AngelsDontKill's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tuesday's Hole]

Mmmm... food.

I gave you 10's for everything other than clarity just to celebrate a day of 0-rating, haha. But yeah, like everyone else is saying, the clarity is pretty rough. I am not sure if you're compressing the drums or what, but they are pretty hard to hear. I was able to hear the guitars okay though.

I am not sure if you still use Cubase, but here's possibly a few times. First, make sure you make all of your drum/backing tracks and know what you want to play (duh). Next, open Cubase and don't bother doing anything to the drums, they should be fine. Make sure your guitar tone is how you like it and as clear as possible. When you put your microphone up to it, I suggest making sure that the tip of the mic is touching the netting in front of the speaker's cup. You typically want it as close as possible. Of course after all of this you just simply hit the record button. One you do all of this, your two final steps would be to select all of the guitar tracks and go to "Audio", "Plugins", "Dynamics", "MultibandCompressor", and then select the preset that says "Electric Guitar". That should be the only thing that needs compressing. I have been taking these steps for my own junk and I think it's working awesome. Some other things that may help is putting a "noise gate" on all of the tracks other than drums to eliminate any background noise or amp noise. Then if you recorded two guitar tracks, I found that panning each of them anywhere between 50 to 70 percent either way works great.

I'm sorry if that's a bit much for you. But it's what I do and with the terrible computer microphone I use for recording anyway it still works really well. If you do try all of that out, good luck! See ya, man.

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Thanks "tips"! ahha. I do use cubase...but not in the same way. I direct record. For this particular track...I didn't really do anything...I just wanted something quick to celebrate the day. I made this tune for fun a while back..but deleted it. It only took me about 20 minutes to re create...but thanks for the 10 on effort! haha.

With cubase...I direct record...use guitar fx for my distortion. I lay all my tracks into cool edit pro. With my next few songs..which are almost complete...I import all the tracks into cubase. The guitar tracks with the distortion, I lay a setting over them from guitar rig. Its a clean setting that takes away the muddyness of the original distortion, but leaves the heavyness of the sound. I may put a W.I.P. on sheezy for your ears!!..haha. anyways...I fix up those...using the Vocals setting on the multiband compressor. It has 4 bars rather than 3.

Anyways, like I said...I didn't do any of that cool stuff with this...infact the song I really wanted to upload was too big...and I didn't want to kill the quality. So some Pooo for the downraters.
Thanks for the review man.\m/

[Follow the Dead]

Roar.

Yeah, drums sound different. Better-different. But yeah, I like the idea of going clean/distorted/clean in a song, so this was a score to me ^_^
But yeah. Not much to say. Fuckin' metal.

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

haha...thanks man. I think I gave you all these samples..so you too can do it!\m/

[Kindoms]

Not metal, but cool.

It's suprising to hear you do something so different from the usual. But not bad though! I have been meaning to download Reason for a friend actually. I use FL Studio most of the time, but using Reaktor 5 as a VST plug in instrument. Those programs can be incredibly useful if you're good with knowledge on working synth keys. I'm currently working on something that will involve more synth use, but it's not going to be ambient like this. It's going to be in the style of Children of Bodom. Anyway, the whole chorus/choir thing sounded pretty cool... it reminded me of being inside of an empty church in a video game or something.

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Thanks man. You always say that. haha. I usually put most of my messin around on Sheezy, rather than here...but now.
I'm thinking of doing alot more ambient and some classical tracks too. I used to play piano, for a long time...I just am soooooo lazy at drawing out the notes. I have to figure out how to get the dynamics right as well.
FL is good. But I can't use my typing keyboard as a "keyboard" in FL..cause the .2 second delay really fucks with me..hahaha.
Anyways man, as always..thanks for your support and review!\m/

[Rage-Metaljonus]

Damn metal!

I have always been a fan of insanely fast drumming and slower teeth-grinding riffs, so this was right on, man! But don't get all fussy that I gave clarity a 9... the reason I gave it a 9 is because there was one part closer towards the begining where the blasting on the snare drum was too loud and made it hard to hear the faster notes, and there was a few places where it was hard to hear the shredding too. Not a big deal though, everything else was perfectly audable, and the tone was great, the drum samples sounded great. 5/5 from me, and a DL man, peace.

