Coop's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[~Cobalt~]

Nice sounds

Good beat, great melody, simple mixing and a nicely rounded product at the far end of the piece.

I like the way that you've added a counter melody to compliment the main melody, without complicating the piece, which I think would damage it, rather than helping it.

This has quite a large scope for being used both as ambient sounds and menu tunes easily. Plus there are always scenes in movies that look for this sort of sound, so give it a little while and you could be making something big out of all of this :)

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[MeZoni TriZoni]

Quite enthralling

A nice piece, that's quite an intense experience - I can certainly see what you're getting at with regards to the way that the music envelops you within the tune and is quite an intense feeling for the whole performance.

I think that you might have considered giving us a bit of a bass solo to bring us back in from the amazing synth riff that you gave us towards the end of the piece. I can't really think of any other way to improve it, as the whole thing was a very well organised tune.

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GlueR responds:

Thanks again for another great review! Hmmm... A bass solo... Well, that's definitely something I haven't tried yet. Come to think of it, even in things I haven't written myself. I've never been involved in any project with a bass solo. That's a good idea to ask the band to start thinking about it and we 'll see how it pans out (in new songs), trying not to make it sound too Mannowar-ish...

[In the news]

Deep within the symbolism,

There is a strong message here, but since I get the vast majority of my news from the BBC, I don't get commercials with it, so I'm better off than this piece points out :P

Still, with the way that the broadcasters paint their pictures these days, it's easy to see why you've come up with a product such as this. I love the tranquil intro and the way that you build it up to a turbulence of gibberish from newsreaders and add some pretty good lyrics to it in the end as well, it's quite gripping.

I think that an instrumental section of slower melody, overlayed with just a few choice headlines could have been a nice suggestion to expand on this piece.

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GlueR responds:

Cheers for the review! You know, it's not the broadcaster's fault and if you think about it, even BBC's main source of income is advertisements. And even if it wasn't, it's not a beneficiary organisation. It has to get money for what it does, and that's selling information.

Another thing I want to promote is political songs. They seem to have eclipsed in the past couple of decades. And the expression of a political opinion through art hasn't been substituted by anything else. Unfortunately, thinking is becoming increasingly passé. The new thing is bling, wheel rims, hoes and bitches, the all time favorites of subjects around love, and last but not least, sexual provocation. Everyone is going back to the roots... Back to the time we were still monkeys.

[I was made for lovin' you]

Awesome

This cover is absolutely brilliant. Considering how faithful to the original it sounds, granted that you're not going to have vocals like Paul Stanley, but you made it sound brilliant nonetheless.

I think that you've taken the time that is needed to make a great take of a good Kiss Song. If it had been recorded in a studio like they used for the original one, it would have sounded even better and closer to the real thing, no doubt at all.

Are you going to do any more Kiss, or will you be putting some of your own pieces up next?

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GlueR responds:

Why thank you! This was actually a one off thing. I'm sure, though, that if another chance like this album pops up, we 'll be up to it.

For the next four months, I'll be deep into working for my band's first official studio album. We've agreed on a contract with the label and we'll be signing it next week. Hopefully, the album will be in stores in October.

[Let's Fuck - sensual version]

Not a bad loop :)

Here we have a great piece of ambience that would be useful for so many things - as this goes, you've certainly got a lot of applications for such a tune as this one. Games developers would be stupid not to want to use this in for menus, actual gameplay and even more. It's a great little tune that can be applied to things like a quiet background tune in certain clubs for movies, for example.

I think it could have done with a little more variation, as it can get very repetitive rather quickly, which is a shame. Perhaps fade out the beat for a cycle or two and have the melody play some sort of solo that brings another layer of life to it. This would require the track being a bit longer to cope, but I'm sure you're capable of it :)

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[When We Go]

Quietly enthralling

Quite a peaceful piece, this certainly puts one in the mind to loosen the tie, sit back and relax for a while. It loops well, which definitely helps the whole impression of relaxing bliss wash over you.

I think that it might have helped being a little longer, despite the loop - you can get more relaxing sound in there, perhaps a little whale music as well, just to give a more serene overtone to the piece.

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brainboy1 responds:

Everyone says for it to be longer lol :]

[** \ RTB's Theme / **]

Great stuff

I'm not too much of a fan of the introduction on the piano for this piece, because it's a little too repetitive for me, but then when it starts to blend with the guitar and drums, the tune really takes off.

I think that maybe a few vocals are called for here, even if it is a theme for RohantheBarbarian - perhaps we need to see if he's got a mic and get something sorted that he can abuse people as he sees fit :P Perhaps that should be his edited version though.

I know the guitar was played by you - what about the drums, bass and piano? Did you get them from your audio editing suite, or did you play them yourself as well? If you played them yourself, then you're just too damned talented!

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Sonofkirk responds:

First, thanks for the review, Coop, I'm always happy to see reviews from you, it's always constructive and helpful.

The intro is actually a bit repetitive but I added three 3|4 bars in the intro to make it less repetitive and to have it sounding more interesting. It would seem it doesn't really work :P.

I was thinking about asking Bad-Man-Incorporated or XxCrucifiedxX to record some vocals on it but I forgot about that, next time I catch one of them on the MSN I will make sure to ask them.

Yes, the guitar is played by me, the bass too. Though I don't have any Midi drum kit so I can't record the drum myself, as a consequence, they are programmed. It's the same thing with the piano, I don't have any Midi controller so the piano is programmed too.

Thank you again for the review.

[--Torn--]

Steady Beat

This tune isn't a bad start at all - it's got a nice steady beat and while the melody is a little quiet for my liking, it certainly reflects well on the overall performance of the song.

The vocal samples are nicely worked - what did you do to them, to make them sound like someone's playing them with a PIG attachment on a guitar? Whatever you did, it sounds nice.

I think that this piece could have used more variation, even though it is only Ambient. Try working up and down the keyboard in different ways, just to give a slightly different sound to the piece a little later in the music, as it makes it sound like a longer loops, which in essence is what it is - we don't want the listeners to feel short changed.

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Jimtopia responds:

Well thanks for an honest review. In order to make the vocals I ran my voice, as well as the tune, through a vocoder. I agree that there needed to be more to this, but your creativity kind of dies when you work on something for 4 hours straight. x_x

[SRD - Window Shopper]

Not my favourite

I think that this piece needs something else in it to carry it forward - it just sounds like a short, repetitive loop of the same beats and a dull sounding backing tune. I know it sounds harsh, but from the others of your pieces that I have listened to, I know that you can outdo this piece by far.

Plenty more variation is called for, perhaps with synths or keyboards just to relieve the monotony of this piece, as it doesn't even see to serve too well as a menu tune - people would get bored of the game or movie menu after too little of this tune had been played, I'm afraid to say,

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[SRD - Commutersville]

Shame about the static

What we've got here is another great piece of music that's really been knocked about by a static issue - by clearing this up, you'll have a whole track that sounds great - I can tell by the intro that it's a nice sounding track, then the static came in, which for me was a real shame.

A nice little riff on the piano, that's been complimented by the beat that accompanies it and the backing track, which adds a lovely depth to it all.

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