Echo's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Industrial Cavern]

Amazing...

This is an amazing piece of music. So well thought out and written, its unbelievable!

Introduction was great and really captured the mood of some kind of factory A robot army being built in its depths. Once the bass came in, the song become even better.

Although the bass become a bit repetitive throughout the song, the moment when it came out on its own were perfect. Once the main melody came in, variety was amazingly good and u did quite a good job at keeping the music non-repetitive and light.

there was a very good interlude near the middle whihc provided a break from the main instruments and introduced a new one (the bells). These bells provided a good transtition and a good background later one.

The song had a very good background which, although it tended to become repetitive, was well thought out and was amazingly similar to what u hear in a factory. Good job :)

Ending was great too, with the music slowly fading away as you left the factory behind. Amazing work on this front man.

Anyway, jsut to recap:
-Amazing Intro
-Very realistic Sounds
-Good Instrument Samples
-Amazing depth and background
-Very varied
-Awesome Ending
-Amazing job man :0

Darklight17
-Review Request Club-

PuffballsUnited responds:

Wow! Thanks for the awesome review! :D

[Crossing the Mountains]

This...Is...AWESOME!!!!!!

I can't believe hwo u actually did this. It sounds so utterly amazingly fantastic. Great work. very very good :D

Ok, first of all, as in The Dragon's Teeth, the samples sound very very realistic and they are all mixed in amazingly. honestly, are u hiding an orchestra in your computer????

Intro was very good. liked they way that it climaxed into the main melody which then repeated itself one time and gave way to an interlude with the strings. This procedure was reapeated in other parts of the whole thing, providing so much variety and blend that it blew my mind away (Not to mention my ears, i played this with a surround system and i gotta tell you, bass sounds so awesome, and with the panning and all, it was amazingly enjoyable)

I can honestly imagine this in a film or something. It honestly leaves me craving for more. I can't believe how something thsi great would not make it to the tope 50 at least. Very good work.

Nice drum work, timpani right? wre'd u get such good samples? Amazing blend of the background. Strings soudned so good and flutes and other woodwind provided a responding melody which gave it even more depth.

Then, to top it all off, u ended it so splendidly that i jsut stood there with my jaw wide open. Amazing ending dude. U gave it quite a bit of a bang and the resounding boom nearly felled my house lol :p

I got nothign to recap for this one except THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!

Nice work! Keep it up!

Darklight17
-Review Request Club-

P.S. Cool name btw ;)

[The Dragon's Teeth]

Woah...So cool...

How? how did u manage to get it to sound so realistic?

This is unbelieveable man. I'm defintely gonna favourite this and add u to my favourite authors.

Intro was a bit too quiet, but it defintely kicked ass when the drums came in. Transition from intro to new melody was awesome. Liked the fact that u introduced more isntruments along the way.

Strings in the background were awesome, purely great. I liked the part which started at 1:13 where the strings were doing those cool arpeggios which blended really well with the music. Very good man. Depth was so deep that if u dropped a pebble in this it would take ages to get to the bottom. ;-)

pity it was a bit short but other then that it was great. Ending was fantastic, ending with a bang which left the listener knowing it was over but craving for more. Very, very good.

The samples u used are so realistic. Can u tell me where u got them?

Anyway, jsut to recap:
-A fantastic song overall
-Amazing intro
-Magnificent Ending
-Astoudning Depth and Bakcground
-This song is so cool!

Darklight17
-Review Request Club-

[PPC2 - Forest II]

Again, awesome work!

Liked the first oen better, but still, that's only my opinion. btw, i forgot to ask in the first review, can i remix the first one, that is to say, use the melody and still anme you and the original name of the song. tks ;)

Anyway, back to reviewing:

Very good intro and once again, very good guitar work. Notes were a bit discordant in some parts but the overall result was quite good.

background needs to be better, depth wasn't quite as good as the first one. maybe you could use the same vocals. Just an opinion ;)

melody got a bit repititive in some parts cos there weren't as much interludes as the first one.

liked the ending though, good work on that one, Also, you kept an amazing rhytm which is not as easy as it sounds when ur playing alone. Nice work.

