Fro's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Laid to Rest - Cover]

Rock on brother

The instruments were done very well. I give Nicholls there all the credit he deserves. It really kicked ass. Now the beginning vocals where you were just talking really seemed weak to me. Just really didn't sound good and really didn't go with the rest of the submission. That last part though, "Didn't really go with the rest of the submission", is also a good thing. :P

The rest of the vocals were great. Nice hardcore metal voice and very enjoyable to listen to. At first I was wondering, but you really brought it throughout the rest of the submission. A couple of nice screams there towards the middle/end of the song too.

Keep up the good work. I think that the only thing that needs to be worked on was the beginning. (I couldn't do any better though lol)

TwilightNecrosis responds:

Yeah, this song is very old. I did it a LONG-ASSED time ago.
So, it's no surprise that there's a TON of room for improvement.
I do appreciate the critiques, as well as you actually reading the comments, unlike so many other people.
But if I did this song today, it would sound much, much better. My voice has improved, my recording ability has improved, my mixing has improved... only good things.
Glad you liked this old-school TN recording, man. It sure brings back memories, lol.
Metal! \m/

[No Regrets]

Oh hi there.

The lyrics were great and you did a good job with them, but I do think that the music overpowered them a little bit too much. That's my personal opinion though. I think the vocals could have been a little bit more powerful here so the music didn't cover them up as much.

Nice little guitar solo there towards the end of the submission. We all know you can shed on the guitar no doubt about it. Good submission all around, good guitar, good drums, lyrics, etc.. Keep on rocking.

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Thanks dude. This is the updated version. The vocals were way too loud before ....guess I overcompensated. haha.;)

[==(Endless Cyan Ocean)==]

Ah, it's me Cocky52.

It's been a long time since I've reviewed one of your submissions, but it's a good one like always. Very long, perhaps goes on for a bit too long, but to me it sounds like it would be perfect music for someone who had long credits on a movie or game.

It really sounds like it would work good with any RPG style game for the credits. I'm thinking Final Fantasy while listening to this song FTW. It has a lot of high points and a few low points, but the high points greatly outnumber the low ones. Great sound all around and another quality submission. Good work.

~ Review Request Club ~

[Billy Mays ;_;]

Good song in itself.

I think the song is pretty good in itself, but really doesn't seem related to Billy Mays. You actually never said it was suppose to be related to him though, just dedicated to him.

*Creeping off of other reviews* I really like the idea of finding some quotes by him and putting them into the song where things get a bit repetitive because there are a few parts where it gets quite repetitive.

That may be hard to find so perhaps you can try to do his voice yourself? Maybe that won't work though just throwing out some ideas for you. The guitar solo was probably the best part of the whole submission. More guitar please. :P

~ Review Request Club ~

Sawdust responds:

Thanks, I'll keep all of you guys'
advice in mind.

[Word, yo. Funkay.]

Hmm, kind of generic.

To me personally it sounds like a song that I heard a long time ago on one of my old PS1 games. I think that game was Grand Turismo or Grand Turismo 2. (If I even spelled that right)

It sounded like the music you would listen to while shopping for a car or something on the game. :P That's almost what I get out of this though. I think it would be good in a flash for a shopping scene or maybe even a grocery store IRL. >.<

Other than that though I would admit that it's kind of generic. Nothing really too new or exciting to listen to here. Just kind of something that you would expect to hear on the newgrounds portal. Not bad at all though and I enjoyed it a little bit.

~ Review Request Club ~

statueofdiveo responds:

Thanks. Yeah, it's generic. Except for jazzy harmonies.

[Sweet Tooth]

AHA!

First off don't listen to the review under you. I mean.. listen to the review part, but he said he was with the Review Request Club and he isn't with the RRC at all.

The song is brilliant! The music itself is very simple and wouldn't be too great without the vocals, but with them it's brilliant. They are almost a perfect mix for each other.

It's odd that no matter how funny this is or how much it made me laugh that you actually had a good message behind it too. Ha, was really good all around and I don't know if I could critique it. Very good vocals, lyrics, and music all around. Fave'd.

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IdofOz responds:

Thank you for your kind words!

[Bizarre Spy Theme]

Hmm not too bad here.

Don't want to sound like a broken record as the review below mine said the same thing, but the beginning of the theme sounded kind of spy like. The second half just sounded weird, even for a Bizarre Spy Theme. Overall I didn't get a Spy or a Bizarre Spy Theme while listening to this at all.

I think perhaps if it was slowed down a bit it would have been better. When I think of spy themes I think of something slow and sneaky. Then the weirder part at the end of the submission might have worked out giving it the bizarre feel that you were looking for.

Not going with the theme of your title though its a nice little loop and sounds pretty decent all around.

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ForNoReason responds:

Thanks Fro.

[You have mail!!!]

Decent voices, bad voice sample. :P

Alright, if I was searching the audio portal for voice actors and I came across this I would have a couple of thoughts going through my head. My first thought would be, "Hey not a bad voice." I'll admit that some of them need to be improved a little and you just need to be yourself on more occasions. Some of them sounded like you were trying a little too hard.

The second thought that would go across my mind would be, "The mic quality is very poor and he seems to be a beginner." The quality wasn't the best, wasn't terrible, but staticy nonetheless, which is something someone wouldn't want for voices at all. I know it's something that you can't really help since it's clearly the mic that you own, but it also isn't going to matter to people who want quality voices.

The biggest thing to improve on is not to breathe into the mic and to take your time with some of the voices. To get rid of breathing in the mic just back away from the mic a bit more and to make up for the sound difference you will have to talk louder/clearer. You seemed a bit rushed in most of the voices and that also resulted in heavy breathing sometimes.

I didn't like the, "What are you looking at part" as that was one of the lower quality voices and didn't sound too great. The other voices were decent, but it sounded like you wanted to stick around the deep voice more often for some reason. Just be yourself for a couple of them too.

You did switch to you got mail instead of you have mail, which was weird, and doesn't sound as good as you have mail.

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NekoMika responds:

Yea I guess I could do well in voice acting when you first hear it. =/ I tried t obe myself but I don't speak loud a lot for some reason, everyone tells me to speak up. =\

Thanks for understanding that it is mostly the mic causing my problems there, it annoys the shit out of me because I end up having to silence parts where it makes a huge static boom. >:C

I will make sure to take my time when breathing and move away from the mic to breathe in more often.

And sorry where it just totally switched out there D:

SCTE3

[Random 8 bit]

I think this sounds awesome!

Woah, this sounds like something that I would like to make a music video with Mario sprites and other types of sprite to. It sounds really awesome! I'll admit that the ending does need a little bit of work as it starts off really fast beat and amazing and then slows down and kind of drags on towards the end.

Very cool song though and I like it a lot. I'm going to add it to my favorites. I think you did something that some people have a hard time doing and that was being creative and original!

(I'm going to request this as a spotlight submission in the Review Request Club)

~ Review Request Club ~

fallensoul289 responds:

Thank you for the review, yeah it would be a good music video for mario sprites. Also I think I was original and creative on it.

[Remember the Killings Finished]

Mmm what a dreamy voice ;)

It's been awhile again. Too long to be exact, but here I am yet again to enjoy one of the best musicians on this website. Very simple song like you stated, but still great music all around. Great vocals and lyrics to the song. This sounds really good with vocals on it and the version without seems like it would just sound to simple to me. O.o

Pretty good though. Very relaxing to listen to and just done well all around. Keep up the good work brother.

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Thank you very much! Dig the review very much. The simplicity, is something I may continue, for full songs for a couple reasons. But anyways, thanks very much. Glad you dig.