Khuskan's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Clock Crew Peace Rap]

...o.

Speakonia + midi = BAD.

Especialy when your soundcard is too shit to record wav files at anything over 16 bit.

It wasnt even a rap.

Great idea, but failed miserabley.

[Mario Bros: Water Stage Theme]

:o

Well you get credit as i can tell this is live, but as always, there are a few mistakes and what sounds like an 8 year old girl palying with the highest octave while you're recording.

Also quite a few of you're chords were wrong, and it dosnt end properly,i'll think you'll find its:
C maj, C min, C maj, C maj, C maj, C min, C maj, C maj
G maj * 6, C maj, C maj;
C maj, E min, Bb Maj 7th, C maj, D min, F maj, g maj, G maj,
C maj, F maj, G maj, C maj
though not played as blocks of course, thats just general keywork.
As this is live, and you obviously did it by ear, i'll let you off for that, no marks involved.

Nice job.

[Intruder Alert 1.5]

:o

Its decent, but it didnt feel right in a major key, especialy when its called 'intruder alert' which suggests that it represents somthing bad or dangerous. In fact, listning to it, its quite happy. Nice use of synthy sounds, drums could be a bit louder though, in some parts the beat wasnt evident.

[Acid Bounce]

:o

Enter the reviewmeister.

Well starting off, it was very very fruityloopish, which pulls down origionality no end, but this dosnt really matter as much as it would for most people on the AP, because you blatently know how to use it properly.

Yes, despite the fact that fruityloops in the program of noobs IMHO, there is the odd artist who puts it to good use.

Maybe you could of started in a little slower, it felt like it needed some ambience or strings for effect, the way to good trancy/techno is integration of 'vanilla' instruments and sounds, as it gives the listener a reference point to what 'normal' music sounds like.

The build up worked really well, though i felt you could of held it at the thickest point slightly longer. A lot of progressive trance holds the song for anything around 2 mins at the thickest section with a short, much thinner, section between in a differnt style.

As always with fruityloops and pretty much all music software, the clarity was supreme, and the instruments were undistorted.

RyeGuyHead responds:

Maybe you could review one of my songs that didnt suck

[Rocky 4 - Piano]

Hmm

Well for a start, i can tell you didnt actually play this on a piano. The soundfont is too basic, and the difference between the velocity is too exact, and many of the cadences played are impossible to finger on a piano. Ever seen a guy streach 2 octaves?

More importantly, i can tell you didnt even record these, only convert them. Especialy listning to your jarassic park theme, i have the exact same midi lying on my desktop.

Now even though this isnt you work, i understand its hard to convert midi files, and i'm even expecting people to use it, so even though it dosnt deserve to be on the audio portal, this kind of stuff needs to be done.

afliXion responds:

Of course its not me playing the piano. I never said it was! This is impossible to play. So is most of my other piano stuff I submit. The point wasn't to make it playable, just to make it sound good on a piano. However I do have playable versions that I play in real life.
Next your are completely wrong about me just converting them. What I did was listen to a midi file of the song that I got from http://www.moviethemes.org/movie.html.
Those midi files are not piano parts, they are the whole orchestra. What I do is listen to the parts, and harmonize them on the piano. I sure as hell don't just convert it.
It is hard work and I say it does deserve to be on the portal.

[Factory Worker]

Right.

Tip:

Upgrade from crappy old fruity loops to midi keyboard, Reason 3.0, mixing deck and audigy 2.

Gooch responds:

You know, some constructive criticism on the song would've been nice instead of telling me which programs to use and not use.

[Syth Battle]

...Ahem.

Get some REAL software, and some knowledge of 'tone' and 'tune' would be good. This wasnt even mildly serialistic.

leifh responds:

Haha all of the easybeat ones I uploaded were from before I took the class.

[COOONTAAACT! (Battle Hymn)]

Wooot.

Terrible. Absolute rubbish. Bin it.

Right thats the title sorted, now onto the music.

PERFECT. Ok lets look at this one bit at a time. sweet synth sounds, perfect balence of drums to bass, vocals were a little quiet even if they were only intended for ambience. Hihat was a little.. picky but it gets balenced out ok by the synth:drums ratio (somthing around 1.5:1 which is good.. i think) Lots of varied sounds in this one, and i listened to it a good 4 times before i even noticed it was looping. Maybe put the track volume up a bit, seemed a little bit low on the O-scope to me, but that can be made up for with my lovely amplifying powers. Good ol' audigy 2. never let me down yet. Possible uses involve some kind of game background music, fight scene in a high quality fight movie, and millions of possible uses for people who havnt learnt how to use more than one layer in flash yet. Damn man. make more.

Oh yes, and just because my audio gets completely overlooked after 6 and a half hours on each track, go check it out ;)

Rucklo responds:

Helloooo.
Well, I can only dream of getting reviews like this all the time. I see clearly what you feel about the song, and respect your opinion in every way!

The title, yes, it IS cheesy, but thought through. The "cooontaaact!" scene in predator is just so fucking awsome, and the warcry is a highly used and "internal joke" allmost, amongst some of my friends. That explains the title :D

Hihat is a little too picky and high compared with the other instruments (actually, its a drumsample I made a while ago, there´s some other sounds too than only the hihat, dont remember what though :)...
Making things loop fine with reason is pice of cake, it can be done better that this. Good thing u didnt notice at once though.
In my opinion, there should be more background soundeffects like perhaps sirens, "blam" sounds or whatver u might hear randomly in a war/fightscene.
This song isn´t 100%done, there is just lots of work with the eq that I wanted to try out. Ithink I got it a lil wrong, but learned of my mistake (i gave every instrument a boost of a specific "unique" fq). It came out kinda cool if u know what ure looking for, but i should have done te other way around, i suppose. I´ll try that in my next song :D
I hope some more people will check this song out and use it in ther flash-fighting scenes. Anyone who reads this and wanna use this in their song; the song can be altered and packed by request! (of course, since i never really had any requests of that before ;)

I thank you Khuskan for a honest and well written review, I´m gonna check ur songs out as soon as I get time :D
And don´t worry, this aint the last u´ve heard of me yet :D

[%u2193%u2665]

oo.

Well, the reason its playing pointlessly fast is the fact that your bitrate is slower than flash is made to handel, so it sets it as default in newgrounds ingenious player. You get the same problem with higher bitrates than flash can handel, but it plays slower as opposed to faster.

notorious responds:

ok but i dont know how to make the bitrate higher. its too bad u cant respond or u might be able to give me an answer.