JohnLeprechaun's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[king butterfly]

Am I really the first review?

This sounds like something that would be awesome played live. The vocals get a little shaky, but I like the lyrics and the tune is great.

[Tranctic]

Eh...

sound very rushed, and i can easily recognize sytrus instruments. at least add effects or layer instruments so they don't sound so fake.

[kicking cans]

Wow.

I really liked this. It makes me visualize a guy on a battlefield dodging swords on all sides, ducking and weaving and such. Despite its length, it was never repetitive. I respect that. Nice job on this one.

tuxteeshirt responds:

hey thanks for the review

i like the idea of the battlefield

:)

[California Sunrise]

Cool

But was this before or after you started using FL Studio? Because if this was made in FL Studio, it's awesome, but if it was made from loops in Garage Band then this is pretty much illegal.

[Lunatic Moon (Final Fantasy 7)]

HA!

I have a critique for you! Finally!

The guitar was too loud. The first heavy one that's introduced is really overbearing. It took away from all the little things that took place in the first minute or so. But that's my only complaint.

[Monstrous Turtles!]

I had doubts

But they were dissolved by the intensity of those guitars. This is why it has such a good rating. This is amazing. I gotta say, the title nearly scared me off, but it makes sense to me now. Awesome song.

[Send Angels...No, send....]

Cool song

I really like the title, but I don't think this belongs in industrial.

[- Violence]

Wow

I'm glad I listened through the whole thing before reviewing. My opinion changed drastically thoughout. I mean, wow. Not only are the drums beyond impressive, the guitars beyond awesome, the flow smooth- it also actually has emotion! Heh, something that's gone missing in most music lately. I appreciated this song more than I had anticipated. I thank you for uploading this song.

Rottenbeard responds:

Thanks for the review, this song is actually one of my own personal biggest annoyances because it could have been so much better, especially the drumming, but I got lazy and ended up using loops so, especially towards the end, the drumming is very static and repetitive. Ah well. I don't believe in redoing songs, I leave stuff I make as it is and treat it as a learning experience.

At any rate, i'm glad somebody enjoyed it.

Regards,
Daniel

[- Progressive]

Complex is right.

I can hear like 3 different guitar parts at any given time, along with who knows how many drums, synths, and what not. I can't imagine why you wouldn't be satisfied with it. This makes me ashamed to have a song that's higher than this in the general rock category. This is infinitely better.

Rottenbeard responds:

I appreciate the kind words. Guess i'm not happy with it because when I was originally sitting down and putting this song together, I guess I had something else sort of set up in my mind on how I wanted this song to sound, but in the end it never really quite met my own expectations. I spent a week or two constantly messing around with it trying to get it to sound how I wanted. I couldn't, got pissed, said screw it, mastered it and then uploaded it haha.

As for my score? Who knows, people do like to zero bomb me for some reason, probably because all my songs start off slow and they aren't patient enough to listen to the whole thing. I'm not too interested in my global score anyways, it's individual reviews that matter to me, such as yours. So thank you :)

Regards,
Daniel

[Turning Of The Tide]

This is FL?

How did you do this in FL Studio? The instruments are fantastic, the mastering is so precise, and... well, I guess I'm not using the program to it's full potential. The song was awesome. That's all that needs to be said.

One question kept going through my head, though... what instrument is the guitar? Is that a real guitar recording or is it a VST?

Rottenbeard responds:

All of my songs use real guitar John. I play a lot of my instruments live (Bass, Guitar, Drums, Flute at the end ;)).

Keep in mind that what you are hearing is all done with VST's that dont come with FL Studio, you could get these same results in any DAW that supports VST's really. The FL Studio stock instruments are merely "OK", and really only suitable for techno/trance music.

Thanks for the review :)

Regards,
Daniel