At 11/16/06 07:12 AM, windows-XP wrote: i can't vote on audio it says someone on your IP has voted on it for you or something like that but its with all the audio in the audio portal

for all we know, it could be because your name is "windows-xp" : P

-Seriously though, I wouldn't work, sorry man : (

Hey, I'm still in for the sig, but my comp blocks it, so if it's on page 3 of this thread, I can't get to it.

-Just so you know, I'd like a dreamy, atmospheric drum sig saying superdrummer146 in the sig. Maybe a more blue-ish feeling to it, if you haven't made the sig already, otherwise, it's all cool.

My e-mail is megadude146@hotmail.com : D

-SuperDrummer146-

Well, here's my take...

MaestroRage IS right. I'll say that I tended to be personally biased to a point. However, there were problems on both sides of the spectrum.

Here's some nice things for helping the situation...

-Look, I understand that you said "look for a Christmas"-type theme, sound, whatever. Now, as silly as it may sound, WHAT KIND OF CHRISTMAS FREAKIN' SOUND?!?!?!?!?!
-Is it not possible that maybe the judges had a different idea of what christmas would sound like? Okay, so DavidOrr's was the easiest to pick that out on, but what about the others? I seriously thought that RyeGuyHead's (I think that's the name) piece sounded VERY MUCH like christmas. Some the songs that were meant to be Christmas-like tended to have elements that didn't make me think that the song in question was really original, or from a solid emotional standpoint of the song. Why not some guidelines on what Christmas elements you would have wanted? Or for another themed contest, what do we do then? What are you basic guidelines for a Christmas song? Opinions CAN be different on that.
-The set of judges wasn't really that great. I mean, you've got a happy go lucky guy in one place, and then your worst nightmare somewhere else. Then again, aren't you going to have that to a certain extent? Yes, but this extent? It was HORRIBLE!!! We can't keep picking up any darn judge. Who exemplifies good review habits? Who really helps the person to understand how to get that better, richer quality of a sound. And who hurts that? Who DOESN'T leave good reviews. Who DOESN'T know how to extend their knowledge to help a contestant grow in their musical production? We need analyzation of people who want to judge, so that mature, unbiased people are being used for our contests.

-These are some of my ideas. I'm sorry if my ideas upset, but please, don't take it personally, but do take it seriously.

-SuperDrummer146-

-Where do we go from here?

I was extremely harsh compared to many of my previous judging adventures. Please, do not be offended by your score or my comments in any way, I seriously think that all of your songs were truly great : D

-If your offended, I apologize, you guys are great : D

On with the show!!!

Deflector76

+Good atmosphere
-Sound of piano is rigid in the beginning, but the other instruments help to blend in later, not so bad : |
+Kinda oriental-like Christmas, certainly different
+Good melody
-Percussion didn’t blend as well as it could have with the tambourine
+Progression well developed
-The wind chime felt staggered, make it more flowing, moving.
+Nice ending
+/- kinda familiar sounding to age of empires, but not entirely.

Overall: 62.7

Deflektor, I see you improving soon, dig in man, you're getting closer everyday working your best at this.

MaestroSorrow

+Interesting vocals : )
-One of the lower pitched vocals were hard to understand
+Great ending.
+Main progression is good
+An interesting twist to Christmas, evil santa.
-Song didn’t develop into anything big.
+Good use of effects
-Drums not the most appealing thing there is.
+A solid sound

Overall: 60

-MaestroSorrow, I'm sorry to say, that I seriously do not think this is the best you can do considering many other pieces that you've created that really express better feeling and quality than this. A commendable effort at something creative though : D

MusicalSerenity

-The vibes…or that starting instrument, electric piano being my second guess, it seems too distorted in the beginning, it gets better though.
-Piece is too short
+Very professional sound for what you have
+Interesting builds, I love them
+Appealing progressions within all the instruments
-The fade out wasn’t a good idea, just keep it the same main volume the whole way through the song to give the song a strong ending.
+Great feeling of Christmas, best so far!

-MusicalSerenity, yes, your christmas feeling was one I was diggin', keep it up!

Overall: 65.3

DavidOrr

+Cool beginning
+A good solid, remember able melody that comes through the piece in different varieties.
+Great sound and feeling for Christmas!
-Your little interlude of Santa sneaking through houses is nicely done, but it doesn’t seem “that feeling”, more of Santa flying from house to house.
+This feels like a suite to me with the three different main parts.
+PERCUSSION!!!

