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
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PuffballsUnited responds:

Wow! Thanks for the awesome review! :D

[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
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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
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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
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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!

[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
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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
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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

[Deep_Town_Blues [Box-Killa]]

Not bad i suppose...

I don't normally like jazz but i'll try not to be so baised in this review.

Not bad as a whole. the background was a bit too quiet and could've used a bit mroe depth. The guitar was bit too random for my taste but overall not a bad solo and considering u recorded it, i'll give you a bit of leeway.

Quite a good introduction although the saxophones could've used a bit more harmony to them. the synths blended in quite well with the rest as did the bass.

the background was also a bit repetitive but it was well mixed together and the bass sounded quite good.

Not bad work. Could've used a bit more work though...

Darklight17
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Box-Killa responds:

yes to everything lol, the solo was kinda bad, i can do a lot better. Meh it was fun. I lost inspiration half way through and couldnt think of anything to change the saxes around a but. Meh

thanks for the review :D

[[Assios] - Midnight]

Nice work!

Awesome sounds at the beginnig. Like the cheering.

Don't quite get why u called it midnight as in my opinion, its a bit too action packed to earn the title of midnight, but its ur call i guess.

Naming aside, the melody was awesome. great work on the snares and kick and the drums at the end continued to add the the great blend of rhytm and harmony. The bass was great but the ending was slightly abrupt. Could have used a cymbal or something there to kind of show that the song's finished.

The introduction of new instruments was great throughout the whole song and the interludes and gaps provided some variety so it didn't get too repetitive. Although u could have used a bit more of those.

Like Supersteph54 said "almost flawless" a few negatives got u a nine. Arrange those and u got yourself a ten ;)

Darklight17
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Assios responds:

Thanks, glad you liked it! :D I'll try to arrange the negatives mentioned in the reviews ;)

[Cast From the Stars (Chill MX)]

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Nice work. Like it better then the original. much improved. The Intro was great as it provided a build up for the rest of the song which then started when the bass drum came in. The drum blended in quite well with the melody.

The interlude at 1:17 provided a slight break from the overall melody and u also took care to put in enough of the same melody to provide enough repetitiveness to make a listener fell comfortable witht the melody and enough interludes and bridges to make it as varied as possible.

Like supersteph54 said (Another long review man ;0) it depends what u prefer. If its action packed and fast u like; the original is better. If not, this one is the one for you.

Overall nice work.

Darklight17
-Review Request Club-

Bracksta responds:

Thanks so much for the great review! I found it awesome that you found structure that i made without even realizing i created it, lol, if that makes any sense. I just make what ever feels right and sounds smooth or tight. A negative effect of doing this style of composing is that i didn't pay very much attention to the finer details of EQ. I am now focusing on the finer details. My collab with Gravy will hopefully show this :). Thanks for the great insight! peace brosif

[Village [Redux]]

Nice work man!

I thought u couldn't get any better but everytime u put out a new song u jsut amaze me even more. This one rocks. I always love it when u manage to blend everything all together especially in songs like this one.

The drums in the beginning are great and they keep on providing a steady rhytm throughout the whole thing which is something i like. Although, i agree with Supersteph54 about it not having an ending, i appreciate the fact that u wanted it as a loop. Still, it could use a sort of chord or note at the end to make it sound it actually finished, just my opinion.

All in all, great work. Brilliant. U can never stop amazing me. ;)

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ErikMcClure responds:

thank yous 8D