Kwing's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[ElderlyKite - The Excentrism]

The notes are good and set a certain mood, but I'm not sure it really fits with the genre. The same melody played slowly on piano would be very pretty and sad - with the thumping beat and synth, it's not really clear what impression you're trying to leave.

[Trip to Egypt]

The main loop you're playing with didn't feel great to begin with - I tired of it within about 20 seconds, but reusing it for most of the track was a pretty big mistake. The little variations you tacked on top of it weren't very effective either.

DustifiedGD responds:

I'm sorry, but you basically described every single house song on earth. A repeated melody with different variations and two different drops. Now I agree that the second drop could have been longer but still, I don't think that you listened to the whole track and maybe before you go ahead and rate two stars and criticize me for making a regular house track you should at least consider what house songs are like in general. Remember that for next time you leave a review on a song.

[Big City]

It hurts to dock your score because I'm really digging the sound (huge fan of both the solo and the chugging guitar,) but there are some problems with this.

Most of the issues have to do with the vocalist. He's not bad, per se, but he's slightly off beat sometimes, and the delivery doesn't fit - it's too quiet and passive for how aggressive the guitars are, and really only sounds good during the downtempo bridge at the 3:00 mark. Short of that, the riffs did get vaguely repetitive and I remember one or two instances where it seemed like a perfect opportunity to squeeze in different melodies but you didn't.

dude2312 responds:

Hey, man. No worries, I definitely appreciate any feedback. I play all instruments on all of my songs. I'll definitely keep that in mind.

Thank you for checking me out!

[Into Darkness]

I'm generally a fan of discordant sounding things, but they have to make a bit more sense, and it doesn't feel like this does. The melodies you're playing with feel kind of unimaginative and at times awkward.

Synfang responds:

Okay. I'll try to work on that. Thanks for the feedback!

[I Have Arrived]

Lots of interesting sounds in here - definitely not what I was expecting from a dubstep song. I also like the slow start, which gave this a lot of texture. What's unique about this is that no part of the song is really exploding with energy - from start to finish this is pretty laid back, which is kind of the antithesis of dubstep but worked anyway. Good intro/outro and transitions and overall really nicely done.

[Dark Void - D4RKPR0J3C7]

Nothing really stood out to me about this song. The sounds are bland and they repeat a lot. This really didn't need to be longer than 2 minutes.

DarkProject16 responds:

I appreciate your comment, thanks!

[Launcher Octopuld (30th Anniversary Edition)]

The audio here just sounds sloppy for some reason. It's fast and slightly muddy and sounds very rough around the edges. Which is a shame, because I happened to like the melody, especially the groovy bass.

RetroCarrot responds:

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[[SkiT] Tears Rolling Up]

This is pretty good. I actually liked the different parts and transitions a lot, though the same melody (which I liked a lot) got stale. This isn't so redundant as to warrant being that much shorter, but I think if you cropped out a decent amount you could get the audience to reach the end before getting a little bored.

DaMastrofSkiTsees responds:

The melody was influenced from my opinion on how repetitive House music is. But yeah I can see how it can bore the listener.

[- Vortex -]

I appreciate that this song moves - there's some good variety here, and you introduce new phrases or at least effects before anything starts to get repetitive. A lot of bits (main synth, drums) did mostly stay the same for the whole track, but that's kind of par for the course for this genre.

[Steam Leaper (Remix)]

I think the biggest flaw in this track is it being too long for the number of ideas that are in it. The first minute or so feels great, but the rest of it is just looping the same thing over and over, and there isn't even much of an ending - more like the loop just cuts. Remix or not, something could and should have been done to keep things interesting from start to finish.

CreeperX3sssBOOM responds:

Thank you for the Advice!

Hopefully I can fix those problems for the ExMx.

See you then!