Fro's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[[herd] A Look At The World]

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I get the feel of some good old fashion RPG's that you'd play on the PS1. The kind of relaxing songs that would be great for a lot of city or town background music. Simple, but effective. (Just like that last song I reviewed)

I do find this one got a bit repetitive. I thought it was probably about 30 seconds to even a minute too long in length as well. I really feel that your song wouldn't hurt from being shortened a bit.

All in all though it was a good song to listen to. For not knowing much about the genre you did a pretty good job with the classical sound in this song.

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Herdunculus responds:

Wow, thanks for such a positive review! I am quickly working on shortening the length, and I will submit it as soon as possible. As for the RPG thing, I actually was thinking of something like that when making this song, so I'm glad it gave the impression I wanted. Thanks again for the nice review!

[Dwelling at the Ocean's Bottom]

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The review below discourages me from reviewing this submission at all... I might not be able to review like the person below me has, but I can tell you that I thought this was a very beautiful piece that I enjoyed very much.

Simple, but yet more effective than most pieces that I've heard on this site. Very relaxing and it can even cover the sound of kids screaming not too far away from me about some video game and things like that.

It kind of makes you forget about the troubles of life and just really helps you relax both mentally and physically. Great job on this piece man. It's really good.

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Jabicho responds:

Hi Fro! Thanks so much for commenting (By the way, love the idea of the club! I'll be visiting the forum a lot for that reason =P )
It's cool to know it helps relax, and most important, forget about troubles. I think that is the most important aspect when listening to a piece, that it can touch your feelings, and be able to change your emotions to keep in touch with the piece. So for that, I thank you deeply, it means a lot! Thanks again!

[The power of Drum&Bass]

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Hm, I'm almost always a big fan of these vocals being used in songs like these, but these vocals just didn't sound that good in my opinion. Their quality wasn't too great and they weren't that easy to understand. They just seemed really out of place in my opinion.

The song itself without the voices was pretty good though. Very enjoyable indeed and a nice drum and bass mix. Again, the vocals were a good idea, just didn't work well in this situation.

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jpgregorio responds:

Thanks man, i'll trt to fix the voices:p

[[:Whiplash:]]

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I think that you explained this pretty well in your author comments when you said it was sort of dark and aggressive. I can see where it is both of these slightly, but not too much at the same time.

I enjoyed the fast/aggressive manner and I also enjoyed variety that you had throughout the submission. There was a lot of interesting sounds that you wouldn't expect to hear in a submission and it makes it very interesting indeed.

Two songs in a row now where I really haven't had any complaints over whatsoever. Great job in my opinion!

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julius33 responds:

:) :D

[TwilightREM]

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This was a really nice piece in my opinion. It never got too repetitive and it never got boring at all. There was a lot of variety and a lot of interesting sounds to keep me interested in the song.

The variety was a strong point in my opinion. The fast paced nature of the song made it enjoyable. Even when the song slowed down in certain places it still had that overall fast pace to it.

I really don't have much to comment on because I personally don't see much if anything wrong with it. A good job all around.

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KeptItHairy responds:

Wow i was expecting a more critical review for my first song but if you like it I can't complain, Thanks RRC

[Absorbent And Yellow]

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I can see why someone would say this is too repetitive. I came back to the page because I thought the song had restarted, but it was actually just nearing the end of the song. A little later I had no idea that it had restarted simply because it all sounded the same to me.

Variety would be a nice touch in this submission. I don't know how you go about doing it though. Perhaps having some more instruments in there somewhere or adding some vocals (which I think might be really nice) to mix it up and make it more enjoyable to the listeners.

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[Out Of The Blue (Mans0n RMX)]

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What happened there in the middle? I mean, I see you were trying to use it as a transition, but it got WAY too quiet and it lasted WAY too long. You could have upped the volume of it just a little bit and made it last about half of the time or even less than that. I like that right after it got quite it got really loud fast, but it was still too long. I honestly forgot the song was playing for a little bit.

The rest of the song was good. It's simply that middle section that's taking away from it in my opinion. The rest was fast paced and enjoyable all around. And like I said don't take the middle part away, but make it shorter. Making that part more sudden in my opinion would make this piece much more enjoyable.

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[[NN] - Nightmare Reprise]

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In the beginning the sound is original, cool, and fun to listen to, but by the end of the song it's repetitive and not so exciting anymore. One of my biggest faults is that this had so little variety in such a small amount of time that you completely forget about the sounds that weren't the same that you stuck there in the middle.

I would recommend perhaps making it a bit longer and really adding more variety to it because the same sounds repeating over and over, even when you did change them slightly made this song get boring fast in my opinion. I did enjoy how you ended the song though.

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[O.H.35 - My Dy]

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Not too bad at all. There wasn't anything that really made me go wow, but there wasn't anything that made me dislike it either so I'm kind of in the middle of whether I enjoyed it too much or not. I listened to it quite a few times and really noticed that you did a good job with mixing in some interesting instruments and sounds that you wouldn't necessarily here that often.

You had a good use of a guitar, but I would like to hear more of a heavier sound from the guitar every now and then or perhaps just some variety within the guitar itself. Decent song all around though.

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OH35 responds:

Thanks. Regarding the guitar, we wanted to give more space to other instruments that's why it's not so heavy like in our other tracks.

[Stargenx - Forward into DawnV2]

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Seems like there is a common theme in the reviews and that theme is epic. It simple sounds big and impressive. Something that I could envision seeing in an opening scene in a movie over a vast landscape. It would also be good for different scenes throughout and especially good for the credits.

When listening to this song I keep getting the impression that I'm panning over a large area of mountains or jungle and there is just so much detail and things to see that you would have to watch it over and over again just to see everything.

I personally didn't think the ending was very fitting. I think a better ending in this situation would be a simple fade out, but like I said it's just my opinion. I'd hate to ruin your run of tens and it was just that one part that I disliked so it's worth a ten to me.

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Stargenx responds:

I decided not to fade out because it would sort of ruin the effect of the song. The song is strong and bold and to fade out would reduce its strength.