Coop's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[One Gun]

Nice loop

Not a bad loop - it could be made longer and given more on the scope for variation, but other than that, it's a nice piece. With the way that the bass integrates itself with the keyboard melody, you've got a good sound that encourages people to just get on and move themselves to the beat.

As I said above, I could see this being about 2-3 minutes long, as opposed to just a 1 minute loop. With the way that the melody gets repetitive, you could do with having some sort of solo thrown into the mix, which would help to encourage natural breaks in the rhythm and stop people from getting bored and automatically drown out the music sound itself.

[Review Request Club]

[PPC2 - K Time]

Great Ambience

This is a nice sounding piece, but the guitar does get a little repetitive after a while. I know that ambience isn't supposed to distract from whatever the main feature of a piece is, but you could make the guitar sound a little different if you're adding variation in the forms of other sound effects. Those sounds aren't as dominant as the guitar, so it does end up with a nice sound, but the repeated guitar seems to drag on too long for me.

I think that you need to take about the last 30 seconds off the end of the track, as it's not really doing anything, just kind of a 'breezy' fade out, which could be brutally cut down to size. Taking a few bits out of the second half of the track will make it a more manageable piece that fits better to what you and flash authors might be looking for.

The reason I suggest cutting it down to size is that it's a 6.4 meg file - you want the animation to look good and do the tune justice, but only leaving an animator 3.6 meg to play with, if they haven't got "special dispensation" to submit a 10+ meg file, it probably won't be able to do your work justice.

[Review Request Club]

Monkeydelic responds:

Thank you :)
I'll attempt to re-record this song in a couple of weeks with a better mic, i'll defineatly make it a bit shorter then, this was really just me wanting to test out some ideas, some worked out, and some didn't, so the finished version will defineatly be shorter.
I'll also work more on the guitar, as i focused completely on the effects, and added the guitar only to have a backdrop.

Thanks for the review :)

Namaste.

[PPC2 - Forest II]

Great melody

A really nice mellow tune, this one. I like the way that it, in combination with the name of the track just brings to the mind a scene of a guy or two, sitting up in a tree, playing a little tune with one another, slowly enjoying the late summer / early autumn weather.

Perhaps it's a little on the slow side and maybe you could have used some sort or higher pitched solo, just to keep things different, as with the length of the tune, the variation is always something that needs to be concentrated on.

I'd suggest that perhaps you use some sort of drum beat within the track, as it started with the knocking on the guitar, but a simple bass drum beat at points in the song would work well.

[Review Request Club]

Monkeydelic responds:

Thanks:)

I'll experiment with drums and other stuff when re-recording, personally i think the tempo is perfect, but it doesn't hurt to check it out.

Thanks for the review :)

Namaste.

[PPC2 - Forest I]

Nice accoustic guitars

I like this track - it's got a nice mellow feel to it. A shame that there is a little static on the top of the louder notes, but it still sounds very nice all together.

It gets a little repetitive after about half of the track, which is a shame - I'd like to see more than just a reasonably short loop-sounding track. For me, the background singing came in too late at 3.20. Perhaps a minute or two quicker as a bridge between a verse and chorus? If you moved it forward like that, you'd be able to kill two birds with one stone and move swiftly on with a better sounding track to boot :)

[Review Request Club]

Monkeydelic responds:

Thanks :)

I'll try that out, and see how it works out.

Thanks for review :)

Namaste.

[=NGA= Pound The Beat]

Stephen Hawking remix!

I love the vocals that you've got going here - it just seems to make me feel that you've got Professor Hawking in the nightclub working the decks with his incredible wheelchair. I love the sound that it's got with those crazy vocal samples there.

Towards the end of the track, it gets very busy and things start to make the whole production tie itself in knots. Try expanding the track, so that people can actually hear the component parts, as they try to bring the track to a close - you're after them reaching some sort of harmony, not a loose, disorganised end, which was a poor way to end the track, sadly.

[Review Request Club]

[[dj-Jo] Raving Egyptians DEMO]

Stereotypical, but techno.

Ah, the stereotype of the 1980s "Walk like an Egyptian" How far music has come in 20 years.

It's taken this stereotypical edge and has been given additional bells and whistles to take it away from the stereotype, without becoming completely detached from the origins. I like the rising note that comes in there and seems to act as punctuation for the song, breaking it nicely into more manageable pieces. The addition of a few vocals might have been of a great benefit in this piece, as that's about the only thing I can see the piece lacking all told.

[Review Request Club]

[[dj-Jo] She (Aftermath Mix)]

Another great effort

A lovely piece that certainly sets you up as a prominent soundsmith on Newgrounds. If anything, it does get a little repetitive, but I think that does tend to be the way with techno, as it can drag on with the same recycled sound and throw a few bits and pieces in to try and make it sound different.

Perhaps a few changes here and there could help - the piano is a great instrument, so why try and drown it out with the rest of the track? Bring it forth and make it join in, where it can take the beat to places that other instruments really have not got a hope of reaching.

Perhaps a few additional instruments would help - if you're playing with the same instruments, it's going to sound the same, but if you change the instruments, you change the sound. Try that on for size.

[Review Request Club]

[Sapphire's '09 Voice Demo]

Hmm... good.

A very wide range of voices supplied in this demo reel - the only female voice I don't think I heard was the little old lady type voice - I think we caught a lot of stereotypes in there, thus making up for it.

Now it's time for the standard line that as a fellow voice actor, I don't feel that these sorts of reels are the best way to go, as the quotes are taken out of context, which can adversely affect the listening experience. Perhaps some notes in the comments could enlighten us more as to the origin of the pieces?

Great effects thrown in there - what software do you use for producing these pieces?

[Review Request Club]

Sapphire responds:

Thanks for the review!

The lines used in this demo were created by me. I didn't pull them out of any other piece of work. With that said, I fail to understand how knowing the origin of a line will make the listening experience better.

[Deep_Town_Blues [Box-Killa]]

Interesting guitar

Sounds like Hendrix playing Jazz - something I'd never have thought I'd ever catch myself writing or saying, but there you go.

It's a good sounding tune, with the backing of the track sounding a little like the music used in War of the Worlds - Musical version, when the Martians take over the planet and the red weed grows everywhere. The guitar lends it an additional quality that sounds beguiling and strange, but in a nice way.

I'd have possibly done something with drums to add an extra dimension here, as it sounds like something very muted going on there, so perhaps making the beat a little more prominent would help?

[Review Request Club]

Box-Killa responds:

ha i dont belive it sounds like war of the world. YES I SOUND LIKE HENDRIX MWAHAHAHA that is a huuuuge compliment! Thanks man!@

[[Assios] - Midnight]

Well paced tune

I think that this is a reasonably well balanced tune, but it does lack enough variation for my liking, which is a great shame. With that taken into account, you'd be able to create a much more poular track if other things came in and complimented the keyboard melody, which seems to be the dominant sound there.

The beat is a very nice part of the track and as a result, it keeps my interest. Perhaps with a tweak here or there, even just a few different instruments would make a change enough to make this track so much better. Little things can make big differences after all :)

[Review Request Club]

Assios responds:

Yeah, I agree with you, I should put an alternate melody in there... I'll probably put in an alternate melody in there too, and update the mp3-file, sooner or later ;P

Thanks for the review! :)