Haggard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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-Killa]]

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 >:)

[Cast From the Stars (Chill MX)]

Good

I don't like it as much as the original, but this remix sure is pretty nice. It is in fact a very chilly remix. Quite relaxing and nice to listen to.

However, I just think that it is a bit too slow from time to time. Especially in the intro it takes a while to pick up.

So in conclusion, it's a nice remix, but the original version is still better. :)

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Bracksta responds:

you like the fast and hard mooosic lol

[Aliens_On_Earth [Box-Killa]]

Good song, but...

I like this song, it offers some very nice melodies. But somehow it sounds as if the song never really starts. Maybe that is because it stays so quiet the whole time.

Even after the pretty long intro the song never really picks up, which is a real pitty, because as I've already written, the melodies in this song are very nice.

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Box-Killa responds:

i like the long intro. there are no melodys lol

[Noisy - Lifehouse: Beacon]

I'm speechless

Yes, I'm speechless. This song really let my with my mouth open. Good thing that I can still type. :D

This song is just awesome. It starts right from the first second. The strings offer a very nice sound. The melody that follows after that is very uplifting and just the right thing to listen to to start into the day.

I also like that the song never gets boring. Right when I get the feeling that a certain melody has been played long enough you change it. Very nice. :D

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INoisy responds:

Hahaha, good thing! ;D

Thanks man, I really appreciate it. I tried to keep it varied without losing the structure of the song (:

[My Savior (Dance Remix)]

Repititive and too lound at times

The melodies in this song are very nice and also the beats are quite good. The problem here is that the song is over 6 minutes long, but there isn't too much that happens during those 6 minutes, so it gets repititve very fast.

Also, sometimes all instruments seem to play at full volume which doesn't sound exactly good. It stresses the ears because there's so much happening at once.

If you mix those "louder parts" a bit better and try to break up the song structure here and there you'd get a very good song.

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DJ-Chilvan responds:

Believe me, I sweat trying to level out and pan and equalize all the sounds. But i'm still an amateur so I'm learnin day by day. I have absolutely no free time anymore these days but when i'm fit I will practice on this.
Thanx!

[Almany]

Very nice

This is a very good song. Too bad I never played Carmen Sandiego, so I don't know how good your interpretation is, but it sure sounds nice.

The song doesn't stand out too much, but I guess this is because it was meant for a game. Game music shouldn't distract the player but give him something nice to listen to while he is playing.
The song achieves this goal. You can let this play in the background for quite some time without getting too distracted by it and you will have something nice to listen to, which doesn't get boring for a very long time.

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DJ-Chilvan responds:

thanx for the review. I'm glad I achieved it's goal =D

[Flash/Audio Collab Submission]

Sounds good

Even though the song is so short it sounds really good. Other songs have an intro that is 40 seconds long, your song is already finished by that time.

The intro with the vocals is very nice and sets the right mood for the song that follows.

Too bad you had that time limit, I really would like to hear a longer version.

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SessileNomad responds:

yeah i think this one would have turned out quite nicely if it could have been longer, but w/e

my newest track im working on is much better, AND its longer

other songs in general have 40 second intros, or other songs in the collab?

thansk for reviewing dude

Peace out

SessileNomad

[Cast From the Stars]

Great

This is a really great song. It got me caught from the very first second on until the end. And this happens rarely when I listen to trance songs.

You have some very great melodies in this song and it also is quite varied, which is always a big plus.

The only thing I didn't like that much was the outro. The fading is very nice, but it suddendly ends in the middle of a tune. I think it would sound better if the last note would ring for a tact or two and the song then ended.

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Bracksta responds:

agreed i need to put some echo on the last note and i would have helped wrapped up the end. Great Tip haggard, thanks for the reveiw :D!