Billtog's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[mi first FLstudio song]

Pretty Good

There's not much to speak of here. I wish you had done more. Still, what you have is catchy and nice.

BettaThanYou responds:

thank im alot better with fl studio now

[Death of a Soul]

Eh...

It was pretty simple. You could try some more complex rhythms and melodies. You pretty much just build everything off of the initial melody. The drums were pretty boring. I know it's just techno, but don't let the genre confine you.

Goth1337 responds:

Goth1337 says:
Agreed. I think variety would always work.

Sam says:
FUCK YOU.
lol j/k.
Negative is always good, thanks for the advice.

[technoranimator]

Eww

The higher lines were VERY repetitive. In fact, the only real changes were slight rhythmic alterations on the same melody. The drum parts sounded like stock lines. They were both simple and slightly annoying. The ending was... quite bad. This was a 20-second song stretched into a 2 and a half minute song.

That-unknown-guy responds:

no offence mr bill tog but i have to disagree with you on that one, my lines were not repetitive, as they had, 'rhythmic alterations' which were in fact totally different tunes. obcviously you have o taste in techno music whatsoever aas if you took the time and courtesy to look at some techno music you would discover that ,many tunes are at least as crap as this!

[Psykillology--_--goa Trance]

Pretty Good

Your melodies were nice, but I think your percussion and bass need a lot of work. They were very basic and repetitive. You keep a steady theme throughout, which I appreciate. I really like the runs on the xylophone that are mildly audible behind the more percussive elements. Overall, good work, although you overlooked some parts of your composition.

PERVOK responds:

If I made the drums well programmed and other things, it would lose the "goa" feel, wouldn't it? I love goa personally, and do you know what goa is? A form of music that was developed from the repetitious hand drumming done by several tribes. Those drums have been translated into a throbbing, steady bassline and a hard kick. I would rather not lose that.

So, the only thing I "overlooked", as you say, were the parts of the song that were necessary to make the song that specific genre.

[CR34T10N]

Meh.

I feel the opposite of the reviewer below me. I don't mind the synth sounds so much (probably because I don't play real guitar). It's your composition that's bad. No instrument in the galaxy can make up for that. You use the same riff over and over and over AND OVER AND OVER with the same drum beat and same bass line. The riff was decent, but not for dozens of times in a row. When you do occasionally throw something different in there, it sounds okay. Always remember: the essence of boredom is repetition. Unless you were trying to bore everyone, you have a lot of work to do. Maybe if this song had only been two minutes, you'd have been fine, but alas it's much longer than that. Better luck next time.

Experiment-D responds:

eh
im tryin
ill redo it sometime
thanks for the review

[Chaos Death Blood Fury]

Scorching

I can't really give you any advice or criticism on this, since you obviously know what you're doing. On a scale of 13 to 27, I give it a blazing 26.5.

Thattixx responds:

Holy crap! Thanks for the blazingly awesome review!

[Battle Music (vdeogmplyr2000)]

You Made This?

What the fuck are you doing on Newgrounds? Go get a record deal! Okay, so you did use the same rhythm over and over, but it still sounds fantastic. You obviously know your way around the piano. The beginning and ending were perfect.

vdeogmplyr2000 responds:

You seriously think it's THAT good? I mean, I love it, but I just got a good rhythm and idea for some of the notes, and it all fell into place. I do that on rare occasion though...>.>;; Well, thanks for the praise, nonetheless!

[-Metal Madness-]

Pretty Cool

This is incredibly metal, and I'm sorry that people who don't know anything about metal are voting on this. Metal only sounds good to metalheads. The rhythms were very cool. While I agree that this would sound much better with real instruments, I think you can get by with computer-generated effects. The only thing I really have to complain about is the ending. It sounds like you weren't finished but submitted it anyway.

Epsilon-Eclipse responds:

Hey, thanks man. That's one of the things I was thinking about rewriting for this tune. It actually reverses at the mid-point in the song, but I liked a lot of the rhythms and such in it I was thinking about adding more. But, yeah, thanks.

[13th August 2007 (WIP)]

Ugh

It was kind of pretty at first, but I got REALLY tired of hearing the same drum beats over and over with nothing to cover it up. If you had only submitted the first minute of this, I'd probably have given you an 8/10. Don't tell me those synth bass fall-offs count as music.

WizardSleeve responds:

same drum beats? they change constnatly all the way through... you didn't like the 808 bass and the pads? no? Well not for everyone I guess.. if you have ever been to a Club/Rave and you heard something like this you would be dancing your ass off...

[Shock The System]

Simple, Repititious

This song is pretty simple. There are no layers of which to speak. Also, try some variety in there.

Dj-UnKnOwN responds:

k....