Lashmush's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[[LY] Cranberry Cigar]

Multiple fives.

I explain nothing!

la-yinn responds:

Multiple (t)hanks!

[Kalimba Groove]

Interesting

I was sold since I heard the unusual choices for the beat. That kick is sweet. :3

This only needs a tighter mix and master really, and its perfect.

Chozz responds:

Awesome!! I wanted to do a bit more with the mastering side, but ran out of time for deadline with the RAC contest.

Maybe i'll come back to it someday!

[.:A Gypsy's Festival:.(RAC 5)]

Godlike.

To be able to do this with just a general midi soundbank, I'm eager to hear what you would do with EWQL Goliath...

Love it.

camoshark responds:

Well thank you, that is quite flattering!

Cheers,
Samuel Hébert

[We wait - BMI SoK]

holy... fucking... shit...

BMI's vocals are god damn amazing! Complemented by the soft/hard contrasting riffs and rythms, this song is killer.

I'd like a little more edge on my guitars even for a song like this, but it might just be a gain-ration issue. The solo shows that it works wonders anyway, so I suppose its just a question of taste.

Keep this kind of work up! I need the competition. :3

Sonofkirk responds:

Lashmush! It's been a damn long time I haven't seen you around! Anyway glad to see you're still here. Indeed BMI vocals are just outstanding, it amazes every single of my friends when I make them listen to it. The guitar is indeed a bit muffled, it needs more high frequencies maybe... I'll work on it next time :).

Thanks for the review dude, I appreciate it very much!

[Halloween 2010 Bad Man 1]

Love it!

great balancing and mix in this, and the composition itself stands strongly among the classics like Halloween and oldschool slasher-movies! Great work as allways, my friend!

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Thanks man, I was really working hard to achieve a simple yet memorable melody to bring chills to the masses. I'm hoping someone actually uses this in a flash somewhere.

Thanks again, dude!\m/

[Protector of Perverts]

Really fucking good!

I love the guitar riffs though they could use a little more dB.

The vocals sound really nicely done and nothing wrong with either performance or the recording process here. Great mix on it!

The drums need humanization really badly, but other than that, this song is pretty fucking golden. proper oldschool deathmetal the way it should be. (i thought i was alone in a sea of metalcore...)

Very well done, 5/5, 9/10

Also... 1:15... I came.

Malacodaband responds:

Thanks a lot for the kind and honest words man.
Everything was recorded in our vocalists house so we will be re-recording everything once we've finished all the pre-production demos.

Any tips on humanizing the drums?

Thanks again!

-Malacoda-

[Big Blue (Essi Hardcore Remix)]

Hardcore?

Hardstyle definitely. Not familiar with the UK hardcore scene though so who knows.

The lead was well mixed but its Slayer from FruityLoops, is it not? It's really... REALLY... a bad lead.

Everything else worked wonders on my ears. The sidechaining and kick was tight as a motherfucker.

Good job. Don't use Slayer.

ES5 responds:

no slayer dude , was just ES2,ESP,Scuplture and others fed through amps and other DPU's

did not realy want to get a full on AXE sound wanted it , to sound retro lol

[Vuvuzela Orchestral Demo]

wtf

i knew it was possible to actually play the vuvuzela as an instrument and not just a cheap plastic airhorn substitute.

This actually managed to come out beautifully. Love your accent work.

sorohanro responds:

Get the sample pack and fool around with it, you might make something more interesting ;)
Thanks for review.

[A shot to the liver]

really nice man!

yeah, i heard the clipping a bit when the cymbals were on in the start, and aswell when the doublepedaling started. Especially at 1:46... but fuck, you really should redo the mixing cause this shit is gold!

If you want it fixed, just lower the output volume of your master in whatever DAW you use, then take the mixdown, normalize it, use a multiband compressor and give it a few tweaks, normalize again, add some mastering EQs, whatever, then give it maybe a 25-30% loudness boost. Do a final normalization to get it up to 0 dB and it should be fixed.

Love the riffing!

TheRealSam responds:

Ahah thanks for the very detailled review! Don't worry I do much better mixings now, I'm just kinda too lazy to go through the whole process again for a song I don't realy enjoy listening to anymore. I'll post some new stuff very soon, you'll hear the difference I hope :p

[B7 - Torn Asunder (W/o Vo]

Great job.

Sounds pretty tight!

Oh, and if you want your bas to be more noticeable try adding some light distortion, then EQ-ing it once youre done with the mixing for guitars and drums. Once you've got a sound you're happy with, throw on a master on the entire mixdown and use a shelf-EQ. raise the lows by about 0.8 dB and the highs by about 6 dB. That should get the bass more distinct and noticable!

Again, great work!

Burn7 responds:

Thanks dude! I'll be trying that, but my biggest issue here is avoiding clipping. Which is a real pain in the ass because Sony Acid skirts around a lot of the useful mixing and EQing features of other programs. So mixing and mastering takes fucking FOREVER. But I will definitely be experimenting with that, and maybe some other things as well.

Thanks again!