Ahurac's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[That's it, the end!]

The drums could be more professional, the samples are a bit cheap. The arp is cool but a bit random and very loud. There's too many transition crashes imo and they are very loud. To avoid loudness war I can recommend you to sidechain your instruments to the kick/snare, the sound will be way neater. You can better drums samples at cymatics.fm. Presets are good but I don't recommend you to use stock ones, they will probably suck most of the time. The e-guitar you used in the last part as well is very loud.

Keep it up lad!

~ Ahurac

X-ManOfficial responds:

This is not samples. And with the volume, well, this is the idea. I wanted some rigidity. It turned out this way. I know, so-so. Although I liked the last half minute.

[Elegant Paradox]

The arp is so fucking cool, that reminds me some Bowser castles or something. The drums could be wat louder except the hi-hats which are already a bit too much. To achieve that you can apply a subtle sidechain, so the kick and the snare will breathe a bit. It also lacks of bass, a sub bass + a mid-sub bass that plays something related to the song to make it full, that's really important. EDIT: you did it from 3:15 and that sounds amazing, the track sounds full. Be careful with the release of your piano, it sounds like some notes are overlapping, or maybe it's reverb's fault for being too loud.
That's a great track in any way.

Keep up the good work,

~ Ahurac

[High bass]

Cool beat, how did you do it?

[Electronic]

The chords you wrote are made up of notes that create dissonance, you should fix that. We can't really hear the drums, maybe try to sidechain the synths. The song itself is a bit repetitive, maybe try to make a full structure with intro / buildup / drop / mid-section etc...

Wish you the best,

~ Ahurac

BaNaN4Ik-STOP responds:

I understand that, I just don't know how to make songs normally, I'm just starting out and I don't even know the genres. Bye

[Outer Kosmos - Infinity]

The voice in the beginning is epic. I recommend you to use different samples for your drums, I recognize these ones from Cymatics and there's better ones. The drop is cool but it lacks of more bass layers, it's a bit weak like that. The chopped synth introduced later is loud af, watch out. It reminds me Infected Mushroom. Except this mixing problem, this is really cool, well done. The violin is nice too but a bit dry, try to make it wetter with some reverb. This track really inspires me, I like the melodies and stuff. Nice tempo change, definitely Infected Mushroom at the end lol.
Awesome track, gg mate,

~ Ahurac

OuterKosmos responds:

Hey there! Yeah, I recorgnise I don't vary that much in drums usage... I should probably, I will take your words in consider for the next track hehe.
About the violin, I added reverb once, but idk, I liked it better being so dry... for some reason.
And about the bass layering, you may be right, but I don't know how to do that without completely f*ing up my phase :( but I will try to learn!
The melody I decided it had to be that loud. It didn't hit hard enough otherwise.

I'm happy that you compare me to Infercted Mushroom :) they are my first reference for Psytrance.

Thank you so much for your feedback and wow, I'm very glad the track inspires you :)

Lovely regards,
Outer Kosmos