Kirbyfemur's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Sunset Song]

Pretty

This uses distortion in a way that i think more people should, to accent on the beauty, rather than to make it dirty or "Evil" sounding. While those sorts of things are nice to have every once and a while, things like this are always nice to hear. This almost have a Metallica feeling, i mean they used to have this thing about having the most beautiful intros before their song, and i can just heard those heavy guitars fading in at the end to crush the beauty. Anyways nice job on a jam =3

Current Score
4.01 / 5.00 (+ 0.014)
(I added at least something to it xD)

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Haha, thanks dude. I agree. :)

[Black Sabbath Paranoid REMAKE]

Feels slower than the original

But it sounds pretty good. I was about to give this a 9/10 but then you changed it up and made it your own, and then it was awesome, pray a bit weird. I could complain about the overall quality, but then i remember hearing that you where thinking of quitting, and realized that we wont be getting quality for free from you, and that we should take everything you and well yeah. Nice job on this one!

And because i've seen this in a lot of reviews, i want to repay the favor =3
Current Score
4.20 / 5.00 (+ 0.13)

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Thanks man. I don't know why I put the score. There seems to be soooo much zero voting around, I want to let people know it wasn't me. haha.

Anyways, I agree with the review. The first bit was at a lower quality everything, to try to achieve that old school feel. I admittedly didn't do any post production stuff. This is just a volume mixed tune. Newgrounds will get the higher quality stuff too...I just don't have anything new that isn't going on the album. Maybe I'll rock some jamming off tonite.

Thanks again, dude.

[No name needed.]

You where right about the begining

I just wonder, why didn't you add more to the part that came afterward, it had a nice set up for something, but it just repeats until it loops. I'd give you a better score, but unfortunately it just needs more that a repetitive repeating part that is nice the first couple times, but just gets a little boring after a bit. It sounds like it could be pretty good though.

watzmann responds:

Haha, that's exacly what i think! I really wanted to add some synths or something but i just couldn't find any decent ones.

Thanks for the review,

watzmann

[DwellingofDoom-Metaljonus]

Oh em gee, a fade out!

Sounds pretty good, though the guitar seems to be a bit overpowered behind the other instruments, though it's probably intentional, that or its you telling us that we on get to hear a little bit of your guitar because of our friends The Zerobombers. lol Anyways, it sound pretty goo, though the fade out feels unnecessary somehow.. Though there is probably no fixing that =3

Metaljonus responds:

Thanks I could go back and fix the fade but there really is'nt anything more to the song so why not let it fade out eh?

[HoT-16-The Temple of Time]

Very nice.

A couple of things though:
1.) What movie is this going to be for. Yes i know about The Legend of Zelda, but I haven't heard anything about a movie.
2.) The instruments all sound great. What program is being used?
3.) The "Lyrics" as you said, sound nice, but they get really drowned out by the rest of the instruments.
4.) The Vocal thing your using sound good when you can hear it at 2:45, but there sounds like there might be a bit too much reverb on it. I know it's to create a choir effect, but it's a little difficult to decipher, and it makes the rest of the sound just slightly uneven.

Otherwise, sounds great =3

Setu-Firestorm responds:

To answer your questions:
1) The music was for "The Hero of Time", the feature-length independent fanfilm by BMB Finishes.
2) I use the host program Nuendo, and most of the instruments you hear are Edirol Orchestral, a VSTi (MIDI plugin).
3 & 4) The drowned vocals were intended. I was aiming more for the sound of singing more than a focus on what was being sung. This piece was all about atmosphere.

[Silver Bells (Metal)]

Reverbed vocals?

A few things i noticed:

1. The guitar sounded a bit out of tune throughout. Though i don't know if that was intentional.
2. The guitar seemed to be drowned out by the other sounds.
3. Whatever effect your putting on the vocals, you may want to try either messing with it a bit more and make it a bit less... um.... Echoy or just take the effect off the vocals. It's drowning out the rest of the song.
4. The entire song seems to have maybe a bit too much bass on each instrument.

Oh and I noticed the vocal thing in one of your other songs, ad it had a similar problem.

