LoneEagle's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[My Face Itches]

Very good...

but not as good as your other one. I think it's because of the main guitar... it doesn't sound too good, hurts my ears a little.

But the rest is awesome i love the small notes your background guitars are playing, the beat is simple in some places but very effective.

All in all it's great track despite that hurtful guitar :)

zerendra responds:

Thanks dude!

[Sonic and Knuckes - Act 1 Boss]

The beginning sounds like....

James Bond styled theme :D But i do think i have heard this before when i was a kid.

Very short song, this one loops very well too with the silence at the end is not too long. Do you transpose everything perfectly as to keep it an integral version of the song or do you add stuff as well in your sonic remixes? Good song, it's a shame it's that short :)

Now i will tell you about my "new" technic to try and loop flawlessly. Well it's pretty simple.
Open your song in acid pro and cut a little part at the end of your song, less then half a second or so. Because when you export your song into mp3, the program automatically adds about half a scond or less of silence at the beginning and at the end of your loop. Even if you remove it all the program reads it again and again :( So what i did is remove a little bit of my song and the silence part makes up for the missing bit of my song.

I think it's because that when we listen to a song we get used to hearing the instruments play notes at a certain lenght so when the last note of the song is shorter by so little and the silent part is there, it's like our minds are adding the missing part because it got used to certain lenght of notes... and it loops great or almost :D

I hope i didn't lose you with all these explanations, because i know that sometimes i say thigs in a complicated way without noticing how simpler i could have put it. And to top it off english is not my first language so there could very well be mistakes.

Take a listen to my song "Enlightened by the Night" and you'll see that this one loops ten times better then my other song.

Grumbleduke responds:

And here's me thinking this was the world's most extensive review for a 25 second loop...

When I do remixes, I go through different trains of thought. Sometimes I try to keep it as accurate as I can (FF8 The Landing), or I might have an idea that I think works well (FF9 You're Not Alone). The others I remix in my own style, but keeping to the general feel of the original, like this one. The loop itself in the game is only this long too, minus a brief intro, and I was thinking about the potential Flash authors for file size; you never know what will get used :).

The looping method you described was what I did here; I set the out-point a 1/32 note early before exporting (different program and everything).

[A Day At Church]

Woah very nice!

Very cool song you have here. A day at church indeed but to me it sounded like something from a video game. You know when the high priest turns out to be an evil guy. You kind of have the "holiness" and at the same the "evil" in the same song. Very nice.

My only complaint would be that the bells are a little overused but it's nothing major. Good work on this song. I hope you'll be making more in the futur.

LoneInstrumentalist responds:

ahhh welllllll, never thought of it that way, tnx for the review :) i WILL make more if i learn how to use FL soon.......its kinda hard for a newbi (me) :'x

cheerios, yea, it sounded 'off' coz i forgot the reverb >.>

[Acoustic_Chill]

Just wow!

Just a short review to tell you how much i enjoy this song. I love that guitar.

I have taken a listen to some of your songs and so far this is the one that i like most. But i have to say that "Sad Little Detune", "Those Soulful Chinese" and "Blitz" are awesome as well.

You have great skills and talent and you have a pretty unique style with your name on it, maybe it's because of your age and that your musical influences are very much different as to mine for example :D

Keep up the great work.

LJCoffee responds:

Thanks man! - I appreciate the compliments. This seems to be the most popular track here.

I'll have to make it a point to review some of your stuff as well.

Thanks again!

[Calling Card]

Hello my name is Larry :D

I think that this is it. The hi hats are just there to try and take my attention away from what is really important.

The song itself is pretty weird, your intruments sound nice but the way the precussions are made, because of the morse code, it sounds like it is a bit random. When i listen to this song i feel like i am passing through some sort of vortex or something ( you know like in the cartoons when they go through time or something? ) or i feel like everything is so close to me and at the same time everything is thousands of miles away from me :D Lol never mind that, i'm just weird.

Nonetheless I enjoyed this puzzle very much, although it was nothing super hard it just had my brains working for a little while :D

LJCoffee responds:

heh - you got a part of it... Hello my name is larry...

That's one of four pieces of information - I figured that morse code would clue a few people in - get them in the right frame of mind for the rest of the pieces...

btw - the hats aren't necessarily only a distractor - they may contain their own message.

:)

[Sonic 3 - Act 2 Boss Battle]

Well i'm not a big sonic fan...

I'v played this game maybe 3 or 4 times tops in my life, i've always been a nintendo guy myself :D until playstation arrived.

Anyways, i like this song, i don't have really much to say about it. I like it's melody and i like the fact that you managed to have this song loop almost prefectly.

It sure shows that sonic is very popular if i look at the number of downloads that you got in such a short amount of time.

Nice remix and also a big lol at the other reviewer with his "Ash and Pikachu's voices in just the right places". It had me laughing for a while :D

Grumbleduke responds:

I was surprised at the popularity too; my main reason for this was because (much like the Landing) there was no "straight" version of this song, and it is one of my favourite pieces of sonic music from all the games. Poor guy was always overshadowed by the other games like Mario and Final Fantasy; he needs credit goddammit!

I'm pretty sure the previous review is just a mix up. Oh well.

[Intro to]

Nice song!

I really like those strings! The beat is good too and i like the part where it changed to like "slow motion".

Your "bell" pattern i think could have been a little longer and a little more varied. The "beep" sound reminded me of someone getting and operation :D

All in all you did a great job on this track, keep it up!

xxxRaZxxx responds:

Thanks. :)

[Lyrical Dubba]

This is good...

but it is a bit too repetitive to my taste.

I like the small changes that you make to your beat along the song.It would have been good if your piano didn't follow the bassline and played an entirely different melody to accompany the other instruments.

But all in all, i think that this is a good song. Keep up the good work.

Sugardude responds:

Thanks for the review, I appreciate the feedback.
I would love to listen to some of your tracks but the soundcard is dead on this machine, I'll check it out later.

About the feedback : My stuff is often repetitive, it my big problem. It's often because I don't know what to add or change. I'll try redoing the piano part, if I get round to it.

[Cubic Zirconium]

Very catchy song!

Well at first, i thought this was going to be a typical "first song". But damn, compared to my first track, wich isn't here by the way so don't look for it :D, this is very good!

The intro scared me a little cause i thought that the hole song was going to be this way but to my surprise it turned out to be an awesome song.

Nice use of the orchestral hits. Nice song all around i must say. The only thig that i can recommend to you is to use different drum samples maybe, cause they sound a little bad in my opinion. Especially that clap, but i can't stand claps anyways so that's maybe why :D

Well if you are planing on making more tracks, and i sure recomend that you do, well you are going to gain lots of experience by making lots of tracks and by the looks of this, you will make kick ass songs.

So keep at it man, you are doing good so far!

x-Draken-x responds:

Thanks! Sorry that the drum samples annoyed you, haha. I'll experiment with stuff, and hopefully my next submission will be much better.

Thanks for the pointers and feedback!

[march of the young ones]

Very good song!

I like the many transition effects that you are making throughout the song but especially towards the beginning.

I like the way the song evolves, nice usage loops i should say :D Keep up the good work.

Cliche responds:

thank you very much
your comment is greatly appreciated