Overall: 82.4

-DavidOrr, it's obvious you've put a lot of work into this, congrats on the MAC6 win ^_^

SadSpoon

-Need extension
-Jingle Bells interlude common…
+Nice use of it though!
+I like the bass instrument used, very appealing
+Nice breaks
---Your main problem that this is so short. You otherwise have the talent to make this better---

Overall: 58.1

-Sadspoon, you've got lots of great elements here, just learn to extend your ideas and really sell the show you're putting on with this musical creation : )

Fr3kn

+Funny sound FX
+A comical twist on Christmas obviously seen.
-Some of the distortion was kinda out of place, but was otherwise okay!
+Main progression slightly annoying, though you do take a lot of good things to elaborate it.
-Maybe more assassin feel than there was?
-Bass drum weird at first, but it mixing in then shortly into the song.

Overall: 71.6

-Loved you style mate ; ) ASSASIN LOLZ!1!1!!!!!111!!!!one!!!!!1!1!!1!!!!1!!!

RyeGuyHead

+Awesome sound FX, best ones so far!
+The sheer ambience feeling was just amazing
-Christmas feeling not AS present, but it’s a fingerprint that’s there.
-Some weird spots within the song crackle for some reason or another.
+The build was very nice : D
+Strong progression, chords.
+Made me think “redux manger scene?”

Overall: 86.7

-This was seriously my favorite song out of the submissions I had to judge because of the sheer creativity behind this piece, excellent job : D

Grumbleduke

+A great piece to remix, a great choice, I love this melody : D
+ Nice instrumentation, arguably as good as a lot of the regular classical artists
+Still video gamish
-Not entirely your piece, but a good mix!
+Great FX
-A little too short, maybe you could have made your own little interlude of the sort?

Overall: 79.8

-Grumbleduke, I like the style you take with your music, awesome job. Whenever I listen to a piece by you, I can easily tell it's yours!

Spikrodd

-Not a really solid Christmas feel.
+Catchy melody
-Too bad the melody is overplayed
+Good use of instruments
-Really repetitive, instrumentation changes in drums only

Overall 51.8

-Keep working at it Spikrodd, I know you can do better : )

Sytrus

+A futuristic Christmas, really nice
+Great melody and progressions
+Nice fx
-Somewhat repetitive with the composition, but instruments change around
+/- Okay melody
-Concepts could be expanded more

Overall: 76.3

-Sytrus, I remember when you were starting out, you’ve gotten pretty good man : )

Thanks to all those who competed, your songs maybe my day : )

\m/_SuperDrummer146_\m/
\m/_Rockin Your World!_\m/

At 11/8/06 06:11 PM, Piepie wrote: To anyone who cares or noticed or whatever

Im back from an unwanted vacation...

Ah yes, the imfamous PiePie, welcome back man, glad to have yah around : D

-Unwanted vacation? Why?

And to pr0ded, don't worry, I'm going to try to not play with the steam games as much, I don't like the violence factor, I just get queezy around blood : |

-Maybe Call of Duty 2? or battlefield 2, I like that game : )

Lol, I just got Steam today, ain't I a sad person? I got loads of games though :D

At 11/7/06 05:41 PM, Deflektor76 wrote: While we are talking about that bunch of *bibibibibibibibip*, has anyone received a PM about "a book they name: Abuse the Newgrounds system" or something like that? It was like 4 days ago. I even received a second message but i couldn't read it as the sender was deleted.

I'm happy to reply that I haven't. What an odd message! Why abuse Newgrounds?

So what's the actual price for a Nintendo Wii? I might swipe one up this summer if I have enough money from all my jobs then : )

At 11/6/06 09:10 PM, SolusLunes wrote: I finally got a videocamera and decided to videotape myself making a song. This is how it goes.

Wow, I guess music frustrates you sometimes 0_o

Just remember to relax man, you'll get your ideas : )

so what if we spelled it Korn&bEaNz?

Hey Tom, I understand that you could possibly lockdown our names. If this DOES occur, could you make a big post giving us a week or two to get the name we want for our URL?

