Echo's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[MH16: Nowhere To Hide -NGAD-]

Nice work!

A brilliant and epic piece. Well done. Could've used more background namely using cellos and Double Basses as they are the key to every good epic song. However, you did a fantastic job of blending those other instruments together. As a musician i know how hard that can be. nice string work and i liked the use of timpani too. Ending was nice but slightly abrupt.

Darklight17

P.S This is your judging review from NGADM Round 1. I posted it for ya just cos its always nice to have more reviews.

FairSquare responds:

Thank you!

[Fingers Crossed]

Hm...

Well, snare is slightly too loud and it sort of covered everything else up. Piano was a bit too faint and could've used a bit more variety. Still, not exactly a bad job. Could've used more background and blend on the instruments and the instrument used in the background was slightly discordant in some parts. Drums needed more variety and the ending was slightly too abrupt.

Darklight17

P.S This is your judging review from NGADM Round 1. I posted it for ya just cos its always nice to have more reviews.

[)Structured Chaos(]

Not bad!

Not a bad job. Overall structure was great. Intro was slightly slow to start and the chord progressions werent as smooth as i would have liked. However, guitar quality wasnt bad and drums were fantastic and varied. Could've used a bit more humanizing. Ending was nice too.

Darklight17

P.S This is your judging review from NGADM Round 1. I posted it for ya just cos its always nice to have more reviews.

Kirbyfemur responds:

Hey thanks man. Good luck with those reviews on the rest of the competition! =3

[Finical [Minimal Mix] ADM-R2]

Not bad at all...

Now this is something amazing. Amazing intros set it off well, with a brilliant build up through the heavy kick and percussion.

Nice electronic intro which you then transitioned superbly into the calm part with the violin and those cool background instruments. What i didnt particularly like was the transition back into the kick part as it cut off too abruptly.

When the violins came back in, they blended fantasticly with the drums and if ud kept them on longer, it would have provided a nice set of variety. The outro anticlimax was very good too and ended the song brilliantly.

Overall, Nice work with the whole song but u could do with some minor adjustments.

Darklight17

djInTheDark responds:

Thanx dude, true on all accounts. Yeah I tried to extend the second build up of the pads but for some reason, it didn't really work. But I didn't extend it to the very end so that might be why.

Thanx again for the review!

[~BH~ DioSynth]

Superb...

Yet another superb song by a superb artist. Catchy melodies, catchy drums, superb blend, amazing background depth and fantastic transitions.

Melodies reminded me of some of F-777's songs, namely ones like Silver Sword, Dark Crystal and Air Fantasy but they were still well thought out and put together. Drums were varied and brilliant with amazing samples and a fantastic use of kicks and snares.

Synths were simply amazing and the fact that you probably made all of them urself gained you some more points too. Blend and background depth are perfect and i therefore have nothing to say about them except well done! Outro and intro were brilliant too.

Overall, this is one simply amazing song, so i guess that, as yoda would say, "another ten from me you have" ;)

Darklight17

ErikMcClure responds:

Yes, I did make all the synths myself, along with some sample editing. Thanks :D

[The Ancient Ones]

Nice Ambience...

Its a calm and soothing piece to tell the truth, even though it didnt have too much of a build to it , but then again, there's ambient for u...

this made me imagine a post apocalyptic world where there was only one survivor, lost on the vast deserted continents, trying to find his way back home.

It seems to me taht this is a very dark piece, which is exactly why i like it, and as coop said, this could be used in several parts of flash movies. Also, this could be slightly shorter as the whole ambience gets a bit repetitive after a while so maybe making it a loop would be better.

Overall, its a decent piece and if u arranged some slight negatives, ud go far.

Darklight17
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Monkeydelic responds:

Thanks :)

See my previous comment to Coop83 when it comes to the lenght of the song.

Thanks for the review :)

Namaste.

[Alien Relations - BK]

Fantastic Work!

the rythm is well thought out throughout really, its overall great and there isnt much that i'd improve. Just a couple of things though:

The melody was blended togethere very well it got slightly discordant in some slight parts and that instruments whihc u used (which sounds like a windows sound btw) got slightly repetitive in certain areas.

Background was great but got slightly repetitive towards the end as the drum beat was just repeating itself basically. Maybe u could work on a more varied drum beat.

