ZaronX's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Penance]

Amazing...

The voice cracks you mention are really the only thing to find fault in, and even then they just kinda work with the honesty of the song. This is really beautiful, and not the sort of thing that finds its way onto Newgrounds often.

I just went from a song about a murderous ice cream man to something that was less than appropriate to a sudden and jarring prayer because I felt compelled to click some random link on the recent list. This may not be the most flawless, but it is definitely the best song I've heard all night. If that makes sense.

[Stay Here (clean)]

enjoysauce

Both versions of this have a feeling I'm fond of, if a little biased towards - their instrument choice lies a lot with a game project I was working on and have recently been revisiting. Difference being, I did all those songs out of premade loops in ACID, so... much less personal touch.

Biased opinion aside, both songs are beautiful. I found you through "heartbeats" and tonight decided to check you out a bit closer, and have yet to regret it. Your stuff has a nice ambience to it that I adore.

I'mma keep earing yer muzaks. Ho yes.

You mind if I put these in my game? o3o They really would fit well, and give it a bit more of a personal feel to the music than the largely manufactured crud I'm using now.

broove responds:

Thank you! Feel free to use the song ;)
If you'll use the original one (with the beat), I'd recommend you to lower the bass volume.

[Tarm Ruins LoZ: OoS]

Wow...

I forgot this song existed, so the original probably wasn't the most fascinating thing the series ever threw my way.

That said, this is beautiful. the main flute and chimes both sound fantastic, even if the deeper wind/violin sounding thing seems a bit loud.

I wouldn't have minded a bit more to it. Perhaps a full-on remix? I'd be down with that.

[Big Blue Sky]

Very upbeat.

Reminds me of a happy SNES sort of tune, and it seems that's what you were going for. I approve, sir! It has a bit of versatility in what it could be used for, and with a little working it could well be considered a game's main theme (it's almost there as is). "Big Blue Sky" makes me think of a flying shooter sort of thing, perhaps a more earthbound Gradius sort of game? But like a more cartoony one.... ever heard of Twinbee? Something like that. Oh, yes~!

[Hot Crater Remix V2]

Needs work.

The borderline absence of an actual bassline not only kinda kills a lot of the Sonic feel of the song, but just helps emphasize that all of these notes are dang high. I like icy synths and i still think this is shrill as hell. I know there's an instrument in there trying to act as bass, but past the first bit of the song where it's mostly just it playing, it falls inaudible behind everything else.

The sounds conflict too much for attention not only from sounding fairly similar at times but also because they're all basically playing int he same octave over each other at as best i can tell the same volumes. There's audible static at points, too.

On the upside, this is the Crater tune, so you got the song itself right. You just need to balance it better.

Sabre-TL responds:

Damn, well at least it's better than the last one I suppose, I'll work on the problems you mentioned, thanks for reviewing!

[P1X3L - WTF chocolate]

Smooth

It has a nice flow to it, and I can't really lie about how much I adore chill synths like this. It has a nice beat, good melody, and is pretty catchy.

Further supporting the association between good things and the word chocolate. Good work!

[Fate/Stay Saber KudokuNaJunrei]

Absolutely Gorgeous

I have faved. I have downloaded. I am in awe.

What did I do to deserve your fave? XD I can't touch this with a ten-foot pole. it's just too awesome. o3o

Very very pretty... -/most useless review ever- FREE TEN YEY?

JojotheJester responds:

Dont put yourself down :-p you may not have thousands of layers but your song was insanely catchy and upbeat.

[Casper]

Not bad.

A bit redundant, but catchy enough to survive as good background music. A nice dark ambience that screams for action around it, so I could definitely see this being sued for a game or something. The redundancy is helped by the ambient sounds and occasional switch-ups you do, and you thus make good use and get a lot of mileage witha fairly minimal number of instruments.

You've a lot of empty space there at the end, like almost half a minute of it. o3o It's a minor thing but hurts any loopability the song has (and also isn't really needed so it's possibly just taking up extra file space).

kevindurante responds:

Yeah I know I got too lazy to cut it off at 3:30 am and just wanted an opinion on it haha

[TerraFire - Freeze]

Not bad.

the blips around the 2:55 marker get old pretty fast but would probably do a lot better with an actual melody, which even then you could repeat every few bars and have it ease off a lot. I imagine the blips were meant to break up the rest of the song and add some variety, and they do, but not without being the low point of the entire piece.

Until then and once they go away, though, the composition is fairly solid and has kept me listening now at least two times through. Good job. : )

[!/Neon Dusk\!]

Bounce bounce bounce bounce~

Holy crap, this is sweet! o3o

I can't think of a single negative thing to say. And since I came into NG in a rather foul mood, that's not only really good, but pretty darn impressive. -out for blood tonight-

Kicks the butt of pretty much everything on the front page this week. Can't stop listening. Keep up the good work!