Angelus1818's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Conservative]

Love it!!

Very nice man!! Your vocals sound pretty nice in this!! It sound like Iron and Wine, and this is a very good thing. Wow...this song is just great. I'm sorry if I sound like a broken record, but you captures something in this. Some sort of innocence that is very comforting. If you wrote an album with like ten songs along these lines, I would pay like $10, $15 on iTunes for sure. Keep it up man, I can't wait to hear more stuff from you. I'm gonna PM btw.

-Angelus 5/5 10/10

Linktrx responds:

Haha thanks for boost of confidence man! Maybe someday ill be on there, who knows...

[The Inventor's Workshop]

Gold

I love this so much! This is has to be your best work! I would love to hear this expanded on. Not only was the musicality brilliant, but whatever you used to record it is amazing quality as well. Were those real strings!? If not what did ou use? They sound so sweet and warm.

I am bowing before you sir, keep it up!!

5/5 10/10

P.S. Dude, you should score film!!

samulis responds:

It's just some Garritan samples made to go with Finale. Garritan did a good job with strings, but not such a nice job with Brass and such, so I often stick with strings with their sounds now.

[War All The Time (Cover)]

Nice 1

Great production value, great listen. You really hit the nail on the head man, kudos.

Keep up the suberb work!!

5/5 10/10

-Angelus

ChioBam responds:

Thank you! Thank you for the feedback, I truly appreciate it (: I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[Beautiful Angels]

Vocals >_>

I like this but the vocals really brought it down. Some nice deep, breathy vocals would suite this song really well. Or some Goo Goo Dolls style raspy'ish singing maybe. Other than that, great song.

4/5 8/10

-Angelus

Linktrx responds:

Thanks for the review man those are good points. I can only hope that in time ill find a better vocalist or improve myself so that these could perhaps be redone. Thanks for listening!

[The Five-Ton Elephant Swing]

Listen...

I know you said constructive criticism only, so keep in mind I'm not trying to mean.

This song is pretty bad. The brass was off key half the time and sounded flat. Almost like whoever was playing it didn't give a flying #$%! if the world blew up the next second. It's very empty and quite, this sounds horrible but this song sounds like a joke to me.

I know you said it was made in your free time, well, it deff shows.

I'm sorry I can't offer any points on how to make it better, just remember I'm not making fun of you. Just being honest.

2/5 3/10

-Angelus

samulis responds:

Yep. That's the problem with recording after half a summer of not doing anything. ;)

By brass, what do you mean, the trombone part or the baritone or both? I know we both discovered after recording the piano that the baritone was desperately out of tune. All of its tuning slides had been pushed in during storage for the summer.

And as for horrible... I guess that's all prospective. 90% of the NG community probably only likes modern stuff like pop, rap, rock, etc. Then there are the 5% like me who go obsessive over a good piece of Brahms or a trip to go see Vince Giordano play live. The other 5% could care less as long as they get to zero-bomb everything.

Plus, it was supposed to sound like a joke. Wouldn't you laugh at a five-ton elephant acting like a drunk?

[Quantum Leap (8 Bit)]

Soundws Great..But...

This sounds nice, but it's not 8 bit. It's just gritty sounds. Don't get me wrong, it DEFF reminds me of 8 bit, but it's not. The songs a tad empty and repetitive, but it still sounds great.

4/5 8/10

-Angelus

Sonomabob responds:

no "gritty" sounds. just raw synthesizers. thx anyway (-:

[The Fable]

Cheap

Overall I like the melody in here, and it's a decent sounding song. There is one problem I have with it, and it's a major one.

This song sounds very midi. It sounds a lot like FL Studio but I could be wrong. It is to tight when you made it in the piano roll editor. The instrument patches sound very "Cheap" as well. The song is way to long and somewhat empty.

However, you have some nice sounds in here. I would love to hear this with real strings, a piano and guitar. All in all, you and your cuz have some work to do, but I think you'll do well ;)

3/5 6/10

-Angelus

Daxter1537 responds:

well, thanx for the tips and criticism, i really appreciate it, thanx for the review :D

[(FMC) -=Moving On=-]

Chill

This is a nice relaxing tune. It reminds me of Super Mario Sunshine, and I mean that in the best possible way! It's a nice happy vibe that would work nice to add some atmosphere to a kids game.

Keep up the good work!

-Angelus 4/5 8/10

FunkmasterCatking responds:

Haha it's ok, Super Mario Sunshine is one of my favorite games of all time actually.

Thanks for the review!

[Amber Waves of Grain]

Lovely

I love the calming effect this had on me. The drums sound very nice as well. I would have preferred a different use of the synth patch you used. But it works rather well because of the title. I felt like there were these tiny waves coming in, slowly taking me out to sea, out to place where things are happy and ok.

Great work,

5/5 10/10

Pocketpod responds:

you mean the pad in the beginning? well I just needed something for the background...

Thanks for your nice words.

[(CHS) Zelda: Storm Within!]

You Should Score The Next Zelda Game

Perfect...again!! You do amazing work! I wish all Zelda songs sounded like this.

5/5 10/10

-Angelus

ChaosDragon004 responds:

Thanks bro, I dont think im ready for Nintendo's Music staff yet but hey mabye one day. Now that would be something to look foward to lol.