Haggard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Alien Rampage]

Nice

A pretty good song with a nice storyline. Not too original, but it's always nice to have a little story to an instrumental song.

I like the intro very much, the drums here sound pretty good. The transition to the second part is also done in a nice way. I like the mostly deep sounds here, I think they cover the "kicking ass" part very well.

The second part ended too quickly, though. At first I thought my speakers where broken or the song didn't load properly... you should try to fix that a bit.
I understand that the aliens are supposed to leave quickly, but the second part ends right in the middle of the riff, it seems.

Anyway, the 3rd part is a very nice outro to the song. Not too exiting, but the happy people just have to get a hang on the things again, I guess. ^^

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Birdinator99 responds:

Thanks for the kind words -- I agree with the point you made about the 2nd part cutting off, though. I'll make sure to avoid things like that in the future!

[Cries of the Tormented]

Good song

The intro is very creepy, could be the score to a psycho thriller or even a horror movie.

The track that follows after the intro isn't so creepy anymore, but the atmosphere is definitely very dark, despite the high pitched notes you used throughout the track.

While I don't like the outro here too much (it's a bit too abrupt) it's still nice that you ended the song the same way you started it, with a small "bang".

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Step responds:

Thanks for the review, Haggard! :D. I really don't know what got into me when I made this song. I was aiming for some normal trance with a choir intro, but I continued by adding more choirs to the intro, some scary effects, a bell, and it became the creepiest intro ever made XD. Then, I just had to go with the flow and make everything else creepy :P. A really weird fact is that I only got inspiration and ideas for the song at night - in the day, all I could do was play around with the song a little, but at night new melodies, ideas and inspiration came rushing to me xP. Anyway, as for that outro, maybe if I slow down the ending a little it won't be abrupt. Anyhow, thanks again for the helpful review!

[Seashore Metropolis]

Well...

I really don't know what's wrong with this song. I listened to it a few times in a row now and couldn't find anything I could critizise. ^^

I like the melodies here a lot. They create a very laid-back atmosphere. The background instruments intensify this atmosphere as they hold themselves in the background very nicely.

Only thing you could maybe add are some sound fx, like wind or water... but other than that, the song is fine!

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Sawdust responds:

Thanks so much!

[[MC Crispy] - Real Times]

Good track

This track has a better sound quality than the last one I reviewed from you. But the vocals still sound a bit muffled, so I think you still have to experiment a little bit with various settings for your mic until you come come up with a better quality.

For a freestyle the rapping is pretty good. There are some parts here and there that don't sound too natural, but overall your rapping is good and you really are very talented in my opinion. Now all you have to do is to try to make the best out of your talent by constantly practicing. ^^

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chrisG755 responds:

thank you so much.. i have been practicing loads recently and my new mic is excellent.. i will definitely work on the dodgy parts. i need to work on breathing cause i lose it at bits.. but i should have it worked out soon.

i will continue to drop tracks on NG and work on breathing.. mic quality.. and as well as that try to properly write a song. i record all in one go as if it was live on stage, so if i muffle it up i ruin the whole recording and the lyrics may not work if i re-rap. as well as that.. i have bad days-good days.. some days its easy to rap others i struggle.. so i should try and write songs.. so that i remember the track.

Once again thank you for your review i wouldn't be able to do it without you guys help thanks

-Chris

[Strangled - Beholder bunn]

Ends too abruptly

This song creates a very creepy atmosphere. The effects are well chosen here, it almost feels as if I'm ventureing into a deep cave and I experience very strange things there.

I wished the song was a bit longer, though. The outro seems to be a bit rushed, just suddendly ending on that one note. I think with a bit more work you could come up with a better, more satisfying ending.

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Calamaistr responds:

hm, well theyre all supposed to be more of a 'atmospheric' track, its in that light atleast i make this album. :)
Besides theyr all meant as a loop so it doesnt actually 'end'

thanks for the compliment and thanks for the review. :)

[Your Wall (WIP)]

Good song, but too loud

Again a pretty nice song. I again like the vocals, they are pretty good. The rhythm here is nice as well and I was tapping my foot along to it on the very first time I listened to it.

The problem here is that everything sounds very loud, almost as if the instruments are overamplified, so you should try to get things sorted out when you record the final song.

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StickyRemnant responds:

I'm glad you like it :)
With regards to the loudness, yea, I think I may have overdone the compression abit. It helps give the song its energy but it probably borders on "listener fatigue" . I plan on tweaking this once I've written the lyrics.

Thanks

[Mortal Kombat vs. DjBracksta]

Starts slow but gets amazing later on

While I still prefer the original version (it's just too awesome) I have to say that this is a very interesting remix. I like that you put so much of your own work into this and created a whole new song with it.
Sometimes remixes tend to sound too much like the original and the author just changed a few notes. But you changed a lot more than just a few notes. In fact - judging by your author comment - this wasn't even planned as a mortal kombat remix in the beginning.

Anyway, the intro is a bit messy, there seems to be too much going on at the same time, but the song constantly gets better and after about 1 minute the song just sounds awesome.

The outro is done very nicely, even though there's a pretty long silence at the end. I like how you slowly end this song, it sounds much better as if you had ended it with a big clash of cymbals at the end.

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Bracksta responds:

you are very observant :). yep, i am working on finishing the original song before i added mortal kombat in. the intro seems messy because i am introducing two melodies at once, it was not to easy. i agree that the original is very hard to stand up to, so i just threw a bracksta wrench into the sucka and tried my best. i am very glad that i ended the song slowly because if i didn't the listener would have had no cuddle time after the storm of sound and would have been like, "What the hell man?!" lol. thanks for the great review and vote and time Haggard :D, always happy to have your input!

[Spiritual Hunt & Slow Cosmic]

Low sound quality but nice song

Yeah, the sound quality of this piece is kinda low, but it still is good enough to enjoy this song. The atmosphere it creates is very dense and in fact very "spiritual".

I like the guitar the most here, it has a very nice rhythm and being a guitar player myself I tend to focus on the guitars when listening to a song, heh.

Anyway, the background melodies are very nice as well and they support the guitar with good melodies that add a lot to the nice atmosphere.

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Monkeydelic responds:

Thanks for the review :)

Namaste.

[Hope-Demo]

It's a good start

Starts off quite slow, but it gets better with every second the song plays. I really like the build up you have done so far.

However, I too think you should change the drums once the guitar sets in. Those very soft drums don't really fit together too well with the more hard sounding guitar.

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itsameyayo responds:

Agreed on the drums. I'll have a friend help out there. :)

-ImperfectDisciple

[Fertile Grounds and Open Skies]

Good but too short

And once again the mix between ambient and DnB is done very well. The melodies here create a quite dark and somewhat cold atmosphere and the constant drums that don't change too much during this song just underline the darkness of this song even though the title "open skies" would suggest a more happy atmosphere. But the lyrics also indicate that this song isn't meant to be happy.

My only real negative point is the fact that this song is too short. It barely started and then it's already over again. So yeah... make it longer! :P

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SessileNomad responds:

yeah its too short, it happens though

yeah this track isnt really a happy one, i guess the title could impose that though