MCarsten's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Chaoz Fantasy Rock/Orch.]

!@$%

Your song produced so much effects on Windows Media Player visualizer and did my computer crash :'(

Step responds:

*Blush*

Sorry :P.

[<EagleGuard> The Journey]

GREATEST CLASSICAL!

Your classical submission was one of the most cool orchestral/classical songs I ever heard! I liked how this seems like a patriot theme, this is combine in all 100% ways with a war movie or patriotical film as I said, every instruments are in your defined synchroinzing, everything estabilished, the rythim was awesome, just I think maybe your drums could be a bit better, because it looks like a popcorn during the intro, more to the song of your audio piece, it looks like more a real military drum.

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{NAME}
"The Journey" was an interesting name, what did this song really catch and insteresting during it's perform. But, by 'Journey' it reminds me some space adventure, what most reminds me on this, are like World War II movies or Civil War ones. If this is be to refered to space, this can reminds me the astronauts backing to an outer space mission and being honoured and then with the flag behind, it would fit a lot with all your compose, so your name was a great choosing. Nice job!

{CONCEPT}
Your concept looks like one of the most detailed I have ever listen to, if you see, I imagined into Second World War movies, patrotical films, space/astronauts/universe movie and also reminds me in some places shipbattle movies, I can write an all book with all the things I imagined during listen to your awesome orchestral soundtrack. I already heard a lot of symphonic orchestras and classicals, but this one is the first one I can imagine so much things, usually I imagine one background through a story, but yours I imagined like ten ways of telling a tale or a storyboard, please do more good like these ones, you're rare man, keep your brilliant work!

{PERCUSSION}
The percussion during parts as 01:40, is pretty good were the drums seems to play everything correct, but look in the intro from the melodies, during the beginning of the song, they looked like popcorns or some kind of fingers easily beating in a table, they don't look at all like drums, this WAS the ONLY bad thing in this audiotrack, else it would be a 10. Combined with other instruments as the 'patriotic times', it is really perfect, also keep the nice job, just try to add more good sounds to the percussion!

{INSTRUMENTS & RYTHIM}
The instruments are amazing for an orchestral piece, because it used my favorite ones, sorry I'm saying instruments were not used here, but I think are trombones, trumpets, percussion bell, drums (of course), fiddles/violins, cello and maybe a french horn. Everything sounds so perfect! The rythim from this one was one of the most and more cool things I have ever listen to in a classical song in ALL MY LIFE, I never heard to great-rythim classical art piece, this should be published to all the ENTIRE WORLD, try to sell it on shops, internet or whatever, please. The sounds as I said loads of time here, reminds me the war movies and honor times, is so good how with trumpets you create a scene like that, I'm impressioned with all your effort into this, and please, if you create another classical song, don't forget to PM me, I want to listen a lot more from your brilliant orchestral songs, your song looks like honour-action-squadron movement-patriotic-heroic-honour, it fits all together, also I never found so good syncronizing in all my life (as I said loads of times here). Also you made me obssessed to listen to this song, is so good.

{OVERALL}
One of the most brilliant symphonic orchestras I ever heard with an awesome composing and with the MOST BRILLIANT CONCEPT I EVER FOUND IN ALL MY LIFE, so perfect rythim and good quality into this song, perfect attachments too, instruments were well choosen, please do more from classical!

Thanks for let me listen to this awesome soundtrack!
I hope people use your audio in their movies/games!
I added to my favorites list!!

I gived you a 9 score, just because I think you could have done something more in the 'popcorn' drums, they looked not so good.

Vote 5
4.22 / 5.00 (+ 0.052)
Score: 9/10
~Review Request Club~
SpyS.

EagleGuard responds:

Wow, that's one huge-ass review xD

First of, thanks for the compliments! I'm really flattered. I didn't think anyone would like it THAT much =p

About the drums, yeah... I know now that I should've paid more attention to them, as the guy before you stated as well. I didn't think they were that important, guess I was wrong. Will try to improve it in my next song though ;)

Not sure if I'm good enough to actually sell my stuff to the world at this moment, although I will try to do so in the future.

Glad you liked the song, I spent quite some time trying to get it to sound right. Glad it worked out OK =)

Again, thanks for the awesome review. Will do my best to improve ;)

[Bundy's Magical Adventure]

Nice for an experiment!

That is a pretty good song, all the sounds are perfect syncronized, the effects and beatings are cool. For a 8-Bit song and also EXPERIMENT, this was really amazing, what I principally liked was the song background, I mean the percussion with the effects, everything was pretty cool, I just think, some of your transitions were not so well performed. My favorite part from all the song is the "lowing event" during 01:00, I like how the music seems to be falling like into a hole and growing up again.

