Spadezer's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[redemption]

This is why I follow you. Your atmospheres go to a place that not many people can recreate. This is deep stuff. The reason why the emotions aren't being screamed at and in the face is because they aren't ones that you shout out regardless of how deep they go, but these are the ones that can't be translated, let alone shouted. Like at 02:40. I can think of someone elderly or to be more relatable, myself sometimes at college. It's the feeling of someone who's tired of doing what they can or doing what they should, and is grieving to just return to doing what they want. What makes them feel happy.

Yeah good song. Not many complaints if you haven't noticed. Thank you.
-Spadezer-

johnfn responds:

Hey, thanks for the really kind review Spadezer! I feel like I'm hyper aware of when I'm living up to my own high standards and when I'm doing stuff that's disappointing, but it's always frustrating because there's no real way to force inspiration and creativity to happen to a piece that doesn't want it to happen, ya know? Anyway my point is, I'm glad you liked the song.

[404]

Hurray for organ! This sounds like it was a sweet piece to play. Coming from a jazz band trumpet player, this sounds like a really fun piece.

I'm concerned about the section at 01:21 though. It was tight and there's good detail, but the composition seemed a little lacking. But the organ saved it afterwards. Shout out to the drummers: awesome job!

*sigh* Such smooth music. Keep being funky.
-Spadezer-

camoshark responds:

Hey Spadz, Camo here, glad you liked our song, t'was a blast to work on, if a bit stressful towards the end! ^^'

I didn't know you were a fellow trumpet player, seems like a lot of people on this site were all this time without my knowing! XP

I have to agree with you about the segment at 1:21. The truth is, this song ended up only about half of what was originally inteded for it, but due to time restraints, musician vailability and irl issues, it had to be cut out, and this bit specifically suffered from it. There originally was supposed to be a guitar solo but, again, time restraints being as they are, it didn't make it in.

Maybe in the future you'll be able to see a final version but for now, it'll have to be as-is.

I'm glad to hear you liked the organ! You'll have to thank Skye for it though, I didn't even know this was going to be an organ until I heard the finished product!

I'm also glad you enjoyed Pat's drumming I'll certainly share the sentiment with him! :P

Once again, thanks for the review, and let's hope we make it into the nest round, 'cause we've got BIG plans for it! :P

[Your Father's Blade]

I wasn't sure what to think of it for the first half. I was getting worried cause I'm listening to this late in the day and all the reviews are like "this is awesome" and I was like "I hope I'm not missing something". Then once it got to 02:20 I was like "Ok I got it now".

So a little slow and quiet at first, but this is a really emotional piece. I like it. Oh, and it also helps when I turn the volume up in my earbuds.

Well done
-Spadezer-

EvilRaccoon responds:

Yeah, I don't go too aggressive on the compression because it will destroy the quality. If you listen to a lot of score music, they do tend to be quieter than the usual electronic track. So you'll find most of my music quieter than the loudness war that Newgrounds has on ;)

Thanks for the review.

[Hope]

It's good to hear good metal on this contest. Man I want to dig out my F-ZeroX game for the 64.

Peace out and rock out!
-Spadezer-

PirateCrab responds:

It's good to hear good comments! GET IT OUT F-ZERO IS FUCKING BADASS.

[Dark Passage - sS]

First track sounds like this? And just bought FL?
...
You've gained another fan, and I'm interested to know what else you got coming through the pipes.

Oh wait this is for reviews? ... Uh, track sounds good. I like the dirty bass, and the drums are really punchy. It seems like it's a little muddy in the low frequencies in my opinion.

Be awesome, be more awesome, and repeat.
-Spadezer-

[Escape]

This is stuff that fits in MW2 and Battlefield 3 gameplay. I like listening to your stuff.

Mattashi responds:

Thanks Spadezer :)

[FFX Battle Theme (Piano Cover)]

Beautiful playing. I'm kinda jealous of people who can play stuff like that on a piano.

Respect
-Spadezer-

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

Thanks Spadezer!
Believe me - I'm jealous of people who can play better than me too XD
That is why I'm striving to get better :p
Btw, you make cool stuff :D

[NanoFields]

As soon as it got to 00:08, I'm like "Oh my gawd" for the rest of the track. The rest of the piece I'm like "it's Samus, and a fighting mech, in a really dark part of paper Mario....... SO COOL!" Heh, it's so hard metal without being metal ( ... that would make it industrial then wouldn't it?)

A problem I have is at 02:18. It sounds too empty between 02:18-02:32. I think all it needs is another synth in unison but an octave lower maybe. It's a very short of the piece that's missing a little something, but you fix it really quick in the song. It also seems like the melody synth you have doesn't stick out in the foreground. It starts in at 00:21. Maybe if you turned down the apreggiating synth a tad and give the melody more attack it might be a little more appealing.
But man, this is still pretty sweet to listen. I can't find anything else wrong with this, and I don't want to find anything else wrong with this. The percussion and all of the sound fx are so sweet, the bass synths just works so well. Oh man the percussion groove is sweet. With all of the other music I've been listening to here, I'm used to it being twice as fast, and then you bring this along and I'm almost bashing my head into the computer with how I'm headbanging.

Much yes
-Spadezer-

LunyAlex responds:

Thanks a lot for the tips and kind words. I'll definitely have a look at both that specific segment and the main synth. I do have the negative tendency of trying to make a lot of elements leveled equally in a song to fake the impression of extra complexity (I don't do it consciously, but in retrospect, it's quite a bad habit).

Thanks again and I'm really glad you liked it!

[Beware the Troll (WiP)]

My right ear is sad that my left ear isn't hearing the low strings riff that you have going on. Definitely a sweet boss battle theme though. It seems like there's a lot of percussion impacts. It's good for like the first 00:45 of the song, but after a while I feel like my ears are trying to fight the troll directly. It's a lot of volume that doesn't seem to calm down soon enough IMO. It's pretty sweet though once I get past those issues.

Be awesome, be more awesome, and repeat.
-Spadezer-

SoundChris responds:

Hey man! Thanks for leaving your thoughts here :D Hm yeah its right that the low strings are panned to the right which is usually the realistic orchestral position in the stereo field. Its hard to find the right place so the right side is not overpowered - i guess i have to train this even more - even i tried to pan it carefully here, but maybe it stil didnt work well - i will check that good sir! Yeah there is no quite passage in here but that was because the boss is not that strong - its the first final bos in the game - and the fight does not endure longer than 1 minute. I will make the song version more versatile and also want to bring in a wider dynamic variety.

Thanks a lot for your useful review mate and all the best!

[The Mongoose Affair]

Yay organ!

The track is good but I feel like it needs a little more work. I like the bass, the organ I feel like had too much vibrato, but it has a sweet sound going on. You need more drums in general, but more-so in the kick and snare and toms. The distorted guitar could use a little more but it's a good level where it is.
It's a cool piece and the composition is decent.

Be awesome, be more awesome, and repeat.
-Spadezer-

Azhthar responds:

Thx for the input! I´ll have to check on the drums if I find some time, especially in the ending there could be some more variations I guess... I actually like the strong vibrato at the organ ;) Anyway... Glad you like it!