F-777's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Butterflies]

Oh dang those vocals are awesome! Did you record them or use a Vocaloid?
Sounds awesome!!!

Love the music style of this. I know its Kawaii but your twist on it is really well done.

KawaiSprite responds:

Hey thank you! It’s actually my voice with little alterboy and autotune.

[Rising Star]

I thought of Green Hill Zone the SECOND the vocals came in hehe XD.
Great track but def vary it a bit more. Songs tend to sound similar of course
but that song is just too iconic, so if this song was to get insane exposure
too many people would comment on that fact.

Still great effort tho and I will check out some of your other work :)).

SourJovis responds:

Thanks for the review. Glad you liked it.

I know it sounds like Green Hill Zone but I didn't realize it would be such an issue. I just like that song and wish there would be more songs like it. So I wanted to make a song with the same vibe. It has the same kind of groove and sound. I synced both songs up side by side to hear how similar they actually sound, and I think they are different enough. If I'd change it it just wouldn't sound the way it needs to sound and becomes an entirely different song.

Interestingly, in an earlier version of this song nobody compared it to Green Hill Zone, but rather to things like Mega Man (though I didn't really hear that myself), and it's only since I used lots of Yamaha DX7 sounds (which sounds similar to the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive) people made the connection. The groove of GHZ itself is actually one that's very common in pop music but hasn't been used on a Sega as far as I know, so I suppose it's just the combination of the two.

Anyway, there are other songs that sound much more similar to each other that haven't become a problem. On the other hand there are also songs that sound completely different from each other and which presumed similarities are totally incidental, that have resulted in some unfortunate court cases. So yeah, you never know...

If 2 songs sound alike it's called unoriginal. If a hundred songs sound alike it's called a genre. If more than 10,000 songs sound alike it's called basic music theory. It remains an interesting subject.

There are at least 4 other songs that have consciously inspired me as well to make this song that sound just as much like this song as GHZ does. Nobody has discovered them yet so I wonder who and what's next.

I think it's still an art to combine all of the different songs you like, give it a brand new melody of course, use a structure and style that's still coherent, bring some things unique and personal to it and yet retain the feel you like so much about the songs that inspired you in the first place.

[Radius - Weather Control (Original Mix)]

Amazing work! The energy is great and that drop sounds really cool.
Overall the song sounds like it could use more layers to fill up some empty
space but given that youv had to remake this in FL 20 Demo that does make it
harder.

(Drop is super super cool)

Radius responds:

thanks f-777
plus i already got the full version months ago after finishing this song but i still can't finish the remake

[Symbiogenesis]

Oh man this type of music is hard to come by. (good ones anyway.)
I am in LOVE! Fav'ing this.

RosesWolf responds:

Unfortunately, there isn't much of a market for this kind of music, so people tend to shy away from it. I don't really mind market movements that much, so I went for it.
Glad to hear you liked it. This one was really just an experiment where I wanted to try and do as much as I could with as little instrumentation as possible; thus, the first chorus actually consists of only 4 instruments, not counting the drums and percussion.

[Aterr - Rain Legion]

Amazing track O.O.
The power in this is amazing and the choir touch is just perfect.

Aterr responds:

I am immensely grateful for the feedback!
I will try and continue to delight you with tracks :)

[Teminite & MDK - Space Invaders]

Easily the best song on newgrounds right now O.O.

[Beat Monster]

Oh this is super cool! Very catchy O.O.

Omega-Elite responds:

Thanks!

[Monsterverse]

This has amazing ideas in it! I can try to send you a few mixing/mastering tips. Because this is good but theres a few tricks to make it finished and polished i can show you :D.

Omega-Elite responds:

Thanks that would be amazing!

[ShinyNight]

Dang nice job here! Which program do you use? :D.

Omega-Elite responds:

It is actually free, but it is pretty nice. I can tell you it is for Windows 10 if you have that I can tell you what it is.