Kirbyfemur's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[MUSE_Sunburn]

Not to bad

You've got a pretty good set o' lungs on you. Though the problem i see is that you may have tried to hard to sound like the muse singer, and had a couple crackles in the voice. Also, i do wish that at least the bass and guitar part where played by a person, since by my ears the bass part was a little robotic in it's smoothness, and the guitar was mostly just a sound of the distortion, but yeah, it was pretty good still, keep up the good work. =3

[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

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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

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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.

[Demon Voices]

Hmmm...

Call me weird but i find little wrong with this song. It has a very soothing feeling to it, the repetitive guitar for me doesn't take anything away from the song. Simple but effective, and sometimes that's what a song needs. The background sounds, the strings sounds worked really well for this.

The only big problem i heard was there where a couple of peaks in the volume at a couple of the vocal parts.

It may be long, but i'd hope it wouldn't matter how long it is. I like it =3

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Monkeydelic responds:

Thanks :)

This was recorded a couple of years ago, and i was pretty much new to the recording process as a whole, so there's doomed to be some peaks here and there.

I've always like the long lenght, it was a natural part of the recording process, I never thought about the lenght, I just played until it felt natural to stop.

Thanks for the review :)

Namaste.

[[:Beyond Your Mind:]]

Hmmm....

When i heard the percussion first come in I was hoping that it would continue throughout similar, but then it sped up. Up until :55 I liked the percussion, it wasn't straightforward which is good, I feel as though the beat afterward just becomes to bland especially when the beat at 1:17 starts up.

The drum part that comes up and plays at 2:01-3:07 is nice at first, but could use some more variety.

3:18-3:31 sounded like it could have been cool, but then it returns to a similar beat from 1:17

It has some interesting parts to it, but i feel it could use more. Slow down some of the parts, and or make sure the beats have some space between them so that it's not just a straightforward thing. Hope this helps a little.=3

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