gmanyo's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Skela - Mighty]

This is...pretty good!

I really liked what you did here! Would make for good video game music. Definitely a bit repetitive, though (again, though, it would be awesome for a some sort of flash videogame). If you want the song to be better for just sitting around and listening to, I think you should switch stuff around and add more tracks. Do some cool stuff to the middle, add different synths, more bass for depth. Great song, still, I really liked it! Just got a bit repetitive. I think, though, that you should just turn the entire song into a loop and give it to someone to use in an action-videogame, and maybe they would even pay you for it, because this is actually pretty high quality stuff! Or try and get it on www.flashflashrevolution.com (like dance dance revolution but with your fingers). Thanks for uploading. PM me if you remaster it!

Skela responds:

Big review!
Big thanks!

This song is actually designed for a game, a "epic battle" feeling.
Mastestering is pretty hard, for the song to be loud, but not too loud.
Anyways, thanks again for the big review!

[VerteX - Ancient Tribes]

Cool song!

I really think you have something going here! Mix it up a bit more, it gets annoying towards the end. Add more layers! Definitely reminds me of the band Justice. Change the bass sound at the beginning. The song might sound better with more tracks, but it seems like you're going for sort of a simple, yet powerful, minimalist style. In that case, remove some of the tracks doing extra stuff and just change the tracks you already have to help the song move along. Also, do something with the higher synths that come in. Keep them there, they make for a really good rise-and-fall sort of thing (all bass to high, more complex synths, and then back to bass again), but do something else with them, they get a bit annoying.

Anyway, pretty good, I actually kind of liked the introduction, except for the bassline. PM me if you remaster it!

[Smooth Jazz]

Sorry, but...

Using magic garageband and changing a couple instruments doesn't really count as making your own song. Sorry, but that feature was more for kids to play with and people who didn't know how to use the program, so that they could make fun, quick music. Try making your own stuff! Research how to use the program and then start learning!

[[EtR] Breath]

Very original

I can see the sound that you're going for. Make it more mellow, don't add those weird synthy blips in, and opt for more ambient or glitch basslines, and add some distortion to your upper EQ. That's what I would do, at least. I like how you're trying to mix the straight up synths with ambient (keep trying weird stuff like that, you might just find something really cool!), but it's not working out too great. If you want to keep using the weird blippy synths, make them more complicated, and mix them up a bit. The song got really repetitive after awhile. Also, you might want to try changing it into a minor key, but then again, you don't hear much music like this in a major key, so it really helps add originality :) . I liked it toward the end when you had all your tracks running. I would have given you a 5/10, but I like the originality, so +2 makes 7/10. PM me if you remaster it!

Oh, and by the way, you don't need to credit soundsnap, it's actually legal to use their stuff commercially, I read their license (I really love that site). Thanks for uploading!

EthernalRain responds:

Thank you very much, for the critics. I'll remember them in the future.

=)

[@ndrea - Silver Rose]

Nice rave

Really nice beats. Way better than anything I've ever made, but I do have some advice: if you want to create a genre, be a bit more original. I mean, this is great stuff, but it's not that much different. Add your own twists to the music. Try crazy shit!
Still loved it, though.

AndreaDigita responds:

Okay! XD

Tnx for the review ^^

[Sratus Groove (Tempest09Mix)]

Really good

Sweet rave, man. I liked the movie sample! It may have been illegal, but nobody knows do they? I really liked it. Got a tiny bit annoying at the end, though.

[porcelain]

Annoying

Sounds a bit like you made it with mario paint or something. Cool loop, but not great for an entire song. Way to repetitive.

It DID work perfectly with the badgers, though, so I'll give it that!

[D*MESS - Candyman (JMP)]

Cool, but not amazing

Nice twist on rave, but it wasn't great. Add more, make it intricate and complicated. To some glitch crap with the drums (I'm a sucker for glitch, lol). I liked the general outline, though. Definitely needs more, still.

dmess responds:

thx, like i sayd, it's just a preview and comments like yours are usefull :D
I keep in in mind for the mixoff.

[Castles In the Sky (MilkMix)]

Alright

Pretty good, but very formulaic. Go for something different, this is just straight up DDR rave. Well mixed, but not good for much but rave parties. Still good, tho, just not deserving of top 5. I'd give it 6.5 or 6.7 if I could.

[2 Tha Fullest]

Good but...repetative.

Was cool at first but I got tired of it.