Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Mist (Jamuary2023)]

Did I even realize you were doing Jamuary? Is this your first track that I've commented on? I'm missing out, love your work Diossel. Jamuary feels a little disjointed this year, I liked having a thread dedicated to taking notice of other people also trudging the month. There's an unofficial thread but I've only been posting in it sparsely...

In any case, this is a beautiful track Diossel. I don't take enough time from my life to look around at what others are doing but I'm always floored when I do. This is haunting, minimal but a wonderful soundtrack for an emotional ride. I've always acted on the adage that more is more but there's something to be said about taking an idea and minimizing it down to perfect bare essentials. I recall a sophomore year foundry crit (metal art, welding, pouring) and the teacher tore into a student for not understanding the genre "minimal." Minimal isn't taking a complex idea and making it simple to save time or effort. It's taking a basic idea and making it perfect or pure, refining the art down to it's own specific reality.

Actually the teacher just hated that student but there is something to be said about using minimalism to avoid making an effort. This is a little more than minimalism but still manages to do so much with so little. This is a wonderful track Diossel, thank you for making something so hauntingly peaceful <3

DiosselMusic responds:

This year I started late again, this time I'm being a little more constant, thanks for your warm comments, regarding this song in fact I would have liked to add more things to it, not to be so minimal but after reading the comment I changed my mind Maybe I'm judging my work a lot because I don't have much time to work on a song every day, but I'm having fun in a certain way, I'll also take some time to listen to the songs for Jamuary that others have done, surely there are very good ones songs out there

[YOU (Jamuary Day7)]

Love it. Big dnb sound, intro got me hyped. I like to use Jamuary to farm for new EP material. If were you I'd come back to this one later and put some more work on it or "remix" it later this month when you want an easy day :D

Beautiful :3

baryiscool responds:

Thank you quarl !!
my plan was to release this song and make it 3min something
(ive been working on it all the time.. i can't stop)

[Area-999]

Not giving dnb the credit like "this is just dance music" is killing me. This has that dirty ol' Evol Intent Era Of Diversion sound. I'd have done bigger drums but sidechaining them to the front and over compressing them is my thing. If you even try to steal my thing I'm going to do absolutely nothing about it. Great work Wax <3

[T-Girl]

Very fun! Love the energy and melodies :3

NairyBaptiste responds:

thanks!!

[Rick and Morty]

As I sit here trying to find samples for my next Jamuary track while laughing my ass off...

VoicesByCorey responds:

Thankfully my impressions of Rick and Morty got better XD

[the sound of the worm caves]

This is the best worm I've heard all day.

[WiFi [Jamuary Day 6)]

Gorgeous textures and vibes. Not sure if this is a new idea or not but when I want a little extra bass fatness and the graphic EQ isn't cutting it, I use Reason's scream distortion unit to create and boost new mid/low/high tones. I used to just layer different kinds of basses on top of each other. I haven't used a slap patch in a long time but one of those in conjunction with a subby sine can make a wonderful new bass tone together. Takes a lot of knob twiddling between instruments and effect units to get the sounds you want but it's so worth it when you start nailing in a subby tone on the regular. That limiter is still stealing a little girth from the mix but it sounds a lot fuller today! That extra girth is where I would stuff sub frequencies :p

Love that goofy snare drum. Sorry that I always look at the mix, it's bad habit. Track still sounds perfect in every other way and the mix is only ever going to be an issue to outliers like me :3

[Tranquility (Jamuary Day6)]

There's a lot you can do in an hour with a good synth patch! Very atmospheric pads. My favorite sound was the warm crackling <3

[Electric Crack (SynthAttack Remix)]

Me: "well this guy seems interesting. Let me stop by his profile..."

Big Dick Goth BF

Alright, I can vibe to that. Great sound and music Orrphoiz :3

Orrphoiz responds:

Glad you enjoy my sound and vibe with my self description, haha :D

[TURN IT OFF (INSTRUMENTAL)]

Bops majestically. Could use some Japanese Pillows vocalist jabbering incoherent english words. Or you could do a different style and vibe but the indy rock feels very real. Could go for something like The Cure, I'm sure you can pull off some awkward Robert Smith vocals!