SeeD419's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Rise of the Vampire Lord]

Not bad

It's not bad, and probably should have at least been given honorable mention, but to be honest with you it really isn't to my liking all that much. The intro was obviously well thought out, and done well, as well as the outro for that matter. However the actual song itself didn't really come off as catchy to me at all, and the whole song doesn't really seem to have enough of a halloween theme to it. It sounds a little daunting at times, but it just doesn't convey halloween to me.

The guitar part that starts around the middle of the song doesn't really do it for me. The melody it plays just seems kinda lame to me, and that might be just the sound it has. It just sounds like an electronically generated electric guitar to me, in other words, too generic sounding. That's basically what turned me off to it. Like I said though, the intro is fantastic, and I even liked the outro too. The buildup to the...errm...climax was good, but overall didn't really convey halloween to me, and that guitar was far too generic sounding for my liking. Keep at it.

-RRC-

F4LL0UT responds:

Thanks for the extensive and honest review. Well, you are probably right - as a matter of fact you're confirming my own impressions of the track. I was aware that it doesn't really hit the Halloween theme and I was myself quite disappointed by how the electric guitar turned out.

[Epilogue Title]

Perfect

Perfect for what you described. I'm sure with that art that it was totally appropriate. You're making me curious about this game, lol. Is it flash-based? If it is make them upload it!!

The song isn't very long, and I mean it's nothing I'd listen to in the car or anything, but for a menu where you wanted it to feel post-apocalyptic and have the player have a feeling of abandonment, it's a great tune. Keep at it.

-RRC-

F4LL0UT responds:

It's a little cynical to title a review "perfect" and then give a score of 7. :P Of course I get the idea that this piece isn't very impressive taken out of the context but it's kinda paradox. ;) Anyhow, thanks for the review.

And the game is based on Unreal Engine 3 so it's rather not stuff for Newgrounds. You can find actual gameplay footage on YouTube though. Check out the channel of MrMartinFischer (but be warned: it's not very impressive stuff since they removed about half of the game's content due to lack of time and technical problems).

[For Ryan]

Not bad

You deleted one of the longest reviews I ever wrote....like the same day I wrote it >B(

The song isn't bad, I mean it's a great tribute to have to your friend. I think it might have been more interesting if you tried to write the lyrics from his point of view though. The beat is appropriate I suppose, but not all that interesting really. The lyrics are meh as well. I don't think it's one of your best works, but I'm sure a very necessary song to make seeing what happened to your friend.

Keep at it

-RRC-

Luke responds:

I apologize about removing that track with your long ass review, I should have thought about that before removing the song from the portal, but I had to upload the mixed one, shouldn't have removed it though. My bad.

This song was more meant to be a 'bonus' on my upcoming downloadable album, it's off getting mixed right now so it will sound better than it does now, re-recorded and everything because I noticed in the second verse my voice sounds a lot different.

Thanks for the review.

[Raider Cave (Epilogue)]

Nice

I love the sound this has, it fits a shooter game really well. It has a very dark and battle-appropriate sound to it...more like a sneaking around in enemy territory sound really. It's nice and lengthy as well.

The percussion is toned down and blends amazingly. It has a real professional sound to it. The mixing on this track is almost flawless. Not sure what instrument the brass noise is, but it also sounds very good. Especially the two of them playing at once.

The notes you picked are very daunting, and just create a really perfect mood for a shooter game. I can see this being played at the Modern Warfare 2 main menu no problem, although I think this sounds a bit more dark than that game.

Overall a fantastic song/loop. Keep up the great work.

-RRC-

F4LL0UT responds:

Thanks for the kind words. "Sneaking around in enemy territory" is pretty close to the idea behind this piece. I wouldn't ever use such a piece in a game based in an "authentic" scenario such as Modern Warfare 2 (and personally I despise the CoD franchise) but I'll take it as a compliment. ;)

[Endevour]

Okay

It's not bad really, but I don't see how it's really a loop at all...more of a short tune. It sounds to me like you're mixing sounds that don't blend very well, and weren't EQed very well to me. The beginning was very pleasant, and then at around :40 you added in two new sounds that just didn't seem to blend well with the original beat at all. It just kinda turned into a conglomeration of sound that didn't really sound all that musical to me.

After :40 the song seems to lack any real sense to me, but the beginning was great. Up until that point everything was pleasant, and then at :36 it's like...hmm...and then the other strange noise comes in too and it just seems to take a strange dramatic turn. At 1:00 all the noises I'm hearing don't seem to blend into anything that sounds musical really, but more of a blur of random sounds. 1:26 was a bit better, but I still think if you threw that through a mixer you could make it sound a lot better.

The ending was rather strange as well, and it certainly didn't make it loop.

Not my cup of tea, I suppose. Keep at it though.

-RRC-

[.:Right off the top:.]

Meh

It's okay, but overall not that moving in my opinion. The beginning sounds okay, I have no complaints about that at all really. It's when the horn comes in that it sounds almost a tad bit obnoxious. It just doesn't sound like a very pleasant kind of horn, it sounds like the kind of horn that makes me reach for the volume knob to turn it down, so in my opinion, I'd turn it down a tad. The background horn is fine to me.

It's an okay loop, it doesn't make much sense to me to loop the way it does, but I suppose it works alright. The instruments sound okay though...the poppy bass line sounds okay to me, as well as the mellow percussion, and the background horn - just the main blaring horn is a bit overkill to me. Sounds too alarming.

Overall not a bad little tune though, just nothing really special either.

-RRC-

camoshark responds:

Thanks for the review!

The piece wasn't meant to be moving anyways, it was supposed to simply be a track to listen to in the background.

