GavinCantDance's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[F-Zero X - Silence]

Wonderful job!

The song's incredible, but I can't stress enough, submission from submission, my hate for electric drum sets. The double bass work is incredible, but it's just so repetitive. It lacks the natural variety of a regular drum set, but I guess that just can't be helped.

Pros: Awesome guitar/Keyboard work, drums are also great.
Cons: The Bass, like I said, and that's about it.

FlameMesial responds:

I can see where you're coming from with the electric kit, and if I do ever decide to upload stuff here again it will have real recorded drums from yours truly.

Everything else, thank you very much for the review!

[Guitar Vs. Piano 1.2]

Great song.

It's great, the creativity is awesome, and the guitar and piano flow very well together. I really love the piano work especially. Keep it up!

Pros: Awesome energetic song.
Cons: Guitar's just a little too treble for me, needs a bit more crunch in my opinion.
Also that high-hat is just repetitive.

Goukisan responds:

Thanks man, If I ever do get around to finishing GvP 3 I'll try to tweak the guitar plugins but unfortunately theres only so much you can do with it.

[Mega Man X3 - Toxic Seahorse]

Haven't heard the original, but...

It was still enjoyable, drums are really lacking in bass/bottom end, even the cymbals, especially the high-hat, it's just piercing treble to me, but otherwise awesome job, keep it up!

DarKsidE555 responds:

I agree. They sound a tad flat in this one. It's because Bad-Man-Inc. redid them for me and I couldn't do much about the soundquality there. But I was more than happy that he did that for me. Otherwise it would have had shitty beatcraft drums. >: /

Thanks for checking it out!

[Mandatory Suicide]

*Twitch* It's good.

But I have to say, try to stray away from electric drum sets. They may be really handy for tracking, but there's no variety in the sound, so the drums get really annoying and repetitive, very quickly. Definitely admire the work involved here, keep it up man!

Bonemill responds:

Yeah, I agree i need drums :P.

[BBQ Beefburgerman Theme2]

Again, excellent guitar.

Cheesy vocals, but like I said in the last one up higher on the top list. Strangely the vocal quality in this one is better than the one higher up on the list.

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

You just aren't a fan of this style vocals eh? No worries. Thanks for the review. Have you watched the bbqbeefburgerman flashes? This fits pretty well. haha. Don't know why the vocals would be different. I did them one after another, same mic, program etc. Then DarKsidE555 did the mixing. Pretty odd. Anyways man, thanks for the review!\m/

[Preemptive Stike(updated)]

Awesome job!

Great work man, good rhythm, and the drums fit well, though you may want to look at a way to get a bit more bottom end into them overall, but that's very minor. Also the lead part clashed with the rhythm guitar part during 00:53-1:26 in a few places, but that's all. I also like the wah/pigsqueal effect near the end. Again, great job!

jdh504 responds:

Thanks for the review man, yeah the lead part did clash with the rhythm part in those spot. Surprisingly enough though, I didn't have a wah pedal or anything for that last part, I just managed to pull of a wah type sound without the effect, lol I suppose I just got lucky or something, but thanks again for the review man, glad you enjoyed the song.

[Calypso--_--(3:10)]

Not bad at all.

Snare's slightly out of time in 00:10 - 00:11, just hit a nasty offbeat. And the bass stumbles in 00:55-00:56. Also the snare is very repetitive sounding, and has about no bottom end, nothing beats just mic'ing a regular snare, but I hate electric drums altogether because of the lack of natural variety to the beats, but I'm a total nitpicker, so don't mind me. Otherwise, awesome beat, energizing, hyper, etc... Very good. Keep it up man, can't wait to hear more.

PERVOK responds:

The snare's offbeat is an important element in Drum 'n Bass, my friend :) But yeah... the bass does stumble a bit. I'm fixing it up; and I'll be submitting the "uber-ized" version soon.

Thanks for the review!

[BBQBEEFBURGERMAN Theme]

Cheesy, but I guess that's the point. :P

Good skill involved, the Vocals almost seem out of place though, kind of what you'd expect to be on a Tim and Eric product commercial.

DarKsidE555 responds:

What can I say, it was meant to be funny and a little bit shitty. ;D

Thanks for checking!

[Forsaken Memories]

Excellent Guitar!

The skill involved in this song is amazing, good rhythm, dead on man. Zakk and Eddie would be proud.

jdh504 responds:

Thanks for the review man, it's definitely ncie to know that I would be making Zakk Wylde and Eddie Van Halen proud, I appreciate the review man.

[†Demonic Signs†]

I respect the work.

The Guitar work here is insane as well as the drums, but the vocals are lacking in quality. They're way too thin, and the harmony is off in alot of parts, and just sound like they were recorded on a 6 Dollar microphone. Invest in a studio quality Condenser Mic. Throw a bit of reverb on the vocals, throw on a few effects, double up the tracks, just fatten them up and you have a sweet thrasher.

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Thanks man, don't know what you were listening to, but...Shure 57. Reverb, and echoes. All of the things you mention were done. Unfortunately, There is no "studio" at my house, and this is just a hobby so...Like it or don't. Just know what you are talking about when you critique.
Thanks for the review\m/