Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dog Bus Remixed in the style of QUAKE]

Super avant-garde. Creepy space vibes. Most people wouldn't consider this to be music but those people haven't spent enough time in a small room with a bunch of video artists learning about Fluxist stuff. The is the kind of track that would cream my sonic art professor's pants. If the instruments here were plugged into a surround sound mix, this would qualify you for a BFA from a University :p

Redead-ITA responds:

Well to that i credit trent reznor and the quake community for the feedback!

[digital dream]

Another great track. I think the lead synths could have been turned down a little bit... how much panning is going on? I love the qualities of this track so much but I'm going to nit pick the mix a little bit. Everything sounds like it's coming in mono. Getting a little experimental with your panning can create space in the mix for everything that's going down. I'm not sure if this is good advice or not, but I like to automate certain instruments from side to side sometimes. Low quality speakers will sometimes lose areas of the field when you do that but I don't make music for people with potato spud monitors.

Panning creates the illusion that sounds are louder than they actually are so you can pan an instrument a little then turn down the volume to help make room. Then take another instruemnt and pan it in the opposite direction to balance things a little bit. You can get creative with it. The better you get at panning the more often certain instruments develop a mental home location. Personally, hi hats, tambs, shakers will often get hap haphazardly tossed far to one side of the field, bass kicks and instruments take up mono center, pads go where they are needed to help buff the field... everything falls into place :D

[Nam]

I'm sorry but this reminds me of moancore so much. Educate yourself, moancore is in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyS_c0ZpMB8

[Koom By Yah]

Heavy and hard. I really love how ignorant of all the norms this is. The repetition here is oppressive and unforgiving. It's so hard it can almost be a parody of hard music in general.

I took the time to export a version of your track under a more typical structure for funzies, uploaded to google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F0JfIKNjivQRWkvPULPYf4t8AMmlYkC3/view?usp=sharing

I also layered a really bad snare on top... ignore that :D

[Warp]

This is so massively cool. Only suggestion I might make is a crisp snare layer, maybe an 808 or a clap to give the track a little more of a spine... it sounds like nuero and idm had a spineless jello baby... track just melts. Bass reeses are nice and wet. You got my attention so hard with these creative breaks. Drums are busy doing their own thing and I can't get enough of them. Again, only suggestion is to add a crispy snare layer. I feel like aux percussion can always fit places. Chimes would sound nice at 1:23. Tambs, shakers, and rides could add a little more diversity at 2:07. I notice a lot of producers seem to avoid toms but I love tossing in an odd fill or roll. I keep reminding people that vibraslaps and güiros are awesome instruments to sprinkle in.

That's all I'm gonna say about suggestions. You have such a unique style. This is mad cool and I love it.

HypercubeRecords responds:

THANKS!! Alot!!!

[Tank Shootout - Funk Fury]

lol, get that minecraft. I recently started Assassin's creed Odyssey and can say confidently that literally no new music is coming through the pipes. Never heard of BeepBox, just played with it for a few minutes. It's a cute app. Just like a Korg Pad I'm not entirely sure how it works but it's fun to slap around :)

Don't see any fidelity units to clean the sound file with but it's a fun introductory music tool. Keep having fun with it :D

[Tom_ - WeakFella.mp3]

IMO, doesn't need lyrics. If you write them, why not include them though?

Love those wandering soulful piano melodies and chords. You explored a lot of rhythms with those drums. I wasn't expecting those early rhythms. I've been playing drums for almost 20 years so it's always fun when people write stuff that makes me a little confused. I love spastic creative rhythms <3

[Tom_ - Another Time]

lol, every artist writing music wants to share a little bit of the feeling they get from their own work. When you say "I hope other people like it," I get you. Track is awesome. Melodies have good structure to them. The song moves from one idea to the next very smoothly. I can't give any advice on how to chiptune, I actually suck at the genre.

You have a strength for writing full bodied melodies. The chord progressions share smart space with cute leads. It feels refreshing to hear a drum rhythm without a bass drum. Snare and hi hat doing all the work :p

[X-Entity]

Love this techy video game energy. Crunchy bass drum is driving everything super well. I have such a hard time writing chip tune musics, respect the genre and all the people keeping it alive.

This track is a lot of fun Template. Good silly fun :)