The percussion you did was pretty cool, I think this is your dubstep part, but for some reason, they sound a little "non-configured", they seem to be not completing the sound waves at all, if you understand me.

I would like to see you doing a fade out in the end of the song, it looked weird, when just stop all the audio and keep that silence, and after little seconds, the song return to play, but, no need to a fade in, the intro melody-transition was one of the most cool things.

The idle part after the "lowing event" was also cool, the way you did the event look it was moving like a pivot or a tornado into the sides from a hole and finally falling in it, and when the music back, he estabilished in some place.

The instruments you choosed were a nice, this audio track remins me that pixel games intro song, I hope someone use your sound in their games or movies, because this was great.

I liked how random the sounds play through the playback, because they seems to change in certain parts, like in the intro, looks relaxing, than becomes with more percussion than change to idle, and begins to low and establish, after this it grows up and join another kind of event rythim and add some good efects.

Nice job!
Thanks for let me listen to it! ;)

Vote 4
3.65 / 5.00 (+ 0.042)
"Nice for an experiment!"

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Respectfully,
SpyS.

KieranNG responds:

The non-configured part was actually an attempt at those sick off-beat melodies that are in alot of dubstep songs.

[[Assios] - Ignition]

The true genre with random rare percussion!

This song was pretty cool, the effects you did are one of the best ever, the drums beating (percussion) is excellent, the rythim amazing, the soundings were great, to be seriously almost everything. I liked how you give rythim through your melodies and transitions, you really should be proud from this amazing audio piece, now for the topics list:

{NAME}
For "Ignition" this looks like more to a kind of a "dance fever" from the people dancing as your genre says through "dance song". So, in my opnion would be this, like in an event, sorry if what I'm thinking is so stupid, because I never listen these kinds of genre much, I'm more fascinated with the symphonic orchestras and classical songs. Well, my opnion and mind says this.

{CONCEPT}
Your concept reminds me that shows were is a lot of people like teenagers or becoming adult people in that kinds of party and with a stage, with open area, like a open concert, not closed in the sides, in a night, with a lot of light effects placed, also you placed the people effects what turned it looks really more in what I'm thinking from this. And this seems to have a lot of eletrical illusions-FX.

{PERCUSSION}
The percussion from it looks really good because it is not repetitive and the most interesting point is that this audio is rare comparing the other audios, the sound beating are random, like, it is a set of variety, during the intro of the song, it is an "growing up" event and when it is opening the melody it is like an electro-techno effect, and when comes the intro transition, it sounds like that made special FX, and during 00:40, this turns in a true effect, if you understand what I mean and after this close, this turns really intro a drum beating, so this point was a really cool one from your song. And after it changes to a common beat and after this produce a "chaingung running" beating, like a really fast beat. Please, produce more songs with these kind of percussion, does long time now that I don't find a beat randomizing like yours, nice job!

{INSTRUMENTS & RYTHIM}
The instruments you choosen did for your song really looks like a 'pop', 'techno' or 'dance' genre song, I believe they are keyboards, drums and maybe a bass, these ones really combine with your genre. The rythim as I did in the percussion, was random, but this is the way from a dance song, you really can produce good ones from this, I don't listen to these genres, but I see a lot of these audio in Flashs, so I remember how they sound. Nice job!

{OVERALL}
Every instruments were ok, rythim pretty good, percussion is rare! Just remains some more playing through the intro transition, I found this was a little poor, but everything else AWESOME!

Vote 5
3.67 / 5.00 (+ 0.063)
"The true genre with random rare percussion!"

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Respectfully,
SpyS.

Assios responds:

Wow, thanks for an awesome review!!! Glad you liked the percussion! :) And wow, you really wrote a really good and detailed review!! Thanks! :D

[Midnight, Call]

Everything PERFECT, except the loudness from vocal

This music was really cool, by all his effects, percussion, instruments, vocal singings, the only problem I found in this, is that the effect-voice from the woman, in a part was a bit distorted, but I'm not meaning the effect, I mean it was incorrect in a part from the intro melody, for the transition to the growing up sounds, oh... and adding to the problems list that didn't gaved up a 10, is that the sounds have some kind of "strong loudness", maybe try to leave the song in a better program, it looks like a bunch of bees.

Now to the topics list:
{NAME}
"Midnight, Call" is an interesting name, is something refered to your song lyrics? Sorry, english is not my native language, so listening from ear, is hard to understand what the woman is singing, so please, leave the lyrics in the author comments, this would turn much more easier for people like me. Sorry for don't review good at all this topic ='(

{PERCUSSION}
The percussion is one of the most cool things from this audio piece, it seems really cool and don't seems repetitive, what was a really nice thing, and according to the rythim do it sounds pretty cool, I also like when beneath the drums add something like an another drum or another event from the drum beating, it was pretty cool, and remove it after a time, also turned this non-repetitive, so I think you're really good in this part. Keep up the nice work!

