Rich209's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Action / SciFi trailer]

Good, but I have a few comments. The solo violin sound is a bit too harsh for me and is very hollow sounding. Its not pleasant at all on the ears, maybe try a marcato sound instead. I also think the entrance of the violin at around 1:09 seems a little off. Besides those few little negatives you got good work here. The cello sounds pretty decent and when the other strings that enter sound good as well. Overall good job.

lantaren responds:

I was going for a very hallow violin sound, harsh was pretty much the intended effect. Supposed to sound like the violin is being played very forcefully I agree that 1:09 is a bit strange, but it made the most sense out of any transition into the next phrase.

[Promise]

I thought it was okay. The chord progression you have here is pretty good and the content sounds original, but the instruments sound bad to me. This might just be because you lack the funds to have higher quality sounding instruments. Which is fine for now, but I think if you want to really get some listeners you need better stuff. Check out East West they have somewhat cheap quality stuff.

CeeeX responds:

I think the most painful thing is I´ve mainly used East West for this piece to make it sound so cheap x´D

[Diana's Theme]

It was a okay piece. From the beginning to about 0:55 sounds off. The notes you've chosen just don't work well. Harmonically speaking its almost random at best. What I think would work better is taking your main theme and having your bass line play it at the beginning. Overall you have some really good ideas, but they just don't fit too well together. Another example is the melody that starts at 0:55. That is quite nice, but the bass sounds really bad. Maybe use pizzicato instead of those really harsh marcato notes. There are several other places where the articulations you chosen just don't seem to fit in. You have some mixing issues as well. There is almost no dynamic contrast and if you had them they could easily make your piece sounds a hundred times better despite the issues I mention earlier. Although these are my opinions and not the rule, I think they could really make this piece something special.

asid61 responds:

Thank you so much for your review!
For the beginning, I was trying to provide some kind of contrast to the main chorus, but I'll play around with the beginning and see what I can get.
I'll see how a piz. Bass line sounds. Listening to it now, I can see that they kind of blend in the with teh main lines too.
Mixing is new territory for me. I'll run a few searches and see how mixing works.
Again, thank you so much for the input!

[Knights of the Cross]

Very nice piece. Could easily see this in a Stronghold game. I also really dig the extra sound effects you added in your piece. It really helps create the world you're making with the music.

SoundChris responds:

Thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed my little piece, my good sir :D

[Future]

Nice piece. Liked your transitions and everything flowed well. One thing to just consider in the future is maybe using more variety in the melody. You had the same progression going for pretty much the entire piece, which is fine, but if you really want to keep the listener more engaged you need more variety on that front.

Pandasticality responds:

il note this tip up, thank you for your review, really helps.
- Pandasticality

[Silvis]

Interesting piece. It's pleasant on the ears and has some nice chords, but it is all over the place. It is almost random at best, so I would consider fleshing out a actual structure. Also maybe use more variety in rhythm. Overall I think you have a decent start.

asid61 responds:

Thank you! I was mainly looking at the chords here and seeing if I have somewhere to go. Just an idea right now.