ZipZipper's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bobby Thong - Animation]

Whoaaa you've got quite an assembly of characters and the things you had them say were really funny too. I can't peg a favorite one because honestly they were all my favorite. Really nice voice work!

GoldThong responds:

Thank you much. I really appreciate it!

[LOZ Outset Island Remix]

Wow! I'm really glad you got that East West program! You really make the sounds stand out here. Yeah, the looping wasn't perfect, but I'm sure you'll find a way around it. This song sure is nostalgic, so that may be a little leniency towards why I like this so much lol.

stunkel responds:

Honestly, I have never played the game before, but I am in love with the song and I'm dying to play it! And East/West really is incredible, I recommend you getting it if you have the extra cash. And the loop was just how the song was if you listen to the original. Thanks for the review sir!

[A Hero is Coming]

LLLLove the strange chord progression melody. The ending is quite poetic. Amazing percussion that fit along the filmic side of the music in a very new way. Great tension that kept me expecting more and more.

I can picture the offices and dwellings of the governors...I see these buildings floating high in the sky, so that no common person can easily access them. And inside are the various secretaries, rushing around with papers and typing away furiously at keyboards as this music plays. The documents that they mindlessly process are full of legal nonsense that essentially justifies all the chaos below. On the ground, the hero is rushing through the city of lowlifes, searching for the right people to recruit in an attempt to anchor the entire city of the governors to the surface of the planet.

Wow...this is just a nice little song. Very different from you seems like a wonderful thing.

Bosa responds:

Wow. Thank you for expanding the story.. I am quite inspired by your input.

[Animated Characters #1]

Well...I really really like your unmodified voice. It's very crisp, clear, and narrative. The modified vocals could have been altered much better, but honestly I think trying to play with a child-like voice is best done without modifications. And the better you are at sounding like a kid without using technology, the better it will sound filtering it through technology, perhaps to a point where you're barely modifying it. I see in your other voice acting demos that you're not doing this as much. I really like your Tarf #2. But it sounds like you're not using the same mic in your other ones as you're using in this one? Well...you've got a great narrative voice and a spice of character that I think should be experimented on further. Nice work!

Laphin responds:

It's all the same microphone. The child voices can be done, but as you say, it has to be done carefully as it comes off as fake, which is something I'm working on constantly to better and better myself on.

The cub's voice sounds great.. Alerio's voice, while he's not really a child character that I had in my head, but probably around a 13yr old young eagle, I would have liked to change his voice to something different.

[Velge]

Hahahaha cool! I love these kinds of rhythms. The piece itself reminds me of the mayor's office music in Majora's Mask and something else...but I can't put my finger on it. I like your instrument choice and how each instrument is used orderly and in fashion. There were a couple of things that I didn't quite like. The drum beat is nice, but if it took a break at one point that would have been neat, like a little surprise. I also wish it didn't fade out at the end! I think there could have been a really cool big finish. And I was a tiny bit bothered with some of the panning and the reverb, but it's actually fine as is. Nice marchy kind of music, my favorite kind. Great work!

Jasonatron responds:

I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

I very much appreciate the though you gave! I definitely could have given this more time.. I completed it in a in a couple hours, for fear of losing inspiration. To be honest, I wasn't sure about the fade-out end, myself. Maybe I will go back through and properly flesh it out. It feels like when I don't rush through a project, it never gets finished. I'll have to find a good compromise in pace.

Thanks again for the feedback, I will try to pay more attention to these areas in the future, and possibly attempt fix them here and update. :)

[Christe Redemptor Omnium]

Oh my...nevermind what I said about Step's piece. This and that will spar in a great battle!

bassfiddlejones responds:

TO THE DEATH!! lol, seriously though, thank you!

[Yuletide Groove]

Welp...I think everybody else lost. Goodbye.

Step responds:

Oh stop it you :3.

However this review really brightened my day. Thanks a lot haha.

[2 Part Invention in Bm]

Ugh...I really wanna write something like this. But every time I try, I hit a dead end. I find this even more wonderful because it's in B minor. I thought that sometimes the ideas pieced together too well and made the song a little boring. But, I can't really complain because I think this style of music is hard enough just brainstorming. Measure 23 showed the biggest and most exciting change, to me. That was my favorite part, the left and right hands were fighting in a way that I don't think is heard at any other point of the piece. Yeah...this is overall a great little invention. I might attempt to learn this song from the sheet music you put and maybe learn some things from you about writing in counterpoint. Thanks for posting and great job!

deadlyfishes responds:

2 part inventions aren't really meant to be super-entertaining, but test your compositional chops. Inventions, fugues, and canons are technique pieces to pretty much show off writing skills, and yet hold some creative retention. My suggestion is to find yourself Bach's collection of counterpoint pieces and use those as a guide. "The Well Tempered Clavier" is probably your best reference. Also, just learning the form, is a good place to start :]

[The Feast]

I don't know why, but I started laughing imagining the scenario you put while this music played. I think it would actually fit well for such a scene, or any sort of background for someone going crazy or being attacked by spiders. The build up of the whole song was well done. This is a really nice little score for a creepy situation, I like it.

stunkel responds:

Thanks! Yeah to be honest, I felt really stupid typing that description out, but I think it worked! I actually made the song for a scene of an animation where a bunch of people are going crazy and laughing like crazy men. I'm glad that the creepy vibe hit you in that way, thanks for the review!

[Serene Fantasy]

This has definitely got the workings of a typical pop piano ballad with the spice of a slightly atypical structure. Lyrical lines over this would fit to the style. I thought the left hand rhythm became a tiny bit overused, or perhaps just the melody of it turned into a drone. It was nice that at some points you switched up rhythms and arpeggiated the right hand while harmonizing the left hand. Maybe that could have helped a little more in keeping the melody interesting in the left hand. Dynamics would help with that and the piece overall. So yeah...it's pretty good and it is what it is. Nice job.

stunkel responds:

Thanks for the review! I honestly threw this together from a request someone gave me. And for my next piano piece, I'll definitely take dynamics into consideration a bit more. Again, thanks for the review! :D