Rottenbeard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tzu - Night of the Eclipse]

Awesome, calm atmosphere

This is excellent Tzu, I really enjoyed this. The whole song just has a calm, quiet, contemplative sound that I really like.

Good work!

Tzunami responds:

Thanks.

[D2D - 4-2-1]

Well done!

Powerful, quick paced piece that catches and holds your attention from start to end.
Has a good feel of build up to it that would likely be seen for something of an amassing army or battle of some sort. It sounds like a build up to a major event, anyways!

Well done. The VST's you used are excellent sounding, i'll need to check out VSL.

[Candia]

Nice!

This is really an interesting mix of sound you've got going on here. The progression is excellent, the drumming and your choice of sounds are unique to say the least and the piece flows well.

It does take a bit long to really begin to engage the listener but it's the style of music so I wont ding you for that. Those that stick around towards the end of the song will be rewarded by the songs true fruition into excellence.

Keep it up man, I enjoyed this piece quite a bit.

[Hayley (something new)]

Quite good.

Not sure if this is the song you wanted me to check out, i'm assuming it is since it seems structured similar to mine. I think this is quite good, your progression and instrumentation is highly varied and never boring, and the melody is calm and soothing.

Really my only criticism is on the mix, your instruments that occupy the higher frequency range (the piano and some of the instruments near the end) are sitting too high in the mix. Either a good EQ pass or maybe some compression might go a long way to smoothing it out. You just need a better balance of low and high to fill the sound out a bit more, especially near the end where the piece picks up.

Good work, I enjoyed this, would make a nice accompaniment to an RPG game of some kind.

[Middle of the Night Live@ 8x10]

Great!

This is excellent. Not sure why I love your 8x10 club mixes so much, something about them just really appeals to me. Not sure if it's just the incredibly simplistic instrument panning or warm room ambience, but I dig it man! This and Spaceship rock.

The lyrics flow fairly well too for this song, your off comment at the end was pretty funny.

Good work man.

Regards,
Daniel

[Dirty Classic Rock]

This is what rock is all about..

Excellent guitar work, interesting drum patterns and bass solos to boot. Classic rock at its best. It's true, this is a dieing style of music, which is a shame, because this is music you can really groove to!

[Quiet Killings]

Kicks my ass all over the place.

Love this, the mix is good, the song grooves and the bass line rocks. The whole piece is very melodic.

That's pretty much it, good work man, enjoyed it.

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Thank you very much! Glad you liked it. Thanks for listening and leaving your review!! Much appreciated!\m/

[Flash-Back]

Quite good!

Interesting use of sounds. Tons of variation. I really enjoyed this.

I don't think it needs lyrics, stands quite well on its own as an instrumental piece. Only criticism I have is that the whole song sounds like it's clipping or something. You've got a slight fuzz/distortion over the whole thing, i'm not sure if that was intentional or not (going for a fuzzy grunge sound maybe? I dunno). Anyways, that's the only thing that didn't appeal to me.

Good work!

ANTI-SPAMGUN responds:

Yea the fuzz (like an old time record player) is put in there intentionally. It gives it the "flash back" feel in my opinion.

Thanks!

[Flying High TBC]

Very well done.

Not quite my style of music but you guys play well together and the song flows easily.

Only thing I don't like is the delay you're using on the singers voice, I find it distracting, a softer reverb would've been more suiting I think, well, for me personally anyways.

Overall it's well done! The mix is well done and everything sits nicely which is a hard feat for most bands, so keep it up!

MathcoreMathcore responds:

We'll bear that in mind, thanks.

[Irreverance is Bliss]

Not bad at all.

A lot of effort has gone into this and it's evident. The style change mid-way through is a bit strange, but nothing sounded out of beat to me. Your over-all production (and vocal clarity) is quite good and your layering of multiple instruments worked well. Nothing really jumped out at me with this song personally, but nothing was done poorly either so the 0-bombers are just douche bags.
If it makes you feel any better, I think someone or a few people went 0 happy because all songs are noticeably lower in score today compared to yesterday.

Anyways, good job!
Daniel