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"his name is god"

literally my favorite animation of yours

he could always talk, he just wouldn't talk around jon for some reason, but now that he's high he forgot about his reason

my favorite part was when StrawberryClock said, "B" and B'd all over the place, truly one of the portal submissions of all time

also happy Clock Day 2024!!

Recent Game Reviews

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pretty fun, the puzzles were a delight to solve, although the button one was my least favorite not just because i lost many lives there but just because i feel like it relies too much on button-clicking ability and not puzzle-solving skills. being able to finish all this in 64 seconds is a cool achievement :)

Recent Audio Reviews

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nice harmonic minor :)

i feel like the instruments could use more processing, i feel like they're a bit plain right now. perhaps some saturation, ott, high end boost, or perhaps some ear candy in the background? also perhaps the arrangement could be glued together more, the way the individual elements, melodies, and instruments mesh together and interact is decent but could be better. maybe have different instruments share the same rhythm with different pitches or vice versa?

but other than that it's solid :)

GizzyKittyMusic responds:

I'm not going to lie to you, despite how long I've been doing this for, I really don't know all that much about the technical side of music production. Since I just kinda do this for fun, it's never really something that I felt like learning, but I do agree that my music suffers a little as a result. Perhaps it is something that I'll spend some time looking into :)

As for the arrangement, I usually do put more consideration into how things are layered and interact with each other, I've just allowed myself to be a little lazy for the sake of this challenge.

wonderful, i enjoyed the glitch stutters and the gun timbre

i saw your thread, here's some thoughts!

overall, yeah i do agree that this is a bit weak in sound design and mixing terms. there's a lot of empty space in the mix and arrangement, for instance 0:18 which consists of only a sub bass with nothing in the high end and the predrop vocal which has nothing to really back it up or follow it. in mixing terms the midrange feels a bit lacking; a eq boost of like 1-2db around 1500hz should help, but i'd also recommend eq'ing the basses individually or finding a new sound to put in that range. lastly everything feels quite loose and not very glued together; a saturator, clipper, or compressor with moderate settings will tighten up the mix and introduce some fatness to the mixdown, making it very upfront and loud

speaking of the basses, they feel a bit weak and outdated. they have that... how do i describe it? "screechy", "phaser-y" quality, which was all the rage in like 2016 (see excision's "virus" lp) but is rather outdated now. as i understand it briddim nowadays relies on things like guns, sustains, and yoinks and growls in the fills. you can use youtube to look up what these all are :) anyways the basses also lack some high end texture and feel too boomy (i.e., too much low-low mids). so does the kick drum, i'd find something that's tighter and has a bigger transient

you mentioned ott, ott is a multiband compressor that compresses the three bands down and then upwards compresses them. in practical terms this brings out a lot of detail (especially in the high end), flattens the amplitude envelope, and often attenuates the midrange a bit. it's great for making basses more in-your-face and texturized. when using ott, usually the depth/amount (in xfer's version, the knob that should be on the top left) shouldn't be at 100%, usually 15-30% does the trick. also kilohearts disperser is great too and used a lot nowadays. you don't have to buy the plugin tho, a phaser with 100% wet will do the trick too.

so to recap: research some basses to use in briddim and how to create them (e.g., look up "gun bass tutorial" and so on), or get some samples, work on the mixdown fullness, and practice with using ott. gl!!

Recent Art Reviews

12 Art Reviews

fantastic!

wonderful, i love it! the design is very appropriate for the music

Tilldrawn responds:

thank you! i tried to emulate the music as much as possible!

cute! but i thought boxanne's pigtails are in the center of the sides of her head; it's jarring seeing them closer to the edge here...

perspective/style i guess

EmsDeLaRoZ responds:

Yeah, and they are indeed at the sides, but schulz style for Charlie brown comics isn't precisely "realistic" or "symmetrical"

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