Anyway, jsut to recap:
-Once again, good guitar work
-Needs more depth
-Good Intro
-Nice Ending
-Melody got somewhat repetitive
-overally good work

Darklight17
-Review Request Club-

Monkeydelic responds:

Off course, that'd be cool :)

Thanks again for kind words and helpful feedback :)

Namaste :)

[PPC2 - Forest I]

Woah!

Nice work dude. This is great.

Like Sessile Nomad said u need a better mic but as for music and the rest, this is awesome.

Intro was great and provided a small climax which then faded away into the main melody. I liked the vocal backgrounds you used after the intro,they gave the song mroe depth and made it more interesting.

Melody was repetitive in some parts but u made up for it with awesome guitar work, nice work man.

I think it needs a drumbeat in some places and maybe a little delay in some parts to make it sound more chordish, giving the song added depth.

Transitions were basically smooth and well thought out especially enar the end when the ending guitar work came in. Could have use a reverse cymbal in som places. But still, good work.

In a recap:
-Nice guitar
-You need a better mic :p
-Very well thought out
-Nice depth
-Amazing intro and ending
-U rock man. :)

I favourited this and gave it a five and a nine only cos of the mic thingy. but still, nice work. I'm gonna check out the other one ;)

Darklight17
-Review Request Club-

Monkeydelic responds:

Thanks alot :) it is grealy appreciated.

Thanks for rating and review.

Namaste :)

[Big Red - Ain't No Sunshine]

Woah! Nice!

A very good piece. Well thought out lyrics and really liked the way that your voices blended in together.

A good intro. Slow rhytm but still very good even though slow rhytms are so often penalised on Newgrounds.

A very nice measure of depth, drums and background blended in very well with your voice and although the melody wasn't too varied, the nice measure of interludes and gaps certainly provided enough variety to net get the lsitener bored.

Your voice kept a good pitch throughout. u have a very ncie voice man, keep it up.

Cool ending too, like the ritardando at the end (To all of you who don't understand what taht means, it's when the rhytm gets slower at the end of a phrase or song ;])

One thing though. I'm not trying to be the english critic or anything but you do know that "Ain't No sunshine" technically means that there is infact "Sunshine". Double negative man. ;) Just a tip.

A very good overall piece though. Keep up the good work and you're sure to go far.

Darklight17
-Review Request Club-

BigRed responds:

As much as I'd love to take credit for writing the song I do have to admit it's originally written by Bill Withers. This is merely a cover. So email all grammatical errors to his recording company! haha

Thanks for the in depth review!

[byzentine awesome.]

Hmm...

Well, it wasn't what i'd call great. Nor was it what i'd call hopeless though.

Intro was a bit off in my opinion and it cut off too abruptly. The first sax melody just cut off abruptly. It certainly sounded arabic, in some parts but the sax and drums didn't blend in whatsover.

There was virtually no depth to the whole thing. Just two layers responding each other, getting softer in some parts, louder in others. Drums were a bit repetitive too and this could get boring even in a short song such as this one.

Sax melody was arabic, true, but it was also repetitive and a bit off in some places. Could use a bit of work in some places. transitions weren't exactly smooth either and u defintely could use some help in this department.

Ending was also too abrupt in my opinion. The sax just cut off after repearting the same thing over and over again. Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to be harsh, i'm just trying to get you to notice all the negatives you have throughout.

So just to recap on what u have to do:

-Put in a more varied melody, including some chords if possible.
-Put in some instruments in background, adds depth.
-Get a better drumloop and a better Sax sample.
-Improve Intro
-Improve Ending
-Blend in layers more effectively.
-Imrpve transitions.

All in all, not a bad concept for a song, but it definetely needs work.