{INSTRUMENTS & RYTHIM}
The instruments you choosed were pretty good, they remember me that songs from the changing beetween 1990 decade to 2000 decade, it was pretty good, this turned it really AMAZING for remember us from these times, I don't compose musics and I don't listen to pop musics, I just listen to symphonic orchestras or classical, but I think the instruments you choosed are keyboard, maybe a bass, drums and maybe a guitar, nice choose! The rythim from the music was a really good thing, as I said in percussion, it doesn't looks repetitive or boring, it was pretty cool, I like when the sounds grow up in volume like 01:40, it was really awesome to listen and the sounds in the background around 01:46~01:55, is one of the most cool things ever to listen here! I love these kinds of "growing up" effect, nice job!

{EFFECTS}
The effects from the vocal were the only thing what did I give you a 8 =( I think the only problem here is the "bzzzz" sounding from the song, else, it would be perfect, if you don't want to install another software/program, please just buy a trial or something and export your song, it would be awesome give you a 10. Everything is so perfect here!

Vote 5
4.25 / 5.00 (+ 0.14)
"Everything PERFECT, except the loudness from vocal"

Thanks for let me listen to this!
Sorry for my grammar mistakes.

~Review Request Club~
SpyS.

Sawdust responds:

Thanks man! Just one thing: I sang on this, not a woman. I processed my vocals, that's all.

[The Sad Violin]

Monotonous and lack of emotion!

You said in the Review Request Club page to us talk what we think from your first-time playing with violins, so I think it was not so good, looks like a beginner in a violin class, each sound plays like a one per time, is nothing of something playing a thing fast and I can say this because I love to listen to classical or symphonic orchestras, in your title you placed "The Sad Violin", I think "A Sad Violin" could be better, and also, doesn't look like something with emotion, I think you could search in the webpages, for some "sad" kind of classical violin or fiddle songs, you really need to do better with the violin percussion.

Also you could have placed something like a percussion, as a little-sounding expansion bell, or a little drum and such. Maybe add some sounding from a flute would be really better, because the violin playing doesn't have any kind of entonation.

DO THESE UPGRADES:
- Give some kind of entonation and emotion to it really be sad.
- This looks like "The Fly Song"
- Remove these monotonous atmosphere.
- Give it entonation
- Add more instruments

Vote 2
3.23 / 5.00 (- 0.21)
Score: 6/10
"Monotonous and lack of emotion"

~Review Request Club~
SpyS.

[Ode to Shalashaska-1]

Funny content!

Hey Coop, nice story hehe, I found really funny when you said:
"(...), which was a great idea in the first place, until everybody got drunk.", haha I laughed for some minutes here. Other part that I really laughed was when you said:
"I guess at the end of the day, what I really want to say is congratulations, Dave, you've got a name that people can pronounce, even when they're drunk, which is a nice little achievement, because when some people are drunk, they still go on and call me Co-op :P"

HAHAHAHA, I laughed about it was like an achievement, because just drunk you got to say this thing of Shalashaska or something xD.

And is a really nice story to tell about the Newgrounds London Meet Up, and also you're english... This shows us something from what you guys did there, because some people as me, didn't had the chance to go there, so more than see just pictures, we can have an idea for understand how this place is, and this looked like a mess haha, everyone drunk, hardcore names spelling, a guy like crying and some other things :P

I read the review under this one, that your microphone was new and a little CRACK-ING, but I didn't found this interrupting something in the voice acting, but sometimes when you speak, you can't hear the word you say because the little mic booms, also, the good, is that you placed the script in the author comments, this really turned your audio more easily to understand, because english is not my native language.

Vote 4
3.67 / 5.00 (+ 0.0061)
"Funny content!"

~Review Request Club~
SpyS.

Coop responds:

I'm glad that you liked my writing, as well as my vocals there - I have a feeling, but I'm not entirely sure, that this was recorded on my old microphone, so it could be redone with the new one, but I quite like it as it is.

I've always seen it as a necessity to add the script to the pieces, as some users might get confused, particularly as I use a lot of heavily accented pieces.

[MD2010-Fathom]

Transitions good, kind of annoying sounds!

This song is pretty cool as parts like 01:55, but I found really annoying these soundings from like a lot of bees as in 01:00.

