xxxZigZagxxx's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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!

[Soon....]

o, ur not dead

[Creepy 'Splorin' Music]

This is really good, kinda reminds me of the OST for It Follows. Keep it up. Really subtle.

The ending in particular is great. 1:30

phosphorusprocedure responds:

Thanks, dude. I was trying to rip off the Cry of Fear music a bit. Was watching this guy play through it on youtube, and I thought, whoa this music is cool! Haha.

The end was a teaser for some other track I'm working on. I was trying to play guitar, but I wasn't really playing on point rhythmically, so I chopped it up, and autotuned the guitar since it was out of tune (my neck was bent, so if it's in-tune on the bottom, it's out of tune on top, and vice versa).

[The best son ever]

This is pretty great, not sure why you don't still do this, it's a well-mixed loop with a ton of nice stuff and glitches in there ;)