ZachPayne's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[SmK - Utopia]

:')

Wow, amazing tune. Only thing I have to say is I agree with the reviewer below about the ending. But you have become very consistent with the quality of your music. Keep up the great work.

[SmK - Magic]

Wow! I'm really impressed by the quality of this song. The mixing was very well done. Love the mixture of genres you have going on here as well. I hear the style I'm familiar with you with a trap twist, I love it! Don't even know what to critique on this. Good job. :)

-ZP

[Mirrors Edge REMIX]

Just typing thoughts as the song goes.
Starting off, there's a closed high hat left panned that sounds really distracting. The rest is really nice. GAH that high hat again! It's probably sound okay if it was center panned or something. The bassline is really groovin, I liked it. I didn't really feel like there was a "climax" anywhere, it remained pretty consistent throughout the song. Anyway, other than that it was very nice. It had a good classic trance feel to it. Keep it up!

djahmusic responds:

because it is one of my old classic tracks!
still.. thank you for the feed back ^_^

[Crystallize DEMO]

Not bad! One thing that caught my attention was that the melody part and the chord progression didn't sound like they complimented each other. Really good use of effects and synths.

Darkfire96 responds:

I had that feeling too, but I thought it was just me. I might just scrap that melody altogether, since it didn't really click with me. We'll see in all due time.
Thanks for the review!

-Ikarus Hakurei

[JENOVA - FF7 (Metal)]

Hell yea! Only reason I gave 4.5 is because the quality of recording and mixing could be better. But this was awesome regardless. Going on my mp3 player.

[Oxygen - SG]

Nice

Another nice tune you've made here. And congratz on being #1 for the week! :D
Definitely need to take note of the variation you use in your songs and think about it in my own. This was never at one point repetitive which I absolutely LOVED.

[U Mad, Bro?]

SO MADE

Y U NO MAKE CRAPPIER MUSIKS???

[Rainwave - Solar Vision 2]

Great song

I don't got the time to write the thoughtful review you gave me, I'm doing homework right now. But I thought I should at least check out one of your songs in return. This is definitely awesome. The only thing I did not enjoy was every once in a while I heard an "off" note or a note that didn't appear to be in the key signature used. But it seems like it was just used as a style rather than a lack of musical talent (obviously lol). Amazing song, keep up the great work.

10/10
5/5

~ZachPayne

Indigorain responds:

Haha, thanks a lot for taking the time then :D
There's no offnotes, it's just the bluesy chromatics, it's quite normal actually :]
Anyway, thanks a lot for the review man! :D

[/-Back To Earth-\ (BETA)]

Balance!!!!

Hey I gotta say I was really impressed I liked it mostly towards the middle. Really cool feel to it! And good melody! One thing I would suggest concentrating on more though is instrument balance. Right from the beginning I could tell the bassdrum wasn't in balance with the rest of the song. Make sure one synth or instrument isn't overpowering anything else, gotta have that balance! But good job, keep it up. :)

Gonna give this
9/10
5/5
Cuz I just loves that melody stuffz in teh middle

Darkfire96 responds:

Im still mastering the song :3
I loved the middle too. It was actually my favorite part of the song to make. It was my first try with changing the bass from the chord notes. So i think I used a key. I dont know. I cant wait to finish it :)
Thanks for the review!

/-Ikarus-\