3manonMusic's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

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My name is Joe DugDig, rival of Johnathan DigDug, I dissaprove of this audio. It's so good it will steal my audience of DugDig

[TheBroox2000 & Itz_Gamepoint - Frozen Road (NGMC 2025 Entry)]

I think there's a lot going on in the song, and maybe a little bit too much imho. There are a lot of cool idea, but because they all want to be executed in such a short amount of time it gets really loud and muddy. I also think there is kind of only one instrument that indicates this is arctic themed, that being the instrument that gets introduced from 0:10 and later also gets an appearance. I think the sound design is pretty cool, although it sounds a bit hollow: lot of high and lots of sub, but not a lot of mid-bass, which you could've profitted from, because that would give it some more oomph.
I like the atmosphere and chord progression.
Production: 7/10
Mixing/mastering: 5.5/10
Relevance to the theme: 6/10

[Charlmot & PiAHC - Tundra Showdown]

I'm pretty uncertain about the choice of instruments... They sound pretty low quality most of the time, such as the (sploinky sounding?) lead at the beginning
I also think there's a bit too much of highs in the drums, making it not really satisfying to listen to while blasting at max volume. The transition from 1:13 is really cool and epic, but a bit random, especially with arctic in mind. From 1:50 it's a cool idea, but I wouldn't say it has the best execution unfortunately, the drums get really really muddy in the mix. I do like the little victory jingle at the end though!

Another positive: I think the intro's chord progression sets the tone really well for arctic surroundings
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Production: 7/10
Mixing/mastering: 5/10
Relevance to the theme: 7.5/10

[ArikXu & arsalchowdhurymusic - Wanderers of the White Wilderness]

I love the reese at the beginning. Very solid. I think the "woo-hey" is quite generic and a little unfitting imo. It's also very soft in the master throughout for some reason. I really love the liquid vibes though, mixing is done quite properly. The vocals are not really understandable because they are so much drowned in reverb and at the very end a square lead solo starts before the track fades out, which is a shame because I would have loved hearing more from that instrument. It does sound really icey though!
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Production: 8/10
Mixing/mastering: 6/10
Relevance to the theme: 9/10

[Chrome Frost (ft. 3manon)]

Chat did we cook

3manonMusic responds:

This is chat speaking, I believe we did

[Avalanche]

Very impressed with this tune. May the games begin.
Production: 9/10
Mixing/Mastering: 7/10
Relevance to the theme: 6/10

[Beep Block Bunch]

I would say it's a shame this collab ended up so short, but for the concept it's probably better lol. Because a 30 minute collab of constant beeps would prolly get a bit too jarring haha. Instead it's just short and sweet now which is great because the tracks are consistently pretty high quality! Good job. Only sad part was that the transition between taxmann and aalasteir had a little offtiming.

[Project Post-Mortem Podcast - Ep. 2 - "Theme of Two White Guys"]

yooooo bro can sing what the hell

MasterHand4444 responds:

Slowly but surely getting better!

[Sang Froid. Cmin (From the Cinematic Collab)]

Yessirrrrr

BASCUTI responds:

Yessirrrr

[STAR TRACKER]

pretty cool song. Your way of promoting it to me felt really pushy though, watch out with that.

PapaDumTek responds:

Aww man..I thought we'z waz friendz and all. I mean I have been following and listening to ya for a while.