Chickerino's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[A Quick Synthwave Thing]

make! more! stuff!

[Ghost House]

Is there a version of this without the voice samples that is up for download? There is one on youtube but it's unofficial and doesn't come with a download.

[Derpxdxz - Deluxes]

While this isn't my style, I really do not have many critical things to say apart from it sounds a bit repetitive. Good job!

[Dimrain47 - At the Speed of Light (HJfod Remix)]

Very nice, but that guitar definitely sounds very off. I saw from the other comments that you've used a kontakt library for this, which you can try to make it sound good and I have tried that, but it is very difficult.

[Happy holiday]

My ears hurt. Send help lmao.

[Bells]

Sounds very generic and repetitive, maybe adding some variety with different instruments or changing up the melody would help. Having the bass melody separated from the main melody can surprisingly go a long way as that adds a lot of impact to a song in my experience. The drums are also quite bland and just follow a generic kick-snare pattern. There is also a lot of clipping, especially in the loud parts at 0:30 and 0:50, consider lowering your volumes or adding a compressor to the instruments. I wish I could hear the main synths a little bit more than in just this melody, as the main one in the beginning and end does sound fairly interesting and could have a lot of potential.

Alex1000228 responds:

Ok, thanks for your reaction and some of your advice. Due to your comment I will spend more time on my next song. Happy holidays!

[untitled #1806106]

Not sure why this is hard panned left, but that's some impressive beatboxing.

[They Came From Above]

Around the 1:00 minute mark, the bass sounds like it has a little bit too much mid-end for it to mix properly imo. The extra bass at 1:42 kinda makes this track sounds very muddy and makes me focus a little bit too much on that. I love what you did at 2:00 with the lead, definitely spices the track up. at 3:20+, if the bass was more intense, it would kinda sound like something from cyberpunk. The extra sound that comes in at 3:27 I personally don't think it fits as is, but I guess it kinda works. In general, if you wanted this track to be more intense, having a more hard-hitting bass would help a lot. Try messing with different basses with different waveforms. I would also personally experiment with having different leads to go with the main one here. Overall I think this is pretty good, but with more experimentation this could be even better. Keep it up!

Teckmo-X responds:

I definitely understand what you're saying and I can be 100% honest with you this was child's Play. I have something that everyone has been waiting on for quite a few months that probably years and it's going to get soon

[Footsteps That Fill With Snow]

I absolutely love the bass in this, especially as it fades in and out. When that guitar hit in, the reverb from it just adds so much to the track. I should listen to more ambient stuff like this. Good work!

[GLITCH TRAVEL (NICE)]

Pretty solid. I love what you have done with the bass here, fits really well with the general theme of the song. Your snare sounds pretty cool too, although it sounds like there might be very mild clipping on it, not sure if that's intentional or not or if that's just me, either way pretty cool. Whatever happens at 2:27 is really weird and I'm not sure if it fits, but sounds like a decent experimental thing either way. Personally I would try to spice it up a bit by adding more variety to this in the form of other synths or melodies, but that's just me.