Rhoder's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[~SW~ Astral Nation]

This sounds really good!

I wanna see you remix a track from Simcity 3000. That'll be awesome. :)

SkyeWint responds:

Hiya! I'm glad you like!

I don't know much of the soundtrack from Simcity 3000, but maybe I'll try that sometime. :)

[KI2 Orchid remix]

sounds good. the only real problem I had were your percussoin sounds. Although it does give me a nostalgic feeling from listening to old NG songs, it still needs to be fixed up.

Try using a better string soundfont than that too! pretty obvious it's from FL.

cool stuff overall.

NGKFlower responds:

thanks, i appreciate it. I didn't use FL Studios for this at the time

[Promised (TN FLP Remix)]

ah, Daniel Kandi. One of my favorite artists. His style does get a bit old sometimes.

Currently listening to the intro. Very classic uplifting-trance like. Offbeat bass rhythms, lovely.

That drop fx around 1:40 had a little muffling in the bass. Sorry for being picky :)

After the 3mins I wanted a break from the sidechaining, but I guess you wanted to keep the rhythm so that is okay.

The build up at 3:50 needs to be longer. 8bars just felt too short. Got to be experimental nowadays man!

So yeah, I've heard this song before so I will stop now. Good solid work, everything was bright and nostalgic-like. Brings back memories when this was the only genre I ever listened to as an angsty teen, haha.

Keep it up!

TerraNation responds:

Yea Mastering maybe tweaking abit, Its the really one of the hardest part to do in a song.

Mainbreak maybe your right but ithink it could be abit to repeativ if was 8 bar longer.
Even iknow build ups can be so much more then it is.

But thanks for the input. Glad atlest wasent an epic fail :) /TN

[Short Drum & Bass track]

hmm... sounds like a mix of happy hardcore and drum & bass hahaha.

I could see an epic melody coming along soon too.. definitely use a videogame square lead synth for it. I think you know what I mean by that :)

4 stars because it's only a loop.

EuphoriaSound responds:

Ill upload a full version later

[This is for you]

not really classical but that's all just opinion. Your song is nice, but I would scratch that saw synth you have for the melody. It just doesn't seem right to me. I recommend a more softer one with less 'saw', if you get what I mean.

Good work overall. could I get a review back? I'd appreciate it.,

Keep it up.

NoStereo responds:

Yeah I had a lot of trouble deciding what catagory to place this in. It's most definitely an electronica but it has a heavy classical element to it. Newgrounds has a fairly limited selection of genres so I took a deep breath and posted it here.

I felt that the saw added some sort of warmth but I'll soften it and see how that sounds.

Thanks for the review! I'll most certainly return the favor. :)

Well It's been bugging me, so I moved it to an electronica genre finally :)

[outside logic thoughts p.1]

I do love a good goa trance tune every once in a while. You definitely got the flow of it.

I recommend lowering your crash cymbal because it muffles your mix quite a bit. Lastly, a few atmospheric FX things would definitely brighten up your tune.

Anyways, I dig it. Fav'd you cuz you know, I like goa trance.

wax-jr responds:

thanks man i'll keep that in mind also don't miss part 2 i'll post it soon

[=[O]= Your Name Here ____]

that's kind of an odd chord progression for trance. Maybe instead of a half step, have it go down a full step. It just felt a bit weird to me.

I do like the chillness of your track. Anything that is chill I tend to enjoy quite a bit. :)

0con responds:

Super weird

[RIP - Dark Begginings]

dark and spooky. This would be great for a track in zombies.

maybe some more bleeps and bloops in the background every so often would be cool.

boom, boom, boom....

[Taking Flight]

I assume the plane starts to speed up when the drums kick in. That's what I feel anyway.

I think a more thicker spacier bassline would do better for this. It'll help add more atmosphere. (bad pun intended).

Good stuff overall. I dig the lo fi sound too.

SuperGoodSound responds:

I like the overall melding of sounds the best in this one. Thicker bassline would definitely have helped, I concur.

[No More Bloody Ears]

ah man, I really wish this was a full song. it has all the elements for a really good relaxing song that can take me to the clouds.

why man why?

also, this kind of reminds me of C418

TheAntiMatter responds:

Thank you! I will PM you when it is finished.