JonH2O's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Psybot - Village Nights]

pretty spiffy.

The starting bass was great, but those strings that start out in the next bar didn't sound too great. I think it would have been better to leave them out. When that "4 on the floor" bass kicked in it stated to sound cool, then everything busted ass and started rocking!! Everything went along very smoothly after that. I loved everything about it. I especially liked how you muted some sounds at the ending of some bars and put in that "tshhhhHHH" sound. Although it does become a bit boring. It soundd like you just cut and pasted the chorus to end it. I would have loved to hear some alterations to spruce it up a bit. But I don't know how that would go around.
Great Job overall man. It's very soothing.

[Mixolydian Seas]

ceeooo

Weird squeeky robot talk at the beginning + Ocean sounds = Robot on the beach. Now...However I came up with that is beyond me. Reminds me of something that would be on Aqua Teen Hunger Force for some reason.

[Don't panic]

woah.

I don't know what happened...There was a mosquito in my ear. I couldn't help but panic.

[In an Italian bakery]

Twisted metal Carosel

This made me laugh. It's so fast. I'd like to hear the story behind you making this. Ahaha.

[Prockson!]

Weeeeeeee

This makes me feel like there's a lightsaber stabbed through my left ear...Stereo at it's finest.

[That song dude totally]

fuzziest electric violin ever

As I write this, I am thinking of something constructive to say. And I have none. This was really awesome. This is the epitomy of modern day Hip-Hop music. Why? Because I've never heard anything like this before. The sounds are great and you set the right tempo for them. The volume was perfect.

I came to this song with a bias of good quality. The type of quality you hear on an album or something. The first few noted were played by the synth with a very "Underground" type of sound to it. And I immediatly deemed this song as garbage (I don't get myself sometimes). But what I realized after that is it creates the whole idea of the song; Whatever that whole idea is. It gave me a feeling of being in a pipe. The echo of me banging on it with a very arabesque object, and its reply.

JosephMcGregor responds:

Yeah... I dunno. The "fuzzy electric violin" is actually a synbrass called "OCTOBRASS" which I thought sounded totally sexy even without efx on it, so I did it up, then for the second time round softened it up with good old square wave. I don't know if you noticed the "awkward" time signature, the piece is in 7/8 time, and I actually originally wrote the main riff by plugging in notes without looking at the screen, then accidentally played it back and realized it was kind of cool, so shit happens, as you can see. Thanks for the very generous reviews, always a pleasure to hear from you

[BM - Tiananmen Square]

Pretty cool

It beginning reminded me of old Blink 182. I really enjoyed the pauses you added. I didn't like the vocals too much, possibly add some kind of effects or lower your voice a little.. The lyrics were great though with the drums and guitar. Something could be done with the cymbal, I'm not sure what. Possibly lower the volume a little because it tends to overpower everythign else which draws my attention to it. But yeah, listen to anything off of Blink 182's album "Buddah" and you will get a good feel of this song. Maybe it will give you some inspiration.

I did like this song, and it has some replay value. There's always room for improvement. I look forward to seeing you progress.

-jon

-Jon

GardenStateMusic22 responds:

Thanks for the review. All of us in Blacktop are pretty big blink fans (not there new stuff) but anyways that was our first time recording and considering that weve only been together for about 5 months i think it turned out fairly well. its funny our drummer couldnt make it soo our singer did the drum tracks and then the vox. And about the cymbal we do plan on re-mixing the song so that the level of the cymbal isnt as high. thanks again for the review and I'm on my way to check out your music right now

[Harmonics]

awesome!

Man..This is insanly good. I don't have any constructive critisism. Just wanted to drop a line saying it kicks ass, it's really mellow and catchy, I like it alot, it should be on the frontpage, I like the drum roll, and you should keep making music becasue it's cool....Found this tune in your sig.

Do you use a midi keyboard? If so, did you do all of the drums yourself or did you simply import a rex file?

NightMare5 responds:

I use a casio CTK-541 midi keyboard (hoping to upgrade to some better keys soon) and use that with reason to develope the tune.Then i build off it with the piono roll. For this piticular piece i used my own drums (redrum) anold with a rex file. Now that im getting the hang of reason im starting to rearrange the rex file in the piono roll.

Thanks for the review! =D

[Twins]

Twin guitars eh?

I like the constant cymbal in the song. I was thinking maybe you could have changed everything up a little bit after the drums muted while that progression with the guitar (or whatever that was) went up and back. Would have made a little more various.
After the drums muted, a little later came a really short burst of notes all together. I thought that sounded really cool! This song had a really dreamy state to it.

Really great track. I also like the name. School projects are a pain in the ass. What kind of project was it going to be for?

[Stone Fall]

Meditative; calming; sleepy

You sure do have a great tune buillt up on this. I love the thumb picking action! Really calming, as you have noted was your intention. I kept wonering what this would sound like on a satar or something other. Pretty great quality. I think you could have spruced up that low E string a little more, changed it up a bit...If you did, my bad, I didn't notice..I'm embarassed, hah.
I think you did once when you changed a whole note.. and then it went back, it was (I'm guess here) about 15s before the end. It might have just sounded different to the rest due to the lack of bass or something; it added some relief of the same thing. Whatever it was, it stood out.
Anyways, That was my favorite part.

I think a new idea could have rooted from that. You could have kept following the fret with a power chord finger placement and then start that same scale from the beginning in a different note... It would also end better, I believe, in a higher note than started.
Appologies towards my lack of description. I never was good at that sort of thing.

This sounds nice none-the-less, and very calming indeed. Just a tad repetitive.

-Jonh2o \m/

Tancrisism responds:

Well, I thank you for your in-depth review. I do intend to use this in something else somehow, or spruce it up a bit, but I thank you.