LJCoffee's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Stutter Piano]

Agreed with the last reviewer

Very nice chop job but this could have been so much more with the addition of some really heavy drums in an IDM-ish style.

As is, it sounds like an arp experiment or work in progress but that's all cool.

I'm voting 4 on this because I really liked the direction you were headed but I felt that it fell short without percussion and it ends really abruptly - almost sounds unintentional and I was teetering towards a 3.5 but since that isn't an option I'll round it up :)

-=4/5=-

SREvol responds:

lol yeah, i understand what you mean. after i had done the piano the arp and stutter work left me so tired the idea of doing it all again with more layers and everything for drums was exhausting. i definitely want to revisit this and finish it, but it was such an effort. i'm thinking of using the piano riff, taking out the stutter and just creating a stutter pattern combinator and rewiring it through massive and using massive to alter the low and highpass without affecting the choir and then layering a drum sample over it so i only have to arp one layer lol. pretty lazy thing to job and unlikely way to get ultimate results!

i was also thinking o changing the piano so a popcorn style lead and the choir to a 3 way malstrom reese. if i synced the break of the lead and bass then so the silence was at the same time i could easily fill it with an IDM drum break. i dunno, maybe this could be out collab :P

[Urban Requiem]

Emotional

I don't know about the last review - I personally loved the strings. The short attack on them almost suggests something like an accordion or possibly harmonica - but it works either way. I think it adds just the right amount of surrealism and interest. Don't change a thing about the strings.

I really liked the concrete percussion towards the end but I wasn't crazy about the police sirens - just an opinion though. I thought it would still give the impression that you were after even better without them. Perhaps better still would have been a couple of ever so slightly detuned air-raid sirens in place of the law enforcement/emergency vehicle. Still - just an opinion and I respect your decision to do it the way that you did.

Great melody and accompaniment - chord progression was really damn nice.

Also -=5/5=-

[SR - Grand Theft Audio]

Fantastic job

Gorgeous track. Yes, it's a bit repetitive and the mastering is a little off but the string riff is just beautiful. Nice percussion - it fits well.

This sounds like a garageband loop - (which is meant as a compliment) From speaking with you, you've given me the impression that this is all your original work and it sounds ace - I could totally hear a loop like this shipping with a snap-together product like GB.

As far as critiques - you could benefit from either lowering output levels from your compressor or throw a brickwall limiter at the end of the effects chain. I'd also suggest a low cut at around 40 hz or so - that should help clean up the bottom end a bit (it's a tad bit muddy and distorted at the moment)

If you have the work files as .mid's then I'd LOVE to get a copy for remixing purposes.

If this track is an indicator of your talent then you are definitely one to watch.

Talk to you later
-=5=-
(why the hell such a low score on this track??!?)

[SR - Untitled 0708 (Sine Mix)]

Thanks...

for making me look like a talentless hack :)

I think you did a great job with it. Of course, I'm assuming that you've already had a listen to my remix of the same found at: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/liste n/159021

I really like what you've done with it - perhaps even better than what I did :D

Not bad at all for less than an hours work!

j00 g3t teh 5!~

[{PBJ}Chapter One{PBJ}]

All sorts of nice stuff here.

Nice job on this - laid back, chilled out and catchy. I see a few peeps have mentioned vox - they may be right - vocals could take this track from a damn fine piece of bg music to a radio hit. Then again if the vocal suck they could sink it.

Something to be said for simplicity I guess. This is really easy to listen to.

Do this again, then again, and fame will be yours!

