Haggard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[mac8 - dawn after the fight]

Good atmosphere

This creates a great atmosphere. The humming in the background create the image of a city that lies in ruins, dead bodies everywhere in the wreckage... great!

However, I think you made too much use of the bell and of the beeping sound (which can first be heard at 0:28). It would be better for the atmosphere if we could hear some sound effects like rolling thunder or some rain.

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[vortex^2]

Loops well, too

Another good done loop. There's no noticeable gap between the ending and the beginning of the loop.

But this also lacks some diversity. Even though it's only 14 seconds long and can be used in a flash for dramatical effects it would be better if there was happening a bit more than a guitar playing three chords and a drum playing the same thing over and over.

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[into the darkness.]

Loops good

This song loops really good. Too bad it misses a lot diversity. Basically it's the same background beat with two other melody that play at 0:20, 0:35 and 0:44.

While the atmosphere this loop creates is in fact very dark and sinister it just isn't diversified enough to be really outstanding.

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[All Night Party 11]

The 80's are back!

Wow, the intro is very 80's like. This can be a good thing and this can be bad thing... but in this song it's a good thing. It brings back good memories of my childhood, heh.

I like how the song builds up. At first we only have the drums and the synth. Later on more and more instruments/melodies are added. This keeps the listener interested and keeps the song from getting repititve.
Only problem is that the looping isn't that great here, because at the end you have a fully developed song which all of a sudden is reseted to a not at all developed song. So the change over from the end to the beginning sounds a bit strange.

But overall it's a great song, good work!

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[Depth of Thought]

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Normaly I don't like long fade ins/outs not that much, but it works very well here. Even though the synth sounds a bit strange at times (as if it doesn't want to be faded in yet... ^^).

I like the progression of the song. It starts off pretty slow, then builds up very nicely. After the quicker middle part it starts to fade out again. As I've said, it works very well and also fits good to the title you chose. It's as if I have a thought in my mind, at first it is a bit in the background of my mind (the song fades in), then I put more and more thought into it (the song builds up) and then I come to a conclusion, the thought leaves my mind again (the song starts to fade out).

Also, the melodies are very catchy and it's pretty nice to listen to this song. Good work!

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TheBellmaker responds:

Thanks for the review Haggard. I think the fade in problem was caused by a faulty rendering engine. Thanks for listening.

[JuMP3r - Bounce!]

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A bit too generic, but the background beat is pretty awesome. I also liked the various breaks you added to the song. This kept it from getting too repititve.

The problem is that it sounds too much like other dance tracks on newgrounds. I guess it's because nearly all artists use the same programs to create their tracks, heh.

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[Skela - Mighty]

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This is a nice cross over between techno and rock. Reminds me of some tracks I heard in the 99 and 00 version of the Fifa Soccer Series. ^^

The main melody is very catchy and together with the background beat it creates a pretty upbeat and cheerful song.

I especially liked the ending. The continued main melody fades out while we still can hear the last notes of the background beat. This works really well!

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Skela responds:

Thanks for the review!

[<==Stomp the Sand==>]

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The intro was a bit messy. No real structure there, or at least it seems like that.

After the intro the song gets a lot better, even though the preset drums take the fun out of it quite a lot unfortunatly.
However, the main melody is pretty catchy, it just needs to be a lot louder. Louder than the beats at the very least.

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DjCompass responds:

hm... is that what the compressor is for? XD
Thanks for the review ^^