MackerelSalad's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[SR - In a Safe Place]

Wow..

I like the fact that you can submit so many great tracks on such short basis!
The guitar playing is sweet, and as always, your composition is kicking ass!
Really fits the name as well.
I like all sounds.
It was great when the real ambient sounds came in, It flows together nicely.
I liked your drum samples, one thing I didn't like to much was the drum patterns when it kicked in. A bit too heavy, I like them more when you build em up.
Is that synth from Lamp Shade?! :D
The pulsating slight pitch shifting soothy synth, you know which one.
Shit man, keep ridin your sines this way, this totally rules.
Great ending man!
Oh fux this was great

SineRider responds:

Woow thanks man :D

I didn't physically take it from Lamp Shade, but I might have made it a similar way and didn't realize it.. ;)

[my first fruity loop:)]

What were you thinking?

I saw this in the audio portal, and thought: "oooohh this is gonna be bad!"
It actually wasn't, and now I realize the mighty Pedro Mancuso made it..
What were you thinking??!
Stick to Reason and shit. Live, whatever!
I never managed to completely quit using FL, and I think it will take me a long time to switch over to the more professional programs.
Nice first project though.

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

yo,
i use cubase pretty much exclusively but i fancied a bit of a change. as i'm sure you know, using different programs in some way dictates what you produce so i thought i'd give this a go. as a matter of principle i'm gonna finish this track
coz i haven't finished a track in months.
yeh, FL is not bad, just getting used to it, i know it's capable of producing awesome results i just don't think i can
get those results out of it... coz i a m lame
;ped

[deledelo...]

Wow, great lo-fi shit man

I find this sound reminiscent of Glib's track "Man on the Moon".
Great dude.
These are the kind of tracks I overlisten cause of pure geniality.
Wonderful.
Great.
Fantastic.
Damn this is great

I maybe like this one even better than things snowball..
Whatever, it's great.
MackerelSalad

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

anchoveeee is better imo

[things snoball (complete)]

Aren't you agent mancuso on myspace?

Hm, I guess so, I really love this sound, man!
Most of your songs, but this will be the first one I review.
I like the percussion thingies at the beginning, sounds great, the transitions go great, and I like the fact you try to put lots of genres mixed up in one track, I try to do that often.
I'll start looking up on your page, I really love this.
Excellent production technique, great sound, everything!

5/5
Thanks!
MackerelSalad

[Diaspora]

Beautiful

This was beautiful, and shows you had pretty much of talent to start with back then.
I like this song.

MackerelSalad

PS. In case you read this review, you have to realize, your next song is your 100th, so make it special! >8(

SineRider responds:

Thank you

This isn't my first song, I had been making music fr about a year before. Nothing really good but we all start somewhere.

This was back when I used presets like all the time. Sure it might sound pretty good, but didn't take much.

Don't worry, I have a really good track basically finished. Look for it today or tomarrow.

[SR - Avril 14th (Recreation)]

Nice.

I like the sound of it, but I like "remixes" better if it has a completely new element to it. I like the snare/sidestick thingy delay, nice one, but try to make own compositions again, I love those.

It was okay.
MackerelSalad.

SineRider responds:

I was just paying around and figured out the melody and thought I'd make my own version

Thank you for the review

[SR - Machine-Face]

great

fap fap

SineRider responds:

ew

[[TCM] Foreshadowing (RM)]

Just sad...

Don't friggin' mass download yourself! Just don't do it, because you don't get anymore respect.
The track is shit, by the way.
The melodies and the rest just didn't fit together, the sound was crap, overusing of teh kicks was really frustrating.
I would have given you a six in overall, but since you like to mass download yourself, I won't bother.

MtMTheCandyMan responds:

I didn't mass DL anything dude...

[The Daylight Burning :I:]

Good

Nice melody on this.
Did you get the snare to be exactly in tune with the rest, because I really noticed that, propably you did it accidentally but it was funny, though.
It wasn't actually industrial really, you still miss the more bombasstic full sound, you should try to get.
Focus some more on mastering and effects, and you'll improve greatly.

Keep on going dude!
MackerelSalad

MeteorSuit responds:

oh I know, I really need to work on my mastering. By the way, it's not lame were both MS. Two good letters.

Thanks for the review.