MaestroRage's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Neva Give Up]

Damn impressive!

I was not actually expecting such a high quality track like this here! I can definately expect to hear this kind of track on an album. The morale and lyrics are ones that mean a good deal to me, as I worked away on my own music so many people had told me I could never do anything with it.

I plan on surprising them all one day.

Very good pristine recording of your voices, the background vocalist does a great job as well as the lead singer. I am going to assume that the deeper "neva give up" was a pitch modification. I laughed the first time I heard it because I imagined some big built black guy randomly poke his head into the room and say "neva give up!" and leave.

It's a shame it's so short, I really did enjoy it, this has potential to become a commercial track. The mix of sounds are all perfect!

Easily a 5/5 from me r-17, really well done. I am quite pleased by this track. I'd like to invite you to check my work sometime.

r-17 responds:

r-17: We're glad you liked it! Both of us will be checking out your tunes soon. This was an inspirational piece made tongue-in-cheek for Electric Mans 8000 (you can find it...somewhere)
Thoams: Yeah, I'm glad you liked it, it was a lot of fun to make, a very different kind of song for us (see Heaviest 8000, ALSO for Electric Mans).
r-17: This was the first time where the lyrics were actually song lyrics for us, and I'm background because I can't sing. You're totally about the 'dude' that just pops in; that's what we were shooting for.
Thoams: Yeah, so like the song embodies, neva give up and keep a smile on your face! Take care!

[HighMill ReDub feat. Mac]

Interesting

been gone a whole year, but now back eh?!

The song itself is pumping out insane levels of energy. Very intense, very fluent, when the song first started I have to admit it sounded pretty mediocore. I was afraid it was just another song off the mill, I was very pleasently surprised to how it evolved.

I like what you did with that voice, by itself it sounds a little pointless, with the rest of the song, it is = yes.

My only qualm would be the volume levels, I felt the guitar was just SCREAMING perhaps too much so, everything else was drowned out, suffering, so alone :'(.

Nice ending.

This song is pretty damn catchy, well done. You get my 5, keep up the good fight and keep em coming! I'd like to invite you to check out my work sometime Shamshire. Take it easy.

Shamshire responds:

Yes! This is exactly the kind of reviews that HELP artists. Thanks a whole lot, I'll definetly look at yours!

-S-

[Field of White]

Impressive!

This is some seriously serious ambient right here. It is perfect in it's purpose. The mix of sounds are evenly spaced out and brought forward at the right time.

The guitar was a really interesting sound, I felt at times it was perhaps harmful to the songs flow, but upon careful consideration it adds a lot of character to the piece, makes it stand out and makes the piece more enjoyable.

Great mix, I don't have much more to say baller, I wanted to drop my support! Keep up the good fight, and keep them coming! I'd also like to invite you to check out my work sometime.

baller9hundred responds:

thanks a lot, man, i dropped you a review, you have some great suff happening over there, keep it up.

[dj_padman - Another Chance]

Impressive!

Well the track wasn't ruined at all! But I felt it had so much energy I wonder if it should be in Techno...

Then again my only way of seeing if a song is in techno or trance is in the amount of energy that song portrays, and this song has a lot of energy.

There was this hum... like vocal, I don't even know what it is, a really high pitched synth, sounds like a modified humming soundfile, whatever it was, it was amazing! I really enjoyed it!

The background works, the percussional segments everything was perfect, really good stuff padman, you've really taken some serious strides in your music!

I especially loved it near the end where everything happens. You have so much going on, but everything is working with each other, a feat I can respect.

Mad props to you, 5/5 from me. Keep up the good fight, and keep them coming!

dj-padman1 responds:

hey, it isn't every day I get props from a Maestro. Sometimes homeboys, but seldom a Maestro :) lol.

Well, thanks for your input. I'm wondering if the humming you're referring to could be part of the pad. There's some digital waveforms in it that are pretty sharp, it couullldd be it.
And dont worry, all I know how to do is fight. Thanks again! ;)

[Panda Bear Pink Eye]

>_o

:O!!!

It was pretty funny until that really scary synth came in getting louder and louder. At first I laughed at the image, but then it started getting serious for me. Like his claws digging through his face into his eye faster and faster, ripping his face more and more.

Oh man... this song suddenly went rated R.

I have to commend you for turning the song around that quickly...

Good stuff Hellavon, keep up the good fight, keep em coming!

Hellavon responds:

Lol you couldn't have explained my goal in this song any better, that in fact is exactly how I wanted people to view it in their minds. This song turned out a little better than expected, it was more just an experiment to find what electronic sounds are comfortable with, and what they don't like:p(which I found that they just about all can sound pretty smooth together, even with a blaring evil king koopa sound included)

Anyways thanks for the great review, and keep the tunes coming, yours are always the best:)!!!***(for real though, 6 golds and 2 platinums.....just sick!!!*** lol:p

yo #1 stunna <---?
Hellavon

[My Valentine]

Interesting

An interesting mix of sounds. I didn't really expect to hear such raw powerful saws for a valentines piece, but I guess passion can be such yes?

