Haggard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[When We Go]

Nice atmosphere

This song creates a very nice atmosphere. It's somewhere in between "sad" and "mystical" and I can really imagine hearing this in a flash submission.

Too bad it's so short though. Because of that it tends to get repititve after the 2nd playthrough.

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[SRD - Window Shopper]

Awesome

I agree with war-spawn, this isn't exactly techno. But I couldn't name any other genre this would fit into.

Anyway, this is a damn fine song you uploaded here. The atmosphere that is created by the constant humming in the background is amazing. This nice atmosphere is intensified when slowly the beats set in at around 0:38.
The song is completed when at 1:03 the drums set in with a very nice beat.

Even though the song as a whole is quite minimalistic (there's not much varity in it and the beats are quite simple), it does sound pretty awesome! Nice work!

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thegreatmorph responds:

Thank you very much!

Glad you find the same things to enjoy as I try to emphasise in my music as best I can :)

[SRD - Commutersville]

Nice, but again annoying statics

The intro is done quite nicely and the change over from the intro to the next part is pretty good, too.

The beat is again very nice and the melodies are catchy. But sadly this song too is ruined by the annoying static sounds. :/

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thegreatmorph responds:

thanks again, aall but one of my songs are static messes :(

[Number of the Beast]

I lived alone...

my mind was blank
I needed time to think to get the memories from my mind

This is a very good "cover" of the intro of "The Number of the Beast". In the beginning you sound very close to the original. Later on, you still sound close to the original, but you should have put a bit more "drama" into your voice. Also I think the "sixhundredandsixtysix" should be spoken a tad bit faster.

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Coop responds:

Well, it's not bad for a first try. I could also use an echo on it, but still, for a raw sample, I think I'm getting there :)

[Kids]

Sounds a bit muffled

Again a nice build up here. Maybe it's a tad bit too repititve, but this can be easily sorted out if you add some other instruments during the build up or if you simply cut down on build up time.

However, the rest of the song is pretty repititve, too. There are very few breaks and/or changes in the song, so you should try to work on that.

The major problem with the song seems to be the somewhat muffled sound. As if someone put a cloak in front of the speakers...

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thegreatmorph responds:

Well that said, I'm pretty indulgent in my work and if it sounds good to me I try not to mess around with it too much.

Also the muffled sound is probably down to the poor quality of the uploaded Mp3 once again.

Thanks for the review! I'll try to encompass your advice into my newer works, if I ever get around to finishing them.

[SRD - The Almighty Sterling]

Great, but...

This is a good song. I like the slow build up and the rhythm is also pretty good. But what ruins the song are the many static sounds in there. Too bad you don't know where they are coming from. Makes it harder to figure out what went wrong and where.
Did you try to simply reupload the song? Because it would be pretty sad to see this good song getting a low score just because of the statics...

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thegreatmorph responds:

Thanks for the advice, and I haven't tried uploading it again, mainly because it's on the hard drive of my other computer which unfortunately is screwed.

I'll try it as soon as I get my computer up and running again.

[Heal - Classical Remix]

Even better than the original

That's right. I like this better than the original (sorry, TMM43 ;) ). I think it's quite amazing what you made out of the song. I still can hear the melody from the original here, but in your song it sounds so different, with all those classical instruments backing up the melody.

It also creates a totaly different atmosphere. The original song creates a happy atmosphere, while this one creates a much more thoughtful, almost sad atmosphere...

Good job!

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TheBellmaker responds:

I think TMM43's version is awesome, too :). Thanks for the review and I hope to do much better things with my music in the future.

[A dance song for Xmas]

And yet again, this does loop very well

The main problem with this is however, that there isn't much change during the 19 seconds this loop is long. The beat stays the same all the time and there are only few other things to hear, but those are nearly overpowerd by the main beat.

Some changes in the pitch sure would be nice here.

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[8-bit war]

Again a good loop

And this time with added drums, which makes the whole song more interesting in my opinion. Too bad that the drums and the melody run out of sync at the end of the song, but you already know about this.

The melody provided here is pretty nice and the sound remembers me of some old atari games... ah, sweet memories! :)

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[bit&piano]

Loops pretty good

But sounds a bit boring as it is now.
While the tune is very much 8-bit like and I can imagine this being used in some sort of cave or dungeon level, there isn't that much else to it.

I expected the drums to last until the end after the part at 0:06. It would also make the song more insteresting as the listener has something more to listen to.

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