Dr-Slump's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Satisfying No One]

Counterpoint is a bitch.

Man, I love Bach. He is the supreme god of music as we know it. And yeah, counterpoint is one of the most fantastic tools that one can use to enhance the song. And yes, for the sake of the erudite sound, you have to be a REALLY GOOD musician. Ergo, you are definitely one talented musician.

EmperorCharlemagne responds:

Thanks for the kind words, my man. I too find myself loving Bach more and more as my musical knowledge grows... It seems that for one so early he was far ahead of his time, even to this day, Cagean be damned.

It ain't perfect, but I like it, and am glad you like it too.

[70's Porn]

I'm feeling sexy!

Yeah, shag song to the max! Makes me want to put on my dusty pimp clothes, pet my feather hat, and go on a cruise with ma pimp mobile. Hahah just tripped. Great work by the way! :)

nimble-nick responds:

lol, and the winner for best comment....

[Freedom {durn}]

Nice job!

I loved the guitar! I wish I had a guitar vst like this one. Mine sucks :(. I have realstrat... pretty sucky. A perfect song to hear while driving at night. Great job! :)

durn responds:

:) Thanks Dr-Slump. It's one of the Reason standard NN-XT patch, the Strat+Trem, routed through the Thor for a more interesting filter automation during the bridge.

[Space Reggae (1st Rendition)]

Review nº69 hehe

Wow... that's impressive. You emerged styles that really have almost nothing in common. Great work!! This sounds more like a prog rock song hehe :)

mr-jazzman responds:

haha well, i suppose i can see the prog rock side of it, with some of the more organic sounds and stuff. the genre is more like dub tho in my opinion, except more interesting. just had a burst of creativity, i suppose =) glad you liked it man, keep on rockin!

[Percolating Prevarication]

Yeah not bad!

Very nicely equalized I must say. The drum and the bass synth are really well placed. However, the guitar and the piano sounded strange to me. Maybe if you had replaced the piano with some synth. The clash between the acoustic piano and the eletronic bass synth didn't go well. The last minutes of the song ,however, did go well. Yeah, it seems like you got better at the end. The high pitched piano gave a good mood to the song. Good work man!

DJ-Chilvan responds:

Thnx! Yea, this is probably my best mastered song yet. Idk y, i think the sounds I used kinda calculated each other to fit well, because mastering this track didnt take much =P.
Yea, i had to use the instruments i used, because this song was made for a request by a NG flash artist, hence, i had to follow his guidelines---he wanted a rock feel to it. I didnt have any good electric guitar VSTs so I had to distort a piano lol =P. I loved the ending as well; pretty epic.
Thnx again!

[Mario Hardstyle]

Hey...

Look, I'm really not into hardstyle. But I know it... heard it a lot. Hard/jumpstyle is really hip nowadays. And... I would say that when you have a mellow and happy melody like this one, don't make a hardstyle. You should know better than me that this genre of music is really simple, with only few notes and they generally are pretty dissonant. So yeah, if it wasn't for the kick, i'd give you a 10/10. ^^

Daaku026 responds:

Yea, Hardstyle isn't really supposed to be a happy kind of thing either. But you know, it's different.

[Upstream Chillout]

That was an intense bassline!

Intense bassline and what a great bass! I beat you have that spectrasonics trilogy. There's no better bass vsti. Great work man!!! You really know your stuff. :)

SantaBro responds:

I don't have that, it's based on a sound from Reason's factory bank. I want Trilian but I don't know if I can afford EU230 for just bass... thanks for the review!

[The Pitiful Ending of Royalty]

Great!

The melody reminds me of a progressive rock band... pretty nice. I like the the drum sequence, pretty intense! And great equalizing too. Oh, I must ask, where did you get this powerful bass? What VSTi?

EmperorCharlemagne responds:

A free soundfont, actually. It was actually from a site of a really accomplished music-maker from OCremix who has all of his soundfont samples for free, so I tooky tooky because I needed a damn good bass.

If you ever feel like seeing these soundfonts, you can shoot me a pm and I'll give ya a link.

Thanks for the review!

[Call it Love - Champius Rmx]

Nice one man!

Yeah, sounds like eurotrance. Bouncy. Nice job! But I've got one question, how did you do to "pull out" the vocals of the original song? I do some tunes too, but I have no idea how to do that.

Champius responds:

i got the vocals from the internet....is there any particular ones you wanted??

anyways thanks for reviewing : ]

[Forming Anesthetic]

Yo!

The bass is awesome... the arabic bongos are cool too. It's kinda experimental. Yeah, I like it! Sounds like one of those dark uthopia games back from the 90's soundtrack. Definitely, it's very original! I liked it very much. It's not boring, has always new sounds, started well and ended well. People here in NG probably won't like it. I know a bit of their tastes. If you want to make it big, go for video games songs or a jumpy techno/trance song. Still, don't sell your originality away. Keep on doing good stuff!

lidlurch responds:

thanks dude. i was going for more origional stuff, i've never really liked to make what most people do. for me, a good song come from the musicality that comes out of it, and i think you saw that. thanks for the advice too! i'll be sure to use it!