Darklight17
-Review Request Club-

[The Storm's Rage (WiP)]

Good Work man!

This is an absolotely great piece of music. honestly, you say this is oyur first attempt??? Ur very first?!?!?! Wow!

Great intro, a bit similar to Blackhole12's Lost in the storm because he put in thunder too but seeing as u added wind and rain too i suppose it was a great idea for an intro. There was a lot of blend to the music, good job, transitions were quite smooth too :)

Good interludes provided enough variety to not make the listener bored and the main melody was repeated enoguh times to make the listener comfortable with it. Good job on the guitars and the drums went really well with the whole thing.

Loved the bass guitar btw and the background was great too, providing enough depth to the whole thing. Great work. Honestly, if this is your first work, can't wait to hear more!

One thing though. It was a bit short. I gave u a nine for that (aren't i evil? :P). Maybe you could lenghten the thingy a bit. Lol, enjoy!

Great job on the ending too. basically the same as the intro but great work. liked the short piano solo too. nice glissando. Good job overall.

Keep it up man. so just to recap:

-make it longer
-it was a great song
-good intro
-good ending
-varied melody
-amazing main melody
-brilliant sound effects (heartbeat at begining was awesome)
-Good job on sondfonts
-nice drumbeat

All of that got u a nine, a five and a favourite ;)

Amazing work man. Can't wait for more!

Darklight17
-Review Request Club-

Step responds:

Hehe, thanks XD. Actually, I got the inspiration of this song from Lost in the Storm, TBH :P. I do usually work quite hard on the transitions in my songs, so I'm glad you liked them. I never knew the guitars would work that well in this song, since they're all fake and from soundfonts. It's true that it's a little short, but that's why it's a WiP, practically; just to make it longer, since I'm quite happy with what I have right now. Thank you for the detailed review, and the recap XD. Glad you liked it!

[SN |Pristine| SN]

Um...No title sry :)

Not a bad piece. Quite a good job actually. Liked the mixture of Ambient and DnB. Worked out quite well. Liked the transitions. They were smooth and quick. DnB rhytm was great and blended in really well with the ambient melody.

harmony was a bit off in some parts, especially around the beginning. Nice piano work, although it could use a bit more chords. liked the fact that the rythm got faster before it moved on to DnB.

Liked the sound effects. Great job on the background music although it coudl use a bit more depth to it. I saw it as alienish and not exactly pristine but ur call i guess. Nice work on the ambient background during the intro.

Drums sounded pretty good too although they could've been a little bit more varied but i'm not one to talk seeing as i'm not that good with drumbeats. Liked the slow ending too. Good job on that.

50th song! woah man! i only got two lol...

Tks for ur review on mine btw. really appreciated it ;)

Darklight17
-Review Request Club-

SessileNomad responds:

yeah i couldnt use chords with this piano sample i found because if i started hitting bass notes, the damn piano would start clipping even though it was nowhere near going past 0-Db

i pretty much names the song around the chorus, and i realy think the melody during that part is very uplifting and happy, to i went with that title

i dont see alien-ish at all in this one, or any of my pieces for that matter xD

im glad you lied it

peace out dude

SessileNomad

[=NGA= Pound The Beat]

How?!?! How the heck do you do this?!?!

That my friend is purely totally and amzingly awesome.

I never was that much of a fan of hard trance but this honestly unhinged my jawboneso much that my lower jaw nearly fell off :)

Catchy melodies provided enough variety for it not to get boring and the great transitions also continued to amaze me. the voices in some parts were great too and they were used in good places.

It had a fast and catchy tempo which got your blood pumping and i could honestly visualise this in a movie where there's a chase or a fast action-packed fight.

The drums were overall perfect. Varied and with good transitions.

Great song. If this is your first try, can't wait to see more.

Amazingly impressed by the stuff that u put on the Request list this week. Good job.

Darklight17
-Review Request Club-