Rucklo's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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!

[I Got to Meet Zenon--_--(2:32)]

Dear Zenon...

...LOL STALKED!"#!¤!"#&/ uhg

i <3 u...

PERVOK responds:

<4

[Da Buzz-Let Me Love You|Short]

Sorry man...

...but this was really awfull...
There are plenty of sour notes, it just didn´t go with the vocals at all.
Also, unless you actually aquired the vocals legally, you should try getting the song removed, since your songs must be 100% sample-safe, meaning you musnt sample ANYTHING illegal.
I belive you had a good intention and there are a couple of good ideas around here, but, nah man, sry... back to the drawing table.

I remember i reviewd some other song of yours, and im just wondering; what happened along the way? that other song was pretty good, while this... well, back to the table, man :)

Dont let this review bring u down tho, keep making music!!!

D-A-J responds:

Well, i just did this remix,, due that i was in a contest on EuroAdrenaline.com... And this is my contribustion... i just made it, so that the first part of the song would be as the real song and then follow-up with something i made on my own... like a real remix...

And btw, this is only a shorted version... If you want to hear the full version, you see what link i gave...

np dude, It's probably just gonna add to my insperation ;)

[Fehn - Rövsex i Kazakstan]

Well it does sound...

...kindof sweet. But what i really like is the title, "Rövsex i Kazakstan". Makes me think of the good ´ol days... Aaahhhh...

Fehn responds:

Wow, im amazed I even got responds for this short string-thing. Thanks for taking time to review it man! Really apreciate it, or however you spell it. As for the title. Well.... let us just say that it isnt my good side. Just let the shit speak for itself ;)

[BH - Strand Tylösand (Preview)]

Pretty decent...

...stuff. It sounds a little over-processed though (compression) and well, the song itself just dont do it for me. It´s a remix, and i havent heard the original song, so dont take my scores too hard :)

Alltid kul me lite svennar på AP. Kom in å¨hälsa på i audio forumet nån gång :D

D-A-J responds:

Well, it is a preview, so its just a teaser ;)

And i haven't heard the original either ;)

Ja, det är kul... Jag har typ träffat typ 4-5 svennar här :)

[FF7 -- Battle]

Really cool version...

...man, it does sound a little lo fi, but screw that. It´s hot!

Anyway, ill review some other song of yours when i get the time to do it more seriously, this is mainly a test to see if i can post a review since the dl option is disabled somehow....

More info in your own thread at

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=500585

:)

TritoneAngel responds:

Thanks a lot man -- I certainly didn't mean that thread to be some sort of advertisement, but I"m worried that this song isn't appearing on the AP listings anymore. People really seem to have enjoyed it for various reasons, and I want fans new and old to still have the opportunity to listen to it easily. I hope the problem gets fixed.

Thanks for the support buddy! Hope I've made a fan out of you.

[The Suitcase - Ninja Please]

Wow man...

...this is freakin awsome! The whole sound of it is just the way it should be! I LOVE this style, and you really seem to have a gift for it! Love all the samples put there, it´s all flowing really really good!!!
Some skratching on top of this would be fucking awsome! Send me some samples of things you would like to get skratched and I´ll skratch it up for ya! (im no good at it, but basic things arent that difficult to make :)

Check your levels though, there are a couple of spots where it overrides slightly. Try to get rid of those places using carefully placed eq, should do the trick. Also, I can´t really spot the use of any compressor here. Some decent compressing would make wonder for this, it would beef it up even more!

Well, it seems I´m not the one who kicks ass, I belive it´s you! Off with the hat! And DO make a full version!

(if ya want my service, just e-mail me or add me on msn)

Fifened - of course...

TheSuitcase responds:

Rucklo is teh sex.
This piece wasn't made in Reason Lol.
I made it in Garageband.
Eveything else I make is in Reason. I had some vinyl samples but I just didn't like them. The full version will be done soon. Don't worry!
Off i go!

[Reverso]

The name...

...says it all!

But I wonder what the hell you´ve been up to? been ages since I saw you around NG, man! You should make a habit of hanging out in the Audio Forum, like all the cool guys do (not me, I´m just a wannabe... Oh how I wanna be cool.... I wish..^^)

Anyway, I belive you´ve made a song here!
Well, i´m gonna start of ripping apart the fact that it IS bad quality, unfortunatley. Besides the obvious lwo bitrate, I think you should really try to check your leves a little more carefully (the reason i notice that is cause i´ve got new really clear monitors :)
The beat is overriding a whole lot, perhaps you´ll be better of controlling the clipping with a compressor, that should take care of the worst parts.
However, you´d probably be able to submit with a higher bitrate if the song wouldn´t be quiet from 5.35 to it´s very ending at 7.44!!! (production error?)

The instruments are very well balanced against each other however, you know your thing, cccrrruuuuuddd :)
This is a really really cool song, part of it really reminds me of Plaid, wich is a great comment! I really like your experimental side man. Thisone i shall have to listen to a couple of times, loads of things going on, its reaally interesting! Im quite sure its gonna last long!

/Rucklo

crud responds:

dude, Plaid rocks, love their stuff, interestingly, i listened to a bunch of it when i was visiting in Norway...f***ing expensive country!

thanks for the detailed review, i'll try and mess with levels more, i always seem to just go for the musical layers first and forget completely about mastering.
stay safe and keep on loopin!

[You're Damned Pt.2]

Hey...

...this sounds really fucking good im gonna have to say. Usually when I listen to hip-hop from NG´s hip-hop creators, it´s pure shit, to be honest. This is really cool though. Im gonna have to check the original out (listening to original....)
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Well, im sticking to what I said, it´s a good remix indeed. you really got the beat. I belive I hear some samples from warcraft 3 as well? The laughter?

Anyway, some reappin on top of this would really make it just.
One thing I really didn´t like was when u quadrupled the hihat speed. It sounded really un-dynamical and ugly. I dunno if youve used any compressing on the mix, it doesnt sound like it. I think some comopression would make itself really at home on the mix.
Nice job mate.

BeAtBrEaKeR187 responds:

thanks man, i just cant figure out how u knew wich song woz the origional cuz i sampled from a completely diff song to the 1st lol, im guessin u a fan of XGM-zeth. yeah, i know what u mean about tha hat pattern cuz i woz workin at a faster tempo to wot i normally wud but it only doubled, not quadrupled lol, thanks for the review

~holla~