Coop's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Gothclawz Beat]

Not bad

This is short, but acceptable. It sounds like a decent backing track, but I could suggest the best use for this is with voices, for when there are radio-based communications. It literally sounds like you've recorded a static track off the radio.

Still, I'll not suggest that you could be so shallow and I'll instead say that you've come up with a decent loop. I'd say it needs to be longer, because in this guise, you might need to increase the variation, sot hat the viewer doesn't spot what it is that you've done.

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Conal responds:

kK.

[Robot Sound Effect: 1]

Needs working on

I couldn't really tell what this sound was, as when I tried to play it, I heard it loop about 10-12 times. It doesn't fit like the sound of a robot, but that may be down to the whole thing of it being looped incessantly.

As I then listened to it as a sound in it's own right, it does remind me of a Robot moving. However, I've never heard of robots who move that little - it doens't loop too well, so make it about 4-10 seconds long and then the artist can mess about with it as they see fit.

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Conal responds:

Say what?

[My Guitar - Modified]

I think my ears are bleeding...

I prefer my guitar music that I can actually hear over the background noise. This one was so offensive to my ears that I had to back off from the speakers. If you cut down on the static and other crap that was in there, I'm sure that you've got a good tune in there.

Trust me, I know Rock Music, I've been listening to it for the best part of 20 years. That's not Rock... underneath, I don't know, but over the top it isn't.

I'd say it needs to be a longer tune - about 2-3 minutes, rather than 23 seconds to really give us the good impression of how this tune is going to turn out.

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Conal responds:

I can't convert, But I submit them anywayz :3

[Robot Sound Effect: 2]

My god!

The looping really made me (and quite a few bemused faces in the office) sit up and pay attention. The robot noise itself was pretty good, though I did think your author's comments of "Turn it up" was certainly a sick joke.

Like Haggard suggested, put them all together into a large collection of similar sounds, leaving gaps between them, so that artists could choose which sounds were required. (It would also only take up one slot on the audio credits as well :P)

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Conal responds:

Hey, that givez me an Idea....
If people use loadz of slots them I'm moar of an attention whoar.

[My Ideo of Hell]

Stops rather abruptly

It's a nice little tune, but I think that the effect was rather spoilt by the end of it.

It sounds like your idea of hell is quite an industrial one, where people are made to break rocks, or other forms of hard labour. I can imagine certain Devils walking around, cracking their whips across the backs of their slaves, to keep them working fast.

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Conal responds:

Ok, freak.

[Why the Night p8]

Nice tune

I'd say that you need to work on the drag along the strings with your guitars. Maybe turn the amps down slightly, as it sounds like you're trying to drown out each part of the tune with each other bit.

I like the lyrics, but I'm not entirely sure that this is my favourite music. Not that that should take away from the tune at all, it's a good piece.

If the guitar was played maybe an octave higher, it would be in better keeping with the vocals, as the guitar does sound quite deep, comparatively speaking.

Look forward to hearing more of your work.

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LenardNotLenny responds:

Yeah, its kind of hard to turn the chords an octave higher, because they sort of are. And the range is too large for me to move it all up. Thanks for the review, and I will keep on making music.

[Warp away]

Nice but short

This has the beginnings of a good tune, with the well displayed properties of making the title of the tune related to the tune itself.

It really needs to be something longer, in order to make the grade, but at least you've got it looping nicely.

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Cyberdevil responds:

Thanks for the review! Maybe I'll make a longer version of this . . .

[Talking To Myself]

Well worked

I'm not entirely sure about the sound that starts at the intro - I don't even know what instrument it is, but I personally found it really annoying and I think it is holding your song back a little.

The pause in the middle could have been made just that little bit longer, for more effect. Those are the only niggles, with what i found was overall a very nice song.

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LenardNotLenny responds:

Cool. Yeah... it was a synth on a keyboard with a very obscure Garageband filter. Thanks for your feedback.

[Man In the Smoking Mirror]

Creepy and Surreal

The intro is very surreal, as if someone is walking through a deserted old house, full of dust and cobwebs.

Then it takes a turn for the macabre, as someone or something startles them and the chase is on. They run and somewhere along the line, there is either the chased being caught, or some other reason that the tune directs us back to the start. Maybe they were just listening to an old music box after all?

Goodnight children, sleep well. *Evil laugh*

An evil laugh would really have capped this off, not very loud, but in the background at the end, just enough to make the hairs on the back of the neck stand on end.

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WritersBlock responds:

Lol, nice story. The evil laugh is a good idea. I've got to remember that...

[Vondelpark High]

Great bassline

Set the tone for the whole song with a great layer of bass. I think it's always good to give the audience in a Jazz track the bassline first, so they know what sort of tempo to expect.

A nice counter melody with the high pitched keyboard - the middle part of that lead had a group of notes that seemed to trail down the scale a little too quickly, like a guy walking down a hill, who slips on a wet patch of grass and suddenly find himself at the bottom of said hill.

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JCsoul responds:

Thanks for your review man.

Maybe there are some off tempo notes in the lead that escaped me and Jurian, we´ll make it better next time. ;)