Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[On The Case]

Authentic vibes, first computer I remember was a 95. I feel like old computer games get glossed over a tad by sexier retro Nintendo/Sega gems. I remember playing computer games in the 90s that had no right to be called games because they weren't fun at all but we played them because we got a floppy disk at some random flea market and it said "games" on it AND WE LOVED IT.

You remember Encarta Mind Maze? Renaissance style trivia maze, each room had a question? That shit was my jam.

Edit: forgot to mention how much I love this track <3

tripledigit responds:

I'm glad you like it! I put a ton of work into it.

I used to play the games that came in cereal boxes. Disney did that for a while. I had a skating game from An Extremely Goofy Movie, a first person exploration game for Atlantis, and a game for Dinosaur that was a collection of mini games/activities.

[Words That Don't Come Out - Catlike Magic]

Love it, melodies are all ripping good. Hella funky jam Blue. This track makes me miss my Sega Genesis for some odd reason :p

[Soulless]

Sad vibes today, don't diss your own music! Everyone has their own funk that grows and matures. Self promotion can be a depressingly existential sadness but you can't let it get to you. Who is this rapper by the way?

Unrelated but do you listen to DreamEater at all? I don't think he raps but his lo-fi tunes are tip top. He's one of my favorite Newgrounds producers :3

Casper responds:

Listened to a few of his tracks, outside of my own music i don't really listen to lofi though. I just updated the description to include the link, its natjamesworld which is a guy I found on looperman. I don't think I'll ever get my sounds clean enough or unique enough or whatever enough for them to be standalone tracks that people can just listen to, it'll always be about improving it and getting feedback but I shouldn't care, it's only gonna drive me more insane

[15 Jan - I give up trying to come up with titles for these tracks]

Coming up with song titles is half the fun. I'm turning mine into a small kidnapping story when they're all read in order. Sorry I'm not reviewing everything but I'm not finding much time to do stuff with all this song writing D':

Cool pad motiff, love that pad patch. Track is tight. I'd have included a hi hat rhythm and some aux percussion of some kind. With something written fast and simple you can just copy/paste the hits after you write a few notes in. Finding the time to do anything in a day is rough but I love engineering drum kits. You can get new drum sounds by layering complimentary drums and cleaning them up. I like to select three to four snare drums that all compliment each other and hit different textures. They can each be pitch bent to work together but I also like to merge all their signals into some fidelity units for greater control over the textures they all combine into. So instead of sending each snare to the mixer on separate channels, I use a merger/splitter to make them all one signal before sending the signal through a graphic equalizer, and then a compressor. Then it's all one signal back to the mixer. The same can be done for the kick drum, but I usually only have 2-3 layers for the kick.

A good ghost snare can be layered in too, but used individually on off beats to create really dynamic rhythms. It takes some practice but learning how to program good ghost snare rhythms is a lot fun.

That's all I got dear, sorry again for not leaving feedback all the time. I'm never sure how much feedback to leave but I saw that little invitation. Track isn't awful, it just needs a little more love. You can always come back to these tracks when the month is over :D

[Choose Your Fighter! [Jamuary Day 19]]

I like this one a lot. Funky jazzy jungle chords, rad breaks, fun and playful patches. I'm feeling the sweat roll down my face as I swap back and forth between a character I really like and a character I've never played before AND I ONLY HAVE 30 SECONDS TO CHOOSE BECAUSE PLAYER 2 EXISTS, FUCK. I REALLY WANTED TO PLAY ROCKMAN BUT HAVE TO PLAY DR. STRANGE? I DON"T KNOW HIS MOVE SET WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

[K.K. Schmoovin [Jamuary Day 18]]

I heard that intro chord progression and almost automatically added this to my favs. I'm not as into the vocal chops but the melodies they make are all ace. Do you mind if I sample that little chord progression at the beginning? If I finish something with it you'll get full co-credit and will have the perfect excuse to take a day off.

Still adding this to my favs by the way. It wouldn't be fair to mention all that then run away like a silly knife stabber. "YOUR SONG WAS GREAT EXCEPT THIS ONE LITTLE THING I FOUND MINIMALLY DISPLEASING, HAVE A NICE DAY." Fuck that vibe.

I stress out everyday wondering if I'll have something I like by 8:00 PM or if I'll be up till 12-2:00 butchering old RSN files for ideas that were good in 2012. When you asked the other day "how does it feel to never miss" I laughed, felt good, but I've been "missing" everyday for 32 years. I eat bricked shots for breakfast. I literally failed everyday I was 20 something so that I could write one song a day everyday for one month in a forum on some website I like.

So again, I ask if I may sample that intro chord progression so that I can share one of these needlessly stressful moments with you!

Edit: Those pink headphones scream "rock and roll mothafucka."

milkypossum responds:

Of course! Sample away, my friend! TOGETHER WE SHALL CONQUER! We will survive Jamuary and brave the cold prison of our musician brains!

[JUICE BOY]

Oh my god, you got that Marc M sound. The best part was that wholesome shout out at the end. I could perfectly picture his animation style with this. Only thing that could have made it more authentic would be one or two stutters in the dialogue. I notice Rick and Morty also takes full advantage of the comedy stutter, it's a... it's... look it's a thing :3

Edit: you stuttered like six times at the beginning. I'm dumb.

[Mellow Misery]

This is a really good swing. Loved the crisp glitch effects and off beat modded clap snares. This is probably my favorite thing all month but I'm such a slob I hate to admit that haven't had the chance to listen to everything.

Such clean sounds on this. Amazing :' ]

Casper responds:

Thanks, i've been wanting to layer those snares or make my own so i can fill up my drumkit but haven't had the time, glad you enjoyed it:3

[BETTER DAYS]

Hella chill Droid. Very well composed, loved the motifs and progressions. Snappy side stick snare drum with those happy up beat hi hat hits <3

Fun, bouncy, and thrilling ^o^

[GBA Getaway! [Jamuary Day 11]]

Reminds me of Mario Sunshine but whoever writes those happy Nintendo jams has a monopoly on good vibes across a multitude of games and genres. This would fit right in with any old Nintendo property regardless. LOZ Windwaker, island people jamming it up? Milky can do that. Yoshi hanging out with his fam? Milky was there with a kalimba. Even a franchise like Final Fantasy needs happy, upbeat jams and Milk is prepared with her tropical margarita musics. I'm not a fan of playing triangle but if you approached me to just stand still for five or ten minutes and hit a triangle once a minute to something like this I would Will Ferrel the fuck out of that triangle. 10/10.