EvilRaccoon's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Grave Space (String FX)]

Awwwww yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Love it!

[Road Rash HD Vermont]

Why do I keep visualising myself flying through the air going ARHHHHHHH!!!! This awesome! Really takes me back zer0! :D

Enzer0 responds:

I hear the sirens of failure!!!

[Destiny's World - Hans Z.]

It's great and a very different take, but you need to take this off! The rules state that posting elsewhere opens up to prosecution and automatically disqualifies you.

The samples are only allowed to be used in the rights of the competition and you cant post your track anywhere else.

XTREEMMAK responds:

Thanks Peter,

I was searching for a clause like that in the contract.

[First Deep One Sighting]

This is astonishingly inspirational skit you have done! It's such a complement for you to imagine and be inspired to create a narrative from my music. If anything, it's the ultimate complement because you are using it the exact way I had hoped for it to be used, in a story based setting.

I love how you get into character and really go all out to make each feel like their own. Absolutely fantastic! I can't thank you enough for feeling driven by the track. it must have been a challenge to time your script with the audio, something I thought you did really well in.

Thank you so much! and keep up the great work! Fav'd and Followed!
:D

Tonash responds:

Thanks so much man! :)
It means a lot coming from you!

[Razing Doll]

Sounds ace! Love the eerie theme, sounds like it could be something from the late 80's. 90's! Great theme very fun!

[Man of Steel (cover song)]

Dear lord! This is super--B! Saves me doing one. ;) I was going to do a Batman v Man of Steel, but this is too good!

[Esperanza de la Vega]

A fantastic piece, it his such elegance and fluidity. This certainly doesn't feel the first time you've created Flamenco Guitar because it's just beyond unbelievable.

The melodies are fantastic and do a great job of connecting section to section. I found myself swaying to this throughout the numerous plays, never getting old, and still isn't as I write this. The playing of the guitar is extremely tight to genuine sound. Having that coupled with the wide sound I initially though you had recorded it until I read otherwise. I'm absolutely stunned, and I love the overall sound, it was a pleasure to listen to.

The composition was great, I love how you went in and out slowing down and speeding back up, but it was blatent nor obvious, or even in your face, it was almost impossible to spot, meaning your transitions from section to section was beyond superb. Sometimes I feel like a soloist instrument can't keep up with the grandness of collective force, but in hearing this you've proved significantly otherwise.

Superb SoundChris! One of my fav' pieces of the competition!

SoundChris responds:

Hey there peter - glad you liked the piece! I was always a big fan of spanish guitar music and after i had purchased gypsy from east west i just wanted to "use the force" :D Because i wanted to create that free feeling of accellerating and slowing down i had to ignore the grid and just compose by ear. I can recommend this procedure to get more realistic solo instrument performances, but it can kill your nerves totally! Nevertheless - just try this out - doesnt matter if with solo strings (violin / cello), singing, guitar, piano or whatever. Its just an interesting experience and can be very helpful for not to lose the reference to the natural way such instruments are performed. So thanks a lot man - your review is highly appreciated!

[Promises - skyood]

Competition aside, this is a beautiful piece.

5/5
+Fav

Personally I would love a backing orchestra, but me being me, i think an orchestra is what everything needs. :P Na, in all seriousness I love it. Reminds me of "Truman Sleeps Track from the score" Keep it up!

skyood responds:

I stopped trying to pull off orchestral music because:

1) I don't really have the right sounds for it, and have been frustrated in the past by the way the this limitation hurts what I consider to be a pretty good idea (see: Life, Ostinato and to a lesser degree Everlong Circles II)

2) I don't like, and aren't very good at, all the little detail mixing that is required with a big orchestra, and/or to make say strings (always the strings!) sound good. Mixing is definitely my weakness when it comes to this whole computer-based music deal.

Note: 1 and 2 could very well be related. Maybe what I have is good enough, I just don't know how to make it sound good enough. /shrug Also, it may have something to do with the fact that I've been fairly regularly playing synth doing pad sorts of sounds with a band, so I've started thinking that direction more.

Point is, I basically switched to using synths instead of ie a cello (See: Electric Nocturne).

Thank you for the encouragement. Listened to Truman Sleeps just now, and yes, it is eerily similar. Maybe my brain somehow reached back for when I saw The Truman Show last (in theatres, so how long ago was that)? But hey, accidentally sounds like something someone got paid a lot of money to make? I'll take it!

[GM - I'm coming 4 u (NGADM13)]

blimey! o_O Full of win!

InYourDreams responds:

Thanx man!! This means a lot to me, coming from you! You are an awesome musician! :)

[Make A Scene]

This is amazing! all 5's from me! you get better with every track!