Ryzmik's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[210d.92Oo'c]

Está muy mal que acabo de descubrir esto después de 6 años. Es lo más bonito que me han dedicado <3

[Chocnoon - Trance Pad Attack (DLXXVIII)]

As much as I like oldschool trance, you could have worked a bit more on this. Like it's not bad that the song uses 5 overused presets but the entire song is that arp score from z3ta+ for 5 minutes. Transitions and filtering helps keeping this interesting but melodic variation is minimal for a 5 minutes long track: All synths plays the same score.
Maybe all this can be resumed in just my problem that knowing almost every sound from 2000's hands up music, now doesn't feel the same when you know the 'magic' behind them. But I guarantee adding at least one more score that follows the progression with different rhythm will make a difference for a track whose purpose is just an arp preset.
Anyway, if you enjoy it as I did back then, that's cool hermano. I wish I could've sounded like this when I started with techno.

[Rainbow 2]

Saw this at the review to review thread. The hi-hats could be a pair of dBs louder, as well as the general volume of the song.
Anyway, the synths are ok for a videogame theme, I liked a lot your use of the slide/porta tool, but I suggest adding some chorus or detune to the chords for more wide sound.
About sidechain, it is also good, not too long not too short, there are many methods to do sidechain but I didn't understand what you mean with fake saw ADSR envelope. I guess you talk about sidechain with an envelope controller and linking a bunch of gain parameters to it.
About the score itself, not sure if on the description you talk about a 'prompt' you used as one from an AI music generator which let me tell you, if that's the case, your melody would be based on something you didn't make, even if you cast it away and decide to change the style or just some notes. That's a big no for me in terms of originality :\
Keep learning more tricks, there's a lot of cool things. And remember to not rely on prompted music, that won't make your scores interesting.

PotangNG responds:

The volume thing you've mentioned is something I need to work on. I still don't know how to do it without clipping. Chorus is definitely something to consider, as well as more detune. Yeah, I altered the attack of a synth's envelope to create a sidechain effect.

About the prompt. I can assure you no AI was used in the production of the song. That prompt I mentioned? It was the prompt someone gave me when I was working on the original version. You can see the original here: https://youtu.be/NJFLKx_EF9M?si=ZdqMak4XMDxrrp4c
The melody was made by me. Completely original, except a remix of my previous song. If you're still in doubt, send me a message and I'll send you an entire screen recording of my project.

I hope that can clear things up and maybe get a higher score. Thanks for taking the time to listen!

[Plasma]

Just letting you know I still listen to this bop :) Those basses are worthy of Skrillex's.

HugoHMF responds:

Thank you dude :D

[mighty wyvern]

Your supersaw sounds nicely warm, and the melody played sounds catchy. The drum fill at 0:45 was on top although other drums like the first snare doesn't stand up... or maybe the supersaw is pushing it back.
Maybe if the rave stabs were made made of square waves and had a extra-short Pitch decay they could be less awkward as you say, but that wouldn't make them rave-y enough.
In short, It was a fun tune to listen. Nice one!

wineplume responds:

cheers
made the supersaw in synth1 (good synth (really good synth))

[Tryzon - Crowd Control]

Interesting choice of samples, and the drop goes so hard. Although I know the mix is generally loud, my main concern is the bass that comes at 1:53 has too much saturation and stereo information in the lows. Overall good groove, Ironic how's called Crowd Control when that's what you need when playing this at a club

TryzonEDM responds:

Thanks Ryzmik, much appreciated. I understand what you're saying. I wanted to keep it a bit airy there on purpose, as going too much mono sounded boring there. Luckily it's just a small portion though 😉 Yesss that's partly the reason for the title!

[wranzz]

Don't worry, I sometimes mess up my mixes too.

[Death // Rebirth]

Nice composition man, most of the classy melodies were actually entertaining to listen.
The timing was perfect, you didn't rush to change so quickly (like I do, lol) from gloomy to totally uplifting and sometimes that works fine, and I liked the detail when you layer the xylophone with the synth pluck, like a sort of answer (1:38). The 'Rebirth' part was a total hype to listen with, just I wish the final beat was a bit longer.
As from my mixing point of view, you managed well to make the percussion stand out from all the arps, choirs and stuff at the electronic part (the thing I fail mostly) but my only complains are the sustained strings at 1:30, felt like it needs to be a bit more stereo; and the dirty high end of the bass.

[4KKoRD - "Night"]

I actually enjoyed the song, expect for that synth sounding ALL THE TIME like an ambulance siren is just annoying. I'm not anyone to tell others what to do but You could try instead a more melodic chord progression with a lush pad or the piano chords at 1:54. Cmon you got Nexus2, give it a good use!
The drop was good, that's a part where I would leave the 'ambulance siren', and the second drop was more convincing with the variety and sound design was good. Your wobbles and scream basses are killer!