RyeGuyHead's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Way To Happiness]

Oi!

I couldn't really tell if you were trying to go for the full orchestral feel or not. I think its the upper plucked part that's throwing me off. Try to use a pizzicato string for that part or find a better sample...I liked your use of the drums, they were sparse but very effective.

I'm not sure if you did this intentionally or not, but the chord progression is a carbon copy of pachelbel's cannon.

This would work well as a loop.

djahmusic responds:

I never heard the ''pachelbel's cannon'' you mentioned... this is simply my first basic instrumental track.
and thanx for the comment!

[Water Polo]

hahaha...this is hilarious, not what I was expecting.

Sounds like your mouth is full of that fried rice at the beginning.

[Carf-ArcadeManiaMix Demo]

Awesome job of tossing the melody around to different synths. I feel much more engaged in a song when the lead instrument stays fresh. Some of the sound effects/drums were a bit...out there. They would probably fit better if they synced up to your drawing, though.

The poly synth bass at the 30-52 second had some serious dischord with another synth run happening towards the end of the pattern. That really threw me off. But that's the only major thing I can think of. Other than that, this audio is very unique and diverse.

I could probably listen to another seven minutes of this, barring it constantly evolves like in this sample

[Got Me Good]

I think the intro might be a little too busy. You would probably be better off just starting it at the 10 or 18 second mark. It's a really cool lead line, rhthymicly. I like how you dropped out the melody when they lyrics started, it made it a lot easier to hear (and pay attention) the vocals.

I like the idea of adding orchestral elements at the 2:42 mark, but I think there should be more. Maybe some horns or a timpani or something. The pizzicato strings sound slightly out of place by themselves, but if there was more accompanying it (during 2:40+) it might not be so jarring.

The vocal harmony at the end was neat, but you waited too long to bring it in. I would drop it all together and end on a quick "got me good" use the harmony on that line earlier.

Anyways, this is a good song with a lot of potential. I hope you take my words with a grain of salt., I'm just trying to help out (saw this on the WIP thread)

[Portal Panic - Portal thm]

Pretty good, but I wanted that square synth to have some more warble(LFO), if you know what I mean. Maybe you could just use the mod wheel...

Nice little tribute, good to have you back!

[Fairy's Fountain Loop]

Good, but that synth is overpowering...you can barely hear the harp-eggiator.

Nice addition of the drums and the vocals/choir/strings sound superb.

It sounds like if Enya was the fairy of the fountain, haha. Loops pretty well

VGSongbird responds:

Thanks ^_^
I wanted to keep the melody a little louder, but I guess I could've toned it down.

[Deluded Perception (ft. Amy L)]

Incredibly unique.

The vocals are almost like spoken word, with some pretty cool effects.

Really neat fusion of electronic and orchestral elements on this one, especially liking the sequenced leads. The drums evolve nicely too, starting with some hats and progressing to very well placed hits and breaks. The off beat synth hits sound a lot better when there's that extra wah thrown on them. Without it, they stick out a bit too much. You might consider removing the breath noises as well.

Any way, respect

[Dark Matter (first edit)]

I'm really digging the washed out reverb and chorus combined with the clean strumming.

This song can (and should) be a lot longer. Just repeat those two parts and come up with some sort of bridge or outro.

*The slide at the end made me laugh*

[Shoppingcart Racers]

Too bad about that game...seemed like a cool idea. But I don't know about it being better than mario kart; Double Dash was a great game.

As far as this audio goes, sounds great. Good mix, I liked how hollow the strings sounded, and how the bass was doubled by brass sound. The trumpet solo is pretty awesome too. It really carries the song well throughout the pulsating drums and bass, which I can see fitting really well in a racing type setting. Loops pretty flawlessly too.

Great work on this, I'm sure it will be used by something soon enough :D

Maverlyn responds:

Thank you :)