Ef-X's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Santa Muerte]

Quality Headphones

The intro sounded like doom was coming upon the listener. Great way to start it and the beat was just ol'skool electronic drum-pad nastiness. So many different sounds somehow equalizing together, you keep that repetitive background but you diverse the oh so unusual melody...now for phase 2... The drums got it going...brought upon the life this saint took...I c why I like your stuff. Three words, crazy, diverse, and repetitive. 5/5.

AliceMako responds:

I was attempting to recreate the feeling Droidlock's "people i meet" gave me years ago and i have to say i fell flat of that but i'm pleased nonetheless.

Noting a lot of grim reaper imagery surrounding the local experimental scene lately i did some digging to see if there was possibly something profound behind the copy pasta use of these depictions which everybody either has in their studio or on their person for no particular reason.

Turns out that in mexican syncretism there is such a thing they dubbed holy death, i can't quite tell if it's a deity, voodoo loa or patron saint or possibly all of the aforementioned but i thought it was rather neat given that it appears to be the local icon of would be musicians :3

Your three words sum it up quite nicely i think, thanks and glad you like <3

[Summon Slut]

Oh God!

*takes deep breath*

So destructive...I digg the rhythm the melody takes (the notes going up and down and the brief stops in them.) The atmosphere created by the pads just flows all over the rest of the instruments. 5/5.

AliceMako responds:

Glad you like, i'm just a touch proud of this critter myself as it's all made from scratch ie from programming the synths to employing field recorded samples exclusively :D

After a lot of initial difficulties with counter resonance and audio clipping it only took me an additional day to iron out all the creases.

Thank you <3

[new song melody- no beat]

Alright

I'm rating it based on a melody. I enjoyed it, the standard rave-like melody but not like some which are just boring...the pitch bending towards the end kept me interested to see the potential it has (if you decide to add more to it.)

[wanderers and the majesty -sly]

Mastered?

I dont know if its the switch of my audio gear but this version sounds different (at least in the production.) It sounds "crispier" more clear/out there. I can note that you added that second half and it gives the song a different feeling more of an anticipation for something feeling (anticipation for the loop i guess.) Still liking it 5/5.

kjhsdgf responds:

yeah i tweaked some values and i hope it's an improvement over what i previously had..

anyhow, thanks for the review!

[==(Nivlheim)==]

Sick!

It gives this progressive rock feeling to it. Like Shine On You Crazy Diamond, the way the synths build in the suspense atmosphere before the guitar kicks in the melody is great. The repeating guitar just adds more to the experimental sound to it as well as the ending, plus a solid bassline gives it +s.

[July 10, 2009]

kloF cisuM

Hell yes. No doubt Its spacial, it has that 60s experimental influence to it (beatles like) and the folk sounding guitar melody just complemented the rhythm. Not much else I can say, it's a great track. 5/5.

[Ascension - slunchy]

Velocidad

shift in speed...That trick is always nasty, and you pulled it off...well....nasty! This is remastering, the sounds were clear no doubt about it as well as the volume of each instrument. Bass/melody combo's a great way to enhance a melody and it fitted in this situation. I took liking to how the melody completely evolves within the span of two minutes by the time the breakdown came the bass was trying to keep up with the melody, and in the ending it gets engulfed by the arpeggio like sounds introduced in the bridge to the breakdown. The beat is great as always the build up for it was nice as hell and the reverb the snare was making, forget about it...it was great. I viewed the ending as the culmination of the entire loop with all the techniques and feelings of the first two phases added up into an epic finale...and then starting it all over again. Cinco de mayo.

kjhsdgf responds:

tbh, i just lost track of the song, and was interested in taking it in a newer direction :p
but i really appreciate the joviality!

[End of the Journey - slunchyy]

diversity

Yeah the melody does have an ambivalent tone but then again so does the majority of the melodies you create, you understand the great importance of having consonant and dissonant tones on a composition in order to have diversity within it (at least one of the ways to achieve diversity.) As for the beat...I liked the progression the bass drum took, it isn't your typical beat though it may seem at points to be, you also got diversity going in that bass drum (i heard bout three different ways the bass drum rolled in this song, my favorite being that second it gives the feeling of being offset nice touch for your ambivalence theme.) I cannot find anything to criticize about it, for me all the instruments are leveled fine when it comes to volume, and the composition structure is banging. Though the source of ambivalence comes mainly from the background support sound and the percussion (I seem to hear it that way.) Oh and fo' the bass...i don't have much to say in it other than it complimented the song, though i was expecting it to take another silence like it did for that second or two at the beginning however i would see how hard that is since the loop is only 23 seconds long. Overall its a great job, a totally 5/5.

kjhsdgf responds:

:D
i actually extended the loop a little, but haven't gotten around to uploading it...
i'm a sad panda because the chord progressions i like always end up being chiptune songs, and very short.
but i'm really glad you liked the song, ef-x!

[Maku [Genesis Vers.]]

nice

Oh man I think I enjoyed this one better than the original, sounds like it was fun to make. The beat wasn't normal which i digged, and even if it was it was a creative way to get rhythm in this song. 5/5.

EraldoCoil responds:

Thanks! I'm glad this thing finally got a review. Yeah, it actually was fun to make it, but I think the MJ samples from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 really added to it. I guess the beat was a little different, wasn't it? I'm thinking of making a full version, but we'll see if it will actually happen. Thanks for the review, Ef-X!

- ~ K o i r u - k u n ~ -

[Maku [8-bit]]

Woah

This was pretty concrete. Sounds like it could fit on an intro for just about any type of game. I enjoyed the bass notes in this tune, they aren't just the usual bass notes it has some rhythm to it and it did wonders to back up the melody (three layer beast song in fact.) 5/5.

EraldoCoil responds:

Thanks for the review. Actually, the reason the bass is so rhythmic is because, at the time, I didn't have anything to create NES drums.

- ~ K o i r u - k u n ~ -