Death-9's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Never Said You Loved Me -[viz]]

very neat

All over the place, but you transitioned beautifully. I can only complain that it didn't give me enough time to feel the beat before you take it away.

Very awesome synths. I can only complain, again, that it didn't give me enough time to experience them before you took them away.

It's pretty good, but you could have spent a bit more time mastering it (there's no such thing as too much mastering), and a bit more effort on the transitions and letting it reach it's full potential as a clubby remix.

9/10, 5/5

DJ-VIZ responds:

Thanks, wierd all the songs you revisited to review had vocals lol!

[Rave Heaven - (Viz Mix)]

:D rave heaven!

Love the original. You added a bit of nice flair to it, but it has a few flaws that I'm able to point out. One is the bassline- The bass doesn't match the "epic saw" you used for the lead, or the vocals. There is a part where you give the bass and the vocals a part alone- and I almost cried at the poor matching.

Then came the part at 2:24. I cried, this time in big man tears, at the poor matching. My suggestion to fix this would be to tweak with it- there's no need to have all the mids you put into it, a simple multiband filter that excludes a bit of the mids would be perfect- it should remove the obtrusiveness of the bassline. Or you could switch to a square/saw mix oscillator at a higher pitch and try to make it more 'epic'.

The lead was pretty cool, the only thing I can complain about is that it's not grand enough. I love the huge scale you take with this song, though.

In summary, I'm not voting 10 because of a couple of things:

The bassline did not blend with the leads, creating a poor aural experience (for me, at least),
it didn't seem finished- I felt like you could have done MORE,
you got the original artist's name wrong, it's Dave mcCullen, not Dan (proof-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D ave_McCullen)

8/10, 4/5

DJ-VIZ responds:

Nice ideas, never thought of them! -- I also thought I could do much more, I made this song within a day it was one of those just quick flowing ideas type of things, and i decided to sumbit, because i have literally 80 works in progress. I agree with your complaints, and the advice. If i revisit this mix I will def. keep what you said in mind. Ty for the rev!

[I Kissed a Girl[Viz House Mix]]

decent

Do you use Audacity, Ableton, or something else for editing your samples? I heard Ableton had good warp thing, might help you with the vocals being kinda off.

you did a pretty good job with this. I liked the simplistic synths you used, very retro-sounding. Not quite "clubby", but good headphone listening. I'd like to see you expand on this, it has potential.

DJ-VIZ responds:

I actually just use Edison, sometimes a cheap free trial program and shit like that for vocals, I really like mixing songs with vocals, but its tough work and a shit load of time ... remixing songs like this are especially a bitch, because I didn't even know what the original's tempo was... So i kind of played it by ear, which is why half the vox are pretty off. Thanks for the review again, time to check some of ur stuff.

[Now You're a Hero instrum]

You guys would never understand...

You have to burn the rope. If you don't burn the rope, you'll never get it.

Great song!

Reachground responds:

Very wise my friend. It's as easy as that...

[Milk{Sytrus!}]

Holy shit!

All Sytrus??? That's crazy, dude. Mad props! And to think I had given up on Sytrus...

Mrmilkcarton responds:

Wooo sytrus synthes for the win.

[[DJ-ViZ] Summer's End]

Effort makes good songs

You put effort into making this one NOT suck, well done. VARIATION is the key within electronic music. Also, you classified right this time, I felt a beat. Multiple leads, No annoying sounds, lead ins were good, drums weren't prominent (a good thing in electronic). Harmony was present. End needed work on an outro. Slowdown sucks. Use a fade out and you'll get a 10/10.

DJ-VIZ responds:

wow a kind review from you! and i thought this is one of my worst songs

[Far Away - Preview - [viz]]

One of your better songs

Though that's not saying much. I actually heard MULTIPLE leads and a MELODY. You know how to make your program work, that's great. Now take a 3rd grade education of music and make something good for once. I hope you don't fuck this one up like the rest.

DJ-VIZ responds:

Please do me a favor, and get a life... You can say shit when YOUR OWN MUSIC is actually good... till then don't speak because from what I see you have a record breaking 0.70 on one song 2.8 on another and a 3.2 for your last! CONGRATULATIONS

[Energy - [viz]]

More techno than trance

For a TECHNO song, it wasn't bad. Your drums are stereotypical, your leads do not vary at ALL, your sounds, like always, do not blend, and the "cheering" at the end just goes to show how effing self-centered you are. Come on, who's going to clap for this kind of shit?

DJ-VIZ responds:

Techno, honestly your retarted... this is more like commercial trance, standard 4 kick, etc... just dont come to my page, and 0 my songs because your bad at making music...its okay, you can find a new occupation little man...if I gave your shit sumbission a six, and this is a 4, i dont know what the fuck the worlds come too

[<V>i<Z> -The Stars]

Alright

Lead was annoying, and for a Dance song I didn't really feel any motion. Single sound pattern? Do better. All the sounds were really... "hesitant"? Not really sure how to put it. They didn't meld well at all.

DJ-VIZ responds:

this is from a year ago... i agree

[<V>i<Z> - Into the Jungle]

Hey! I didn't puke!

One Lead. One bass. Horrible. Could you use more than like 5 sounds in a "song" please?

DJ-VIZ responds:

Theres 3 leads, two basses, and this is suppose to be simple, its a video game song...