Haggard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[PPC2 - K Time]

Very experimental

There are some very good effects in there, good work.

The song is pretty relaxing on the one hand. But on the other hand with all those effects going on it gets pretty creepy, especially towards the end.

It's a bit hard to review this song, as I like to come up with some small stories for ambient songs. But here, no story comes to my mind.
Maybe it's again a small journy, but this time not of a real person but instead of his soul. It gets "dragged out" of the body in the intro and goes on a long and pretty eventful journy.
At first it is happy to be rid of the body, the song is pretty relaxing (at around the 2 minute mark).

But more and more sinister forces try to get a hold of the soul and it tries to find it's way back into the body, but doesn't quite make it...

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Monkeydelic responds:

Thank you :)
That's a very interesting way of interpreting the song, never really thought of any meaning to this song, as i mostly just experimented with the effects, but it's cool that some "meaning" can still be found.

Thanks for review :)
Namaste.

[PPC2 - Forest II]

Nice again

I liked the first one a bit better as the melody there was catchier, but this too is a great song.

This could continue my little story I was making up in the first review. Either the whole group or just one single person goes on and lives in the forest. Either by accident or out of free will. We can now see him how he just enjoys time. Maybe he's fishing or taking a sunbath on a small clearance.

Nothing disturbs this peace, the last human being he saw years ago, he now became part of the forest, part of the nature.

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Monkeydelic responds:

Thanks :)

If it ever comes to making a music video, i'll defineatly use your little story, it fits perfectly :)

Thanks for review :)

Namaste.

[PPC2 - Forest I]

Very nice

This song needs a better mic. It's a real pity that the sound is so muffled as the actual song is just awesome.

When it starts, it feels as if I (or somebody, maybe even a whole group) decides to go hiking. Everybody is in a good mood, supplies are plenty, weather is good.

Then the group/the single person decides to make a detour to the nearest forest. As they venture farther and farther into the forst, all the noise, pollution and problems of the world is left behind and they soak up the mysterious atmosphere...

From there I really don't know how the story goes on. Maybe they go on living in the forest as a hermit? :D

Anyway, great song, it just needs a better sound quality.

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Monkeydelic responds:

Thanks :)

Better mic is coming up :)

Thanks for review :)

Namaste.

[Big Red - Ain't No Sunshine]

Good

I was a bit sceptic at first. "Ain't no sunshine" by Bill Withers is one of my favorite songs and I it's not easy to do a cover of it that really satisfies me. But you succeeded with your attempt. :)

Some notes are a bit off, though. You sing some words a bit deeper, where it in my opinion doesn't really fit. For example the word "away" at 0:12. It would have sounded better if you sung that a little higher as well.

Anyway, the rest of the song is just as amazing as the original. You managed to put as much feelings in your voice as Bill Withers did when he sung it. Good work!

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BigRed responds:

Any comparison to Bill Withers makes me blush :) Thanks man!

[=NGA= Pound The Beat]

Nice one

Wow, this sounds pretty awesome. It's hard and yet it has some very nice rhythms in it. Not just the everyday pounding beats.

The computer voice sounds amazing in this song. It takes a bit away from the hardness and adds some comical factor.

I like the outro of this song. Sounds as if suddendly the whole sound system shuts down, heh.

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[[dj-Jo] Raving Egyptians DEMO]

Generic and unusual at the same time

Strange. This sounds pretty generic, just as nearly all techno songs sound. But yet this sounds very unusual with the added "egypt-effects". This creates a very interesting contrast and is nice to listen to.

I think some added vocals could help this song. Maybe some very deep voice that represents some egyptian god could sing something in arabic (or at least something that sounds arabian -.-).

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[[dj-Jo] She (Aftermath Mix)]

Good

I had a quick look (or rather a quick listen) to the original version of this. You remix is done very well. You kept most of the song structure intact, so that the original song can still be identified but you also added some of your own ideas and made this into a new song.

Maybe it's a bit too loud from time to time, but on the other hand the loud parts are especially energetic.
I like that you also had some quieter parts in the song so that the listener could relax a little before the loud parts started again.

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[Sapphire's '09 Voice Demo]

Great

You have a very wide range of voices plus the sound quality itself is outstanding.
Too bad we can't see the flashes the quotes belong to. Some sounded pretty familiar, others didn't.

I think the best way to promote your voice acting skills would be to write a short conversation or a short scene between various characters, all voiced by yourself (or maybe one or two voices from other voice actors).
This would give you the chance to show off your skills and the listener had something nice (and hopefully funny) to listen to.

Sapphire responds:

My quotes weren't from any flashes, they were originally written by me.

Although I do appreciate your review, I don't think that making short conversations between different characters is always the best way to go. After all, a lot of professional voice actors like Johnny Yong Bosch, Laura Bailey, and Tress McNeil have pretty much done the same thing I've done with my demo, while still entertaining their listeners and the producer/director.

The producer/director should be able to sit down and say, "This person can act, and has a good amount of range." If a VA can't do any of that then they've "failed" to do their job.

[Deep_Town_Blues [Box-Kill]

Sounds good, but has quality issues

Like you said in the comments, the track lacks some sound quality. The backing track is really nice, but the guitar sound doesn't fit that good to it. It sounds muffled and as if the amp is broken while the backing track has a very clear and distinct sound.

The improvising was pretty nice, but I wished the intruments in the background would play something different from time to time. As nice at it is, the backing track gets repititve after about 1:30 into the song.

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Box-Killa responds:

BWAHAHA i know it is all jsut crazy i know, the guitar is just bad quality, and thats because a i recorcded with a headset and b my amp is shit and c my only effects pedal is shit lol

[[Assios] - Midnight]

Nice, but too repititve

Starts off quite nice. The intro offers a nice melody and a nice beat. But it gets too generic and too repititve from there on.

It's like I've already knew this song, even though I listened to it for the first time.

So, the basics are there, now you need to try to make this song into something special, maybe with some added parts that break the song structure.

You already did this in the middle of this song, but in the middle part isn't really happening too much.

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Assios responds:

Thank you! And I totally agree that it's too repetitive, I will edit that FL Studio file someday, and make it less repetitive >:)