Lich's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[No Exctraction]

<3 oh bby

DESHIEL responds:

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[Tenebrarius]

Now this is a damn awesome track.

How the strings weave through the composition like an expertly knitted piece of clothing, the delicacy of the choir, the stereo seperation and positioning of every single piece individually, the underlaying string and percussive hits, the hybrid tonal glitches and rises and much more.

I'd say that if I was to listen to this blindly and under the mindset of an average consumer, I would think that this game piece came from part of a game OST. It's that good.

An excellent duo-piece. I hope we survive into the next round to battle <3

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

That's great to hear!

All the strings were basically the base for the composition, upon which we built all the other things. The choir is wonderful, in my own opinion. Some of the melodies are mine, but dem0 really made them sound amazing, with his libraries and mixing o.O! Once again, I'm glad that I didn't have to render the track. It feels like that all the renders were probably 50% of the work XD (maybe not really, but I'm sure that's what it feels like).
The percussion and glitches are indeed cool. They really suit the track too!

Wow! That's definitely reassuring to hear :D
Making game music sure is something I would like to do more of, and I'm sure that goes for dem0lecule as well :)

Thank you for the nice review! I definitely hope we'll all survive, and get to face eachother in later rounds :3

[Oak - Funkerbot (RD2015)]

A funky track on a friday, awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
This is pretty much mixed perfectly, the sound palette is pretty damn tasty and the vocal samples are a surprising fit in which i would of never expected to hear up until this haha.

I'm now going to have to check out some more Glitch funk. 10/10

Oakwood responds:

I also never expected the vocals to fit but it turned out pretty good, right? Thanks for the love, Lich! :)

[Re-Booting]

gr8 trak m8 420/69

[Cyber Art]

Add some extra Sub-Bass to it and a tiny bit of glitching in random spots and I can envision this being in an Extreme-G game (if they ever made one again!)

Favorites da track goes!

DESHIEL responds:

thanks man.

[Anti Hero]

420 stars from me

DESHIEL responds:

We need more stars. :) Bring Jill Valentine :3

[Dual Uzi]

Sounds fine for a day of work.
Dat FL Slayer

DESHIEL responds:

*puts on glasses* YEAH... *squeezes*

[CTSG4: Anniversary Edition]

420/69 collab guys

[In Your Time, Always]

Had a listen through around three times with a combo of Studio Monitoring Speakers, Small Hifi Speakers and consumer headphones for different listening perspectives.

I genuinely like the synth-work you have designed and used in the track. The quirky leads and the chilled out pad/back synth which aids the track at the beginning of your bars sounds pretty retro, the kind of sounds one would hear coming from a Minimoog, a Jupiter or a CS-80. Just the right amount really, no more or no little, it's a nice balance overall as a chillout piece.

Your drum samples used within the track work fine to aid moving the track along and establishing a beat. Mixing-wise, you should experiment with making it around 1-2db louder as I found it abit more difficult to distinguish on the consumer headphones and the Small Hifi speakers (while popping just fine through my ADAM's).

The vocals have a characteristic edge which sound different from the usual clean vocal work that I've heard from other musicians composing similar-styled pieces in the past. By all means it's not super perfect but it just works so well overall for this piece. it goes so well with the retro-esq sounding synth work and the added glitching in select parts works nicely. Throughout careful listening, I'm still trying to figure out towards the chorus if the vocals are double tracked or if you've added pitch-shifting/chorus to it? I'll figure it out hopefully upon one or two more listen through's :P

The overall mix you shouldn't worry about too much, it's pretty decent overall for the chillout theme you are going for. If you could comfortably extend your lower end frequencies out so it sounds more present but rolling smoothly then that would be a plus. Maybe abit of extra 'colour' on the high end lightly with a Tube Exciter plugin could yield a slightly nicer result depending upon experimentation. Consider giving it a shot, I'm 50% certain it will sound slightly better haha.

Yeahhhhhhhhh, overall it's a pretty good chillout piece, I'm most impressed with the Synth work and anything I could really recommend to you I've already mentioned above. 4.6/5 ^_^

SoulSecure responds:

Most of the time my synths are just tweaked presets, 3xOsc or samples/soundfonts that are so filtered/washed out/effected that you can't tell what it used to be. I'm actually not that into synth work, which, coupled with my background, probably explains why I tend to stick to sounds that remind me of the 90s and 80s.

I have to rerecord at least one vocal part of this song and possibly another due to being off key. When I started doing this kind of music I found out that my horrible mic actually picks up my vocal signature better when I sing softly (used to screaming into it and whatnot, hah), so I was actually sort of forced into this vocal style.

DURING the chorus I have two of me singing, but the verses right before and right after the first chorus have a flanger on them.

I did not know what exciters were until I read this review. Could be rather useful.

Thank you for the review!

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I agree on the drums. They're pretty quiet samples and they're turned all the way up. Gotta edit them or something.

[Pollyanna [Recorder Cover]]

Duuuuuuuuuuuuude, a Mother song cover, Yes please I say!

It's been quite awhile since I've heard Pollyanna in it's Mother 1, 2 and 3 variants and from what I remember of the notation and sound of the original piece, you've pretty much hit it all spot on for the Mother 1 version. I could totally say it's better than the original but Mother 1's was done on a dated console sound chip over 20 years ago so that's abit different ^_^

The sound of the recorder as well is pretty damn good. Did you add anything over the recordings at all like some subtle reverb or is it all natural?

Favorited as well, anything Mother must be favorited! Excellent job, I will be keeping a close eye out for your future recordings!

NyxTheShield responds:

Reeverb only, it also has some octave lowered recorders because it would sound too empty with their natural tone (it has 1 natural recorder at the center, another natural with double tracking at the sides, an octave lowered at the sides too, and the entire track without the center one lowered 2 and 3 octaves in the background to fill the low frequencies)

I am glad you liked it ^-^