Knuckstrike's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[How to be a Monster]

It doesn't sound like something serious, especially now I've read the author comments. However, you want a real review so here is one.

I'm not starting off negative. It's your first audio submission, so it's nice that you want to sumbit something. It's also good to hear that the younger ones are interested in Newgrounds as well. :)
It was short, but 470kb is still pretty small for audio. Good job on that.

I'll have to point out the obvious though: your cousin is barely hearable. If you can tell him to talk clearer and a bit further away from the microphone it would sound less horrible to the ears.
Maybe you could post the "lyrics" in the author comments so we know what he's saying.
It wasn't completely unhearable though. I managed to hear everything after listening to it a few times.

For next time, it would also be better if there was a bit more time spent on the story. It didn't really have an end. But what bothered me most was the "and then, and then". I guess you can't help that with a story written by someone so young, but it does take away from the quality.

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JimmyTheCaterpillar responds:

Lol. Thanks Knuckstrike.

[City Vibes]

I like the creepy feeling it gives at the start. Because of that there was a large difference between the intro of the song and the rest. Not a bad thing though.
After about halfway down the song it became a bit too flat and more of the same, so I didn't like that part as much.

After listening to it a few times, I finally noticed why this song was called city vibes. Nice use of the sound effects. :)

Everything sounded well, there was a nice build-up, and the sound effects thrown in keep the song entertaining, so this song definitely deserves a four. Either make it a bit shorter, or indeed make it more powerful.

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Hikari responds:

I love you

[Not Enough {Dj-Abbic}]

The starting beat is fine. Just a beat is a pretty nice way to start. What I do have, all the way until 0:53, that I did get a bit bored with the basic beat that almost stands on its own. If you cut half of this, I don't think it would take away anything from the great quality of this song.

When the real melody came in it immediately starts to sound better. It doesn't sound very clear, but the electric and a bit distorted sound it has sounds nice with the rest of the instruments. Again it continues a bit long, but because this has a bit more to it it doesn't sound as irritating as the starting beat for 50 seconds.

I like the slower parts. I normally have that with a continuous loud beat I turn my volume down, but I don't have that with this song. The calmness of some parts cause that. It's also a climax for the somewhat louder parts. Good job on this.

One of the climaxes builds towards 2:45, definitely the real house part of this song. I feel like that's the core part of the song, and it's really good. The variation of instruments makes it exiting, almost like the beat is faster there. And that's something I like in a song. The title doesn't say anything about this part :).

The ending is very creative. At first I thought it would just be the music playing softer and softer, but that isn't the case at all. Awesome work on that. It is something I haven't heard in a song before.

The only flaw about this whole song is that a lot of the parts go on too long. The whole part from 4:15 to 6:37 is basically the same, but with an instrument left out every thirty seconds.

It's a really good song overall though. It almost deserves a perfect score.

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DjAbbic responds:

I understand what you mean by the intro/outro being very long. I made it that way because I followed the standard club layout (long intro and outro for easy DJ mixing), but now I see that 4:15 to 6:37 is just a tad too much :P. I might change it but then again, I might not.

Thanks a lot for the constructive review! I really appreciate it.

[DJ Dela - Elite (Original]

Great

The starting beat is nice. It didn't last too long, and gradually builds up.
The whole building up, in fact, was very well done. It did take too long though. At 1:30 the first real house/dubstep music started, and I would've liked it more a bit earlier in the song.

Overall there's nothing in peticular I think is wrong with this song. Everything sounds nice, the intro and the end are well built up, and the little dubstep sounds in it fit nicely. It was a bit boring though, since there was not much variation in those five and a half minutes. If you could make a two minute version of it, it would be less repetive, and I think you can still fit all those sounds and things in it that make this song sound nice.

Still, it's a nice song, and certainly deserves an 8

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DJDela responds:

This is not dubstep dude, just electro.
Well, I don't know what do you expect out of a song, but I don't think that it was repetitive (and I really made lots of repetitive songs). :(
I respect your review, I don't bash at people if I get less that 10, as long as it's helpful, and yours really is.
Thank you.

[FijiWiji - Insomnia (HT remix)]

Great

I like how this sounds a bit more clear than the original. The soft melody sounds really well. Dubstep is not my favorite music genre, so I liked that it wasn't too clear and loud.
A negative point about that is that it makes the change to dubstep less sudden. That is one of the things that gives the original character, and this doesn't have that now.
Still, everything sounds nice, and I like how you made the intro and the fade-out quiet and with few instruments. Since there's nothing in this song that's wrong, you definitely get an eight.

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HyperTrough responds:

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to emphisise the drop more next time :)