanks, very helpful information =].
-Moltov

[Tomorrow [Surge Mix]]

Nice

The song was pretty cool to listen to, it kinda felt a bit generic though in the first minute and half, nothing too original going on there.

The transition was a bit bumpy around 1:20, maybe automating a filter cutoff on a pad or something will smooth things out?

The song felt a bit raw on the mastering and mixing side, sounds pretty good anyways so no complaints there.

The song from 2:00 on is awesome, really soothing.

Overall awesome job!

5/5
8/10

-M

CyrusOfNaias responds:

m souping it up would be good, better if I had made it into a full-length, but I felt it should stick to DDR length lol

Thx for the constructiveness :3

[NDS Draft]

lol!

pretty sick dude, feels too happy for me but meh, sounds pretty cool :D

9/10
5/5 and im gonna five-bomb your song for a week LOL

-M