Metaljonus responds:

Haha I don't really get all fussy bout clarity, I could send you a hi fi better mixed version that I've done if you want. Thanks for the review.

-Jon

[Battle Trenches]

Too metal for a summary.

That rhythm line was badass as fuck man! Sounded like it was coming from James Hetfield man! That or Zakk Wylde at some parts. However, I don't really like the solo at some parts. Certain parts it sounded great on, but others not too great... But for a game, it would still work in. Just maybe not a solo for an Epic record of some sort. No offense man, it's still good.

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

No offense taken man, you said Hetfeild, and Wylde...Thats fuckin insane. Thanks a hell of a lot man!!
Check your MAIL!!

[Hatred-Noumenon]

Review.

Well, I just spent a while listening through your stuff, and I love all of it. Noticing how this is a demo by your band made me interested though. The singer's cleaner stuff reminded me a lot of the singer of Nevermore. Sounded very influenced by him actually. The deeper vocals were a bit more original sounding though and I liked that. The guitar riffs and drum beats were great and fit the song great. I noticed a few reviews raving about your guitar solo. For some reason it didn't appeal to me much. It just sounded like too much whammy bar yanking, like Slayer-type of solo's. As much as I like Slayer, their solos suck. I heard some cool stuff in there, but I suggest you should probably calm down on the whammy stuff. Other than that, your song here is absolutely golden, and I would deffinately buy an album by you guys whenever one may come out!

Metaljonus responds:

Thanks for the comment man, Bout the solo...I hate that solo lol That is the worst solo out of all of the songs. Since this song was really death metalish I guess it needed a lame non melodic solo LOL. Check out the other songs I have uploaded dude. :)

[-The Massacre- Part 1]

Great sound quality!

You upload new stuff all the time I see. Well, it all keeps sounding better and better. Once again, great with the riffage!

Quickbeam responds:

Thanks for your comments!

[-The End Of It All- (Full)]

That's awsome!

I really pleasantly suprised to click on this and hear something that almost sounds like good old At the Gates. The riffing was great, the drums sound great too. Hopefully you'll throw some vocals on this (or have someone else do so) because I think it'd work out great! Oh yeah, what do you use for recording and such?

Quickbeam responds:

Sometimes i use audacity for pieces I don't think are my best, and a lot of the time I go to my local recording studio and record a song or two. They're quite cheap recordings too.

[The Night Bleeds]

Drums = Goooood

This doesn't sound like your best work, or even close really. The song is good, but some of the sound quality honestly makes it hard to tell what you're playing. The drums sound good though. Like other people said, it sounds like it's being played far away. It's weird that you named this "The Night Bleeds" because one of my weird surrealist art ideas are drawing the sky at night pitch black with the moon and such, but having that dark black sky bleeding on the rest of the world. I never posted it anywhere though.

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Well that would be awesome to see. Sounds cool as fuck.

As for this song...I've had these riffs stuck in my head. I don't even like them...but I just haven't really been able to move on without ditching them in something..hahaha. I'm quite uninspired these days too...so. I don't get a lot of time for vocals, which I would rather be doing anyways. So I don't have a lot of creative energy for songs right now. It sucks. I pick up my guitar, and its like a stranger lately.

Thanks for the review though, man. Appreciate it.\m/

[Beyond-Metaljonus]

Wow...

Well like everyone else said, the sound quality is perfect. Which I am very jealous of you for knowing how to obtain it...
But anyway, the riffage was beautiful. I swear to god that shred intro made my brain leak holyshit-juices. Death metal style. The actual shred arpeggios and such were flawless too. I am just curious but how long have you been playing and how long do you averagely practice a day? Simply because those arpeggios sound a little too good man!

Metaljonus responds:

haha thanks man, I've been playing for 11-12 years and I used to practice a good 6 hrs every other day. Back in the day when I had time to play and practice. But lately i've been busy with life/work etc. Thanks for listening man.