I liked your intro transition, during 00:10, the sounds were pretty cool, and the sounding in 00:15~00:20, was pretty cool. Your transitions during the song were well made, I liked this kind of alarm sound during 00:50.

01:22, I liked the sounds behind, like these kinds of electro guitar or keyboard, I don't know what exactly is, but I really liked these kind of sounds, the growing up sound before the final transition was also cool.

I think I found these kind of sounds annoying, because my music preferences are symphonic orchestras or classical, but I don't at all Madness, maybe this be that songs were the Clown play.

Nice job in transitions and in some melodies and in choosing of background soundings, good percussion but didn't liked these kinds of old video games sounds.

Well nothing so much to talk about here.
Vote 4
4.31 / 5.00 (- 0.043)
"Transitions good, kind of but annoying sounds!"

~Review Request Club~
SpyS.

superuberinsaneausm responds:

dubstep/dnb is something you have to get used to by listening to it alot, the sounds that you think are bad is whats its accutally what there sopostu sond like.and is english your second language?? got some grammar issues in there.

[Stargenx - Dreamland]

Sounds great!

Wow, this sounds awesome! I liked the keyboard (I think is a keyboard) sounding was really cool, the flute (I think is a flute) percussion was really cool, the melody from the transition from 00:39 to 00:40 was really cool. But my favorite was the way that the music seems to grow up sometimes, like 00:35, but this can be perfect listen during 00:41-00:45. You did a nice job over this!

//NAME//
Dreamland, is a thing where really match with this piece of audio but I know that this is according with Kirby's Dreamland video game as you said on the Author Comments, the growing effect that I said, was perfect for saying something like a Dreamland.

//CONCEPT//
The concept from this was awesome, it seems to be a mission, level, stage or movie where Kirby is saving someone and helping people and having some congratulations from it as an end of game xD. Well, I never played Kirby, I'm just trying to put according with what this would be, you have created a really good background behind these things, it looks like a greenland, blue skies, cute clouds, points or coins, Kirby player and someone who is rescuing and such. This would be really great as an intro soundtrack for a game or menu, have everything well done with this.

//PERCUSSION//
The percussion was really interesting, it is not that repetitive percussions, this sounds like a good FX placed, it matches perfectly with the other sounds, transitions, melodies, harmonies and such. Your percussions sounds like that shell flutes hehe or a bamboo. You did a nice work here.

//EFFECTS//
The effects were AWESOME on this one, I liked the effects that they do like a growing up, I think they are some brass instruments like trombones, or maybe some strings, I don't know, because I don't play or do music and such :P, but your effects are one of the most amazing I've ever seen, nobody was so good as you in this piece, they looks like a transition and if it was a cartoon or game, like a sunshining and a blue background in a hapinnes day, never found so good audio piece with this kind of effects of yours, while listening to an audio like your effects, I love them and I became obssessed listening, as this one, I keep listening this one all the time, so you was really to catch the listener in this. This plays after each six seconds, but never sound something like repetitive, it ever sounds incredible, you really need some good credits here and a good advice, keep like this, people will really like your effects by this way, if you put these kind of growing effects on each song of yours, I'll heard them all lol. A really nice work, job, or everything else here, I already mentioned it here like thousand of times, it is amazing!!

//OVERALL//
Overally, this was amazing, interesting, not repetitive, good, nice, with great effort and obssessive hehe.
Keep like this!!

Voted 5
1.09 / 5.00 (+ 0.71)
8 votes
Rating: 10/10
Score: 10

*Sorry for any grammar mistakes that I could have done here*.
~Review Request Club~

Respectfully,
SpyS.

Stargenx responds:

Wow, thanks for the flattering review. XD

This song is very simple and consists of about 10 tracks. It doesn't loop as well on NG but I've seen very few songs that actually do.

Again, thanks for the review. :)

~Stargenx

[Deadmau5 Style]

Nice audio but repetitive....

My favorite from your audio, was the transition from 00:14 to 00:15, the instrument playing was really cool, the effects you used are really nice, but after 00:50~, the audio turns much repetitive, is the same sound playing everytime, like a looping.

I think you should add more instruments as a guitar, violin, bass, whatever, who could match with this piece.

I also liked that sounding what remember like a pivot being released, beetween the transition from 00:59 to 01:00, this FX was interesting, it is a drum plate I think.

Nothing so much to say here.
Add more sounds, FX and change this repetitive listening.
Voted 4
4.34 / 5.00 (- 0.055)
Nice audio but repetitive....

~Review Request Club~
SpyS.

Dj-GST responds:

Thanks for the review.

Yeah, it's a little repetitive, I'll be fixing that in the full version.

For 0:59-1:00, do you mean the crash?