Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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!

[Neon Sky]

If ParagonX9 was still writing music I'm sure their contemporary dnb sound would be something like this. Hella throwback to the old video game dnb sound Newgrounds helped popularize but with some modern mixing twists. Looks like the track is being unnecessarily compressed. It's either a limiter on the master out or a compressor/limiter on every instrument. I learn towards the first. The degree of foot shooting that goes into over compressing can usually be fixed with a button press or two.

A lot of producers avoid mixing bricks because of the negative aspects that can come from over compression but then they simultaneously over limit themselves and they never find the outer limits of what they can compress to. It's really confusing at first but EDM artists should mix a few "bricks" just to learn where that fine line is. The track still sounds great though, amazing work. Beautiful melodies, textures, and drums. I'm currently sharing an office and can't let this track rip. My open back headphones would interfere with my fiancé's conference call, they have speakers on the outside of the cans to create more space and atmosphere in the sound, depth. The downside is that anyone can hear what you're listening to :C

Cheers Takobai! I'll have to dig into some of your other tunes later today when I have the office to myself :3

edit: furry? the heck is that tag doing XD

TakobaiMusic responds:

Really appreciate the feedback and comment. I will admit I still have a lot to learn about using a limiter and compresser. I currently have my project/template set in way that each instruments goes to indivial busses (One for basses, one for leads, ect) then I do compress on the bus THEN again slightly on the master with Ozone. I will try to hold back on it.

edit: my previous works are less of the vibes, im still finding my mark but I really LOVE this vibe/genre with this current track.

[Route 411 [Jamuary Day 3]]

yoooooo, I got an emulator for my tablet just to play Heart Gold/Soul Silver. I wish some more of the old DS games included the pokemon-following-you feature, they're so cute walking around after you. I've wasted some serious hours of my life trying to pull certain stats from the starter pokemon. Despite codes, cheats will only let you set the stats and genders of wild pokemon you encounter, not the starters. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET A GIRL SQUAD WHEN THE STARTER POKEMON ONLY HAS A 12.5% CHANCE OF BEING FEMALE? I ALSO NEED THEM TO BE MILD OR RASH FOR SPECIAL ATTACK UP, PROBABILITIES ARE SO SHIT~UGHH.

Great song milk. My only crit revolves around the fact that route 411 doesn't exist in HG/SS. The only place route 411 exists is in Pokémon Light Platinum, a rom hack. SHIT YOU FOUND OUT I LOVE POKEMON-DON'T TELL ANYONE. DON'T TELL THEM. SHUT UP. I LOVED POKEMON BEFORE THEY WERE COOL WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE POKEMON HAS ALWAYS BEEN COOL.

milkypossum responds:

Yes! I miss the following feature so much! I get so nostalgic for all the 2D pokemon games haha! I actually couldn't think up a decent random number for the theme and ended up using my bday (4/11) instead! I did see that it was a rom hack route but I chose to ignore it bc the only other number that came to mind was 69 lmaooo! Also WORRY NOT, YOUR SECRET IS SAFE WITH ME, DEAR QUARL!!!

[alone.]

Loss can be paralyzingly depressing. Beautiful song. Piano melodies are lovely and the singing is lush. Sorry I wasn't following you already, that's been remedied. Sassy pads. Wonderful tune heyopc <3

[WHAT NOW (Jamuary Day 2)]

I wasn't aware you were doing the Jamuary thing. Great work Bary! It's a little short but the hop and effects are top notch pro. I'd revisit this one when you got more time, you could extend this in to a floor melter :3

[Scope [Jamuary Day 2]]

Woof, love the techy vibes. I never played much bomberman, except the odd 2D experience growing up. I'd sooner expect the influences in this to be MegaMan Battle Network. Techy drums, cool vibes. I'm still gonna raz you for that limiter or compressor you got crunching the sound a little short of it's potential but getting that final range of tones took me years to figure out and I still fuk it up all the time with over amping stuff. This one sounds cleaner today though, loved it milk. Hella chill dnb <3