As for the brass, I guess it's all a matter of percetion, as I quite enjoy them! (Also, it's two horns you're hearing, the sax and the trumpet.)

Glad you still liked it!

Cheers

[Glitch-Nerd Like Me]

Not half bad

Well, let it be known right off the bat that rap is not my thing at all. I listen to almost none, but I must admit I find this song pretty catchy.

I wanna say that most of it is because of the beat that you didn't even make, but without a good rap to it, there's no way I would have downloaded this.

The rap is pretty much flawless. I honestly can't point out any flaws in it, and the same with the beat. The beat isn't repetitive at all, it's actually more complex than I expected and you flowed to the song perfectly. The vocal echo effects you used were a really nice touch and they all seem appropriately placed.

The video game references and general theme of the song is hilarious, and adds a lot of character to the song, instead of some mindless song about you getting high or something we've all heard a million times over.

To say the least, I'm impressed, and I've recently tried to rate things on a much stricter scale than ever before, but I must honestly say this track deserves a solid 9. As far as lasting effect goes, only time will tell. I actually downloaded this which is surprising to me, so I must say, keep up the good work - this is good.

Oh, and you should post the lyrics in the author comments.

glitchs2d responds:

Haha thanks and I play a lot of games so they have to be incorperated in my lyrics somehow. There is also a transformers refence in there to. I might post up the lyrics its just I hate typing all of it out you know.

[House of Rising Sax Sample]

Wow!

What a change from the other song I just reviewed. Nice, crisp, and clear. How pleasant - I did not expect this at all to be honest.

The ending to this does sound a bit odd...was that intentional playing with the instrument? Not sure what to make of it, as this is a very short sample. It would have been much more enjoyable if the entire song was here, or even a longer sample at that.

The recording from the last submission of yours I reviewed is FAR better. It sounds 100% better in every way - except at the end....still not sure what that was, as it sounds a bit glitched...

Well, now that you've got a good recording setup I look forward to hearing some new tracks with it ;) Maybe even continue to add on to them in FL. Do the mild echo you've done before, maybe with some light background pads for extra effect, or even some percussion. The possibilities are endless. I'd just personally like to hear something much longer than a very short sample.

Keep it up.

-RRC-

AccountableMasses responds:

yeah, this sort of surprised me too.

Pretty much took the mic, put it into a gumball dispenser, filled with rags...
Edited it in FL8 to take out the noise... and got this...

Must be all the filters that screwed up the ending... anyways thanks for the review.

[Thank Our God Cornet/Trumpet]

Well

I hate to give you such a low score, but I'll tell you why this isn't to my liking.

I'm sure this sounds great in person, but the recording is pretty flawed. It sounds muffled for the most part and I can hear a lot of crackling. I'm not sure if it was intentional, but there's a strange panning going from channel to channel and it sounds really out of place for something like this. It wouldn't suit something like a trumpet recording at all, which, in my opinion you would want to be as crisp and clear as possible I would imagine.

I played the trumpet for a few years, as does my grandpa, and it sounds like you know what you're doing. The trumpet playing itself isn't the issue at all - I seriously think you need to invest in a different recording medium. Now back in the day when I recorded guitar tracks, I used a shitty mic and windows sound recorder and it sounded a lot like this, although I've since changed and started doing electronic music instead - thus - I have no recording advice for you...

Overall what I'm trying to say is that I'm not insulting you as a musician, but I'm not really sure what advice to give you either. I'm not sure what the best way to record a trumpet would be really, but whatever microphone you've got doesn't seem able to handle it. I'd consider buying another one if you'd really like to clean this up and continue to reach out to others with your music. A crisp and clean version of this would be fantastic.

I noticed the mild echo you put in, and it sounded good with the recording. It was just so muffled, crackled, and panning left to right so much that it was almost impossible to enjoy as it stands.

Keep at it though, and I hope I'm not coming across in any way as insulting. I'm just being honest with you as to why I did not enjoy this much and trying to give you as much constructive criticism as possible.

AccountableMasses responds:

yeah.... but used a crappy mic from wally world and windows recorder and got a better sound out of it. Or a video camera then ripped the audio that way.

So went to buy another one from a music store and man....
This one picks up everything!

Anyways, yeah, still learning how to do and master recordings. Not sure about the mic, that half the problem....the place I record is there other half.

Was aiming for a church like sound where I play sometimes at church on Sundays and used alot of filters just to cut down on background noise....

I've only been playing again for a year, but used play back in high school, and that was like 11 years ago..

Again, thanks for the review...
maybe should buy that horn mic after all.

[Þú ert það sem þú gerir (DEMO)]

Well done

The first impression I get from this within the first 5 seconds is very good. It starts of sounding great and doesn't waste any time at all. The guitar sounds nice and distorted, and not in an obnoxious way at all. The drums are very appropriate and the changes in them were to my liking. The notes in the main melody make the riff very catchy.

As for the second part, also well done. Sounds quite catchy, and the melody is great. Totally sounds like video game music to me.

The third part, more calming, was very pleasing to hear. I like how the song seems to have multiple moods to it all within one relatively short piece. The drum work you did at this part was outstanding, and the extra guitar seemed to blend ok...maybe a tad overpowering though. The cutting of the drums at the end was appropriate and the ending was good.

Keep up the good work.

-RRC-

TheUprising1 responds:

Thanks for the review!
I really put alot of work into all of this, especially the drums.. good to see someone noticed, lol. Though I don't get how it sounds like video game music, but hey, that's a good thing, right? :D It's some kind of character theme (even though for real life, in case that makes sense) after all!

- TheUprising