Coop's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Alien Relations (Freestyle Mx)]

Nice rhythm

I think that this is a nice new mix of your previous tracks that I've reviewed. You've clearly got the talent to take it further. Good use of the vocal samples and the melody / counter melody combination working well together there.

Perhaps I'd have suggested a more pumping beat, to add some depth to the piece overall, but the way that it currently sits, there's a nice sound, that can't really be improved upon much more.

The other thing I'd suggest is that you give the piece a more dynamic switch in the middle - possibly introduce a different instrument and just take it elsewhere for a short while, as this will allow you to draw out the track longer and give it more to work with, before it becomes potentially off-putting

With regards to your comment about '0-bombers', there isn't really much you can do, save for encouraging more people to vote for your submissions, as that will make such an impact upon your score less of one.

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Bracksta responds:

i agree that i should have taken the song a different direction, then brought it back. i should have made it cut time into a hip hop beat and pads, then back to the fast paced melody. Good tip coop :) thank you very much!

[Slapfish]

Calm and lyrical

I like this track - it kind of reminds me of some of the tracks that you get courtesy of Nirvana, when they were in their acoustic moods.

I certainly think that if you go to build on this track any further, the first port of call is that you could use some lyrics. You've got a good sound going there and now it needs to have something to compliment the music, which logically is lyrics.

Possibly, you could use a little additional mastering, possibly the use of a bass guitar in the middle there, just to give a little more of an impression upon the track.

[Review Request Club]

[March_To_Eternity [Box-Ki]

Popular and well received

I can see that this piece has gained quite a status since its release. The piano work compliments the sound of the drums, strings and horns perfectly, allowing the piece to sound like an epic movie piece, where the forces march towards the battlefield, giving rise to the sounds of a fast-approaching conflict.

I think that you've certainly developed this track well and I'd absolutely love to see someone's take on how to illustrate this piece in Flash. The author, even if rather accomplished, would certainly have to work hard to do a piece like this justice.

Are you perhaps attempting to personify the sense of fear and foreboding that comes along with the march?

[Review Request Club]

[Percolating Prevarication]

Interesting circular

Not a bad rendition, but it does suffer from the hallmarks of repetition and lack of overall variation. I think that you could have gone some way to dealing with this, by giving more of a prominent arena to the piano, which would have gone some way to assisting with this track, but it's all down to choice.

A good beat and a well formed foundation to the track, culminating in a well devised piece that does have a good drive from the beat, a decent melody and the piano does feature as a nice counter melody - not sure about the scales though, you could do so much more, rather than just top to bottom and bottom to top.

It has potential, but it's not quite there, in my opinion. I couldn't listen to this all day, but with a few more minor changes, I possibly could.

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DJ-Chilvan responds:

Thank you for the review! Yea, this was my first attempt at this type of musical style, plus it was made for a short notice request, hence the lack of elements. But the next time i get a creative spark, I'll convert it to this genre of music.

[Whispers of the Wind 3]

Excellent

Another triumph, this piece comes to the forefront of being mournful, pensive and mysterious. I think that the use of the harp in this piece just seems to add that certain depth of emotion to the presentation, while the strings carry the main flow.

I was impressed by how the whole tune comes together, though I could see opportunities for flutes, or other members of the woodwind section to get in on the act and add to the piece. Perhaps that's what I've come to expect as a portrayal of the wind, as that section of the orchestra could call that it's own speciality.

[Review Request Club]

Cimba responds:

Thanks for the review :)

[If I Could Choose]

Definately needs bass

Good writing - the lyrics are nice and the guitar is, though it sounds on that massive solo that the drummer doesn't always strike another drum with the cymbals - this always produces a poorer quality sound. Perhaps adding something else to those and you'll get a much better quality sound from that area.

Perhaps a second cymbal, instead would do the trick. It sounds like you're playing the cymbals on a keyboard and the note keeps cutting itself out as you press it again. Playing two of them would make the notes sound better and less fragmented.

Getting a bassist would certainly help, as at the moment, there's a higher pitched whine to it, which would be cut down by the addition of some lower octaves in there.

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ShanZE responds:

I'll try the tips you gave on the drumming, thank you! It's true that it gets a little buzzy at times. When I was recording bass to this song my battery for the bass ran out so I decided to record it some other time. Still haven't done it... Lazy me. I'll do it someday though. It's definately true what you say about the importance of the lower octaves and I actually have written some nice groovy bass riffs for this song that will even change the atmosphere of the song to something a little bit different.

[Distant Texture]

Mellow, uplifting

I love the way that everything just seems to come together with this track - all of the component parts just sing as they should, the piano seems to guide them through the transitions and it's a lovely tune all around.

I didn't give you a 10. Pout for me :P

I think that the reasoning behind the above statement is that there was a quieter part of the track at about 3-4 minutes and it could have used the occasional chord from the piano, just to add a little more attachment to the earlier parts of the track - you almost transitioned to a completely different track with it, so trying to keep the whole piece together is a much better production in the end.

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Sawdust responds:

Thanks, actually this isn't the real awesome version, I sort of redid it just when I submitted it, which explains how wierd it sounds.

[canon's theme]

Even the tempo up

The start was almost perfect, then you started messing with the tempo and it fell apart for me - it's just a sample piece, which struggles to really represent a tune of any discernible value.

The speed that things move from the really slow and laborious to the ultra-fast is obscene. Messing with tempo should be done subtly and slowly, so that people don't realise what's going on. Yours is far too great an increase or decrease in tempo to cut it.

Basically, what I'd recommend is heading back to the drawing board and getting back to the intro, which worked well and just tweak it slightly, so that the really annoying higher notes of there cut out there sooner, giving you a decent start. Don't ratchet up the tempo and come up wit a decent bass beat as the basics, then move on and develop the melody.

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[Multi Point three...]

I'm not a fan

I think you've taken a pretty good melody and beat there and with the addition of the sound effect in the background, it sounds so weird, that it's out of place. Perhaps what you needed to do here was to throw more of an up-tempo sound effect, or slow down the original track that you overlaid the sound onto.

Not that it should take away from the melody, which is a decent start - possibly needs a little more in the way of a beat, but it's a good foundation to begin with. A shame that it doesn't loop better, because it was certainly getting along the way to setting yourself up for a good track, but there's just something in there that slows it down a tad.

[Reivew Request Club]

[AF - Traitor]

Not bad

It's a little quiet for my liking and with the way that everything seems to progress along at this sedate pace, I may have actually fallen asleep during the pauses. I'm not sure about the symbolism of calling the track Traitor, but that's how it is.

Perhaps it could have had a little more "oompf", giving us something through the beat, or perhaps some sort of solo, signifying a sunrise (New beginnings?) or something similar.

Basically, I'm not sure about this track. I can't quite see what you were trying to put across, which is a shame.

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