Dachampster's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Desert Rose]

Holy pickles in a peanut factory!

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Melody: 2/2
Solo: 4/2
Drum: 1/2
Effort: 2/2
Bass: 2/2
Listenability: 3/2
Catchiness: 2/2
Mood: 3/2
Structure:1/2
Instrument Use: 2/2

Overall: 22/20, which figures out to 11/10.

New Highscore!

Bonus Points!

What I liked: Near everything. The solos were amazing! If I tried to do that on a guitar I'd brake a few fingers. Liked the slope at 0:55. I loved the harmony at 1:10.

What I didnt like: If you are going to make an amazing song, you either loop it or make it satisfyingly long. You might have been better off using a regular bass guitar as well to help give the song a nice base. The drumming was acceptable, but really didnt impress me. Compared to the other instruments, the drumming fell short. Also, the song didnt have that great structure. It seemed like it was jumping to different songs in the say key. But these all are very small factors.

Keep on rocking!

[Newgrounds On Speed]

Pumpin'

Lets see here. I liked this song, it just had that nice mood to cheer me up after my 3 times a week torture sessions (football practice). Lets look at the scores.

Smoothness: 1/2
Drums: 2/2
Bass: 1/2
Melody: 2/2
Catchiness: 2/2
Mood: 2/2
Effort: 2/2
Loop: 2/2
Listen-ability: 2/2
Instrument use: 1/2
17/20 which figures out to 9/10

Suggestions: I didnt like the instrument use here. The melody instrument was a bit too hard trance-like to me. It sounded kind of annoying, you could have used something smoother. There wasnt enough bass, it didnt stand out enough to be bass. Use a more mellow sample and blast it like any kind of techno would. The melody here was kind of repetitive, but it was too catchy to deduct any points.

What I liked: The fact that this song loops just really makes it easy to listen to. I liked the beat on this, I cant stop bobbing my head to it. The song just has excellent listenability to it, and has a great cheerful mood to it.

Last word: I dont use this comment space to give never ending praise to your awesome music, because theres always room for improvement. Keep working, man!

JohnnyFrizz responds:

Thanks a lot my good friend, I really appreciate you took your time to write this great in detail review!

I shall respond to some of the pointers you mention:

"The melody instrument was a bit too hard trance-like to me." Well I think everyone has different tastes in music and different opinions on how it should be made, I actually intended to give that powerful feeling to the lead, but well, some ppl will like it and some ppl wont :)

"There wasnt enough bass" Im not sure man, I didnt wanted the bass to overwhelm everything... Honestly, from my point of view, I think the bass volume is just fine as it is, not too pumpy, but not too smooth.

"The melody here was kind of repetitive" Well, yeah, I have to admit it is, kinda repetitive, but the good thing about well thought of melodies, is that they can be repeated a lot without getting the listener tired of them ( ;

Thanks again for the awesome review, have a nice week!

[Super Mario Land (Punk Cover)]

Good work

This wasnt as upbeat as the original, and I think the bass was not playing the best notes to complement the melody. It was kind of messy, but still, not bad.

You've gotten enough praise already, you know what you're doing right.

Hope this helps for future remixes.

giftedbuttwisted responds:

Oh hell yeah it helps thanks =D

[Legend of Zelda Dirty OC Remix]

AAAAAAAGGHGH!

My ears!

Melody: 1/2
Beat: 2/2
Effort: 2/2
Listenability: 3/3
Catchiness: 2/2

So many sounds in one! I cannot express how nice it is to listen to!
Good job.

[[JC] Paralysis]

`Groovy

Melody: 1/2
Beat: 1/2
Effort: 2/2
Catchiness: 3/2
Listenability: 1/2

It was lacking in those two major areas, melody and beat. The melody itself wasn't nice to listen to. It doesn't go down smooth enough to get 2 listenability points, but it was alright. This does sound like something you really put yourself into, so 2/2 effort there. It was catchy though. The beat and main riff, even though nothing special, stood out as catchy, and that is what I liked about the song.

Suggestions: Try to come up with something that goes down smooth and easy to listen to. I know that you can do it, and it will be great. I'll be looking out for more.

[ParagonX9 - Neutralized]

Review # 101

I really loved this song because...

Well...

Here, just look at your score.

Beat: 2/2
Catchiness: 2/2
Melody: 2/2
Rhythm: 2/2
Effort: 1/2

This was a little too much looping, and it got repetitive. You could have added more to it instead of looping. But I'll shut up about that, because everything else was perfect. Spacey feeling that calms me down after a rough day. Loved the bass, keep doing that.

[Killer dNb]

Not bad

Missing some key elements.

-Bass was in between. When you make bass for DnB, it has to either be really heavy or really light. I'm not saying volume, but it wasnt that bad anyway.

-Drums needed work. They were too light for a DnB song. DnB is drum and bass, which you didnt provide enough of. The drums needed to be heavy and blasting.

-Melody was very repetitive and annoying. That needed to be cleaned up. Use a different synth. But still, since it's a DnB track, the melody is not as important. It still is vital, but it has to be catchy and fit with the bass.

Hope I helped, you have potential in this business.

Sytze responds:

Thanks for explanation on which points I should improve my upcoming songs, but remember I made this with headphones and never heard it trhough proper speakers so the equalisation might not be right

[ParagonX9 - Defection]

Amazing

Oh so catchy, but there was no Bass whatsoever. Well, it was not loud enough.

Melody: 1/2
Effort: 2/2
Instruments: 1/2
Listenability: 2/2
Beat: 3/2 That's right, you can get 3/2

Amazing work.

[Final Countdown (DnB Remix)]

EPIC

Just purely epic. I just wish it was a lot longer. Like at least 3 minutes, and then have it loop.

[Happy RailRoad]

Better

You're getting better. Nice fast fingers here.
Your next submissions should be a bit more hardcore, like using heavy synths and big basses.