Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Abyssal Industry]

rawr.

Never listened to this account. I had no idea you could do drum and bass. Pretty sick mix too. The intro has a really nice atmosphere about it. AR. Liking those bells/ alarms. There's something wrong at 31. I feel like it was something on the drum kit being panned. Soem of the panning is awesome, but there's just that one sound, it comes in later too... meh, opinions. Aside from that one drum, I actually really loved them. The reese is pretty cool. All over the map, just like a reese should be.

Great job sir. Good luck in the mac, and yes. His name is hank.

S3C responds:

yea, I've been trying to make DnB since mid may :)

Good luck to you in the competition to and thanks for the review Quarl!

[DnB CTSG Thing.]

fuck yeah!

fecking amazing sir, great reeses, nice solid drum work. I'm gealous of your dnbz :P

Funky.

DJ-NOSEBLEED responds:

<3 Quarl :3

[Sailing a Ship Into The Sun]

All of what your about to read is opinion.

Liking the track. Not 100% sure I'd call this dnb or idm, but it's a valiant effort. There are certain paradigms in dnb tracks. You seem to recognize some of them, but I think you just need another year to get it down to a science. A common stereotype of dnb includes a tempo that stays within 170-180 bpm... I never go as slow as 170 though, I usually stay within 175-178. Classic two step rhythm at the beginning of the rhythmic work, but you can usually get a much more dynamic rhythm by working with break beats. It's a preference of mine, but that's only because I refuse to work with the two step format.

Nav likes to hound me about some sort of 64 bar structure thing. I think it's a load of crud but if you plan on djing, it's probably worth it for the transitions. Now, melodies are a great thing to have in intros, but a melody is never the focus of a dnb track. They're necessary, but the reese or bass line is usually the focus. A reese is basically a distorted sawtooth wave format. In reason they're really easy to make using the malstrom, but I'm guessing you use FL. At least, I assume thats what the Fl in the authors comments is referring to. If you used reason I could give you some tips on how to make fun reese lines, but I don't know the differences between the programs first hand.

There's probably a lot more I can tell you but I'm not sure if we should worry about any of that. You said it yourself that you think this is your best. When it comes right down to it, music is a personal thing. It's all preference. I could sit here and preach to you all the connotations of what is and what isn't dnb, but there really isn't any point. I always get alternating reviews from different people and it's really frustrating to try and satisfy them all. Creativity is so under rated. Also, it's more fun to try and figure it out on your own. Go google dnb and see what you can find :P

Keep producing and you'll eventually learn yourself a new genre :D

Cebster responds:

haha thanks i really read through all that and i completly understand what you mean. yeah i prett much didnt really think this was a dNB song other then the two step and your comment reinsures me. but i figured id upload it here because it does have that two step and i thought people would get akick out of it. also your pretty much right about the mealody. i guess i just didnt really take into consideration what Dnb standerds people have. but if you ever listened to venition snares or even the DnB classic, its not all resse or hard bass. the style that people proudce on new grounds is more dark step. anyways thanks for the comment. yeah that song i reviewed of yours i really liked it. i downloaded it. hahah pretty chill.

[WS - Rig Rap Track]

mraw!

I dropped a review on rigs page, but it's only fair to hit you up here too. Awesome jorb!

[Rig & Spawn - 16 Bar Assassin]

nice.

Damn, I was thinking of doing a muffin rap on top of this... kind of kills the joy.

Awesome mix. I don't agree with some of those iffy kick/snare rolls, but whatever. The MC rocks. See if he's interested in doing a dnb track. There's nothing I love more than a dnb track with vox.

Rig responds:

Sure, I'll find out. And go ahead and muffinize it if you want! :D

You could also get in touch with him at war-spawn.newgrounds.com

[The Monks of Cherub Liang]

Nice track, but...

Awesome mix. Just one problem. Too much sub. I'm wearing headphones and it's too much, I can only imagine what this sounds like on my speakers... oh wait, I CAN listen to this with my speakers... and it sounds a lot better here. Still, you should try to do a better job mastering your tracks so that no one gets left out. If you're making a track to get signed, make sure you've mastered a track so that it sounds good on ALL speaker formats and not just yours. Potential buyers won't be interested in listening to a track if it leaves them out of the loop.

Great track, just a tad too much bass. Also, layer that amen. I love using that kit, but I try to hide it under another kit through layering. I get a lot of shit from people when I use the amen break in my compositions. Great kit, but we know that already :3

Good luck sir!

SREvol responds:

Wow, I didn't use an amen break. Also it's not being signed for re-sale, just for spinning in the clubs. I think I already said this in the description.

Again, no amen break. Drums are original. Alot of drumming for dnb and jungle uses the same format as the amen break, you're most likely hearing the tune and recognising the same junglist / olskool sounds but no to the amen break itself being sampled!

[EDIT] Oh at the beggining, i thought you meant in my main break. haha i'm quite the fool. yeah amen sample used there. But its not a straight cut of the amen. its only the hats which i cut off in cubase and ableton. note the kick is not the amen kick and the snare is 20 hz lower. snare was taken from a previous song of mine called give to god. haha sorry about the mix up people!

[Transitional]

One star for learning how to use a sequencer.

DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT upload music to newgrounds that consists primarily of samples. Utilizing garage bands free samples is a great way to learn how to use the sequencer, but learn how to use the midi editor to create full compositions. Drums, melodies, even the sound of the instruments can be manipulated but newgrounds does not support garageband tracks made almost entirely using samples and don't give me that "oh but I worked so hard on this crap" because I will flip a shit.

Learn a bit more before submitting anything else. I'm glad you had fun making this, but it's really not appropriate to post this here.

[Rig - Furniture Monster]

Fucking beautiful.

I just had 8 orgasms, and that's on the first listen.

Drums ROCKED, track really fucked with the mind. The atmosphere was sassier than anything else I've heard in the comp... opinion, but it's mine so HA!

Really though, I'm in love. The only thing that I don't like is how short it is. Add on and have it ready for your future set at alfred. The audience here is really awesome, and I'd love to see how they interpret this... you'd have to warn them that it's off tempo though. Trust me. Seeing them move is amazingly fun to watch. Giving them a heads up about the time sig will save them the guess work.

Rig responds:

<3<3

[Ghosts [Preview]]

rawwwwwr!

I'm liking what you got going here. I really want to leave a review that tells you where to improve but I've decided I can't really do that anymore.

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/9 58599

Besides, I love your work. I know that when your done, this will sound amazing anyways.

Also, when your done, keep this in mind: http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/9 55265

Seriously, there are a lot of subs in there that are rocking the experimental dnb. This sounds like it would fit right in if you could this done by the 14th.

Rawrthaas responds:

that was an interesting read..deep :\

but yeahI might try to push the full out before the 14th. TBH I haven't worked on it since. I have school again so yeah :\

[Nightscape]

I'm such a hypocritical piece a...

I really hate saying this but I have to take off points because the tracks a bit too experimental for me... I always hate people for saying "I didn't like this track because my musical palate does not like electronica/metal/any thing that is music" but for once I can relate to those guys... a little too overwhelming, GRANTED, if I listen to this again tomorrow I bet I'll love it a lot more ;)

keep on keeping on sir.