In any case I really liked the ending with those bell reverbed sounds fading out, really set the appropriate mood and left softly.

Your transitions in works are getting better, I couldn't find major transition issues with this piece, and the minor things arn't really that important, just personal preference on my end, by the standard the transitions are flawless.

That guitar was an interesting effect. This was where I was a little surprised. Didn't expect to hear it for Valentines ;).

In any case, good stuff, keep up the good fight Hellavon!

Hellavon responds:

lol yeah I try to mix it up a bit:p I guess I really don't think about what instrument I use, actually half the time I don't even read what it is I just kinda try to do it all by ear if ya know what I mean.I did take in what you said about my transitions before and I have been trying and experimenting to try to find how to make better and smoother ones. Anyways thanks for the great review, they're always very helpful and very nice:)

your friend,
hellavon

[Metaljonus-War]

Awesome!

A nice brutal guitar! Thats how war should be! Brutal, progressive!

You have some excellent excellent recording set up, I must say it's one of the most crisp recordings i've ever heard. I can make out the vocals, the guitars and everything.

The voice sounds so omninous. So foreboding if you will, and it sets the mood perfectly.

Is this a band effort?! The drums sound so damn real too? And there seems to be more then one guitar?

The song doesn't let up, and this is essential. The very brief period where it simmered down, I didn't expect it, but I did appreciate it. Good stuff!

This is the first 10 i've ever given a metal song in clarity.

I don't have much else to say, this is a pretty commercial track, top quality, keep up the good fight!

Metaljonus responds:

Thanks man! Vocals? Sorry but everything yeah here is guitar lol just with some effects and what not on it. This song is going to be re written for the band soon. The drums are a plug in on cubase called ezdrummer with a drum kit from hell expansion pack. Thanks for listening man!

[Who's Back?]

Neat!

So you is back? But you didn't even have a leaving away party. I am disappointed.

At not having the party, not the song.

Is that the slayer guitar i'm hearing? It sounds too muffled, it doesn't have that raw electric guitar sound I would have liked to hear it ripping through my very soul.

A very interesting mix of sounds you have got here Syntrus. You use quite a bit of Sytrus sounds... which must EXPLAIN YOUR NAME!!! dun DUN DUUUUN!

In any case, that sliding, duck quacking like Synth was actually damn entertaining. I kept laughing at the image of a duck at a microphone quacking away to the song. They called him Mister Duck, and he quack it as he sees it!

The pads that came in later provided a rather entertaining atmosphere, I was a little disappointed to hear them go away so abruptly, but they did come back.

It's a very original song i'll give it that! And I only realized what that voice was saying near the end XD. The ending was definitely way too abrupt my man, a fade out would have been sexcellent at that part.

In any case, good stuff Syntrus, keep up the good fight!

Syntrus responds:

hehe quackin away I like abrupt endings its like i shot the duck.

[Glitch]

Neat

Hey.

It's been an incredibly long time since I visited your page, so I thought i'd drop by, see what you did with the place.

new curtains? Nice.

Back to the song.

You've made some serious progress with your style, it's beginning to shine out more, in a more controlled and focused manner. Thats good to know.

The wavy background was rather interesting as stated before, the melody work was also quite intriguing.

The ending was a tad abrupt, but the song does loop rather well.

Good stuff, keep up the good fight TheAmateurAnimator.

TheAmateurAnimator responds:

Glad you like the new curtains!

The thing I'm really proud of is the glitchy drums part--I just love it, and I think I'll find some way to work it into every song I make from now on! Or maybe not...gotta have diversity.

And about the ending...I think I set the song to "leave remainder" when I exported it...darn it! It would've looped perfectly otherwise!

Thanks for the awesome review, Maestro!

[Solus- Tangerine Dreams]

Impressive

This was a pretty intense piece Solus. It kept changing its core like 3 times, and that was in itself a treat! It's like a core sandwich, and thats funny because you like to give burger awards, get the irony? DO YOU!?

Alright anyways, back to the song.

I really liked how you added to the core as it went, giving us it's full potential before moving onto another one. How you have so much and yet make it all still decently audible is beyond me. Awesome work.

There is a huge amount of variety in this piece, so total marks there.

In short my dear Solus, you is have done us proud. I loves it. Here's my 5. Keep up the good fight!

SolusLunes responds:

The thing is, this took much less time than Technotronic Soul, and it sounds better!

Though I don't think it's quite done, because I still think it could be better. But hey, I likes it now, and I figured, "What the hell, let's see how it does."

Most of the core changing is same melody, tweaked (that in itself took fully six hours for three melodies) and overly-filtered and overdone instruments. But they turned out well.

Also, that glitchiness was a BITCH to make. Just putting that out there. A total BITCH.

Mmm... core sandwich. Is it a club sandwich? I do so love club sandwiches.