Boss's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Mall Spirit]

titled very well! gives me future semi-vaporwave vibes and makes you imagine cyborg mall cops doing anime battle while i spit bars about futuristic microprocessor nerdcore hardware catologue rap. but still very 80's. great sound and feel, very firm yet dreamy , or should i say dreamy yet firm. still killin' it ! hope you drop more traxxx soon

[hey here's a short little chiptune]

really beautifully dreamy. I like the background synth that kind of gives it more depth even tho its not 100% chiptune that way I guess? really nice touch. just sounds awesome this should be in a platformer

[Elka]

this sounds like a 90s gameboy game and u just got tha princess homie but theres like magic butterflies and shit in the air in a mystical cave

[Caisligh Alpha]

Hey this is awesome! I particularly was drawn to the name for some inexplicable reason. hehe. i really like the strong midtones of this lead guitar. the softness of the drums really match the midtone brightness of this lead guitar and all of the melodies are very inspirational, motivating, and dream like. everything just fits, its well built, like a castle... hehe Thanks for the song !

frootza responds:

Hey @Boss, I appreciate that positive feedback. It's been a while, but I remember struggling getting the tempo to align properly in this track. It has this kind of... twisted/knotted pulse that's difficult to lock into. When you get grab it, it feels nice. I liked the voicings though the stretches are pretty nuts, and it sounds a bit robotic, but I was really happy wiith how this came out too. Not a problem sharing!

[Ticking Down Teaser]

if there was an ambient sound behind the ticking at the beginning i would have had more patience for it and maybe even began to enjoy it if I was in the right mindstate. A very smart person once said layers are your friend, and I think you yourself know that you need more going on in this song for it to be captivating. I personally enjoy the dissonant and harsh sounds of the ticking, but generally, people want a sound that is smoother and cleaner. The more in depth you get into the process of utilizing your DAW, instruments, or whatever you are using to make, manipulate, and arrange sound with, the better your outcome will be and the more confident you will feel about what came out. This doesn't just apply to music, or animation, or something creative, it applies to everything. spend time with your tools, and with the exercise and process of creating, and you will be more comfortable and create better sounds.

I was going to give this just one star. When I heard the rapid arrangement of sounds at the end, I felt that it deserved another half a star because that actually did pique my fancy a little bit. I think this would be excellent video game music just the way it is. This song is not essentially, or inherently bad. Your perspective is the reason I am rating you low, because you know you wanted a finished audio product with more work and more depth of sound put into it, and it is obvious. I commend you for being honest with how awful you feel about your work, but you shouldn't feel awful because that feeling will get in the way of your success.

Like I said, if this was part of a flash game, and the flash game was really good, and the pacing mechanics and theme of the game was matched very well by this audio track, it could fit and deserve 5 stars if it was a 5 star game. different things fit in different places.

[Song 2 of 8]

i had to put my volume all the way to like 70 which i usually keep at like 15, and i can generally hear anything i need to.... the recording quality is shit.... but guess what kid, i like lofi, its my thing, that fuzz is the answer, that fuzzy distortion it is god... ok im being over the top... you should record closer to the mic but I don't want to ignore all of the great fuzz and background hiss, which reminds me of the eternal unpleasant nature that comes with existence, even though at our greatest moments it is sometimes pretty small and un noticable.

I feel like the riffing was pretty cool, but not really my personal choice of riffs, im a little more oldschool maybe, it sounds too much like avenged sevenfold for me. around 2:19 theres an overlapping kind of distortion that the guitar makes that sounded way cooler than any other noise it made.

im gonna guess that 4cat is right about tuning your guitar, i wouldnt know, im a tone deaf musical illiterate idiot.... but it couldn't hurt to try to see if you can make it sound better, that's always true for anything

I'm gonna give this 2.5 stars, it's pretty simple and the execution is kinda mucked up--because if 4cats review hadn't mentioned that the recording levels were mixed up, i would have literally heard nothing and assumed there was something wrong with the player or the file and moved on after a few seconds--but after turning it up i did see there was some substance there and it brought me back a bit to my teen days of lofi recording obsession and having a friend who played tons of avenged sevenfold and greenday shit on guitar.

[WiP drowning piss]

this shit reminds me of earthbounds OST mixed with some sort of adventure game from the 2000s as well as cartoons from that time period--soaked in some sort of progressive psych rock.

uh, uh, uh call me robo neo geo, got my bitch in future subterranean under dome. UFO crash test, pilots revise the engineer schematics, this funky tune got me rappin, fast forward the backwards footage of apple sauce being poured out, the review was nice at first i bet y'alls bored now, this song took thematic styles walls and tore them down, i bet you this dudes on tour right now, and owns a farm with like 30 k and 4 cows with milk sales shore to shore coastal clout

funkmeisterfish responds:

thankyu for the beautiful review

[The Conspiracy]

this song is so amazing. the verse is ill and super fire. i lit my cigar with this music, for seriously bro. I smoked the whole big cigar to this. the rhymes bring a punch at the end of every line with both verses. the idea of a conspiracy about returning to the audio portal was a great into concept. the end of the song did really reminded me that all i deserve is to eat your ass since i am bad at life. damn. this is some reality rap shit

[Elevator Crisis]

I think if you layered some of your instruments with some thicker/deeper tones, you might get a song that you feel is less "mediocre" sounding. Or try slightly more variation on some patterns, make the high pitched piano dance a little differently, although I really like the way it wobbles out into the background. I really love the rattly sound effects here, and I think over all the track is very solid.

I want to hear one that you don't think is mediocre though ;)

Sinitech responds:

Well when I was making this I was actually just intending it to be an 8-bar loop, but then I just kept expanding it for some reason. I agree on the problem of variation in this, I actually got annoyed listening to it over and over as I was making it, haha. I thought it wouldn't be that bad in one sitting, obviously when I'm working on it I hear it over and over again a hundred times.