Rucklo's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Evil-Dog - Memoirs of a Hero]

Finaly...

... a new ambient song from ya, mate!

This was awsome, it felt a little more like out of a movie then the rest of your ambient stuff. Could e the vividd piano, the guitar and some other samples that didnt bring that "fantasy" feel most of your other ambient songs have. However, i loved it, it´s a clear five, of course!

Hope ya make more stuff like this man, it would be cool to see you a lil more active again :)
take care!

[Hippety Hoppety]

Cats are...

...fucking overrated, get yourselves a fucking gerbil or 25 >:(

I fucking love that beat, it makes me think of good times, good times in the institution i once went to a couple of times. they made me feel happy there. Yeah.

cat-bastards responds:

NOEZ! We're getting us a bastard mobile so that we can drive arround and laugh at you! >:(

We thought teh song was depressing! >:(

ur gay! >:(

[To the fate(short mix)]

Wow that...

..."bubleish" synt hin the beginning was really 3-d earcandy man!
This stuff is awsome. Im not 100% of the lighter arp tho, it felt a little.. inprisonated, so to say. Perhaps some automation to make it shift or so would beef it up a little.
Anyway this stuff is wicked, great job!

No1r responds:

Thanks Rucklo for this review too! That synth still is the TS-404 synth included with Fruity Loops :)

[Opening the stargate]

This stuff...

...is really well produced and clear. What soft/hardware are you using making music?

I really liked the atmospheric feeling this little song gave. The string pads felt really good. And the small blipp in conjunction with the "aah" and the harp(?) made this, like i said, very atmospheric. Good stuff man. It´s a5!

No1r responds:

Hi Rucklo! Thanks for giving a review! I'm pleasured!
This has been done in Fruity Loops (as other works as well). I don't use any hardware except for my yamaha midi keyboard. Sounds comes from Fruity Loops and sample cds. The blipp and the "harps" were done with the ts-404 synth. The initial caotic sounds were produced with the Beepmap synth and for the noise i used the 3xosc synth :)
THANKS again!

[Tha New South]

Well...

...effort was a tough one, since i dont know if you´re playing the guitar yourself or not.

However, to the full song itself, there are a few things to say;
First of the guitar was really good performed.
The beat was really simple, as it should when were talking about hip-hop beats.
However, simple beats are still processed in pro-production, and what you could do here to make the production sound better is simply to add a compressor, prefereably a multiband type (so u can compress different frequencies different). Usually there are pre-sets that are good to start out with, then you can tweak the settings to your likings.

One thing that would have beefed this baby up alot would have been a subbass/boom to go with the basedrum. If you decide to add one, do NOT overuse it, as it easily will eat alot of headrom in such a "non busy" mix such as thisone.

Im not sure at all what level youre on here. If you played the guitar yourself, if you know anything about music... I hope you still have some use of this review.

nickolas-lumpkin responds:

Thank's man i was just playing around with some stuff i really dont know how to make a beat...but im trying to so that what i came up with...but think for tha good feed back...

[Jimmy is Angry (loop)]

I have a friend..

...who´s name is Jimmie.
He suuuure is angry from tmie to time. When he gets pissed of next time, ill play this little loop for him, as a theme song for his angryness.. Grrr.

About the loop? too much snare hits for my taste... the phased low synth was a little annoying... twas decent stuff.

Grrrr. Jimmie.

[Distortion From Above]

Now...

...were talking though!
This stuff is good man (or if u a girl...)! I knew it would be foolish of me to judge you from your "I-poo" (wich was fucking hilarious btw). This is very well produced, and has good depth. It reminds me a whole lot of The Knives. Who´s making the volcals? Its good stuff.

There are some peaking going on ion this song, but nothing a compressor eq sandwich and a limiter can´t take care of!
I would however suggest you work a little more with the mix if you have the possibility to.

UnrealClock responds:

Yeah I will probably do another remix... the vocals and everything actualy by some band I never heard of, but they had a remixing contest on acidplanet so I went to work! Any way I recomend listing to my best work Rythmic Sadness (a song that does not have a rythm!)
Thanks for the review >_<

[I-Poo]

You said...

..."also I just want to be able to delete some of my old crappy work! Jeez like any one wants to listen to I-Poo! WTF was I thinking?"

This is the worst shit ever, I fucking love it.

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lol (tank)

"keep it up"?!! XD

UnrealClock responds:

LOL I know I was bored at least my other stuff is not gay... oh wait I still have Squirrel Power to worry about... wait a second you even added this to your signature that is funny. Anyway please by all means listen to my other stuff. It just seems today I have become popular!

[WC > Green Hills in the Sky]

Hey nice stuff...

...you got here, man! Its really nice and chilled, and for a while i forgot i was actually listening to an NG song :D This could very well have been a song played at staticbeats.com or whatever.
Good stuff. I like the loop-feeling in the beginning... theres something special with loops that have artifacts and arent 100% "perfect".
The song itself was really chilled out , like you said. However, even tho im a great fan of fat beats getting dropped, this one didnt do it. I reckognise that beat all too well from the reason soundfactory bank, wich just gives me a bad feeling. Put some slight distortion, compress the beat, re-arrange it, and you might get away with it ;)

Good stuff tho, u got a good musical ear mate!

StrangeEncounters responds:

Lol, this song was just experimental. I rarely put my real productions on NG. Thanks for the review btw.

[Grieg - Notturno (4:40)]

Well...

...its a piano tune. I think theyre quite cool once in a while, and thisone sounded really really good i have to say. How long have you been playing?
Well, to be honest i cant really decide what level youre on anyway, i just poke my midi-keyboard once in a while, i really cant play that good myself wich makes it more difficult for me to set the level.

Anyway, i think its good stuff, simply. I shall assume this is good skills, so i´ll five you to encourage your pianoplaying

LOL.

Stalked.

WinTang responds:

I have been playing for like 5 years. Should have taken lessons though: as I hinted on in the description, this was really a lot of cut & paste. Lots of takes merged into one... So my level would be perhaps slightly above mediocre amateur playing :)

Thanks for the review and appreciation!
And the stalkage!