-=5/5=-

pitbulljones responds:

you are so true in what you say in that last few lines. Simplicity does work, but its not through just being simple i came about this. It works well as you've noticed and well yea it's darn catchy, alas i change my style constantly so i doubt its gonna happen again, though i do have high hopes for the compete version of chapter two when it's complete, a wip is now up on site. Sorry about the delay in replying, working ruins me and any free time is generally spent drunk. take it easy and thank you for the kind words.

pbj

[apeman]

Always love listening to your work

Great job - nice bit of chill. Left one point for improvement though - Not sure what helpful advice I could give right now but a little more variation on the drums after about the first minute couldn't hurt. Just a bit though - I don't think you need to go overboard with anything crazy... maybe just change up every fourth bar a bit more. At this point, the following suggestion is almost cliché but perhaps a few triplet stutters here and there might be cool. Overused? yeah probably - but I still think they're cool just the same.

Two other things you may want to try - the bass from about 1:40 to the end is great as is but a slow morph from 1:40 to 3:10 could give it more of a sense of evolution - same with the synth that we hear from 2:40 through the end - try morphing the cut and/or res a bit and see what happens.

Play with the drone that starts in at 1:47 - a little gate action could add some interest - or perhaps one better - run this bitch through a sequenced gated multiband compressor or some other such rythmic choppity toy.

Aside from that, the only other thing that I can think of that would make this better would be to rename the track "LJCoffee is my hero" :D

Thanks for making my life a little more interesting with your music!

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

long time ler...
thanks for the listen and advice.
the new version is coming along nicely, added muchos variation to the drums and some other subtle messes in the first half.
haven't touched the second half yet but i was thinking along the lines you mentioned to give it a little more movement also am gonna try and builp it up and open this section into something epic, have to see how it goes.
nice1
;ped

[Furious Fists]

Not Drum and Bass - Also, copyright infringement

No score or vote assigned. This is definitely not Drum and Bass. You're lucky you didn't catch an instant audio ban for the clip of "Countin' Flowers On The Wall" at the end.

I suggest that you immediately remove this submission - or at the very least, edit it to remove the section at the end. If you don't, you not only risk getting this track deleted but if word gets back to Wade about it you could have your entire account deleted as well...

JacksonTheAlt responds:

Changed ending and genre... Still, do you like it or not?

[Rucklo - Chiptune Jingle Bells]

0'n/e O:f t=He bes^T tAke+S 1've hE`ARd!!

Seriously - this is EXACTLY the type of thing that I had in mind when I posted the MAC.

Work in progress or not - this was so much more than a generic midi rip. This is almost too good to enter. I'm not even kidding - if you entered the MAC with this you'd almost be a shoe-in to win and I don't want to listen to people crying about favoritism or rigged contests! heh...

Awesome job Ruck! this was completely bad-ass!

!-=5/5=-!

Rucklo responds:

When you mentioned the contest, I had actually started to fool around with some 8-bit sounds, so I figured what the hell, let's throw in an x-mas melody and SCHWHOOOP.
I do want to finnish it, and I will try to (even if I won't make it until the conttest close)... It was really fun to make it this far, feels like I got back in a pair of old favoured shoes, somehow. :)

[Heroe Worship]

Loved it - much respect!

Solid work as usual. I don't think you went overboard with the vocals at all.

Great job - all of it gels very nicely and that's not easy considering how many different sonds you were working with.

Of course, I have a fondness for patches with an LFO on the pitch. It always sounds so sick.

Mix is not bad at all - left as is, it has a damn nice feel to it - but I also think that punching up the vocals a bit more might make for a more "radio friendly" mix.

I gotta tell you :Ped, you're probably my favorite artist lately and it's exactly this kind of shit that keeps you on solid ground in that area.

..!-=5/5=-!..

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

cheers for the feedback amigo...
as they say in france, you are the man
;ped

[Mega Man X2 - Flame Stag Stage]

Have I told you lately, that...

you are the SHIT!

Awesome job on it. Made me hard.
-=5/5=-

fx were a bit punchy though - a little more subdued might be a little better.

I'mma PM you wit sum moar dee-tails.

DarKsidE555 responds:

sweet! Thanks for the tips LJ, I will hold em up in the next song! ;D

see ya on msn! ya loser! ;D