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Very, very professional

The sound quality here is really, really good! The musicians are all talented, the recording is well done, and the mix sounds great on my headphones. It's a more serious song than I get into, which isn't a bad thing necessarily. I can tell it sounds exactly like it was intended to sound, for which, as a self-produced musician, I give you mad props.

Satoris responds:

Thanks so much for the review, it means a lot. I can only hope we'll be able to put NG reviews like this on our promo package for press! lol thanks again!

Pretty good!

I like it. It sounds very, very clean, and it has a good mix of funk and rock guitars. The intro riff is good the first four or five times it loops; the repetition, though, makes it sound like stock. The drums also sound like stock at a few places, but I could be totally wrong, and it sounds good regardless.

Overall, this is a great one for ambiance (and perhaps, thus, Flash artists), but I don't think I could listen to it again as a "main course" if you know what I mean. More variation would be good and might make it hold my attention better. My earlier songs were guilty of sounding loopy, too, because I had planned to add vocals, so don't feel too bad about that.

Drokou responds:

Thanks a lot man.

Nothing personal...

...but covers like this annoy me. Especially covers that, rather than take an existing song and stylistically refurbish it, either come as close as possible to the original or simplify it. If I'm mistaken and this isn't a cover, then perhaps you've unintentionally borrowed the chords from someone. It's okay, Beethoven and Mozart already wrote everything anyway.

You get decent scores for clarity and effort because your guitars sound very, very good in terms of tonality and I didn't hear any glaring mistakes. The delay on the vocals makes them sound spacey and lack presence; trying ditching or at least tightening the delay and pumping up the equalization around 1 kHz.

Naitzmic responds:

Hey, that's cool.
You have every right to feel that way about covers. Newgrounds is just a place for me to play around anyway, so I don't take it very hard.

If you compare it to the original
though, you'll find that I have alot more guitar work in my version, so that's one thing I changed.

You're probably right about the vocals, but I just don't care much about those, as is. The delay is there just to cover up (or try to do so) my crap singing voice.

On a final note, I wanna thank you so much for your review. It was very constructive, and honest.
Appreciate it tons.

I'm looking for flash-savvy people to make videos to my songs. If you like them, drop me an e-mail (sqykly@gmail.com).

Age 39, Male

Biochemist

Indiana University of PA

Indiana, PA

Joined on 1/5/06

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