J-N-R's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[!Locked Out of Heaven!]

Holy shit, ma' brotha'! This is awesome. Did you use a backtrack for this or did you arrange it yourself? Sounds just like the original!

pearljam10 responds:

We arranged it ourselves. We tried to get it as close as possible to the original in this one.

[Broken Shards]

Cool riffs and drums. But the fact that it is all fake... I'm going to have to give you 3 stars. Metal isn't a genre meant to be produced using synthesizers. Start playing some real guitar man! :)

RokaiYotama responds:

It's not finished, i do play real guitar. I just use this for tabs and keeping ideas. If you wanna hear other stuff listen to Call of the Storm by me. This is only a demo

[Justanidea-Metaljonus]

Killer drums, man. That was an amazing drum arrangement. What program did you use?

Metaljonus responds:

Thanks! I am currently using Superior 2.0

[Sparkle]

I liked the Melody... But the percussion was way off. Didn't sync into the grove. It's also very obviously repetitive.
What DAW did you use for this?

Shrazzorr responds:

if you mean which program i use, its magix music maker mx premium

[.~.~Rapture~.~.]

Percussion

I love the percussion in the song... I can never get a god swoosh before snare hits in my songs. I like that type of sound. What did you use?

DJ-Steeve responds:

for the drum I used vegeance essential drum sound 2 and 3.
And for the swoosh before the snare I used the method from Trancecrafter.
watch here the tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=fJIHOqNGYOc&feature=channel_v ideo_title
(remove the spaces)

[Asphyr - Los Ganados (Demo)]

This can be good...

The skipping noise added really tears this tune up. It has a great build, lots of instruments at once. But lose the skipping and that really really "hard core" sounding synth in the back.

Just giving you my opinion :)

-J-N-R-

Santerio responds:

Thank you for a review that actually helps! The "Hardcore" synth in the back was supposed to add somekind of bass to the song, but apparently it is more like a synth...

[Battle of the Great Hall]

Awesome!

What did you use for the trance lead? I love it!

Omnivore responds:

In Native Instruments: Massive (the vsti plugin), there is a preset called Cruithne's Orbit that I tweaked a bit to my liking (:

~FurryNG (via Ipod :P)

[Break-A-Leg]

Awesome.

How did you get that sound? What plugin did you use? I'm loving the 8-bit sound.
Nice work.

RoccoW responds:

Actually, the whole song was written on an original Gameboy, using an EMS Cartridge with LSDJ. The sound you're hearing is pure Gameboy, with slightly enhanced volume via Audacity :) These kind of reactions are the exact reason why I like to work on a Gameboy ^^