Fro's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[In a nutshell - TTC CHG]

Yeah, I like this.

There will be a day in time when I get back to the sprite animating that I use to do. When I do I can see this being great for a cut scene in an intro or something to do with a night scene. It just shines with RPG night town theme or something similar.

The song really doesn't have too much going on (at least to my untrained ears it doesn't), but it's really good. Not too much going on and just enough in ever part of it. Something that I noticed about it is that it loops perfectly. I've probably listened to it four or five times while writing this review and not once have I noticed where it started over again or where it ended.

So like I usually do... I've taken the flash side of a piece of audio because that's what I know best out of the two categories. This would be an awesome piece to use and I could even see it being used in a professionally done game for a console.

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Calamaistr responds:

this track also features as a 'memory kind of thing' playing in the background at the beginning of the track 'sanake's execution'
sorry for the spoiler but it was mentionworthy.

[Gavin A - That Sound]

It's too long. :(

I think that this song got quite boring after the first four minutes. Especially the 4-6:30 range as it was the same thing over and over and over and..., etc... The song is great other than that, but sadly it's a big enough detail that it really takes away from song and makes me bored as a listener. By the time I got finished listening to the song the parts that had impressed me and entertained me eventually left my memory leaving the song with this very boring impression.

Like I said though, other then the length it was a good song. It had a great sound to it with a lot of interesting and non-generic sound effects. The song was very upbeat and fun to listen to. In certain parts it almost seemed as I heard a womans voice very quietly in the song. I'm probably just hearing things, but I feel that a women's vocals here would make the song much better than it was already.

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Xorberax responds:

You are hearing things, but the frequencies and such do make it sound like there are voices in here.

[Machine Room]

It could have been a bit better.

You designed it as a loop so I allowed it to play through twice to see how it would sound in some sort of game or movie that needed a looped song. I found that it was very fitting for flash submissions and especially something like a plat-former.

The song itself I felt fell slightly short. It started out awesome and continued to be awesome for quite awhile, but towards one minute and beyond it got slightly repetitive and just felt like it never had that "moment" that it needed. The climax, the uprising, the exciting part, etc...

Overall, a decent loop for a plat-former or similar game, but the song itself fell just a little short in my opinion.

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Cimba responds:

Thanks for reviewing

[RD2010 - I'm a Robot]

I love the song, but I still love the first lyrics

My names ro
My names bot
Put it together and what do you got

chorus:
I'm a robot, yes I am
I'm a robot, here I am

I'm gonna crush your skull like they do
in that movie terminator 2 'cause

Chorus

When men die we'll still be
livin' our lives like they should be

Never gonna sleep, never gonna eat just
gonna do my job efficiently

Here I am all alive
Oh snap! my battery just died

Chorus really slow

BUT, you did it justice and I don't blame you if you couldn't find room for the the lyrics. I was hoping it didn't get repetitive with the length of the submission and repeating the chorus so many times without a change in lyrics, but the variety that you included in the song got rid of any doubt that I had with that.

Whenever I hear the song I can't get the, "I'm a robot yes I am, I'm a robot here I am" out of my head. I tend to sing it all day. :P Anyway, I loved what you did with the song and I hope that we do good in the competition. Congrats on making another great song guys.

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Step responds:

Yeah, your first version of the lyrics were really awesome. Couldn't find any way to implement them without turning it into a rap song though, sorry :(.

Definitely glad you liked the variety, and glad you can't get it out of your head I suppose xD.

Thanks for reviewing :D.

[-RG- In a Teardrop]

Very good.

While I was listening to this I read through the author comments and if you say you didn't copy this then I believe you didn't, but an unintentional copy is still a copy like it or not. :P Nah, just kidding. I for one know it's impossible to make something not sound like something that has already been made in some for or fashion because it's all been done before. (At least most of it has been anyway)

It has that great opening scene of a big war movie or adventure movie type feeling. One with a lot of action and blood boiling scenes where people are getting attacked. The "epic" sound would have summed that up much better I suppose.

The name... I don't know if "In a Teardrop" is very fitting for something like this, but oh well that really doesn't matter. You've come to know my darker side and listening to anything like this makes me automatically think about a war scene or something similar.

Anyway, I really enjoyed the song. It's something that I would love to see in a flash if at all possible, but it's not something that I would like to animate to because I wouldn't do it enough justice. Keep up the good work guys.

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Raven-Guard responds:

"While I was listening to this I read through the author comments and if you say you didn't copy this then I believe you didn't, but an unintentional copy is still a copy like it or not. :P Nah, just kidding. I for one know it's impossible to make something not sound like something that has already been made in some for or fashion because it's all been done before. (At least most of it has been anyway)"

Very true. Probably why every Trance song sounds like the next nowadays. Oh well, not really any way to avoid this problem.

"It has that great opening scene of a big war movie or adventure movie type feeling. One with a lot of action and blood boiling scenes where people are getting attacked. The "epic" sound would have summed that up much better I suppose."

Cool. Thanks for the compliment, we definitely tried to make it sound epic and powerful.