Overall however, its fantastic and i think it'd deserve high marks wherever it went ;)

Darklight17
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Bracksta responds:

thanks darklight :) i appreciate the review! i tried to fix most of those issues in the remix :)

[LB - Your Beauty Defined]

Fantastic..

Srsly, this is a great piece, it hits something deep inside each of us whihc is just yearning to come out. U helped it to burst out. This piece is fantastic!

The strings and piano blended in brilliantly, i always like strings and piano, ever since i heard some of my fav authors on NG use them together fantastically, ive been on the lookout for string and piano.

The fact that u used a flute also helped seeign as im a great fan of the flute. However, the one thing i didnt like was that the ending cut off a bit too abruptly. Maybe u could wokr on that a bit more.

Overall, fantastic piece!

Darklight17
=Review Request Club=

Lublub194 responds:

Hmm... I haven't heard that about the ending, but maybe I'll have it fade out longer.

Glad the song touched you. I greatly appreciate the review :)

[4:20am]

lol, not bad...

well, its a good rap, at least, although the swear words all over the place dont exactly help. Frankly u could name it Swear seeign as thats basically all it is ;)

The background music is srsly good though, theres a decent melody, maybe u could submit this without words and work a bit mreo on the background. Im sure it'd do well.

Overall, its a decent piece, a good rap but nice work really goes to the instrumetns in the background.

Darklight17
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[Power of the Piano]

Holy Shrimps!!!!!!!

This is insanely better then the other one! and by insane i mean INSANE! This is better then the first version, way better in fact. Improved piano, improved bass, improved friggin everything!

ok, lets do this in an orderly fashion shalt we?

1) Improved Intro...

Intro was fantastically better then the original so that got ur pts up by a couple of dozen. I always like a good intro, IMO it gives a good first impression so it helps anyone who's listening to like ur song even more. Nice work on the intro XD

2) Imrpoved Transitions...

The title says it all really, HOLY SHRIMPS those are some good transitions? did i mention that this song is insane?

srsly, those transtitions are way better, everything just seems to blend into each other with smooth, precise (not to mention Insane) transitions. Fantastic job!

3) Improved melodies...

Again, INSANE melodies (im pretty sure ur sick of hearing insane by now...). U introduced alternate melodies basically everywhere which sure got my interest rate up (and that was amazing considering that i reviewed this at 11:04 am, about 4 mins after i got up...What? Its Sunday!)

4) Improved buildups...

i particularly liked the drum build up at 1:40 as that provided such an insane (ull be banging ur head against the wall by now) climax which srsly got my attention level even higher. Overall climaxes were great really and there was basically nothing u did wrong with this.

5) Improved Background

Again, fantastic job on this, u blended in the background with the melodies amazingly, making sure that nothing overpowered the main melody but that everything was harmonized. Great job!

6) Improved Friggin Everything...

Overall, this is an INSANELY (ull be heading towards an asylum by now...) great song which deserves every ten and every five it gets (five in the score of course). I downloaded this one as its jsut to good to be passed up. Congrats on making a fantastic song! Keep up the insane (i wonder where ull be now...) work!

Darklight17
=Review Request Club=

Step responds:

Yes, holy shrimps indeed XD.

Intro is much better mastered now which is probably why it sounds so er... insane.

Insane transitions are my speciality XD. I used a reverse snare, reverse kick and reverse cymbal (as you can see, I like reverse... you seem to like insane)...

Yeah, the melodies are rather, err... insane, =/. I wanted to try and make the craziest piano song ever to exist, and as a matter of fact, I might have succeeded XD. Whoa... you woke up at 11:00?? Now that IS insane.

*Bumps head on wall* I'm glad you liked the drum buildup there, it's the first time I used the Fruity Phaser, and the first time I used the Fruity Blood Overdrive XD. I wasn't too sure of the buildup, since I thought it'd make the song too boring, but every nerve of mine was screaming at me to add it, so I did ^^.

Everything was harmonized?? Whoa... that struck me... I need to take a rest and think about that... Everything harmonized? Seriously, something's wrong here...

*Comes back from asylum* Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it, I had fun making it so everybody wins XD. Anyway, I'll be off at the detention centre, because I banged my head onto 84 families' houses and now my town looks like a huge earthquake had occured. Thanks for the review!