Dj-Brand0's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[DjSc00p - Head Up(Final)]

... Good work!

Seriously, this sounds great. You've done a good job.
Sorry I haven't been on Aim. By the time I remember to go on, it's already too late. I'm pretty much on msn, whenever I'm on the comp; and that's a fair bit.

Go to hell you stupid 0 bombers. Get a life

2.55 / 5.00 (+ 1.72)

//Brando

DjSc00p responds:

this was 2.55 when you saw this? lol when i posted this it was 0.87 by the time i went to sleep lol. Its alright, we can take our time i guess xD. Well theres still some mistakes on this so i might fix the stuff and delete this post and put up a new one. Thanks for the score :D

[Dang Mengalai (Final Mix)]

Loved it!

You got my 5 and 10! Hardstyle FTW

Love the start. The intro was the maddest shit.
<3 your kick and bass, and the use of scratches crashes and hard fx.

This makes me want to shuffle! But I've done enough shufflin for today lol. :P

Although I loved the intro, I'll get down and serious. I think the melody was a bit too.. melodic for the type of song you were introducing.
After a while of listening it sounds slightly better but I'll stick with my gut instinct.

I'll use SMF - Hahaha as an example. At the start he had a nice introduction coming along, then he brought in a nice hard lead, simple but hard.

You brought in a very nice introduction, then expanded the lead into a pretty nice subtune. Then you brought in the melody. I think there was too much to the melody, I know repetitive isn't usually a good thing but I think with hardstyle, it works out in favor.

Just repeating the first 4 bars of the melody and changing the 7th and 8th bars would be surely enough. The journey down to the lower notes kinda ruins the mood. Also you need some contrast in the melody and a always try a little bit of weirdness, gives your songs unique touch - and a chance to go far.

Liked it. Makes me think of Sarah & Pae shuffle.

Keep up the good work.

-Cheers Brando

DJ-Qwamii responds:

thanks bro. yeah, u know what? the melody was from a traditional song of my country :P so it's kinda hard to remix it into a hardstyle-ish one. :pp

and thanks again. really appreciate it. (:

and and if u like this, u may like my "Sexbusters". Have a listen. (:

[Popcorn [Hardstyle Remix]]

:D nice

Hey man, nice work you have here. It's good for a start. :D

You need to add a harder kick, something that has bass. Because you've just got a nustyle kick with no umph. Also remember to add snares and hats/crashes/rides in the right places, it makes the extra difference.

Add chords and plucks and such, to give the extra feeling and to strengthen the tension to the chorus.

You inspire me to make a remix. :D
Instead of watching anime, like I have been for the last 2 hours - I'm gonna play with this old tune :D

Good work, keep it up.

5'd

//Brando

GenaHzO responds:

wow thanks forthe review, and the tips =]

Im still learning , and these tips are gnna help me ALOT, thank you

ill make sure to watch ur remix when u make it

[Moanforyou<3]

Lol haha XD

wtf.. someone downloaded it.

I think someone finds you sexy.. Maybe that duck finds you sexy.

ShKahh responds:

It might be.

I make ducks hot apparently..
Not something to be proud of, but.. yeah. D:

[Collab anyone?]

Hey Scoop.

Sounds nice. I'd be interested in collabing, when I have some free time.
Add my msn, if you don't know it - it's hardstyle_brandon@hotmail.

To lower the lag, reduce some of the delay on nexus and bump up your audio buffer in fl

(Options>Audio Settings> and drag that little bar from 44ms to about 130 to play with not much lag, but change it back to about 60 when you want to play stuff on fl because the audio buffer gives fl more time to generate the sound you put in so there'll be a slight delay, i mean 20 extra ms - you wont see a change but at about 80-90 theres a noticable delay between the time u hit the key and it plays. But yeah try that)

Always works for me and I have a shitty computer with loads of shit running.
Talk to you later, I'll collab if you like my style.

5'd

//Brando

DjSc00p responds:

I'd be glad to collab with you :). Im hoping to make this into a trance song maybe or something near that, so if thats your style then lets collab this lol. I'll try what you said and see if it helps, thanks a lot for the advice and how to fix it. I dont have msn so were going to have to talk through something else? Thanks for the review and score and give me a pm later when you have time and you want to collab.

[i2 - Fly Me To The Moon (demo)]

Vei2y Nice!

Nice start to the year. I found this really peaceful and can see what you mean by the floating in space. You made a great atmosphere to the song.

I would also say I didn't really like the fuzzyness at about 1:25. I reckon if you continued to work from that pluck at 1:20 into a nice lead, it would turn out great. If this was my song I'd definitely go from there.

Loved the pads, effects and all the other stuff you put in :)

5'd

//Brando

i2abbitz responds:

lol "vei2y nice".

Hmm... I will take into consideration of changing that synth out then. Upon your comment about the arp, I've already started layering over the melody with another synth to give it more of an impact.

I greatly appreciate your review.
-i2

[Kevtech - Scampadelic remix]

hmmm.

Hmm it might sound good and it's good to practice with Midis but I wouldn't submit them in as your own songs, I would say it's like pretty much submitting someone elses work up on here. I would say midis are tools and only tools to make songs.

I use midis sometimes to help me check for right notes in some hard melodies.
But that's pretty much it.

I wouldn't make too many songs using pure midis because like... it doesn't really need any skill and shows you're kind of lazy. Midis defeat the fun of actually trying to figure out the tune, and usually make you less interested in making the song.

About the sounds you used, I reckon the bell was fine, the percussion was pretty good. The main lead you used needed to be layered with another two or so leads to make it better. It sounded really plain. Also if you can, you need to learn how to add effects such as Reverb and Delay. It'll make everything sound much better.

But yeah, keep up the good work, try to make some more original stuff. It'll get you further than midis.

5/5 because I definitely had to bump it up from 0.74
2.37 / 5.00 (+1.63)

//Brando

DJ-Plasmaniac responds:

Thanks for the help, and the midi advice, though I am paticularly limited in what software I have actual knowledge of so far. Yes, I have heaps of stuff I never even consider using, but it's pretty much all midi and midi variations. (Also I have some weird thing about wanting to do EVERYTHING with at least some midi, just because of the nostalgia?)
I appreciate the reverb tips though. Thanks!

[[T] TETRIS Hardstyle Remix]

Ahh..

It's good and all but it's hardcore panned to the left.. which is very.. disturbing and I can't properly listen to it. Fix it please and reupload this. Also export it in a higher bitrate, there's too much static on the kick. Way to much static.

I really don't like the hardstyle expansion for Nexus. I rather make my own hardstyle leads from Dance Vol1 and layering the nexus presets.

I'll review this properly when you re upload it.
There's much to be improved.

//Brando

tomashcu responds:

ok i will :)