HMS-Productions's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Icarus - Dream of Flight]

Excellent

Very professional, unique to many songs on the audio portal too, well done on all if not most parts, the mix is great, and a perfect balance. Fits perfectly with the MAC theme. Winning your first MAC ever is defenitely incredible :D

5/5
10/10

-M

sorohanro responds:

Thanx, after mixing all summer my album, I think I finally got some understanding of what I', doing here :))
Thanx for review.

[Element of Dance - F-777]

haha you should see the things I make in an hour..

An overall catchy song, everything fits in nicely together and has a nice tune to go along with it, so perfect dance and perhaps even rave music.

It did get a little repetitive and there seemed to be part when the intro of the song was repeated again exactly the way it started so :\

It needed another layer of super-cray awesomness and the melody of the song seemed to cry out for a soft piano breakdown and then build into super crazy awesomeness again but hey that's just me :p

It's very simple compared to your other songs but defenitely a work of art, well done :)

9/10
5/5

-M

F-777 responds:

Yes its really simple and your one of the few that can see that =). Thanks for the awesome review i really really appreciate it =D!

[MAC8- Here In Me (SyX)]

Fitting

Melodies, instruments, tempo, beat, lyrics... everything fits perfectly with the theme. You've got one hell of a chance at this competition.

You have a few more days to fix things up right? Well here are some suggestions.

First and foremost, I say this in the nicest way possible ^__^ :

You can't sing very well :D
The vocals were ok but either way they weren't mixed into the song very well, maybe if you eq it a bit, add some chorus, or a vocoder or something else thatll blend the song in a bit better and it'll smooth things out.

There were points when I wanted to hear the actual song a bit louder and the vocals were just overpowering it.

Bottom line:

Fix up with mixing the vocals in and you're set!

9/10
5/5

-M

Sycross responds:

Hey, thanks for the tips! I'll try and fix the song up before the contest due date.

[-Song1-]

Not really

You were obviously going for some kind of 8-bit song but you didn't capture the essence of 8-bit which is kickass but simple melodies.

You had too much going on for an 8-bit and it was a big mess in some places.

It was pretty catchy in a lot of places though :D

7/10
4/5

Check out my stuff? I'd really appreciate it :)

-M

procow responds:

Uhm I made it with a gameboy so I used the 4 channels of the gameboy to the most it could be done.

[\\\TAC - [Light] - Fly Away///]

ahh

So this is what you lighties have been cooking over there... the darkies are a bit behind then i guess :p

This really captures the Light, fits great for the collab. My only complaint, the lead synth feels a bit hollow and not as strong as it feels like it should be.

-M

Nintechno responds:

All good, I will fix then ^^

lol, the light disc thread has way moar paeges...

[[Reign of the Empyre] (techno)]

Nice!

This is much better on all levels than the other. Still some clipping and mixing issues, but that's it

dj-KDUB responds:

thank you

[[Reign of the Empyre] (Raw)]

Well..

Overall catchy tunes, a bit repetitive but it's so chill doesnt matter, the beat comes in and stops a bit awkwardly.

Either way, no offence, this really is a good song, but I don't know how this made #3 all time... There's A LOT of clipping go on that it ruins the song for me.

Doesnt sound like you ran the piano or anything through an EQ, but that's just on a technical level, it sounds fine, but for #3 I like to see awesome song, awesome mixing skills, awesome mastering.

You have an awesome song but lacking on the others a bit :) If you fix things up it'll truly deserve this place.

-M

dj-KDUB responds:

i didn't choose the rating. note the fact that its a "raw" song, thus its not totally finished yet, but thank you for the review!

[_-={A Dark Cut}=-_]

NOOOO

ZOMG I would've 10'ed and faved the shit out of this but there's mixing glitches that get annoying :(

Strings need to be brought out a bit more, there's too much low band in my opinion.

but MAN this is EPIC

9/10
5/5

-M

MaestroRage responds:

that is odd, the low end was complained about earlier, and they had said it was too low XD. The strings are well audible in my systems, I didn't want them to take a very strong presence as their melodic progressions are very limited and it's the brass that keeps things moving so I wanted them to take the show.

Thank you for your honest feedback though, i'll have to look into that bass end again, and see if bringing the strings out a bit helps. If so i'll update the song.

Thanks again for the review, glad you liked it!

[{dj-N} Perfect Sunset]

Nice!

Well, haha there's a lot of bitching going on down there.

Anyways, I read the entire Karco rant, and this song did sound pretty original, he did have some points about the clipping, and the synths.

The mixing was overall good, like I mentioned your synths sometimes feel a little 8-bitty and though I'm in love with 8-bit and oldschool, it sounds off with the high quality piano going on.

At some parts it got a little repetitive but the simple yet interesting variations you kept throwing in there were pretty cool.

Congrats on you 100th submission! You can tell a lot of work went into this

9/10
5/5

-M

dj-Nate responds:

Eh.. Thanks for the input. I remastered the mix so it isn't nearly as loud.

Thanks again,
Nate

[Empty Sky -ADJ-]

hmm

this isn't too bad, but maybe for a more psychedelic feel you could use wierder synths and have a bunch of wierd parts playing together.
having a bunch of parts playing the same time will sound a lot wierder then one by one

-M