Coop's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Kids]

Please clarify

Do you mean this piece is inspired by children, by baby goats, or an actual tune called "Kids"? I'm confused about this...

Still, regardless of that misinterpretation of your wording, it's a lovely tune, that's got a nice beat and some good melody, combined with a lovely bit of scratching in the background, which for me carries the piece to the next level. With this in mind, it's helping to add dimensions to the track and from here, the song itself can be seen for the creative qualities.

I think that you need to knock about 8 seconds off the introduction - give us a chance to get straight into the tune - I turned it up, as I wasn't hearing anything, then nearly blew my head off with the volume, when it started.

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thegreatmorph responds:

children.

the kind that ride around in groups of bikes trying to scare people by nearly running into them and turning away at the last second. I imagine this to a be a soundtrack of their every day kind of happenings if you see what i mean.

thanks for the review :)

[SRD - The Almighty Sterling]

More mastering please

This tune would be awesome if we could tidy up that static touch at the tips of the notes - I tried everything that my headphones could offer me - turned off the bass, turned the volume down to a reasonable level and listened to the tune a few times through to make sure it wasn't interference from something else, but alas, we have this issue.

Still, when you can take that static out of the equation, this is a wonderful tune - quite a basic loop for a start, but it has that nice intro and outtro. If you can work on some variation for the middle, rather than just that sliding scale, it would be nice for the beat.

The melody that you threw in the middle isn't really anything to write home about - try making it move around the scale, rather than a line of notes that are all the same, then up for a few the same and down for another line - otherwise the tune is in danger of sounding too one dimensional.

Once these pieces are worked on, you can really take it to the next level.

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thegreatmorph responds:

thanks you pretty much pin-pointed everything that i duislike about most of my stuff.

well, I'll try and get work on them but it's all on my old computer so there's nothing really i can do about it now.

Thankyou though! Really appreciate it.

[Heal - Classical Remix]

Out of body experience

This seems to me to be a piece where there is someone lying in a bed - possibly something akin to Lord of the Rings style, for the costumes and background. The victim is some sort of warrior, who has sustained injuries, but not something that will immediately kill him. He is in a foreign land and as he lies there, he experiences an out of body moment, swooping overhead to the land of his birth, seeing that his family is still well and that his actions have helped to save their way of life.

I think that it could have been made a little more dramatic - stop the melody for a little and have a drumbeat to complete this masterpiece. You've given me a really good start to the day, keep it up :)

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TheBellmaker responds:

Thanks for the review, Coop. I enjoy your reviews the most (mostly because they tell me how to write more awesome songs in detail). As for adding drums, percussion is definitely not my forte. I will make it my forte in the future, though, because alot of good classical songs have really awesome drums in them. Thanks for listening!

[A dance song for Xmas]

Simple loop

To be honest, this needs more - you've got it looping well, but then you need to stretch it out to about 2-3 minutes long and add something like a bit of keyboard to give a better melody.

You're bordering on the boring with this tune, as there's nothing really special about this, which is a shame. When you get past this part, you can start experimenting with more instruments and giving us a few banging parts to listen to and maybe dance to.

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[8-bit war]

Good loop

It might need a bit of work, but you're giving us something that you can work on. With a bit more work on the melody, you can tidy it up well. Perhaps make the beat a little quieter, just to let the melody flow through the piece itself.

Glad to see that it looped well, as it wasn't particularly anything special, but you've got songs to loop well, but that adds something nicely to it.

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[bit&piano]

Needs work

I think that you've made a decent start - maybe work on making that beat sample a lot quieter though, as without it, the track will sound a lot better, but maybe you could get away with some sort of beat for the piece.

It needs to be longer and have more variation, so keep experimenting and throw us something else that you're working on and we'll try to point you in the right direction with it :)

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[(FMC) -=Beaming=- (MAC8)]

Did it loop?

It's a good song, but I feel it went on too long for my liking - did you loop it 2 or 3 times where it would have done just to leave it like that for the one repeat?

If the above is the case, it sounds like you need to get some more variation into your act - either that or I got so zombified by it all that I tended to ignore large swathes of the track. It may not be my type of thing, but I'm sure I didn't do that :P

I think that with more variation like the 2 minute marker that you did would be called for, but something else to break away from the chorus style of things that dominates the track would work well.

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[Skela-New_years_euphoria]

Ambient House

This piece is beyond a single genre to describe it. The ambience of this track has given us a large scope for using it as something that you would find on a great many things like menus or even certain driving games - it's got that lovely rhythm to it that can uplift drivers who are making their ways to or from work.

I think that you've come up with a lovely track and perhaps a little more variation would be the icing on the cake - just throw in a lovely guitar solo, with maybe just a thump of the beat in the background, then blend the rest back in.

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Skela responds:

always cars with you :P
Thanks for the review.

[MH16: Epic Experiment]

Poignant

A nice little tune that makes people feel slightly sad when it comes to the crunch - possibly for the funeral of a great warrior, who gave his all in battle, only to be cut down by the enemies.

It just makes me think that some days are good days to die. Mostly life is worth living, but when it all boils down to it, most people will find that it's a lot easier to get onto this earth than to get off it.

I think that you could have made it a little longer, possibly adding something like a string solo in the middle, just to add to the production of the rest of the piece. Maybe the strings should bring forth a vibrance and an indication of thanks for whoever made the ultimate sacrifice.

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FairSquare responds:

This is a helpful review. Thanks! :-)

[mega static orchestra]

Constructive

I've heard a few constructive used of static before and the only one I ever bothered to remember was a piece called "Windows Noises". Well, no more, as this is a pretty damned good piece involving mostly static.

You've taken the annoying sounds and turned it into an art form, like graffiti artists, who are so damned creative that it can't be called a crime, it's amazing and confusing, all at the same time.

Such a dark overtone to this piece as well. Possibly about the fact that Static is a very noisy killer. It gets in through the ears and people succumb to sonic diarrhoea soon afterwards. The hazards of modern day life, I suppose.

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