Ahurac's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Weird]

Nice donk. The melody is pretty nice. The crushed background ambiance is pretty loud. The riser sounds pretty cheap. The piano plays insanely good chords, well done. The drums are pretty weak, some sidechain would be cool.
The track has mixing problems and maybe needs better sound design but it's really good on the music theory aspect.

~ Ahurac

[sweet dreams]

The drums are nice. There's no sidechain, it's necessary. I love the melody. The arp at 1:05 is a bit loud and dry. The track is pretty complete, it just needs better mixing and sidechain. In the second drop the drums pattern is pretty simple, you should make it more complex.

~ Ahurac

[It's just a sweet dream you don't want to wake up of. (Oak EP)]

Perfect ambiance, perfect chords, well done definitely. The only thing I have to say is that the audio could have been louder in terms of normalization.
I'll take a listen to your whole EP when I'll get time, keep it up,

~ Ahurac

[Light]

The chords synth is a bit cheap but the chord are cool. Nice amen break. It lacks of bass imo. The song is a bit repetitive but it's quite okay.
Keep it up,

~ Ahurac

SpongeeMusic responds:

Thank you for your feedback! :)

[Decadence]

Chords and melody are damn cool, well done. I love the ambiance created. When listening to the track at very low volume (a great mixing technique), I can notice you drums are way too loud, you should lower them a little bit and apply a subtle sidechain to make them stand out anyway.
Also mate I recommend not losing time mastering, a good track is a well mixed track, mastering doesn't matter.
Since you're a good musician (it's rare in the undiscovered section), you deserve scouting, welcome in the audio portal!

~ Ahurac

Mr-Bucket responds:

Thank you for the tip! I noticed a little while ago that my monitor setup makes drums quiter than they should be, so it's super nice to hear someone point it out.

I spent about 2 hours one night just creating the chord progression and it paid off!

Thank you for the scouting!

[Dreams]

The melody is damn cool, you got potential in music man. You should leave GarageBand for a better DAW on PC / Mac. The drums samples are good but the hats are a bit loud. It lacks of sidechain (impossible in GarageBand). Also it lacks of bass to fill the sub and mid sub frequencies. DM me if you want advice in music production.
Keep this up, mate,

~ Ahurac

Eggward28 responds:

Thanks so much for the feedback! I don't really have an option to change DAWs atm cos I'm broke so this is the best that I can do...