Drainpuppet's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[A Race to the Other World]

Great!

I REALLY like the lead synth. Makes the buildup sound better. The melody is great, the building synths in the background are great, the only thing bad about this piece is the audio quality. There's quite a lot of clipping, I suggest a limiter next time you make a track. Frequently I see electronic artists taking one melody and repeating it for 5+ minutes and it's just repetitive and boring. You however, kept it short, and therefore not-annoying. All in all, a really solid track. Keep it up.

xninja04 responds:

Haha, wow thanks alot! Yea I'm still somewhat new to FL Studio. I still dunno how to setup some effects. Looks like I gotta experiment a little more ;) But thanks alot for the review. In the future Ill make sure to make the quality better.

[Banjo kazooie crazy mix]

VERY Repetitive.

Kind of repetitive, little variation, the parts where you repeated a few notes from the sample melody were really annoying, IMO, too slow. Too long, to. More dynamics would be nice, like some filters and buildup or something, that would make it seem a little less repetitive. It wasn't too crazy either. The only good part is near the end when it gets all droney, but at the very end when it turns into gabber kind of ruined the song further. Please, more variation, faster, shorter. Good try tho.

[Unbound Soul]

Very nice.

The picking at 0:34 was great. In my opinion, too much soloing and not enough just plain riffing. The riffs were great though. I love the chorus ^-^ Piano solo was well written and could've been longer or have mixed in with the guitar. Drums are simple but it fits the piece. All the sweep picking throughout is really steady, this must've taken a lot of takes. More buildup in the intro would've been great, I still love it though. Smooth outro with cymbals was quite fitting. I'm definitely buying this song on rock band network, this sounds like something i'd really like to play. I'm not sure if pro guitar works like this (the link doesn't work btw.) But if I buy this will I be able to play it on pro?

TL;DR: very smooth piece, well constructed, more piano would be neat, more buildup in the intro, sounds fun to play, pro guitar?

DanJohansen responds:

I appreciate your opinion, although to me saying it's too much soloing and too little riffing, is like calling a tune too much riffing with too little soloing. And we all know most tunes are based on riffing mostly. So .. can't say I agree :). The other things I wont get into as those are detailed composer decisions that differ from person to person. And yes, It's created as pro guitar in Rock Band Thanks for tuning in man!