Haggard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[NGStyle_DNB_Menu]

Nice

Yeah, I think this would sound very good in a menu. I like the intro very much. The snare sounds pretty good and the rhythm here is nice as well.

Later on in the song it gets a lot more quiet, but it still sounds pretty good.
Also the loop is done very well, so if this would be included in a flash to have some music in the menue there wouldn't be a gap, which really is a good thing. :)

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[First Musings]

Sounds like music for a trailer

And I mean that sort of trailer for movies, not like caravans. ^^

I nearly expected to see some movie scenes popping up on the screen for an upcoming animated movie like "Shrek" or "Up".
The background beat just reminds me of some trailers I saw...

The strings are pretty good here as well. The melodies are pretty catchy and even now after the 8th or 9th time I listen to this while writing the review and doing other things the song doesn't get boring. It still sounds fresh and delightful .

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loansindi responds:

Thanks for the review, I'm glad you liked it!

[Thank You - BK]

Good

I think this would work really well in a strategy game, like Command & Conquer (you know, those kind of futuristic strategy games). The song isn't too distracting and it gives the player something nice to listen to while he is playing the game.

You have some very good melodies in this song, I especially like the one we can hear towards the end of the song (at around the 3 minute mark). It is catchy and really driving, "forcing" the player to play faster and do something or else his opponent will just crush him.

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Bracksta responds:

lol, that is an awesome take on the song, i never thought of it that way! thanks so much haggard for the review it is always appreciated :D

[==(Glass Tree in the Sky)]

Amazing

Too bad that there's a storm going on outside, because I think this piece doesn't really work with storms... it's so relaxing and nice that I almost thought it's summer again and I lie at a beach while the sun is warming me... but then the wind in the trees always disturbed this image for me. :(

Anyway, this song is amazing. It is very well structured from the beginning to the end. I like how the song builds up more and more from the intro to the climax at around the four minute mark, where it slowly fades out.

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[The Storm's Rage (WiP)]

Guitars don't sound too good

This is a really nice attempt, but as a metal fan and guitar player myself I really hate the guitar sound. It's just too artificial. Also, there is some noise in the background when the guitar plays the main riff that is really annoying (it can be heard at 0:27 and other occasions throughout the song). I guess it's from the drums, but it really doesn't sound that good.

Also, I was expecting some thrash metal after the intro. I mean, some hughe storm is going on, then "1, 2, 3, 4" on the hi-hat... and then I was just expecting some more brutal music. I don't know, maybe because bands that play that kind of stuff like to count in their songs with four hits on the hi-hat. ^^

Anyway, enough criticism, now to the good things: Wow, this is your first attempt? It's a quite good attempt, even though I wrote two long paragraphs of what I don't like right at the beginning. The song is well structured and even contains a nice solo plus the main riff sounds very catchy.
Also, the drums play some really good stuff.

The outro needs some more work, I think. The song kind of just ends there. Maybe end it with a short drum solo, those kind of outros work most of the time pretty well. :)

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Step responds:

Thanks for the review! It's true about those gutars. I haven't heard one electric guitar sample which sounds even close to an electric guitar. Probably the annoying sound you were hearing was one of my guitar samples, lol :P. Either that or it was a wind sound effect or something, since I tried using loads of weather sound effects around the song. I see what you mean by the stuff after the intro, now that I'm hearing it again it does skip from loud to soft too suddenly. Anyway, thanks for the compliments, and about the outro... well, I may try a drum solo, but it's not going to turn out that well probably because I'm not that amazing at percussion. Thanks again for the review :D.

[ECHO - Reverb-X (2009)]

Good song

I don't think I've ever listened to the original, but this doesn't reall matter too much. This is a very nice sounding song. I like the trumpet very much as there aren't too many songs in the audio portal that make use of this instrument.

Maybe the background beat is a bit too repititve, but I don't think listeners will pay too much attention to that, as the background beat just stays where it belongs to, in the background. So, the melodies do the main work for this song and they are very diversified, so the song doesn't get repititve too fast.

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Echo responds:

tks man. I always wanted to put a trumpet in somewher, who knew it'd be in a dance song :)

Thanks for the detail you put in, once i'm gonna continue work on the revised version, keeping your review in mind. thanks ;)

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Btw, diversified isn't exactly a word lol...

[Hypno_Shooter [Box-killa]]

Very good

Wow you have some very nice melodies in this song. They are all very catchy and once they stop I think: "Hey, why doesn't this melody continue to play? But wait, what's that? The meldoy that plays right now is awesome, too."
And it's like that the throughout the whole song, so I nearly forgot to pay attention to the background beat as well... ^^

The instruments in the background set a nice basis for the melodies, they accentuate them pretty well. Plus the background beats can only be heard in the background, just like they are supposed to be. No overpowering of beat and melodies here, everything can be heard just fine. Nice work in the mixing departement! :)

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Box-Killa responds:

:D thanks, lol i deleted that other submission. It was an unfinished projet i forgot to delete :D Peaceout. Oh kodos for the mixing praise :D Peaceout!

[Industrial Cavern]

Catchy melody

I can really imagine hearing this in a game. It would set the right atmosphere for the scene you described in the author comments, plus it isn't too distracting, which is always a big plus for game music.

Too bad that the song gets a bit repititive towards the end, but I guess you wouldn't really notice that when you are playing a game and concentrate on other things.

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PuffballsUnited responds:

Yeah, I guess the melody does repeat a bit at the end, but it's getting close to the machine winding down so I wanted it to feel more intense.