TheAmateurAnimator's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Its Da Bond!]

It's good and thematic!

But you need to learn volume control(as do I).

demoninabottle responds:

okay

[Ridin' Low]

Quiet and soothing.

Not my type, but it was still good, however.

demoninabottle responds:

THanks, yeah. I don't know, I should honestly have spent more time on this.

[Insane Demise]

Cool.

But the background noise kinda drowned out the foreground beat, and that was the only part that didn't sound good.

xSarCastiCx responds:

Yeah, I wasn't really sure if I should include the beat or not - in the end, I decided that there was just no reason not to.
Thanks for the review.

[The Rush]

Cool.

It was nice, pretty fast, like you said, and a pretty cool backbeat, to compliment the foreground music. The cymbols add a nice touch.

demoninabottle responds:

thanks.

[Hold 'n Up]

I see improvement.

This one had more of a tone-setter than your other songs, it sounded like something I'd hear while walking around a particularly calm planet in Ratchet & Clank, very peaceful and serene. I like the cricket sounds, they give it some nice atmosphere.

If I were you, I would take this l'il gem and make it longer by repeating the theme, embellishing it each time and then winding down back to the original theme before ending, just so that it can loop correctly. Like, here's a more visual representation:
12345432(start over)
The numbers stand for the degree of embellishment in each repetition, as you can see, it gets stronger and stronger and then goes back to normal, to make sure that it loops perfectly. Not only would it make the song longer, but it would give it much more substance.

As you can see, you're starting to get nines from me. Make more stuff like this and you'll hopefully get a straight-ten!

PS. Have you been taking composing lessons o something, or are you just naturally getting better?

demoninabottle responds:

Thanks for the review. No, I didn't even know that there were composing lessons, I'm just spending longer times on my beats.

[Early Wake Up]

Still isn't very jazzy...

This isn't jazz, you need a lot of complicated, fast tunes for jazz, and maybe a saxophone soundfont off the internet, because that's what jazz sounds like, I suggest listening to more jazz and learning what jazz really is, because this isn't jazz, it's classical. Well, it's too late now.

demoninabottle responds:

okay.

[Ealry in the morning remix]

Allright, okay, nice.

A bit more sructured and patterned than your original music, but, like you said, it's just a remix so you didn't really create it. Maybe if you look at some sheet-music and MIDIs, you can look at note structure and kinda learn by observation. Then you'll be able to create non-remix work that sounds as good or better than this.

demoninabottle responds:

okay. Yeah, we're playing this song in band, so I actually made this from memory.

[Demonic Techno]

Okay...

You used one of the acid arps, so I'm confused as to why this didn't go into acid. Well, you've improved a lot since your first non-Demon's Drum Riffs, and you're only going to get better. I suggest checking out some of my new songs or some of Redslash's work, and maybe picking up the Matrix soundtrack and listening to some Juno Reactor stuff. You can get ideas from that.

demoninabottle responds:

oh, I didn't know what acid is.

[Jump Guitar]

Quiet down the electric!

The acoustic nylon string guitar was good, pretty chaotic, but the electric guitar was too harsh. This wouldn't have mattered much if the electric guitar had formed most of the song, but you know you can use the knobs right next to the channel to adjust panning and, more importantly, volume.
Good luck with your next loop!

demoninabottle responds:

yeah, I hate this one. Don't know why I made it.

[Electric Guitar Rif 2]

Too short.

But it was good. You might want to use a different guitar, so look in the Styrus section.

demoninabottle responds:

okay, styrus guitar it is.