TVs-Slayer's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[staticnoise -beware the lichen]

Good originality

Those pauses give the song a calipso like quality to it. Seems a bit random at first but it works well. The synths are a little basic. Wish there was another layer of harmony to it, could have added a lot. Bassline is basic, but functional, as is the drumline. Most of the attention is spent on the synth melody, so I thought there could have been more to it. The song has some great original ideas, just don't think it was fleshed out enough. Overall a worthwhile effort.

Oh, and I see you submitted a bunch of songs at once. Well, you won't have any trouble being seen, as you've taken up a third of the page! Personally I figure it would have been better if you submitted a couple tracks every day. Things just tend to get lost here in groups, whereas submitting them two at a time for a few days would make people anticipate the arrival of the tracks. Just me though.

staticnoise responds:

Thank you so much for the specific details in what you wrote, it's incredibly helpful to me.

Yeah, with my older stuff, i was still figuring out melody. I think i'm finally getting a little better with, maybe you'll notice in my later tracks.

Thanks also for the advice in submitting. I'll have to think about how best to put stuff up here.

[*Love Trigger* [ZeRo BaSs]]

Great theme music

From the very first note of this song it sounded like a winner. Very nice synth melody, good beat, drums are splended, sound quality is awesome, good contrast, yeah, good all around the board. And it only starts to get slightly repetitive around the 5th loop over. This is a very high quality work that resembles old 8-bit video game character themes. At least that what it reminds me of. Starts out fast and doesn't let up, without any nasty build to contend with. Really wish I could make music of this calibur. Oh well. Nicely done track, as if I haven't said that before.

ZeRo-BaSs responds:

^_^ thx Slayer

[PaNdOrA-The Striker]

Good example of house-trance

I must say before I start, I've made the point before on other people's tracks, I absolutely loathe that drumroll! Its in every damn techno or trance song I've heard! But score wise I didn't gold it against you.

Okay, now onto the review proper. Its really repetitive, moreso than a lot of trance i've heard. But its got a good theme to it, and proficient use of samples. Good solid bass line accompanies the drum line. And overall synth use. Just needs more variety, or could be turned into a shorter loop. Just lost my interest in it when it looped again. Overall though good song, just leave the drumroll out and put more stuff in it and it'll be better.

Pandora-Tranquil responds:

i dont know if u noticed, but it doesnt just loop twice, the melody turns into like a melody remix halfway through with new sounds and stuff, newayz thanks for the review.

glad u liked SOME parts of it lol

PaNdOrA

[PianoTryout]

Yeah... that damn mic...

Few problems with the production of this track. Obviously the mic needs to find a stationary postition, and probably needs to be closer to the source of the music. Unless the audio is naturally quiet, its seems like it was recorded from another room. But the piano synth was well done, good choice of music, all that. Really gotta fix that mic, or get a new one, cause otherwise this is a really good session loop.

Ev1lCl0wn responds:

Lol, thanks. The mic was about a foot away from the source, and I even had to turn up the recording bit about 300% for you to hear as it was now. Still trying to fix the mic, Ill prob just get a direct midi cable to go to the computer. Thanks, again. =)

[Scary Sounds #1]

Gasp! Choke!

The thing sbout thses ambient tracks is that they really don't make sense to listen to without being in whatever enviroment that was intended. The lopp had some variety, but came off as really generic. Good experimentation, just didn't stroke me. I've done a couple ambient tracks with no purpose myself, and they aren't particularly good eithier. Check out my track 'Loose Pipe Fittings' and you'll see what I mean. Overall an okay idea, but the execution was a little weak.

JuggaloJosh responds:

Sorry

[Tim Burton's Brain]

Very ecleptic

This is jammy and all that, but keeps a good rythm all throughout. As usual it goes through its paces, but doesn't get lost along the way. And the song quality for this has finally gotten good. I was actually expecting something totally different froma track named Tim Burton's Brain, but now that I've given this a listen I can't remember what I was expecting. Good chord work, nice melodies, basically this song has all grounds covered. Only problem I can see with it is that because its so jammy and goes in a lot of directions, some users may deride the 'formlessness' of the song. But I'm all for it. Keep up the great tuneage.

jaredpresley responds:

It's ironic that I gave one of my most melodic songs in that name. i was inspired by him writing this song. I have no clue how it came up to this. Thanks for the review.

[snowblind]

Competent playing

Keeps the tempo pretty much throughout the song. Not a bad cover, I heard far worse covers of Snowblind. Just that its just a 30-odd second jam. Would have worked better as a loop. But thats purely my opinion, some other users many not appreciate a loop. The sound quality isn't very good though. Just demo quality. And it ends rather abruptly, like you just gave up. The playing is very good, but the track itself kinda sucks. Just work on getting the sound quality better, thats my main issue.

poblodiablo responds:

thanks

[checking it inside]

Its got some good parts

But the whole songs is too repetitive. And the ending is really weak, its like the song just stops. But the theme throughout is very good. Just the first filter change comes suddenly. The socond filter change was a little better, but could be worked on. The bassline is solid, but a little plain. Not a bad track, but could be better.

the-postal-dude responds:

Thank you so much for reviewing this track.

Yes I know this song is repetitive. This is just a little part of it.
The real song is 7 minutes. It isn't complete.

I've got to add another bass effect.

And I'm going to add a bit of lyrics with the voices of my friends.

Thanks againf or listening.

[Legend of Zelda: Kokiri Forest]

A bit bass heavy

Yeah, its a bit different take on the theme, but in keeping the bass and cello up front and center, it kinda squeltched the melody. Plus its slowed down a little. Not that the speed affected the score or my thoughts on the song too much. Just the sound quality bothers me, too much hissing when the volume is turned up, and the default volume is too low. But technically the song is well made. And I've ran out of complaints. So let me end on saying that the take on the theme is good, but recording issues bring it down.

stealthsamurai responds:

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by hissing. And the bass parts are too loud compared to the maelody? Do you have any reconmendations on how I should fix the sound quality? It would help. Thanks

[Where am I now?]

Very random

Though what was with that drum beat?! Was that another song playing in the background? Well, very random indeed. There was a couple flat notes at the beginning, but afterwards the song started to take form and, while still random, sounded pretty good. You took this track places and it came back a bit confused but generally better for it. You've got an esoteric style of playing that really came out during this jam. What else can I say? If it weren't for that off drum track I would have given this a 9.

jaredpresley responds:

The intro is really different than the rest. As far as a jam goes it went pretty well, I still have the outer form on audio cassette so I could always change the drums.