Ackee39's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Technocosm - Unkindness]

Best of the EP, and that's saying a lot. melody is great, the drop is brutal but isn't a noise war, and is just overall really good.

Technocosm responds:

Oh, that's actually pretty relieving to hear. This track started with just the drop, and I was really happy with it. Then I made the 2nd drop and I liked that. After that though, making everything else I felt like the entire track was going downhill. I did my best here, but honestly I was still very paranoid this may be considered mcuh worse than the others. I even could have sworn the drop I had already made and liked that I hadn't touched was somehow starting to sound worse the further i got through making this. I guess I was getting in my own head...

[The View From Here]

This is so great! The melodies are greatly mastered, and flow smoothly from one to the other, the chord progression is great, and the sound design is like nothing i've seen; It's got this cool lyric-like design to it that I barely ever see, with all the curves and slides that change every note. And finally, a song that gets soft drums right. I'm normally very nitpicky on soft drums, but this song does it right; by making it stand out, despite being quietly mastered. I'm pretty mixed on the compression of the song, but I think that it adds to the synthwave-like vibe to the song so i'm cool with it. overall a great song that I'll definitely come back to

ChronoNomad responds:

Hey, it's awesome to see another review from you so soon, Ackee39! Really glad to hear that you enjoy the ride, man. I love being able to put my own personal spin on some cool Synthwave vibes. In fact, I often incorporate note slides and grace notes in my music, which - now that you mention it - I don't really hear all that often. I guess that's just me doing my thing.

I'm happy to hear that you dig the softer drums, especially since that seems to be a pretty rare opinion. While I'm not against hard-thumping beats (far from it), I try not to overdo it. Not everything needs heavy percussion to be impactful, and in this case I really wanted the musical elements to shine through without being overcome by drums.

It's not the first time compression was mentioned, and while I didn't really add compression to the final mix, I did use a lot of EQ effects and such on the instruments themselves, so I guess that's what makes it sound compressed. It's meant to have kind of dystopian sound, so it seems to work out well enough.

Thanks once again for a very detailed review! It's very much appreciated, and I hope you'll keep spinning my tracks. May you always enjoy the ride.

[Bump in the Nightmare]

An absolute banger! I love the vibes of this one! Feels a bit empty at parts but i like it that way!

ChronoNomad responds:

Very much part of the plan, I assure you! I do enjoy a bit of nuance to my haunting melodies...as do you, it seems! Much appreciated, Ackee39.

[[TMM43]Phoenix]

Where have you been?

TMM43 responds:

Busy :( But back now - will be releasing a new song soon!

[Dry Out 2.0]

Fixed all my problems with original. Never expected you doing this! Nice work. Now we need an xStep rebirth :)

DJVI responds:

Thank you! I'm going to make xStep remix for sure now :D