LOD123's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[When The Mind Takes Over]

Perhaps a little too free form for my liking, but you seem to have some nice ideas. Good effort and keep it up.

NebulousDawn responds:

Thank you! :)

[Forgotten love]

The quality isn't bad at all! You've done a good job recording it with your phone. The violin lead is beautiful and the piano riff is also a nice base for the piece. Good job, keep it up.

Lumina33 responds:

Thanks!!!! :D I'll keep it up for sure ;D

[C23 - Avination II]

What SpaceWhale said about the melody going out of key at one point, I think it sounds weird too but I really like it. It might not be musically correct but it still sounds good, it sounds like you did it intentionally. And I think it adds a layer of flavour over the top of the songs main melody/chord progression. Nice job, sounded great man.

KrisKrosNL responds:

SpaceWhale is right about the melodies; I did screw that up, but intentionally.

[-{Z}- ACommonDayInHeaven]

Nice little song, it has a very full sound to it and a nice chord progression! Also what you said in the description is spot on, when I do electronic stuff I never know what genre to put it in :P

TheZaaL responds:

Thanks man! I was hesitating between trance or ambiant, but yeah, thanks!

[Tornado Apoc- MAC Edition]

Been listening to this more and more lately, can't get over how good the start riff and lead tone is, and the velocity on the kick drum pattern at 2:35 till like 2:51 is awesome, it has such a good pulse to it, I hope you win dude!

Chthonic-Waves responds:

I'm very glad you are satisfied with my tone and riffs. Gives me motivation to keep doing stuff like this. I hope I win also that would be fantastic. There is good competition out there. But I would love the exposure

[Elegancia - Zeal]

Sounds really cool, the song is great, the only thing I would say is that, for the first 30 seconds I found that the way it was mastered was really harsh and hurt my ears, but I got used to it and it sounded clearer after that point, good stuff though :)

Elegancia responds:

Well yeah. This mix is pretty rough, you're right.
But i'm happy that it sounded good after the few seconds :)

Thank you for listening and sorry for the late answer! : /

[Fuck you SOPA/PIPA]

The riff at 1:59 is kick ass,
when the harmony comes in at 0:19 I couldn't believe how awesome that was!
Loving the sound of your kick as well, also epic lead playing, nice one :)

Chthonic-Waves responds:

Thanks for the review. Glad you liked the harmony parts and my lead playing. And yeah I love that riff also.

[Mothership_Embark]

This has a very progressive style to it, I like it a lot, good use of time signatures, having the start in 6/8 -or was it 6/4?- was very effective, has a nice dynamic range as well, good job :)

WizMystery responds:

Probably 6/4 since I organized it in patterns of 6 beats, but no matter. You should be marveling at the 17/16 :P

I actually wound up simply tampering with the pre-maximized volume to get a wider range of dynamics. Turned out to be more effective than I thought it would be.

[4.14. Tornado Apocalypse]

Great tone, you sound like Marty Friedman

Chthonic-Waves responds:

Thanks. Friedman is the shit. Glad you dig my tone

[Presidents Are Pawns]

Love the harmonies, remind me of Death, who are one of my favourite bands ever. Nice work, nice guitar playing.

Chthonic-Waves responds:

I get that a lot lol. Some of my favs are Tool, Meshuggah, Death,..