-SuperDrummer146-

At 10/29/06 11:29 AM, XBrav wrote: Well it looks as though this contest is beginning to be successful. I've already had my Christmas contest entry used in a submission in the portal. The score isn't anything spectacular, but goes to show that artists are using audio from this! ^-^ anybody else had theirs used yet?

I haven't even finished producing my song yet, and I showed a preview to a very good flash artist, and I got accepted : )

-So yes, this is extremely successful!

no no no, maestrorage is correct.

Whoops! Forgot the link

I seriously think this one was overlooked, a very nice gem indeed ; )

Thanks Tom, I'll have to randomly search once in a while, it brings good results.

Lol, everytime I post something that breaks the norm of things, the chatter ALWAYS stops, WHY ME ?!?!?!?!??!

I laugh at my despise, or do I?

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\m/_What's up!_\m/

-Just a note, I may or may not participate in the contest, but I'm working on a musical cover of Pachabel's Canon that WILL BE IN THIS COLLECTION!!!

-So best of luck to all contestants whether I'm in or not : )

\m/_SuperDrummer146_\m/

:SuperDrummer146 Profile = zero

Oh well : (

Anything drums will work for me, maybe a stick figure drummer drumming?

Are you still doing this?

At 10/16/06 04:01 PM, SadSpoon wrote:

At 10/16/06 03:58 PM, SuperDrummer146 wrote: how to make quality music

low-quality? middle-quality? no quality?

the angry faic of grammar looks down upon you in scorn.

>:(
*scorn scorn scorn*
SuperDrummer

*sarcastically*

Oh no! Not the angry faic of grammar! Let me get my dictionary to fend it off!

*and sarcasm*

-Obviously, I'd be going for "higher" quality, who wants bad muzik?

or not...

At 10/16/06 12:15 AM, rajkialtor wrote: emat emaltvare

Hola como estan soy nuevo en newgrounds y quisiera que me orienten un poco, que me revcomienden lo mas cool del Audio Portal, por favor alguien sabe como se llama el autor de la canción dreamers del video de robotech hecho por armyranger por favor diganmelo, se los agradeceria

Hola! Bienvendidos a Newgrounds! Yo no se si puedo ayuda tu, pero un momento. Yo creo puedo ayada tu problema. Yo preguntando ahora.

To Newgrounds: "Does anyone know the author of this song in this movie?"

Gracias, y espero tu pregunta es facil para gente en Newgrounds a contestar : )

Para tu informacion, este lugar no es mejor para preguntando preguntas para musica en una pelicula. Usa "BBS: General" en el futuro.

-SuperDrummer146- I play the drums

-redoblante excelente 146- (Yo toco la bateria)

At 10/16/06 02:17 PM, BlackNoise wrote:

At 10/16/06 01:47 PM, vwvSTATICvwv wrote: Haha, you got banned again?

I always get banned :/

Lol, I got my first ban just a week ago : P

Okay, SHOUTOUT TIME!!!

Anyways, over the course of the rest of this year, and the whole year of 2007, I'll be upping my quality of music, and learning more about how to make quality music. I'm going to have a site as well within the next 3 months. Thanks to all who've helped out so far, which is a big number ; )

\m/_SuperDrummer146_\m/

At 10/11/06 09:34 PM, MaestroRage wrote: _-=*~_/[Step One]\_~*=-_
My first move was re-introduce myself as somebody else, that nobody would know. I created SoulStrings.

So YOU were SoulStrings? I had no idea, lolz, you're music rocked there : )

At 10/11/06 04:26 PM, TomFulp wrote:

It doesn't seem like anyone is really looking at the individual scores and they aren't being put to use elsewhere, so we're leaning towards just having the single OVERALL score.

Thoughts?

If this hasn't been said, make voting on certain aspects optional, but leave the option there.

Just let the freakin' thread die already, it needth not go anywhere further.

At 9/30/06 08:06 AM, Saint-Anger wrote:

At 9/30/06 07:45 AM, SuperDrummer146 wrote: Lolz, random iz good. I'll just have to wait : )

I may put you on my update. Im not sure yet.

Cool. have fun : )

At 9/30/06 09:04 AM, Razac wrote: meh cant do much with a field

but a freakin' tank in the way, nice : )

Lolz, random iz good. I'll just have to wait : )