SFaPiL2's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Halo Acapella practice]

amazing O_O

I'm honestly surprised noone used it in a flash yet. It sounds awesome. You're quite the master of acappella. The timing of it all was flawless. Every layer blends so well.

The lower pitched voices remind me a bit of KoRn, lol. Sounds great!

Can't wait to listen to the "more thought through version". (... because you WILL make the more thought through version, right?!)

Anyway, bravissimo!

P.S. Sorry that I haven't dropped by any sooner, but I never had the chance. You kick ass even more than what I rememberred.

Stalagmite responds:

hahaha! thank you man! yes i am surprised too, i mean people just jizz at halo so i thought this would be fairly popular ^^ yes, i tried working with timing more than melody, as a result it is more fluent and defined i think ^^ there wont be another version of this as i deleted everything from my computer. :D i am starting a new creative fresh! my aniamtion is what i concentrate on now! :D thanks man for poppin by! i hope your happy and healthy! peace!

[Anger in a Box]

Awesome in a Box

I'm sorry you had shitty night, but what came out from it seems well worth it ^__^.

I honestly don't know how to review this one, but it's a great blend of skills. The stuttering is excellent (you're very good at that). The instruments are sweet and the intro... oh, the intro... superb.

Nice one man.

DjUntold responds:

Thank you very much sir!
This song kind of speaks for itself I suppose.
Dunno what to say, other than I love stuttering beats! (Thank you for the compliment.)
-Aaron.

[[Collab] Moon Bridge]

Smooth

Definitely loved the part 2:43-end. It was sexy.

Nice one

DjUntold responds:

Thanks :).
The song is a little slow developing, but I think the beat at the end completes it.
-Aaron.

[Stress Days]

Ah crap... my NES just died

Yup, I'm using headphones, and it sounds... strange ^__^.

The title says it all. It feels as if my NES got an epileptic attack while playing Super Mario... and then died. ^__^

Either that or Mario's on LSD, lol.

DjUntold responds:

Hahaha.
That actually made me laugh pretty hard, I can totally see that too.
Poor NES :(. Mario had a good time though :).
-Aaron.

[Catu]

Freaky

Listen to that thumping O__O. Sweet.

After listening to your song a many times I had a different vision from what you wrote in the author comments:

Some guy wakes up in a white padded room and notices with his blurred vision strange creatures looking at him from an adjacent room. A door opens from out of nowhere and the freaked out guy rushes out. After walking through a maze of seemingly endless hallways he ends up in front of a hive-like structure with an infinite number of other padded rooms and floating robotic vehicles extrancting other specimen like himself as if they were lab-rats. The man hides and tries to understand what's happening... how did he get there? Where is he? Who is he?... All of a sudden, he wakes up from his nightmare... only to find himself in the same white padded room.

Very nice. Perhaps a bit too silent at certain points, but it was a good way in giving me that "desolation-in-a-closed-space" kind of feeling.

Nice one Aaron.

P.S. What does the title stand for?

DjUntold responds:

I like your vision, I can see it pretty vividly.
Matches the song perfectly.

The song was originally called FIrefly Catu, then I shortened it to Catu.
The word Catu came from a dyslexic moment I had reading the work "Talk."
So I thought: Firefly Talk... But Firefly just sounded a little to upbeat for the feel of the song.

So it's just Talk. :D

[Avatar Tribute (NG Demo 1)]

Wow...

I can definitely "see" the scene in the first part (from what I manage to remember from the movie).

This is definitely an amazing "flying over an epic landscape" kind of soundtrack (or even a "rushing to battle" scene).

Sweet mastering. Nothing was overpowered or covering the other instruments.

The drums (great depth), violins and brass instruments (and "warcries"... nice ^__^) are perfect. I'm not too fond of the chorus, though... but that's probably just me. You managed to make everything sound so realistic, but the chorus broke that feel a bit. I'm not trying to be an ass, I promise, it's just that you did such an excellent job... If you would've had even better sources who knows what would've happened.

Anyway, bravo. Fav'd, 10'd, 5'd. If I'd be good in flash I'd make an animation with this.

EvilHatX responds:

After I've gotten some "distance" to the track I actually agree about the choirs - It's one of those details you don't always hear at first. After listening more closely I've decided to remove the first time the choirs come in and generally lower the volume. Thanks for taking a note of it ;-)

Otherwise, thanks a lot for the kind words! :-) Makes the effort worth it

[<Pretty trance thing->]

Well...

Unlike the "useful" review sossu wrote, I actually found it nice overall but, If you don't mind, I'd like to give you some suggestions.

The melody in 0:55-2:21 that becomes progressively more high pitched sounds pretty good (the best part of your song, IMO), but I'd suggest slightly changing the melody as the song progresses and introduce maybe a saw synth with a similar melody that fades-in while this "blippy" sound fades-out. Perhaps you should also add some reeverb to that "blippy" sound as well, but I'm not too sure about that.

The overall beat is too silent. I'd suggest giving it some more "clarity" by using either Soundgoodizer or Maximus (they're both present in FL Studio 8... demo as well). Soundgoodizer does everything for you, but don't overuse it.

Make a better transition from 0:33-0:34. It was a bit too abrupt. It almost seemed as if the part before and the part after were two separate things.

That's all I can come up with right now. Hope it helps.

Anyway, I found your song to have some good potential. So good job ^__^.

monk1 responds:

Thank you much. to be honest I'm not quiet aware of much of any of the finer workings of the program. Soundgoogizer, blood overdrive, and etc. I'm not too well at understanding, nor using. but still I definitely appreciate the tips! ^_^ thanks!

[Techno Apocalypse]

top marks for original sounds

This sounds overall mind-blowing!

The beat is sweet, the rhythm is great the effects are fresh and captivating.

However, I think Sacrafan's right about the grainy sound... you should work on fixing that, imo: Perhaps you exceeded with the resonance?

... man... relistening to this is awesome, though. This song truly captures my attention from the 1st second.

Fantastic job man. The way you've improved since the first time I've heard your stuff is scaring the shit out of me, lol ^__^.

georgem124 responds:

You heard my stuff right back in the into unknown territory days right?

anyway. This I believe was a nice jump back into my old style, in the old days but with more skill in the making, if that makes sense.

[Vizionz of Purity (WiP)]

Soundin' good ^__^

I'm curious to hear the complete version.

I can't help you out with ideas, though (my creativity is brain dead for weeks now X___x).

Keep it up.

georgem124 responds:

i just got back from being brain-dead lol

[Your Suicide Theme]

Yeah...

...it's less inspiring compared to the more recent songs I heard from you.

Anyway, lol... I certainly didn't expect this kind of happy mood after reading the "Your Suicide Theme". Just picturing some scene with a guy cutting his wrist with this music sounds psychotic ^__^. Perfect contrasts if you ask me.

NKAT responds:

maybe like his way out is a good thing, and the best thing for everyone. Sick and sad to me, but a % of people could relate to that moment as being positive, things can get pretty bad i hear. All good here though, hopefully there.