Lamplighter's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Coming Home (Ambient Mix)]

Fantastic!

This is an amazing song, and I really liked all the effects of live and real recordings you left in here. It helps to capture the way you used to hear your father play. Everything sounds great here, the guitar violin and violin sound especially good. The piano is nice too, but I find that in just about all of your music. :)

Very nice job, you and your father are both fantastic musicians. Keep up the great work!

-Lamp

[God's Love Remix]

Very good job!

Once again I find myself reviewing a remix where I haven't heard the original. Not the best thing to be doing, but ah well.

Everything sounds nice, but like ReFreezed mentioned the drums sound a little monotone. There's a hi-hat line that could have used a little volume variation. Otherwise, you've got some new rhythms going here that I like! They sound realistic, so that's another bonus. Nice job here, keep up the good work!

-Lamp

ThunderHorseL responds:

Thanks lamp! I'll work on the monotony of the HH's

[.:Reconcile:.]

Nice job

I think this would work very well as a soundtrack for an animation. It just has that emotion-inducing background music feeling. The ocean at the beginning and end is a very nice effect for setting the mood. I did notice the clashing notes, but I thought those fit. Music doesn't always have to sound perfectly in-tune, does it?

Anyway, very nice job on this, it's very... well, tranquil. The name fits well! Keep up the good work!

-Lamp

[.:HMS:. Diligently]

Only an hour?

Well, for as long as you spent on this it turned out pretty well. The beginning was nice, I like the slight reverb on the kick. Gives it more of an atmospheric feeling. Everything up until the two minute mark sounds good, it's hard to describe what images I'm getting from this. It's like watching a showdown between two people, each glaring at each other, determined to win but not making a move. Something like that. Two minutes in is probably my favorite part. I really like the piano, even though it doesn't play such a major part. Good song on the whole, I liked it a lot. Keep up the good work!

-Lamp

HMS-Productions responds:

haha didn't think anyone would notice the reverb on the kick. Not really sure what the inspiration for this was, something about how the world sucks though :D

Thanks for the review

[{ReF} Final countdown (Remix)]

Wow

Is this going to become a thing where there's a song every day or two? I mean, they're good, but wow... :)

Anyway, I've only heard the original once or twice, so I don't know how everything works in it. This sounds like a really nice remix! Maybe a bit short... it doesn't really feel finished at the end. I feel like you could have taken the ending, left a second or two there just for effect, and then started playing a slower, less high-energy part without the guitar, then burst right back in and after running a little longer finished it the way you did here. But that's just my suggestion. I don't know how that would sound compared to the original... blah blah blah.

Anyway, very nice remix. The drums sort of reminded me of a fast waltz :) but otherwise everything sounded great. Keep up the good work!

-Lamp

ReFreezed responds:

You know, thats a GREAT idea! But I'm currently too annoyed by the song to continue on it. Maybe I'll make a longer and better version in the future. Maybe. Thanks for an awesome review! :D

[Maybe (Alone This Xmas)]

Touching

Very nice job on the piano here, it's very sad in a hopeful sort of way. I can't say I liked these pads changing so often, but it worked. Anyway, very nice song you have here, Mcewthom. I hope to see more like this coming from you!

-Lamp

Mcewthom responds:

I'll be dead this time next year but I'm going to release as many songs on here until that day, Im glad you enjoyed this. It means alot :)

[{ReF} Icecold]

Boy, do people not like your stuff.

There's no reason this deserves the score it's getting now, 2.92. I guess people just don't appreciate this type of music.

Ah well. I like it. I'm not going to say it's your best, because I haven't listened to all of your stuff yet, but it's got to be some of your best. I like the way this starts out strongly, with the panning on the hi-hat giving me the feeling I was out in the open somewhere I didn't really want to be. I really like the synths and melodies you used here, they all convey different feelings but still stick with the same idea (if that makes an ounce of sense). The transitions were good, and I have no complaints. Great job!

-Lamp

ReFreezed responds:

I guess I'm a popular target for zero-voters. :( But anyway, I personally think the reviews are more important than the voting score.

The panning thing was actually the last thing I added, but now I hear that it has quite an impact on the song. The only thing I'm not that proud of is the snare drums, but oh well...

I was very unsure what people would think of this one, mainly because I didn't put that much work into it. So I'm glad you liked it. :)

[{ReF} Underworld]

Very nice

The title fits very well, something about the song makes it seem like you're taking a tour through the underworld in a futuristic craft. Anyway, I really like the variety of sounds in here. Some of them I've never even imagined before, and that's what I like to see in techno/industrial stuff. It might be a little repetitive, but if you're like me and your just listening to it as background music it's perfect.

This seems like the type of song to have a sequel, but whatever. Keep up the good work!

ReFreezed responds:

A song with a sequel? Hmm... :D Anyway, I tried to come up with some new sounds, successfully apparently. :) And I think most of my songs are a bit repetitive just because I mostly listen to music in the background. I think people are making too few songs like that, but oh well...

Thanks for the review!