SydRic's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Star Hoppers]

This beginning brings back the old days, and then BAM it becomes pretty awesome.
I only had one thing that bothered me through the track and that was just how much louder the lead instrument is to everything else, it's not as harsh when you have the drums and bass playing with it, but when it's by itself it could be a few dB quieter.
Although that's just my personal opinion. Well Done! :)
4/10

-SydRic

Pitfall responds:

thanks for the feedback dude it means so much to me! i will totally keep that in mind for the final version once i finish this album!!

[Platformer [ Video Game Edition ]]

This sounds like what would be used as a theme for a Pokemon game, credits of a Sonic game, or it could be used in a game at a moment where your character has just finished the quest and can finally relax and reflect on the journey.
4.5/5
Thanks for Sharing!
-SydRic

Teckmo-X responds:

Exactly what I was going for :D Perfectly captured my point of the song. Thank you!

[Earned It]

This is a pretty fun track.
I like the guitar synth, but maybe you could have certain parts for guitar synth and use a different synth for added variance and possible depth.
I agree with Constromlie a saxophone would do quite well in place of the guitar synth.

Thanks for sharing!

ADR3-N responds:

Glad you liked it, and thanks for the review!

[Afraid of the Dark]

Nice Track, I liked the feel, it was a little difficult to understand the vocals at times, although the vocals are good quality sound. I understand that its a freeware synthesizer from your description.

I don't think it is tagged properly.
I could see it being in Rock, but I don't see any Punk, or Death aspects to it.

All in all, it was good.
Thanks for Sharing

unidentified0110 responds:

Oh really? haha thanks by the way, i thought this is how punk rock music supposed to be like :DD thank you so much !

[[Tsets] - Minecraft Chillstep Intro + Outro]

I love what you did with this tune, I wish all minecraft songs had this kind of depth and feel. I only wish is were longer and had more parts. Thanks for sharing! This is well done.

TsetsukenMusic responds:

I might actually consider working on more Minecraft songs sometime in the future (possibly extend this one as well) - Maybe someday.
Thank you!

[D17 - Minutes to Midnight]

I love it.

I love your little short story, goes perfectly with the song, I read it at the right pace. It's very powerful.

-SydRic

Echo responds:

Yay! Glad you liked the story. I tried to time it with the music to go along with the ebb and flow of the piece, not sure if i succeeded....

Still, glad you liked the piece! Tks for the Review!

Echo

[The Haze]

Interesting..

you get a 7, for good quality and fair dynamics, but you lose points in the repetition of the song.
So you make some more variety with this and you'll see better marks from me.

7/10
3/5
-SydRic

OpenLight responds:

Of course, with many songs there is not much repetition throughout, so I can see how you may believe how that is always a bad thing.

SOMETIMES, however, and artist may choose to take a melody and repeat it almost entirely throughout their music. Take many of Daft Punk's songs, for example. They take one base melody often and just do stuff with it, and they are all good songs.

Now, I always appreciate a review, but I purposely made this song to be repetitive in many aspects. Notice, though, how it doesn't flat out repeat the same crap, but it is altered in at least 1 way during many of the phrases.

Thank you, but I won't sacrifice my composition style for higher marks from you.

Your review is appreciated.

[Kyle]

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This made me LOL hardcore, The backing voices just about killed me.
Good job.
6/10
3/5

SydRic

Bobomatic responds:

This means a lot to me. Mostly because the one thing I want to hear whenever I write songs like this is "I LOL'd hardcore," You know what Kyle said?

Meh

That's all I got.

A Meh

You know how I sent this to him? As a ringtone. He got a ringtone like this (and I EQ'd it properly for cell phones and everything) and all he said was "Meh". I'll admit I like you more than I like Kyle and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[May 7/10 ~Free~ (Arsonists)]

ill tell you why

To put it frankly, the beat was good, the rap was wack though. I understand it was Freestyle, but even in freestyle, the rappers have a direction with what they say. Nothing said here made sense or had anything to do with what else was said. The quality of the voice was not very good.
What you should do for voices is, have the rapper farther away from it, but talk louder. It also sounded like he was afraid to swear. You have to be gutsy and not care about what anyone thinks to succeed.
Im not rating the beat though, just the freestyler.

3/10
2/5
-SydRic

The-toad411 responds:

Ya man. I feel ya. I know I can do better. I was holding back because I have to be quiet mostly, cuz I'm freestylin while my woman and baby are sleeping. Sometimes my daughter is on my knee, so when i feel a swear I try to hold it back.

I'm just playin when it comes to freestyles, mostly vocal playing.
I was trying to tell a story.

Thanks for the review dude.

Peace,
~T.R.E~

[You Will Never Be Alive]

I wanna...

I wanna hear the best quality version of this. It would rock my socks, as well as my speakers. :P

InvisibleObserver responds:

I'll send you a link to the fixed up version when I get around to fixing it up.