SpamWarrior's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[(FULL VERSION) Con Permiso]

Something is wrong here

I have no doubt you're a good artist, but 2,250 downloads and 7 reviews? Maybe goths dont bother spreading love and telling people when things are good, but that seems a little wrong to me.

Anyway, on to the song. A dark menacing and slightly mellow riff, going into sludgey metal
Sounds, anyway i'm with stajed on this, some of the drums are just off, whether its the drums that have gone out of time, or whether your groove hasnt taken account of them, theres some seemingly random stabs. You have battled digital and live and only half won the battle.
People seem to think that live bands follow digital time, ie perfect, when this simply isnt the case, it isnt expressive enough.

Maybe you tihnk i'm being patronising, after all, you've toured and i havent, but i'm telling you what i hear.

This could be professional sounding if you sorted out the random stabs out, and if you had a band would be good to see live, but i feel like some aspects of this dont do you personally justice.

Just my 20000000000000000000000000 cents. as you americans say.

On a further listen, i've heard the guitar speed up whilst the drums stay the same, and then snap back to the beat. If the drums matched the guitar during the build, then it would sound better in my opinion. However i'm not going to listen anymore, and go back to doom3.

[Creeping Assault]

Nice, ambient then nashty, i like.

Its nice, out of interest could i either nick your guitar riff, or collaborate with you? I'm tryin to do incidental music for flash, and i need a sound like your main riff. Just tellin me what chords they are would be a treat :)

tedJohnston responds:

thanks for the review! my first! hahaha. i'm glad you like it...although this one wasn't as serious as Valiant...i put much more time and effort into that one, please review that one too! hahaha.

as for the riff, i'd be glad to colaborate! i am using a very flexible program, so you could tell me how long of a loop you want, or even have me make the music to match the video. of course, if that's not your thing, then i can just tell you what notes i used lol. (they're not real chords...just single-note guitar lines hahaha).

shoot me a wire: [e-mail]

[DJ Runaway - Not Fur Elise]

Its a nice mix.

I give you originality a 7 cos its both not written by you and has been done before, but its still nice and nasty.

Can i nice this to remix? I'm only askin cos i'm too lazy to make my own version yet from scratch :)

[DJ Runaway - Mr. Rave]

Nice track, not rave though.

Rave is more nasty and rough sounding than this as far as i can remember, depends which period you means, this is too nice to be old rave, and too good to be new 'rave'. Nice one.

[Focus]

Wow.

I've had this on loops at least 4 times in a row, i've only just realised :).

[Those Soulful Chinese]

Nice juxtaposition of sound

With monkeybullman on this one, i think it needs more booming noises, like he said a fucked up gong and in my opinion, replace the kick on some of the 1 beats with a proper heavy echoey kick drum.
What can i say, i like heavy beats :)
I get you about mastering through headphones, but i'm not going to raise the clarity in case it fools you into thinking i think its perfect.
The bass is lacking punch, is a little too smooth to be hip hop, which shows that you mastered through headphones, as bass distorts smaller speakers.

If i'm completely wrong and you did this through normal speakers, shout at me :)

Oh and about the stereotype of black men likin cheesy kung-fu, i dont know if its true at all, but i know wu-tang helped spread that stereotype :).

LJCoffee responds:

Thanks - I think I'll take your advice.

This might actually turn into something decent if I can add the right elements to it.

btw - I wouldn't want you artificially inflate any scores - **clarity** - Until I can make a few changes here and get a decent set of speakers that won't piss everyone else off then I guess I'll just do the best I can with the headphones!

[Sad Little Detune:WIP]

I like it,

Keep going with it.

LJCoffee responds:

Cool... 1 vote of confidence so far.. :)

I appreciate it - it'll be a few days (read weeks or months)
before I get around to finishing it as I am a career procrastinator, but eventually I'll get to it!

[The Galway Races]

Nice

I'm listening to it too quiet to hear he lyrics, but you know what you're doing :)

Triskele responds:

Heh, the lyrics in this one are a bit repetitive, and eventually get boring...I just like getting to say "whack fa the dol" between every verse ^_^

[Kesh Jig/Morrison's Jig]

Better clarity.

Just sounds better than the other tracks. Get some software you can do equaliser envelopes, or if you cant find it, look for me :) That way the extreme high end noise that actually hurts can be removed. Just using the same settings for the entire track would spoil it, but an envelope would vary the amount at different times.

Triskele responds:

Alright, awesome...I haven't tried using envelopes yet, but I'll give it a whirl, yeah?

[Down by the Sally Gardens]

GET A BETTER MIC DAMMIT

This is haunting, part of the true irish sound. This sounds wistful, nostalgic, yet also somehow conveys hope about the future. It is lovely.

To chronamut - this is why some "real musicians" dis techno/electronica of any description, as you can hear, techno lacks soul compared to music like this.

Lol yes, i am a techno artist, but i know soulful sounds when i hear them :)

Get better hardware and i will try to mix/master your work for you, for free. Hows that sound? I dont want any artistic input, fuck that, i'd ruin it, but sound levels and etc is what i can do. My current work on here does NOT indicate my current standards or skills, save perhaps massive amusement, though it may the bad version :S not sure.

(end of self plugging)

Triskele responds:

...wow...I'll definitely consider it :D

I'm planning on getting a better mic now, after the feedback I'm getting...I don't know how feasible it will be for the whole band to keep recording stuff, but we'll get together as much as we can and I'll keep posting some solo stuff in the meantime...thankees :D