Fro's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[*- Dreams and Nightmares]

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I liked this one very much and out of all of the requests in the Review Request Club this week (so far because I haven't finished them all yet) this one has been my favorite by far I think.

Very simple instruments, but they went very well with the song as a whole and with the vocals. The vocals were done very well and everything seemed to be of great quality!

As I can't really think of anything you can do to improve the song at hand I can tell you that it might help if you add the lyrics to your author comments as people can't always fully understand what people are singing sometimes.

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[Race On (WIP) [SFPL]]

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I love the beginning as it sounds like something counting down to the beginning of a race, which goes along perfect with the song title. Hm, what to review though? You've already stated that you knew the ending was a bit abrupt, that the middle of the song gets a bit repetitive, etc...

I think those two were the biggest "problems" of the song and that you should be able to fix them with a few edits here and there. The song itself is rather good though and doesn't exactly have the incomplete feel as it feels much more complete then most songs that people already consider complete.

So I would say just go with the changes that you planned on and you'll have a pretty good song here!

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SFaPiL2 responds:

Gotcha ^__^. It's good to know that all in all it isn't bad.

I'll give it the final touches soon.

Thanks Fro!

[The Ice Queen's Palace]

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Very interesting sound to this! The choir gave it a very interesting sound and you are pretty good with music so the two together ended up in a pretty good result.

I would like to see the actual lyrics in this submission though. I think that's really the only way you could improve the submission at hand other then I also noticed a couple of volume issues. Sometimes the volume seemed good and at other times it sounded too quiet, etc...

Pretty good though.

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sarias responds:

I think it is being performed at the next recital so I will definitely have an actual recording soon. :) thank you for the review though

[Midnight Illusion (DP&KP)]

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I'm going to go right ahead and continue with the trend here and state that it sounds like it could basically be finished. I really don't know what else you could do with this without making it sound too busy and I personally wouldn't want it to get much longer if any longer at all as it could get a bit overdone after awhile.

If anything this could be shortened a bit. I think perhaps in the beginning you could have gotten quite of few seconds out of there. Almost even an entire minute off of the introduction and this song would sound much better already as the beginning was way too drawn out.

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Kalapsia responds:

thanks, taking out the minute would lose the atmosphere that I'm going for, although a few seconds cut wouldn't hurt.

[.:The Final Battle:.]

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It starts off and right away I can tell that it is going to be a pretty good song all around. The drums really helped the song sound good and the song was great throughout almost the entire thing. The odd noise that you used towards the end of the song though... I didn't quite enjoy that. I thought it was very out of place and just too weird for the song at hand.

Where you put it was a great spot, but the sound itself just didn't sound that good in my opinion. Perhaps just a bit of a guitar solo their instead would have been a bit better instead of the sound effect used. :P (Don't know what it was lol)

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GronmonSE responds:

It -was- a guitar solo haha.

Thanks for the review.

[At The Mountain Top]

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I must be missing what everyone else is seeing. I'm almost so certain that I'm missing it that I even gave it a bonus point on my rating. I guess there really wasn't much that I enjoyed about the song.

In the beginning it seemed like it was set up to be a decent song. Then it just kind of went on and on.. and on.. and on... and there wasn't really anything in it that made it an enjoyable song. In my opinion it was rather boring and really didn't contain anything to make me ever want to hear it again.

The quality itself really didn't take anything away though. Maybe the fact that the song was so long made me not enjoy it. To me personally I would probably have enjoyed it much more if 3 minutes were taken off of it or so. :/

So yeah, sorry for not enjoying your song and sorry for not really being able to figure out how to make it "better", but I gave my god honest opinion on it and you can't ask for much more can you?

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[PPC2 - The Earth Is At An End]

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I have to admit that the quality of the music and the quality of the voices really ruined this submission for me. It sounded like it was going to be a pretty good song and I do enjoy the effects that you used very much, but I couldn't understand much if any of it as it was very static like and just plain hard to understand.

I know there isn't much you can do about that expect for getting some better recording equipment, but for this to sound good I highly recommend it. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that the song sounded good because personally from what I could make out it did.

For now though I recommend putting the lyrics on your author comments.

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[LB + Song of Storms Remix]

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Hm, I don't have any songs, but you can check out a flash or two if you want. :P

Yeah, I haven't heard the original so I can't really compare it or anything of the sort, but it does sound pretty good all around. I guess it just wasn't what I was expecting in this case. The rain and thunder sound effect in the beginning, which sounded great, just set me up for something that I thought was going to be a bit more dark or hopeless for some reason.

Even though the song had a lot of variety and never got repetitive or anything of that sort, I still found it to be kind of bland and empty. I don't really know what you could have done to not make it feel like this, but it's the impression that I got from it.

I usual tend to enjoy classical music very much, but this wasn't exactly my cup of tea this time.

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Lublub194 responds:

Why would you ever want to purposely make a depressing song. Sure I understand if it comes out depressing because of current emotions, but why would anyone purposely make one?

Anyways, if you had heard the original, you would of known what to expect coming into this. In the game, when you play the song, it rains, and storms. Thus the storms.

Sorry that you found it bland, but thanks for the review anyways!

[No Parking]

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I think I have a bit of a different view on this song. He couldn't quite put a meaning on it, but I have a way that I can interrupt to myself. (Even if it's not what you wanted it to mean)

To me it seems like it's about a person who has problems, who has trouble, who has conflict, etc..., but instead of getting excited and letting his emotions take over he has accepted in his life that there is going to be change and because he has accepted it he can confront every situation in his life and enjoy the challenge and the many fun things along the way.

Me seeing it like that though I wouldn't mind perhaps seeing sounds that would represent a little bit of conflict in the beginning of the song and then kind of get away with it to represent happiness. (But again, that's just how I thought about this song and it might not be where you were going with it)

The song itself sounds good, very happy. I actually enjoyed the fade at the end of the song. I feel that you can only make a fade sound good on certain songs and this was one of them.

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sumguy720 responds:

Awesome! I usually end my songs in fades-- and I don't often like it, but this is a case in which I must agree with you.
And it's a lot like your second paragraph, but I'm not always able to overcome all the complex feelings washing over me, but when I can-- and I realize that I have-- that's when I like to write music. Hell, sometimes the music helps me get there. In this case I had already made it past the stage of resolution, which is why I think there's no dissonance, and that probably makes this slightly less meaningful than it could have been. Some of my other stuff does resolve in-song though, which I hope to get back to later (even though that means I probably have to run into more life problems first :P )
Thanks for the review, I know exactly what you are talking about, and I'll see if I can't make some stuff with resolving conflict as opposed to simple resolution.

[FFX_Battle_Theme [Box-Kil]

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Yeah, this is a great job of remixing an already awesome song. The only thing is you did take away it's usefulness in battles as this is almost a happy song now with the touch that you have given it.

Still great quality though and it sounds like it would be something very useful for ending credits of a RPG style game. Not only does the song sound great, but it sparks great memories of a very good game that I enjoyed a lot.

Again, one of your better pieces that I've heard. Very good and keep up the good work!

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