Score: 10

"Hell yes."

submission: Royal Blue Version 2

date: July 26, 2009

This is what I'm talkin' 'bout son.

You freaking nailed it.

Score: 7

"Builds... and plateaus."

submission: Royal Blue

date: July 26, 2009

I like this. I really do.

But your intro builds lots of anticipation which the tune ... doesn't deliver on.

The buildup up to around :40 is *perfect*. The drums hit and your production continues to build... but around :55 seconds and nothing else really happens.

Sure, you've got the piano jam, but the piano is acting like it's background to something that doesn't exist. I would have loved to see another set of badass drums intro somewhere around the 1 minute mark and use more varied piano dynamics (playing louder and softer) and staccato, accented playing to really help carry the rhythm as a piano is a percussive+melodic instrument.

Between a more dynamic piano part and a more varied drum track (instead of just a couple-bar loop throughout the whole thing), this could have easily been a solid-10 and a five-star rating.

7 & 4 from me because the intro was so awesome, the arrangement is nice, and overall production quality doesn't seem to lack. The composition itself scores a little lower in my book, for reasons I mentioned above.

I'd love to see a 'version 2' of this.

Score: 8

"Handy, that."

submission: Interstellar Voyage

date: February 26, 2009

You've got a long, long, long "wind-up" there. By the time you get to the "good stuff" the piano progression starts to get old. But the good stuff is good, and the pretty stuff is pretty.

Good job. ;)

Score: 8

"Dig it."

submission: 4our

date: February 1, 2009

The downward-step intro is jarring, but you 'kinda get used to it'. The progression and musical ideas you have in there are nice, and you do the loop transition back to the start really well.

The mixing is atrocious, but the sounds themselves are nice.
For being the "Same old fl studio setup", you still do good stuff.

It's a fully-baked idea that needs some extra love... instead of a half-baked idea without a clue. Props for that.

Score: 8

"Aww, Connie wants feedback. ^_^"

submission: Out of Your Control

date: December 30, 2008

Waffles! :D

I dig this. It's much different than most of the tripe that filters down through Newgrounds. It's a very candid piece, and the 'mood progression' is something one can just plain relax to. I write this review while listening to it the first time through and ... hey, I think it's influencing my score!

Figure it out!

Score: 7

"This is music!"

submission: [DJP] Har Har Har Har Har

date: December 30, 2008

Been awhile since I've stumbled across something I've liked from the get-go.

This tune is strange. The simple chord progression works well, and your melody is somewhat unfocused, but it seems to fit the meandering, yet structured feel. Nice blend of technique.

On the production side you've done well -- very well, in the mids and highs, not too harsh, not too muffled; smooth, instead. What's gotten away with you is the bass, yet the percussion cuts though perfectly.

If you still have the files for this, you might load it back up, slap in a limiter here and there, and maybe a highpass filter or just some EQ to tighten up the low-end slop.

All-in-all, quite good!

Score: 10

"Blindsided"

submission: Kr1z - "Like I Love You" [Rmx]

date: May 11, 2008

Dang son, you're coming out of fricking nowhere with stuff.

Whatever you've learned, whatever books you've read, tools you've gotten, whatever techniques you've discovered -- they're working. Good job.

Score: 10

"You've come far!"

submission: Tremelo Journies

date: February 27, 2008

Your style has come a long way in a short time.

While I don't agree with everything you do in the track, you've proven you know how to lay it down. Looking forward to more!

Score: 4

"For heaven's sake..."

submission: Dare To Dream

date: August 25, 2007

The tune is decent, yes, and by 'decent' I mean I'd certainly listen to it again...

But for the love of pete, use a limiter.

And watch out for bass phase cancellation when you really lay it on in the later part of the track.

"Pure loud" ruins this, entirely.

Score: 7

"Pure Saw, Supersaw, more saw..."

submission: ~Zelda Overworld Theme Remix~

date: August 21, 2007

Short review for a short track.

Mad props for going so saw-heavy and making it work. Usually plain saws are boring, but the ideas you threw into this tune within 15 minutes is impressive -- especially since it loops so flawlessly, too.

The vocals could stand to not be there at all.

You seem like you've done a compo or two in your time. Too bad you don't play with filters!