Hope i helped! =3

Pure-Metal-UTA responds:

I actually noticed that in the vocals too. What I did was put a slight bit of delay on it, however, it throws off the entire song. I tried fixing it for one of the songs previously. I believe it was Deathmatch. I just forgot to save the FX chain so it wouldn't do that again. I will next time.
The bass, I don't believe it's all instruments, but it could be. What happens is when I use DSK Bass (because I don't have a real bass), some of the notes are much louder and have more bass to it. I have yet to find out why. That may not be what you're talking about either. I will look into it for future songs and fix it when I find the solution.
The off-tune guitar, it probably is. For this one specifically, I didn't take the time to tune my guitar before playing, so what I did was I matched the bass' tuning to the guitar.
When you say the guitars are drowned out, which guitars, Rythm or Lead? If it's rythm you're thinking of, then I would completely agree. Since I restarted my computer, I'm still trying to find a good level in which none of the tracks will feel drowned out.
Thanks for the review, it is really helpful!
\m/

[Silent Night-Metaljonus]

Gonna miss your new songs on here...

This was great. I was wondering when the guitar was going to start up, but it was awesome once it did. I'll miss seeing your every other day song posting lol Sad that there isn't enough appreciation for you absolutely amazing works of art. (Yes i went there! =3) I'll have to just listen to your new songs on whatever yo decide to post them on i guess. Glad you at least left us on a good note. This was beautifully made, as well as ended perfect. Will miss ya! =3

Metaljonus responds:

thanks dude! I'll still be around reviewing so that's a good thing.

[TheRising-Metaljonus]

Chaos? Form?

I for one do not hear hardly any chaos, hell listen to some free for jazz if you want to hear some chaos. Maybe kingzack01 was talking about the drums, I don't know. I like that this doesn't really have a set form. The only real grip i would have is that the drum par feels a little stale. By this i mean the "Bass kit down beat, snare up beat." thing that is played a lot in the beginning of the song. I'd say work on a slightly different drum part possibly, one with a bit more variety, but I don't mean just add like twenty more drum fills, otherwise it would be a bit crazy.

I like the sound going for the guitar, and the breakdown is rather fun. Keep up the good work, and who cares where the inspiration come from, as long as you have the capacity to use that inspiration to make awesome things like this, I wouldn't worry where it comes from. =3

Metaljonus responds:

Acid Jazz is some fucking chaos lol. For the beats and drums I was going for more a Pantera "Suicide Note pt2" feel, if you know what I am saying. Too much variation with the beats itself would really throw it off for me. Thanks for listening.

[-Zestify-]

Like the percussion

It took me a listen through to hear this but, It sounds like the bass pedal had a sort of melodic effect to it, it almost like it plays the melody. But that might just be me hearing things since it's late right now for me.

The melody is nice, though it seems to do a strange fade in and out throughout that is a bit distracting. I think that might because of the bass melody part.

It has a nice amount of variety in it with some nice little change ups here and there. For some reason it reminded me of one of the songs on the old Donkey Kong Country game in a way lol =3

-Review Request Club

Liam3003 responds:

Well, the melodic bass you hear isn't intentional lol.
It seems like ages ago I made this song now, I'm currently working on remixing / changing one of my other songs called "-Set In Motion-" based on the reviews I have gotten from the review club, hopefully better.
Anyway, thanks for the review!

[The Ancient Ones]

You and your ambience lol

I don't know what it is about the two songs you had requested, but i'm liking them. Very soothing, relaxing.

I'm normally one for a lot of variety and randomness, but this is a nice little change of pace for me. I sense a lot of dissonance throughout to add some tension to the chordal movement, especially in the vocal like chorus thing. The bird sounds where a nice little add on.

This is essentially a bunch of noise, but to my ears its beautiful and i like it, keep up the good work dude. =3

-Review Request Club

Monkeydelic responds:

Thanks :)

I guess that's a good description of the soundscapes i try to build, essentially a bunch of noise, but is somehow beautiful in it's dissonance and chaotic structure.

Thanks for review :)

Namaste.