Coop's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Shadow Play]

A little repetitive

There's quite a few different components for this piece, which is good for the variation, but it's just not my type of music, I'm afraid. I think that with the way that things pan out, it's a decent effort, but a little on the loud side, as some parts cause static effects on my speakers, which doesn't occur when I'm listening to music on my iTunes.

With that taken into consideration, it's certainly one of those songs that will keep the clubbers bouncing around for 6.5 minutes and will then blend seamlessly into something else quite similar in sound.

To give it a little more marketability, I'd certainly suggest that you get some vocals into the track - that will help to encourage people to listen to the track and remember it. You rarely get people humming and whistling tunes, when they can sing the lyrics (badly) along to the tune playing in their head.

[Review Request Club]

TheBellmaker responds:

hmmmm, vocals you say? I'll think about that part.

Finally, a review that's not a 10. So I know I can improve a lot more. As for the loudness, the only loud part I can think of is in the beggining where the square jumps in suddenly.

Thanks for an honest review!

[Gambling Music]

Place your bets!

Not a bad little jingle that puts me in mind to put some money down on who is going to win the race that's obviously going on. The deceptive tones of this tune get me thinking that the pace is increasing, while I'm sure that it remains the same throughout.

I think that the best thing for this song would be to make it longer, by adding a modulation, without the beat. Maybe 15-20 seconds of music on the keyboard would fill the gap nicely, before fading the beat back in and carrying on with the tune as it currently is.

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[House M.D. Remix]

Start the treatment.

Not a bad effort, but I think that it's not quite what I was expecting when I saw that you've planned to do a House tune. It must be that I've watched House and had a different idea of how the music sounds.

Still, what I'd do to change the song isn't much, as it's a great little piece - cut the last 1-2 seconds, to make it loop better and you're onto a winner here.

Perhaps it needs to have either something added from other cues from this series or even the "That's some bad hat, Harry" jingle, just to make it funnier, I don't know.

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[Tetroniphone]

Dialing tone

What a great little effort here, with the telephone sounds. I wish that you would be able to add a few sounds like the traditional dialing tone and maybe an engaged tone for the bridge.

I think that the piece could certainly be used for some sort of menu tune or even as the credits roll on something or another. I think that you've really put some great effort into this.

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[Requiem to an e String]

Celebrate the new string

Not a bad little tune, but I think that you need to do a new piece to celebrate the arrival and fitting of the new E string. A very sad and sombre piece that puts things in context.

With the sadness of this tune, I think that we have only one progression, as the things can only get better - I would have preferred to hear it longer, without the "I fuckin' miss you" lyric over the end, as it's just too much.

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[Runescape {^}-{Alix1}-{^}]

Ghost Motel?

A nice piece that I think could certainly have been applied to the Ghost Motel Series, which is on Newgrounds. If only Violet-AIM and XwaynecoltX would make some more...

A nice mood is conjured up by this tune, one of quizzical whimsy, which I feel is something that you've captured nicely. Perhaps adding a little extra variation would have been nice, as it can get a little samey after a few times around. I do think that it is a very nice loop though, so that does detract from the length being a little on the short side.

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alix1 responds:

i think it loops doesnt it?

[dance latin]

Not really Industrial

The tune itself needs a little work, as it's quite basic - the melody loop needs some modulation, in order to give us some variation, which is supplied in short order towards the end of the tune, but I feel that it needs to go further along this way.

It's a good tune that almost carries the Caribbean feeling of a beat and the way that their life is more easy going than that of other countries which tend to have more of a hustle and bustle about themselves.

With a little more effort, this could be made really nice - it's on the cusp of something great.

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[chip rune]

Decent loop

This piece is not a bad reflection of how a simple tune can be made into a very effective piece. Something that I can certainly see used for a 'Link-esque' game or movie.

I will say that I think you hit a duff note on the fifth run, where the notes start climbing again - it didn't seem to be the right note for the piece, though you might be able to get away with it...

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[beep song]

Not really 'music'

I can call it a valiant experiment, but that would be where it stops - you've just given us a pattern of beeps that isn't really music, as it's hardly something that I'd catch myself humming on the way to work in the morning. It's not even something that I could say has practical uses for application on flash movies or games, save being an unusual form of torture for part of a military themed game.

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mikkim responds:

it's suposed to be "spascey"

[Halo Theme {^}-{Alix1}-{^}]

Hmm...

Well, it's a cover version of the Halo theme, though I would suggest that you get a better recording set than you currently employ - it's picking up static on the loudest notes, which does take away from the quality of the piece a little.

It's a nice rendition, but in the mastering stage, you do need to put that little extra effort in to make sure that things like that don't happen.

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alix1 responds:

alright man! thanks for the review!