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Supporting Artists in Need: ADR3-N and BrandyBuizel

Posted by ShangXian - March 11th, 2025


Hello everyone and good day/evening (depending where you are), I hope everything is alright but speaking of "being alright" I take this opportunity to spread some news that, I know most of you already know because now it's in the site main page's news but I would like to take part with my very small audience compared to the one these two people have. I am referring to BrandyBuizel and ADR3-N, two amazing and talented artists I discovered thanks to Tankmas ADVENTure and Audio forum respectively. I can't directly help them financially but I want to spread this nonetheless. Tomorrow I will spread it on Discord too with my other friends in the hope more people can reach or just spread it by themselves.


1) BrandyBuizel

I discovered him because he is responsible for having helped organized the Tankmas ADVENTure, the Endless Summer Lovin' Collab, not to mention the cool short movie LUCKYBOY:



Seriously when I watched it the first time it was love at first sight because of how cool animation looked and the different media employed to deliver a fun and relatable story. Go check it out, if you haven't.


Sadly he has been facing some difficult times recently especially on the job front, but if you want to learn more check the Gofundme page which explains more in depth the problems he's currently facing. I am very glad to see that, at the moment I am writing, 43% has been raised, but there is still need of other people help/spread.


2) ADR3-N

As I said above, I discovered this talented artist first through forum threads of the Audio section, mainly the Audio Portal clean-up because I want to learn how to distinguish AI-generated music to flag the shit out of it, seriously thank you for making me discover this gem because I am gradually learning the pattern of AI-generated music (at least with Suno). I also want to thank from the bottom of my heart Quest, without your efforts and skills we wouldn't be able to learn these things and I agree that education is a strong tool to fight off AI-generated music. Thank you, really!


Asides from the forum threads I also discovered ADR3-N's talent thanks to this wonderful piece:



I fell in love with her music and way to deliver lyrics in such powerful way that energizes your mind and spirit, so I am listening to other amazing pieces such as:





These are her Ko-fi and Gumroad pages where you can support her (the latter even has free goodies in case you are a music producer) since her delicate financial grip that is affecting her life.


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If you prefer to go directly to their respective blogs here the links:


https://droid.newgrounds.com/news/post/1518995


https://adr3-n.newgrounds.com/news/post/1519544


I wish you guys all the best, take care and remember that you are not alone, I'm seeing the community is trying to help and support. You rock!


I know I am a nobody here with a small following but it doesn't hurt trying to spread at least. As I said tomorrow I will spread it on Discord servers I am in to reach more people, thank you to those who have donated, and thank you for reading this blog. See you next time!


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this was a fascinating read by @quest and @adr3-n and I'm learning a lot about audio AI, but as a game dev I find it funny that 192kbps is considered low quality xD
That's the upper-end bitrate in my field lawl, 128kbps usually
https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/site-moderation/how-to-detect-ai-audio

Yeah me too. That article made me want to explore more about the characteristics of AI-generated sounds even outside NG so I can better detect them. I even downloaded Spek so I can analyze spectrograms of songs and notice patterns.

Oh wow, I didn't know about this when it comes to videogames. The more you know^^

@BrandyBuizel You know, you're not wrong -- 192 is high quality over on YT and Spotify as well, which drives me nuts, because I'm spoiled on 320 kbps audio. It's so good, sometimes I use it instead of wav when mixing

Also, thank you for taking the time to share some of my pieces! And what's going on in general

You are welcome. I shared it on Discord too. Good luck!

im sorry i cant odnate..im not allowed to

Even spreading can help a bit. I can't donate too but nothing prevented me to spread. If it weren't for Droid's blog I wouldn't have discovered the delicate situation BrandyBuizel is. I wish both of them the best.

It's a pity that this happened to her. She's a very good moderator, and I don't want her to get in trouble :(

I agree, why always the best people have to endure the worst???
Me too