Haggard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Old School Battle]

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Another 8 bit track, good good! :)

I like this one a lot better than the previous one. This one has nice deeper notes, which are easier to listen to, heh. ;)

It's a very nice battle theme, might fit into games like Mystic Quest (or Final Fantasy Adventure, if you don't live in Europe ;) ) or even Super Mario.

The problem here is again that the loop is so short. Make it longer and a bit more varied and you have a kick ass 8 bit song! :)

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[Galaga Main Theme]

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Ohh, that reminds me of good old 8 bit games. But sadly it's just the tune I tend to turn off, because the get very annoying after some time.

You should expand this song into something longer, and you shouldn't use so many high notes as you used here. They tend to cause pain in the ear of the listener. ;)

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aod3 responds:

Yeah i thought it sounded wierd an octave lower though :/

[Example I - Dream]

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This tune could be used for pretty much anything, I guess. It fits into so many categories, it's almost frightening! :D

Personally, I had something like a medieval market place in mind, where some musicians gather around and play some songs to amuse the townsfolk (and to earn some money, of course).
But it fits into a dream sequence as well. It would be a nice and soft dream, that can go into any direction.

The note at the end is a tad bit too long. A very soft fade out would have been better there, I think.

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Adam-Beilgard responds:

A fade would be great, I agree (and of course, now I know how to do that in MIDI). I like the idea of this being versatile, don't let the title throw you - it can go anywhere!

Thanks for reviewing!

[Improvisation Number One]

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Reminds me a lot of Radiohead's "Morning Bell/Amnesiac", as it features simliar tunes in the intro.

I like your improvised song, even though it gets a little bit boring towards the end. But I think you can build up on this submission by adding a few more instruments, like some percussions or a soft played piano.

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Adam-Beilgard responds:

I've been reading that a lot and I'm starting to think I should create a piece similar to this but with a bigger horn section or something. I don't know. As far as this work is concerned, more would be too much. I'm also not sure what to do about the form, since it's not what we're used to with ABA, or building to some sort of exposition. I guess I should have put in a disclamer that read: "This piece will not have the tension/resolve you are used to if you were born in North America or Western Europe".

I'm glad you liked the improv, thanks for the review!

[Whales, Whales, Whales]

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At first I thought that this is going to be a very repititve song, but after those guitars set in, I had to change my mind. ^^

I like the melody you created with the guitars, it sounds very interesting.
Also, the rest of the instruments really fit into there.

I think that the snyth that starts at aorund 0:52 gets a bit too prominent during the song, maybe you can turn down the volume of that part a little bit.

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MusicIsBliss responds:

I agree with the synth being too strong, basically my goal for this song was to see how loud of a song I could make (take that dynamic range), but yeah, my fear kept being that it would be too repeditive, i'm glad it isn't

[Experimental - Drowning]

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Very nice track. It's as if I slowly sink deeper and deeper into a sea and suddendly realize that I can't go back to the surface (that's where the music gets louder and more dramatic).
Then a short and futile struggle against the inevitable (death)... and the track is over.

Very intense track, great work!

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[Carbon Baby (part 1)]

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At first it sounds very sad and melancholic, but after about 45 seconds into this demo it takes a whole new direction. With the added drums it sounds more like some fighting music (Mortal Kombat style ;) ).

Still needs some more work, like cutting down the volume on that synth that starts at 1:04 a tad bit, but I definatly want to hear the whole song now! :)

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WritersBlock responds:

Thanks. I hope the rest of the song will live up to your expectations.

[Extradimensional]

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I'm very undecided about this one. It's so strange and I certanly didn't listen to anything like that before (and I listened to a lot of strange things already ;) )that I just can't make up my mind.

I definetly like that you experimented with different sounds and effects here, but not everything works out well, I think. The beginning takes too long in my opinion. There's not much happening there, but at least it creates a very creepy atmosphere.

At around the middle of the song it gets a lot better, when the drum beat sets in.
So my advice is, that you add something more to the first half of the song. Maybe a slow drum beat, or maybe a creepy melody played on a keyboard.

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MadCow responds:

with how much shit i had goin on at once, it would prolly sound worse if i added more stuff lmao. Thanks for the reviewwwwww

[Electromagnetic Goldfish]

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Don't know much about the "dance" genre, so I don't know if this fits in there or not. But I DO know that this sounds very nice and it's great fun listening to it.

I also like that one has to listen more than once to this track to get everything that is going on there. I didn't notice the nice background melody the first time through for example.

Too bad that the song is quite short, I really would like to hear a longer version of this.

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MadCow responds:

i put it in dance because i found it to be a fast dancy type song. i made it short because i didn't want it to get too boring/repetitive.

Thanks for the review