Spadezer's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[AIM - Rothgar]

I'm highly impressed. I was not expecting this from you. What I really is that you kept it for the most part in one key. Normally not a great thing to do, but considering where this guy would be coming from (likely from Northern Scotland given the attire and facial features) there would likely be some bagpipe influence with the cord structure. I'd wager it's in the key of D just on that point alone.

You get the flavor of the setting of the picture, and more impressively, you mixed his background into the mix as well. And your skills have improved since the last time I paid attention to you last.

You did a great jorb out there

Ceevro responds:

C# is the key, actually. Tuned to DADGAD, then a half-step down.

[Pretty Things]

Ah

Good to hear from you again. I like the style of this too. Not what I would expect from you, but I'm quite ok with this. With how it's bright and chill and just lets you sink into a feeling close to going to bed at night.

Just wanted to say it's good to hear you putting out stuff.

Pandasticality responds:

Hey Spadezer, i got a few projects under my sleeve right now n__n more to come soon, i don't know why but this type of Future Bass music has kinda appealed to me, its so good xD hah, anyway, thank you for the review! <3

- Pandasticality

[Ever Free]

You two need to do a full song together.

You guys don't realize how cool this sounds, especially if you did something similar to Aurora Dawn.

Cool mic too. sounds great.

[FD - Broken World]

Pretty top notch stuff. For some reason, and I'm not sure exactly why, this makes me think that if they remade the Dragon Bruce Lee story from the Super Nintendo that the music would sound like this. I remember liking it a lot.

ForgottenDawn responds:

Hey thanks! I've never heard of that game before, I should check it out.

[Velcro]

Aw Yeah!!!!

I like this a lot. It's like 90's video game synths with some funky jazz (unfortunately that's all I can think up for genres). That's besides the point though. I like what you're doing with this. It definitely highlights your abilities with composition and it's a bit farther than where you've come from. The mixing is quite solid too. I'd say with this piece you have a good fighting chance to continue on. I wouldn't say it's a solid chance, I'm not going to pick this apart like the judges will, but at least be proud of this piece. Not many people will be able to put something like this together on their own.

Keep life jazzy!
-Spadezer-

LunacyEcho responds:

Another year, another NGADM! Glad to see you again :D

=> 90's video game synths =>

Haha, figures you'd like that :P

=> + jazz =>

Thanks for the genre suggestion! That sounds about right.

=> mixing is quite solid =>

Yay! Mixing is something I haven't been *quite* up to par with in comparison to my competition.

=> a chance =>

Thanks! It means a lot to hear that from you. :D To be honest though, I think even saying that I have a good fighting chance is stretching it when you listen to my competition T.T I honestly wouldn't be surprised if JacobCadmus, JustinOfSuburbia, and Jabicho (am I encroaching upon the J group?) take the top three spots in any order. My personal goal is to beat a score of 7.5, since that's the score I got for my piece in the NGAUC. :P

=> Keep life jazzy! =>

You know it ;)

Thanks for dropping by and leaving a review! It's a shame you couldn't compete this year, I was looking forward to those new-wave game vibes :P But hey, now that you're here, why not stick around and enjoy the rest of the competition while you can? :D

[~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