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!

[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).

[Waylon Gibbons]

I've been using ASIO all this time. I don't know how you haven't known about it until now.

This is really cool. Primary sound driver is the doodooberries.

Dammit! Now you have an excuse for not being able to type good melodies in. I have known all this time and I still need work.

Ah well, dopeness, pls sing more on your tracks kthx.

phosphorusprocedure responds:

Yeah. I mean, my melodies are ok, but they don't have that human quality to them that you can get only by plugging them in yourself.

Man you like that auto-tune too, I suppose? Ha. Thanks for the review.

[Perspective]

Oh mygoooooooooo that beat! Yes. That flow. This is extremely unique, very very good. Who produced? So good.

TazPrimo responds:

Thanks bruh..my man ICDMAW produced this...could be you tho lol

[Sultiame]

0:00 that changing bpm is certainly interesting
0:25 Lol all that dissonance. it's pretty darn interesting i must say
0:35 "SPIN THAT SH NIGA ITS CHRISTMAS" yes. you know how i love obnoxiously dry and loud vocal samples.
0:56 this works surprisingly weird
1:05 that sampling is pretty good i like.
1:15 this live slicing thing works surprisingly well. you could use this to dj to be honest. using slicin on the fly. not that i DJ or anything so I probably don't know what
1:45 More SPIN THAT SH please
1:53 this is a beautiful part

I like this experiment a lot and that's why i'm giving it 4/5 because it's just awesome. i rate pretty harshly sometimes but yeah this is great ;0

phosphorusprocedure responds:

I feel like the tempo change would've worked better if I exported the elements (drum track, bassline, etc) and dropped them into a new project where the tempo was the average of the 2 tempos. Then I would've been able to use delay again. And I could've dropped in some new elements and had a better idea of where they were relative to the other elements. I dunno.

Glad you dug the "live dj" part. I wasn't sure how to feel about it. It was a little too inconvenient a process for me to use on a regular basis.

Thanks for the review!

[OOH III]

0:00 Oh cute. I like the vocal samples. This is different
0:14 OHG DAAMAAAYAYYYUMMMMMM that is hot
0:27 Ooh i wish i could pick the chords to be honest but that string section gosh darn
0:58 It's got some super cute phasery things in there.
1:14 I like this part

kk that was cool :)

phosphorusprocedure responds:

No samples there, it's me singing. With Gsnap. Probably better plugins I could've used.
Beatbox too.

I probably could've picked better chords, or fleshed out the track a bit, but I already had some low freq and some high freq stuff, and I wasn't sure if I could add more without overstuffing the mix.

I could've interrupted the beat with some jazz shit though, that could've been tight.

Thanks for the review!

[Game Show Music '09]

0:04 lol the notes. the NOTES
0:18 it's still got an interesting vibe though. like a creepy cartoon
0:30 that wii music violin
0;50 nintendo will hire you
1:00 it's kinda sweet and tacky though i like it a little
1:13 ooh those chords! ooh nice chords
1:23 then it kind of weirds up the progression a bit that bass is hilarious lol
1:34 WHOA WHAT WHOAAAAAAAAAAAA
1:41 WHERE AM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
i have been transported into a horror
1:53 i wil have nightmares
2:00 i am dying please help me
2:06 oh it's happy again nothing to fear
2:20 so cute
k i'll finish now haha

Funny, seeing from back then. A bit repetitious but that horror bit in the middle oh my gosh i was scared. them melodies too. i think i need therapy lol

phosphorusprocedure responds:

That "horror" was my acoustic guitar but with crazy compression and that cheap shitty FL distortion plugin on there (the pre-Camel Crusher days).

Originally this thing had lyrics (really emo, cringe-worthy shit), but even my foolish pimple-faced teenage self felt it worked better as an instrumental.

I wish I worked for nintendo, haha. I'd love to be the music guy. I probably wouldn't get to use samples as much, though.

Oh, the strings are from DirectWave -- Cellular and Mellotron.