Spadezer's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[~Echo~ Redemption (NGADM R1)]

You did beautiful job with the mixing. I like the atmospheric feel especially at the beginning. I thought for a second I was listening to johnfn stuff. You can really put out some emotional pieces with stuff like this. I can't tell where the rough changes are (unless you intended it to be longer than 04:51).

Lovely
-Spadezer-

[Pluto]

I won't say what others have said, but there is something they haven't said.

I've heard it another one of your songs Don't. Your mixing has room for improvement and some of your composition based thoughts could be better, but you have emotion. It's not something other Dubstep artists manage to slip into their music, and that's why I'm excited. Good mixing brings the house down, and good composition will wow the world on top of excellent mixing, but having emotion is where music hits home especially for people who can get over imperfect mixing (imperfect mixing, not bad mixing).

Keep composing, you'll get it.
-Spadezer-

Pandasticality responds:

thanks for the review Spadezer <3
- Pandasticality

[Racing the Sun]

This is good metal

As a stand-alone song I like it a lot. I've never played Race the Sun (Seen the insane videos though) and I tried to imagine this as an F-Zero song but it doesn't work since it changes up the feel of the song a little too much during the track. Not a bad thing though.

The drumming is solid. I love the guitar work, and I kinda wish there was some more NES sounds, like add them along with the melody.

The only problem with this song is that it's really good, but like the NES sounds, I feel like there might possibly been in some way/shape/form or smidgen of something that could have made it better. Maybe just a little bit of more detailed mixing or something with the composition, I don't know. But I like it.

Not too spectacular but 9/10 would listen 9 times straight.
-Spadezer-

thebitterroost responds:

Thanks man! Totally agree with the NES sounds, but I'm really new to it and didn't feel confident enough to really make it pronounced. I've only ever used something like the tweakbench Peach VST before, which just uses patches with pre-rendered sounds. This time I dabbled in one called NES VST, where you manually design the voices. Easier said than done, it turns out :P

[Tenebrarius]

I couldn't shake my mind out of the fact that I wasn't listening to the Piano Guy's next collaboration with Lindsey Stirling. I started to be able to at the end just because it's darker than their stuff, but it still says something that this is just about the same caliber is professional Youtube artists.

Good luck in the contest
-Spadezer-

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

I love The Piano Guys! Same goes for Lindsey Stirling :)
Now that you mention it, I can hear the similarities.
Yeah, this track took a pretty dark turn. Though if you listen closely, you can hear many other things than pure darkness too, especially the sense of determination (I feel).
It's great to hear that you think the quality of our track is that high!

Thanks a lot for reviewing!

[Oak - Mobius (NGADM'15)]

I LOVE THIS CONTEST!!!!!

[In Gods Mournful Design]

Hoo...

Leee....

Crap!

I wish I could think up music like this. I could see how mixing was a nightmare. There isn't much music on the internet that literally leaves my mouth open for a minute straight.

LITERALLY

Respect.
-Spadezer-

Excuse me while I try to catch my jaw

[Sidestep]

OH man! That Bass! Oh but the kick is amazing! Oh the Bass!

Seriously, your low frequency work is pretty spectacular. As for your composition this precisely a good drum and bass song IMO. There isn't much of a focused melody though, which is why I would classify as drum and bass. From what I can tell, that's the only thing I could think of that might hurt your song. That and the build at 03:10 is cliche but that is strictly my opinion.

But the mixing! I love the mixing. All of the bass work that you're doing is quite impressive and I have a hard time picking out if anything is out of place. This is well done.

I don't remember you making music like this.
-Spadezer-

AeronMusic responds:

Thank you very much!!
I know you don't remember, cause this is the first time I have made something like this. I like chaning styles a lot and will surely do that in future. I am really glad I got the mixing on point especially with the drums and the basses! I am really happy I got better headphones for mixing!
Drumstep is a mixture between drum n bass and dubstep. I classified this as dubstep because that was the closest genre I could choose from, in my opinion.

[Chip 'n' Swing]

Shoot. This is good.

I didn't know you could do this with chiptune instruments. You gave me chills listening to this especially at 01:15. During the whole song your chord work is amazing. It seems like you can make music theory bend at your will.

I tried making a review but I can't.

This is good AND IT'S ONLY THE FIRST ROUND!!!!!
D8

You've just gained another fan
-Spadezer-

Yahtzei responds:

This has to be one of my favourite positive reviews ever :D I have spent a lot of my life learning a lot of music theory, and I actually wrote most of this on my guitar, recorded it into my phone and then painstakingly transcribed into into my laptop. But at a certain point you've just gotta take the theory, screw it up and violently kick it off a building, preferably into moving traffic.

Thanks again, Spadezer :)

[Death Match]

So much better than Tim's mom (not that I would know. I've never met Tim's mom)

But seriously, this is much better. Really good guitar work and the singing is cool too. I like your voice. It's scratchy an a bit unrefined but it works really well. Keep it up.

Solid work. I like this.
-Spadezer-

Ceevro responds:

Well, the concept was a sort of story. It's told from the point of view of an older, gritty man with a personal grudge to settle with a cocky younger man who has no idea what the reality of the situation is. The major section in the bridge is there to show a few seconds of making his own peace with his possible demise before the violence sets in once again. The electric solos are meant to denote the actual fight, starting more chaotic and experimental, but pulling into more refined and precise flurries. The harmonic string-bends should denote screams caused by wounds, until the final high-Dm chord - the coup d'etat, finishing with one man silently walking away. Which one? Damned if I've decided! I'll leave that to the listener.

And I find it unrealistic to think that ANYONE doesn't know Tim's Mom, hahahaha!!!