Thetageist's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Newgrounds Voice Acting Collaboration 2022 - Sample Lines]

Hello! I happened to find you via the Creepypasta collab thread. I might need some voice actors soon for a project, so I made a list of the voice actors who added to the thread to start off.

This is really clean audio and great delivery, with a wide range of tones of voice/inflections to convey different characterizations!

Plasmarift responds:

Thank you very much! I was actually embarrassed to find out I submitted this audition after the collaboration had closed (in my defense, the announcement that it was closed was in a reply to the original post). Still, I'm glad you liked it!

I'm honored that you are considering me for a project. I'd be interested in hearing about it. Even if I'm ultimately not chosen for it, I wish you luck with it!

[OBB - Schismatic Circuit]

I haven't even gotten to the point where I could get a taste of this music in the game, but all I can say is yes! I love the combination of the galloping rhythm, the synths used, and the general melodic structure. Plus the analog and electronic drums used together - you did that so well! It all fits really well together. This is good stuff.

ComposerEvans responds:

Thanks man! Harmonising riffs with parallel major 3rds just sounds really phat! Especially on synths!

[Possessed - LapisTheWolf (Deltarune)]

Nice vocal track! I like the effect you had with the higher voice harmonizing with you. The background music also sounds cool. Your vocal style here fits with the topic of the song.

What I'd recommend doing with this is developing the backing track a little more so it reflects the emotions of the song and changes over time - maybe it could even be a little creepier? I feel like your voice also gets overpowered by the backing track for most of the song; I'd say either bump up the volume of the vocal track or take the volume of the back track down a notch. Also try practicing singing with a tuner a little bit - you're almost there, actually! From my experience, singing with electronic instruments can be quite unforgiving because of the very pitched nature of a lot of computer samples.

Can you put the lyrics in the description, by the way? I'd comment on them, but I can't quite tell what they are.

LapisTheWolf responds:

THANK YOU AND SURE I'LL ADD THE LYRICS!
ALSO I HEAVILY APPRECIATE ALL THE REVIEWS YOU DO ON MY STUFF!!

[Square Loop]

This also sounds like something you'd get in a video game. Works pretty well, actually! I hope that someone actually uses your music in a game some time, that'd be cool.

SuperKoolRaven responds:

Unlikely that someone would use it in their game anytime soon, or at all

[Sine Loop]

Actually sounds like a cool little title screen or menu thing. I actually don't find it too repetitive, although some might. I agree with your decision to make this usable for games and animations.

SuperKoolRaven responds:

Yee :3

[1]

Hah, nice. This could definitely be put in a horror game with the red and blue faced men. I'd like to see where this concept goes from there.

Edit: It says "don't worry child, I am here to protect you from the man with the red face...". Fits with the plot. Also yeah, Morse code audio files can be decoded by computer as well!

SuperKoolRaven responds:

I forgot what the morse code said for the most part (yes, morse code can be put into audio form, if you didn't know) soooo
idk

[Castleman]

This is actually a really cool-sounding title screen theme song! The different parts you add together sound really interesting, and it fits together as a coherent whole. Really nice.

SuperKoolRaven responds:

Thanks :D

[Crunktown]

It sounds like a very strange boss/level theme, for a very strange boss/level, and I love it.

SuperKoolRaven responds:

Lol
Thanks :D

[Lapis' Battle Theme (SjälTale )-LapisTheWolf]

This is some pretty interesting music, even though it doesn't sound energetic enough to be much of a "battle theme" to me. The Undertale sound effects were a fun touch (psst, by the way, because of those you need to mark that your track has 3rd party samples in it). My favorite part is around 01:15 - it has similar vibes and even similar instruments to Terraria's nighttime music. It sounds like the synth doing the Megalovania-esque thing comes in a couple beats early at around 1:44, which means it doesn't always line up with the other stuff. But otherwise, really nice work, and I hope you return to this idea later!

Shady Cicada has a few videos on making video game battle/boss theme music, maybe those might be helpful?

LapisTheWolf responds:

ok thank you!!

[Mettaton Dance Sequence - LapisTheWolf]

It actually sounds pretty good, but not necessarily for the purpose you intended it for. I'd consider this more ambient background music for a minimalist game, rather than something I could dance to. I think it's because there is very rarely any kind of percussion or any other strong indicator of where the beats are, and when it is there, it's pretty quiet. If it is supposed to be truly ambient, as the tag suggests, maybe it'd be good to name the title something else or explain the intended context in the description? And if it is meant to be dance music, I actually found a couple tutorials for how to write dance music on YouTube - I'm not sending any links because I figure it'd be better to just let you find the one that works best for you. Hope this helps!

LapisTheWolf responds:

ty!!