TheAmateurAnimator's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Para-Noid Malfunction]

Neato.

Awesome synth in the beginning. The drums are incredible! I wish I could make DnB loops like that. The acid synth you used was pretty good too. The only think I didn't like were the lyrics--they sounded too distracting to me.

Para-Noid responds:

Lol review the newer one dude. It's a way better verison.

Para-Noid

[SR - CordWainer]

Nice.

I liked the shaky thing in the beginning. It went well with the synth. The drums were...weird, for lack of a better word. They added a lot more variety to the piece, though. At some points, though, I think the glitchyness got a little too intense, if you know what I mean. It started sounded less like music and more like a mad scientist's laboratory.

SineRider responds:

It does get pretty chaotic near the end, but I intended to do so. I thought it sounded pretty sick

Thanks for the review mate :D

[SR - Kickin' G-Dub Bush Style]

Nice.

First off, I have no idea what trip-hop is. I assume that it's really weird.

Now that that's out of the way, this song is really weird. That isn't a bad thing at all. Weird is awesome. I liked the synths you used. The fluttery one in the beginning, that growly modulating synth, et cetera. I liked how the drums would screw up or suddenly change pitch also, although the part where they were really deep interfered with the bassline. One thing that I liked was the crazy things you did with the vocals. They just sounded so cool all fucked up like that. Overall, this song's a win, even though you might want to smooth out the clarity and drums a bit.

SineRider responds:

Thanks man :D

[DJ Comet-Century Bound]

w00t FDR lol!

I love the acid synth in this song. I just think it sounds so cool! Also, nice work working those FDR clips into the song--although you could have used more than two phrases. I think it would have made a great song to use more parts of the speech. The drums were good, too. Excellent work.

TheComet responds:

agreed on the vocal clips, I couldn't find any other quotes worth using in the speech and I didn't want to use clips from some other speech because they'd sound different as far as sound quality is concerned

[Enchanted Strings]

Wait, you told me that my song was better.

You told me that my song "Night of the Wolf" was better than this! You dirty liar!

The only problems with this song are the panning and the volume. The overall volume of the entire song was too high, and it kind of dulled down the quality, especially with the violin. Otherwise, this song is amazing. It has a great feudal Japanese feel to it, I can almost picture it being in a martial arts movie or a samurai movie or even an anime!

F-777 responds:

Everyone keeps saying it reminds them of a movie called "the last samuri" I think im going to go buy it and watch it to see what they mean.

Thanks for the awesome review! :D

[DJ Comet-Heavy Assault]

MY EARS!!!

The synths in this song nearly gouged my ears out! My new hearing aid is going to be coming straight out of your wallet!

The drums, however, were great! It's just that this song would be much better if it wasn't continually trying to permanently damage my hearing. I mean, there's a limit to how heavy and assaulting a synth can be and you ignored it.

TheComet responds:

Actually this is LIGHT in terms of Noizecore, listen to Venetian Snares for 5 minutes and you'll understand what I mean (but their drumlines are the most insane I have ever heard)

[System Override (MS RAVE)]

Wow.

This is pretty good! It instantly caught my attention. I loved your use of saws and squares. Also, the synthy sound effects you had panning every once in a while were really nice. The drums were also very well done. Nice work.

Music-story responds:

yeah I really don't know what I really used. I just know that I used soo many instruments that I can't keep track of which ones I used. I love panning function so I can get my notes more clear. However one part of the song I purposely made it muffled to show the chaos. System override :) Thanks for the review

[-Orr- The Pharaoh's Tomb]

Pretty good work.

I got great Egyptian vibes from the modulating synth you used. I didn't follow your play-by-play deconstruction of your song (I prefer for my own mind to supply the pictures), but I got a nice "OMG EPIC BATTLE" feeling from the whole song. The part where the guitar becomes predominant, accompanied only by the organ and a choir(?), (before it goes into a bunch of Arabic melodies) sounds almost triumphant to me, like the hero is kicking Anubis's ass from here to Europa.

When I first saw this advertisement, I was expecting an orchestral song, not an industrial one, but it's good either way.

DavidOrr responds:

Yeah, it does have that epic feel to it, but I think it fits in pretty well.

Thanks for the review!

[_-={The Dead's Witness}=-_]

Encore! Encore!

There have been people who have told me that my music deserves to be in soundtracks.

If that's true, then you've got your work cut out for you!

I first encountered this piece on the NGAP Radio, and promptly downloaded it after the first staccato shout, not even bothering to listen to the entire song before putting it straight onto my MP3 player (you're in there right between Harry Gregson-Williams and Hans Zimmer!).

The image I got from this one was very much like the image you got from my song, "Funeral Dirge"--a bloody battle has just been fought, the ground is a mass of blood and gore, and a few survivors stumble through it all, trying to make sense of a world turned upside down.

The one thing that amazed me the most was the drums. The samples were amazingly lifelike, and reminded me a lot of Edgen's drums. Are you using the same drum samples he is, or something else?

Bravo, Maestro, Bravo!

MaestroRage responds:

Oh man! How did I miss this review! My sincerest apologies AmatuerAnimator! To write a response so late was pretty weak of me >_<!

With that out of the way, allow me to respond to it properly.

I love Hans Zimmer, to be compared to him is very flattering, but for that comparison to hold water, i'm going to have to travel a good distance yet, and I intend to with every fiber of my being. I will get there one day, and then I will sell cupcakes and bake cookies, and mix things with my conductor stick!

I have deemed it as such.

As for Edgen's drum samples, I don't know exactly what he uses, but these drums were from East West Collossus' Ethnic Drum patch, which had a great range of sounds that I enjoyed to use as much as to hear.

Thank you kindly for the review, and I again apologize dearly for the late response. You may never read the response as it's so late coming, but if you do, I appreciate it, and i'm glad you enjoyed it!

[-=LJC=- Grind My Data]

Nice!

This is, by far, the glitchiest song I have ever listened to. It was a very new experience for me. While its disjointed discord can really put people off listening to this in my opinion, I think it's very interesting.

The synths that mimicked glitchy drums was my favorite part of the song--I just liked how alien they sounded compared to what I usually listen to. Then again, I could say that about the entire song.

LJCoffee responds:

Thank you - the drums are almost entirely made from modulated white noise. (Almost) As far as "glitchiest song you've ever listened to" goes - if you're into that sort of thing (which it doesn't really sound like you are)then I have plenty of others that are just as messed up =)

Thanks for the review!