nal1200's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Big Red - I am a Poet]

I am so remixing this.

With your permission of course.

Great stuff!

BigRed responds:

Go for it. I didn't do it with a metronome so it might be tricky, but let me know how it goes!

[Banjo Kazooie Rap Beat]

No hihats? C'mon!

I was expecting a good funktastic beat to come in about halfway, or atleast some kind of change - but alas, the same kick and snare over and over again. Good concept, but needs work.

BadCommandCo responds:

The kick has a hi-hat on it :D. Seriously, the beat sounds better the way it is.

[p4c-Sometimes I Forget]

Rad!

I'm digging the percussion and melodic riffs here.

Only complaint would be the mastering (especially of the lower end) - the bass 'falls out' and could use a firmer kick as well as some better stereo panning on some of the instruments.

Other than that, this is a pretty sweet track!

p4c responds:

i tried editing in the bass a bit more but it might have been overkill [i dont have good speakers or headfones to mix with haha] tell me if thats good. ill see what i can do with the kick, too, since a guy before me also complained about it haha. thanks for the constructive crit!

[[KKK99] step off motherfucker]

You have..

Quite the potty mouth for someone who is believed to be ten years old.

Aside from the unnecessary cursing, your rapping is offbeat, there is an absence of melody, and all of the samples here sound straight from the FL packs.

A word of advice: try and make something as good as you can. Then, set it aside for a couple of days and listen to it again and try to improve on it.

Also, reading up on some music theory wouldn't hurt. A good place to start would be with "Scales," "keys," and "chords."

Hopefully you'll be on the road to improving in no time.

karlkoolkid1999b responds:

i have a cool mouth

[MH16: Playing In The Sand]

5'd

This is a nice, happy song!

I could easily see this as BG music in a game or something.

One thing that bugged me though was that the more mono-center instruments were too loud. (Personal preference, though.)

Other than that, nice work!

FairSquare responds:

Thanks for the advice, i'll take a look at the volume levels.
And thanks for the review!

[Filigree]

5'd

Very relaxing tune you've got here!

Only complaint was that perhaps the hats were a decibel or two too loud. But of course, that's a personal preference.

At any rate, keep it up!

vai90 responds:

Thanks. :)
Well, I could turn the hats down a bit but I think the song would loose some of its drive.

I'll check some of your tunes out, too if you don't mind. You have an awful lot by the way! :D

[Urban Night (demo)]

Good start, could use more melodies

It feels kind of static as of right now, you know?

Although i'm listening on some pretty shitty headphones at the moment.

At any rate, keep working at it!

bearwasdead responds:

Thanks Nal. I'll get on it.

[BeatSource - Rocking Late]

5'd

Good song, but there were a couple minor things that bugged me:

Additional panning effects on the "rock the place (bass?)" one shot vox would be a neat addition. The overly right panning got kind of irritating.

The lead is great, but for some reason I kept expecting to hear the melody play a DIFFERENT note on the fourth beat of the first measure in the first half of the chorus. That probably doesn't make too much sense, but it made me cringe for some reason. Of course that's just a personal preference.

This is definitely an original-sounding song in the realm of hands up, so that's good!

Keep it up!

Ethalyn responds:

"This beats gonna rock the place, beatsource coming steady gonna pump up the bass!" :)

I have SOME one shot vocals here though, i sliced alot of vocals and also used the Impact effect in VEC3 that sounds like an impact vocal.

Hah yeah i totally get what you mean on the melo man x) I mean. i dont feel the same way about this exact melo, but i totally get you!

Thanks a bunch man :)

[[KgZ] Jazzman (KgZ Vamp) ~SMB~]

5'd

Nice!

What a great reviewer I am, eh?

No but really, this is damn legit, son.

KgZ responds:

Hahaha, thanks for listening.

[Can I Be Your Cure?]

5'd

I absolutely love the experimental styles used here. Definitely a trippy song.

Probably my favorite part of the song was the guitar in the "foreground" that sounded as if it were far away. That's a neat trick.

As far as vocals, I think the guy below me nailed it.

At any rate, keep it up!

Kor-Rune responds:

Thanks man! I'm quite glad you like it.

I think I may redo the vocal track sometime, I completely agree with you guys.

Thanks again for the review!