"The name... I don't know if "In a Teardrop" is very fitting for something like this, but oh well that really doesn't matter."

In a Teardrop is supposed to signify so many emotions: anger, sadness, hatred, ambition, etc... all coming from a single teardrop.

Hey at least it's not something generic like 'Epic Battle' :D.

"You've come to know my darker side and listening to anything like this makes me automatically think about a war scene or something similar."

Always war with you xD.

"Anyway, I really enjoyed the song. It's something that I would love to see in a flash if at all possible, but it's not something that I would like to animate to because I wouldn't do it enough justice. Keep up the good work guys."

Awesome, thanks for the compliments. Yeah, we'd love our stuff to be used in Flash animations, but the Audio Portal's retarded system eats up all our potential exposure.

Thanks for the review, good luck on your own stuff.
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Supersteph54

[Once Was Never Enough For You]

Strong lyrics, weak vocals.

Now when I say weak vocals I don't mean that the song was sung poorly. It was sung quite well in my opinion and like I mentioned the lyrics were great, think about adding them to the author comments as well so people can follow along for the reason that I am about to bring up.

The vocals were way too quiet compared to the rest of the song. Make them stronger, louder, truly show your emotions man. Make them stick out to the point where you actually pain the cheater, where they fear for what they did, and so they never do it again to anyone. And stuff.

The music had great back tracking and it went well with the vocals even if they were a bit too quiet for my liking. Anyway, emotion in the vocals, some strength and volume. Don't make it metal or screamo or anything like that, but be truth to the moment and I think this song will be much better all around.

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[{-=Bugg=-} Fresh Start]

I see your first Trance.

Did you happen to make this out of the book titled, "How to make a Trance song that sounds so generic that somebody could close their eyes, click on a random Trance song in the newgrounds audio portal and hear something that almost sounds exactly like it?" Well of course that's not a real book, but if it were one then I would have assumed you used it here. :P

I guess the main thing to get out of that was it sounded like the generic beginner's trance and/or techno song. I personally didn't dislike it, but I didn't really like it as well for the reason that I state above. There just needs to be something new or exciting introduced to this and there just isn't. Of course, I wouldn't expect there to be something new or exciting when it's your first time, but first time or not I have to review it like everything else to be fair.

Anyway, as far as this genre can go, which usually isn't too far, I would consider it mediocre, somewhere around the middle ground, but overall good for someone who was doing it for the first time. I highly recommend adding voices. vocals, different sound effects, perhaps some glitchy things, etc...

Some other things about the song... I felt that the low point was way too quiet even for a low point and went on for too long. Even if you kept that the same the high point wasn't loud and exciting enough to get the effect that you were going for in the spot.

Sorry if you felt that the review was harsh by any means, but I feel that it was a good honest review. If you continue to work on this genre please try to do something new with it, which I know is a lot harder than it sounds, but to be good that's what you have to do.

Good luck in the future and keep working.

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BuggMusic responds:

Thank you for the honest review! I admit that this is generic (and it's ironic because I was trying to not be generic :|), I find it very hard to recreate great feelings and builds that the pros do. Obviously adding vocals is a bit difficult right now lol, but maybe in the near future.

Thank you!

[Passive Ignorance]

Finally, it's not techno or trance...

I listened to this for quite awhile because I was reviewing a piece of art while listening to this. I really couldn't catch anything like bad mixing or really anything that bad for that matter.

I guess the way it started off lead me to think that the song was going to be a bit heavier. It wasn't though, but I felt that having a heavy part somewhere around the middle of the song could have really helped. Something like a break down with both the drums and the guitar.

It sounds really good though and I personally can't find too much if anything wrong with it. I think it's even a good piece to find someone to do vocals to if you had the time to find someone to do something like that. There's a lot of good parts for slightly heavier rock singing and some for the more traditional singing as well.

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Sawdust responds:

Thanks for the review! I'll probably focus on a Bonhamesque drum breakdown next time, because arps can only take the heavy so far, amirite?

Anyway I'm glad you enjoyed the song, and I'm happy to break the pace of constant techno/trance songs that you guys tend to get.

[I have a potion]

Ah, not my cup of tea.

Of course, I don't like tea either. I figured I'd review one of your pieces. Every single other piece seemed to be techno and trance and I wanted something a bit different. With your piece, I got that something different. I don't know though, perhaps it was just a bit too different.

It was original and random, but the random was way too random in my opinion. Especially in the beginning of the song. It seemed to get way too off track and I thought I was seriously listening to random noise here for awhile. Later on the song there seemed to be more structure and it started to sound a little better. Throughout the entire thing there was room for more structure and order for sure though.

I did like the use of voices, but I don't like the pitch or sound that they were rendered at. I think if they were a bit more clearer then the piece would have been more interesting.

All in all, I'm not saying it's a bad song at all. I'm just stating that even though you perhaps got out of your comfort zone and tried something new or original, it was still a little too random in my opinion. Finding the happy medium between random/glitchy sounds and structure might be the key for this piece.

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Calamaistr responds:

tip aside your review: listen to it on repeat a few times.

:)