Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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 :)

[Dread {pt.3}]

Perfect theme music for anything that happens as a result of rolling 1. I had a cool tattoo wolf familiar in my friends campaign. Rolled a 1 and shot it dead with my bow. I still cry about it. The church organs perfectly portray that feeling of "oh shit" when someone in the party runs into a trap and gets blown up.

Epic campaign music. I'm guessing you broke it up into parts for a good reason? I just listened to all three parts and when played together they make a wonderful classic arrangement. I'd have posted them as one large track and shrugged about the length, have such a hard time writing music longer than three minutes :p

[Catgirl Adventures]

Oh em gee, this is some super slick future dnb.

You did an awesome job pushing that sound spectrum. I wish the snare had more punchy mid presence. EQ fidelity units could hit the tones or a specific amount of distortion bleeding through an aux send to gruff up the tone.

God those synths are squeaky clean. Loved the vocal samples. Melodies were expert. Amen breaks were smooth. Cute bit crush digital distortion on the drums. This is such an awesome track to experience. You really let the song change up every few measures. Did I say how much I love those melodies? Well I also love the drum rhythms.

Thank you for writing this :)

[Symbiosis]

I wasn't certain I was gonna get into it with that chip tune intro but you really hit the turbo button at that minute mark. Despite it's influence on everything here, I'm not as into chiptune as many other newgrounds users. I'm glad I looked past that and waited. The reese basses didn't fuck around. Loved those techy drum lines and sparse 32nd note snare patterns.

Baha, nice liquid switch up halfway in. I love this track so much. I won't lie, the mix needs a little nit picking. I think you're limiting the sound a little too much which is crushing some of the special tones that only exist in those higher registers. I tend to fuck up my own mixes pretty often, so don't listen to me. I go too heavy on high frequencies and don't notice on my monitors/headphones until I take the final export into my car.

This track is awesome. Juicy little arps <3

[Exhaling Noir]

I love the broken free flow rubato. Can't program midi to sound as alive <3

[Set Them On Fire]

Ouch, this hits nice. Crazy good Demonicity <3

[bloom]

This is some pretty cute music. That glistening triplet scale @ 00:36 hits kind of loud out of nowhere but gave the track the feeling of playing a video game. It sounds like a power up I guess :p

That instrument could have led some pretty lead melodies but it always kind of acts as a pad instead. It's not what I'd have done but I like what I'm hearing <3

I'm on phone speakers right now but the wave shape is showing that there's room in the field for other elements or instruments. It can be hard to squeeze the right tones out sometimes but fidelity units hold all the power...

Sorry if this seems at all critical. This would fit in really well with many a videogame or cartoon soundtrack. I just want other artists to enjoy the same level of overthinking that I feel. I want to cherish the moments of indecision with you :D

trevor8 responds:

thank you for the incredibly thorough review! i have never had anyone look at my waveforms before (i am a little embarrassed). i honestly thought i was on the cusp of blowing everything into an indiscernible mess if i added another track, but i see what you mean with the triplet, i obsessed for a while last night whether to even keep it in, but it might be fun to experiment a little with expanding it, although i fear the patch in its current state would bear too tinny and harsh to carry much more burden. sorry if i am rambling a little, i do like criticism and feedback is always appreciated and implemented! thanks again!

[Killhouse]

woooooof, perfect hard hitting track to get down to. I'm guessing I can hear some mario fire balls, or some familiar video game sound :]