xxxZigZagxxx's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Coyoye]

0:05 This one is really smooth! I like the phased out guitars... I believe they are?
0:20 I wonder what it would sound like without the riff?
0:40 There's a layer under the riff that I'm really liking here. It really comes out at 0:50 onwards.
0:56 Yes I like this layer of guitars a lot. It's quite soothing.
1:13 Quite free form.
1:25 Haha the beat goes on. and on.
1:38 hehe
1:45 Little random things at the end. Cheeky :)

I liked it. A little sparse towards the end, but mostly groovy. There was the part in the middle with the Thundercat-esque layering that I absolutely loved. <3

ZigZag

[Meep]

0:03 No quantizing, haha. I know that feel. Trying to keep the groove too.
0:13 Is that snare on a very short release or something? It's interesting.
0:25 Those keys.
0:28 You could put a little delay on that riffing synth, I think? I dunno. It might be nice.

That ended pretty quickly, but I liked it. It was groovy. And I can tell you were playing around with the unquantized feel of the beat. When I'm creating a groovy beat, I'm not always sure what to quantize and what not to. It's like you want to preserve the feeling of the song but also make it feel like isn't completely off-rhythm. Nice track!

[Got a bass, no idea how to play it]

0:03 Groovy already! I like it.
0:09 That groovy kick. Mmmmmhm.
0:17 Those are some nice guitar licks.
0:24 That is an interesting riff. I like the sharpness of the notes.
0:34 You're a person who likes the unconventional.
0:47 I dunno if you're supposed to use thumb or two fingers, I just wing it.
0:58 It sounds good, though.
1:03 This part in particular I like. You could loop that over and over again and have a beat.
1:21 OOH nice riff at the finale. I feel like you could have gone on further with this track.

Nice groovy beast, this one. Really smooth. Could have gone on longer. I was enjoying it. :)

ZigZag

[Mo Noodlin']

0:00 Smooth.
0:06 I really like that popping snare.
0:12 Nice gat riffs.
0:17 Ooh. That organ. Is it an organ? Or a really processed guitar riff? Underneath... the phased one. Does it have Gross Beat on it too?
0:44 The guitar samples could be clean up here.
0:54 Love the deep breadth of the gat strings.

This was really nice and kind of experimental. I liked it. :)

ZigZag

phosphorusprocedure responds:

Yup. It's not an organ, it's my electric guitar. I put gross beat on there because I thought it was too distracting as a melody, since there were other melodies going on. Plus, rhythmically, it was really sloppy.

I think everything else was my bass guitar. Even some of the chords. I was messing around with how to get chords on there, and it took a weird hand position, but it sounded kinda cool.

Thanks for the review, man!

["Balcony Rain" - Piano]

Yes, this is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for this.

[Wave (w acoustic gtr)]

This is so cute, and you're actually really good at the guitar, I forgot.

Also, that metronome in the background :)

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You're so good at the guitar.

I'd remove the metronome, somehow, though, because it betrays when you go offbeat? lol.

Good one, mr. phospho :)

phosphorusprocedure responds:

Yeah, the metronome was from the bleed in my headphones. I should try some rubberbands or something to keep the noise out. I tried putting a giant low pass on the master track while recording, but it still crept in. Weird.

Glad you dig the track, man!

[Topfox]

Ooh. Somewhat Get Lucky-ish, if you don't mind me saying. The synths are great. A lot of the releases mean that they mesh somewhat, but this doesn't stop the beat from being cool.

Collab needed. Cheers.

[Pampam]

Fantastic. If you'd like to collab sometime that'd be great.

[Jammin' (sorry about the hiss)]

Hot fire, bro-ski. :) The hiss adds to the analogue quality of it, somewhat.

phosphorusprocedure responds:

Oh I was just saying sorry because there was way more hiss than I initially thought there would be while I was recording it. I think my freezer was making ice cubes at the time? I dunno...

Thanks for the review, man!

[soledad]

0:00 Nice polyrhythmic intro. Good gat riffs rolling over each other.
0:29 Good mixing of the drums here. This has a very 90s vibe.
0:41 It's all quite clean and very exceptional.
0:55 Vocals are a little bit off, in my opinion, or they need to be EQ'd better. I don't know, I just felt like when the vocals were introduced, the energy of the song went down.
1:20 But here, at the chorus, it's better. The energy is higher. It is quite difficult to get the vocals down, it's just. Yeah. It's a balancing act.
1:40 I just think the vocals are pitchy, I mean I don't blame you, I'm not so hot a singer myself.
1:59 Was a good note for the singer but the rest is not quite pleasant to be honest. But anyway, it might be the fact that the voice is mixed so far behind the instruments, so that it feels drowned out by everything else, but even then it might just be that the lead singers need a little bit of training.

I feel kind of bad saying that, but it's a little bit true. But if you're just a few guys hanging out and having fun, then it's all good. Wish you all the best as a band, and hope for you to succeed.

Cheers,
ZigZag

ZombieEmika responds:

thanks zig!

you always give the best opinions and yes, i need practice jejejeje thanks again dude! drop by the other songs if you feel so! that would be a great help to conquer the best EQ and execution of my songs.

and again, Thanks!