xxxZigZagxxx's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[My 4-Track Came in the Mail]

0:13 This is cute and bouncy. Like it. As you said, it's pretty hissy. I wonder if you can use a Fruity Limiter to reduce the noise using a gate? Either way, it's groovy and neat.

Love it. ^_^

phosphorusprocedure responds:

If I used my preamp while recording this, the hiss would've have been a problem, but at the time this was recorded, I didn't have it.

Oh well. I could use a gate, but I'd have to rerecord each of the 4 tracks individually and re-combine them, and I just recently discovered that the tape machine has audio sync drift, so different tracks slowly drift out of tempo. That was surprising, lol.

Thanks for the review, man!

[Jelly and Jam]

0:06 The groove is real.
0:10 I can hear a bit of distortion. Is that just me? If it's there, it could be removed a little?
0:23 I like the phaser's rhythm. Is it gross beat? Either way it's cool
0:35 OOH this is a sweet spot.
0:39 Love the progression of this beat.
0:44 A bit messy just prior to this timestamp
0:54 I love the riff.
1:02 Sounds exactly like Jelly and Jam :)
1:09 OOH this is so cut. LOVE IT
1:16 yesssss those chords

Love this beat. So good. I'm not sure if the distortion is merely on my end but either way, the composition was great. love it.

phosphorusprocedure responds:

Yeah, it's distortion. I had the guitar coming in a little too hot into my 4-track. I guess at the time I thought it sounded cool and payed no mind, but now that I'm listening to it, I guess it's a bit much.

Yeah, that chord thing is gross beat. I used to use fruity love philter for all my tempo-based gates but gross beat works way better for what I want.

Thanks for digging the track, man! (lots of reviews, holy cow -- i'll get to them as soon as I can. Thanks, zigzag)

[Uno]

0:11 I like the progression here. Very nice. Those strums are in the background
0:20 I love the lo-fi feel
0:25 OOOOH the progression. Cuttttt
0:32 So neat.
0:37 gotta love
0:40 Ah it gets better.

This one's brilliant. Needs to be made into a beat. Simply brilliant.

ZigZag

phosphorusprocedure responds:

Chord progression is Cm7 Am7 Cmaj7 Amaj7
I thought it was cool because a) the C A thing repeats, but
b) in the middle of that pattern, the key changes. Am7 and Cmaj7 fit into C, but Cm7 and Amaj7 fit into... some other weird key I guess? Mentally I'm thinking C A C A, but it's really like ? C C ?.

The guitars had fruity phaser on the subtle preset on there, which made it sound pretty cool.

[-GM-Phos- Reach]

1:16 Hot beat. Sick beat. Utilizes sample well.
1:23 I can't see much wrong with this. Mixed extremely well. You've got a new fan. FAVOURITED
1:40 I wanna see someone rap over this. This is very solid.
1:48 I wanna be able to make my snare pop like dat.
1:54 OOH filter time
1:58 Yes. Boom baps.
2:03 Gat solo. woot.
2:08 yeah boiiiiiiii. strings would be awesome to layer.
2:15 ooh that stuttering of the beat. supah hot fire.

This is great. Love the beat. FAVOURITED you as an artist. looking forward to what you have to offer in future.

Cheers!
ZigZag

B-RadGfromOV responds:

Thanks very much :)

[doodooberries]

0:03 OOh yes i like that riff a lot.
0:08 OH yes. I love the progression. Yes.
0:16 The delay on that lead is too good. More of that
0:26 AHHHHHHHHHHHHH yes please
0:30 This is fantastic. Where did you get those samples from? They're so good? Are they you?
0:42 Is that G-Snap i hear? It's fantastic sounding no matter what
0:51 YES love it. love it to bits.
0:57 love this progression..........
1:03 i just want more. and the below reviewer is right. it'd make a great beat
1:15 love these vocals

I love what you did with this, especially the vocals. They're so fantastic. I'd remix this if I felt I could make something out of it. I might try... maybe... either way, it's fantastic. Love it! :)

ZigZag

phosphorusprocedure responds:

I think the higher vocals are FL Pitcher and the lower one is GSnap. I tried improvising 3 or 4 vocal parts, but it went kinda out of tune, so I pitch-corrected them. Pitcher works better, but it taps out if the input is too low in pitch. Gsnap sounds kinda sketchy, but it has a wider range in which it operates.

Delay on the guitar was a new thing. It sounded pretty good.

Thanks for digging it!

[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!

[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 :)

fsdfsfdsdfsdfsdfsdfs

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!

[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!

[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).