Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[breakcorist00 - About what]

Honestly, I think I love electronic drums more when they are incoherently all over the place. It's wild and alive, gives off the illusion of being free. It's funny how opposite the creative process is. Neurotic and nuanced programming.

Damn you, I had to put my headphones on for this. I had to listen to the bass. Glad you put a lot of work everywhere, this is super pleasant to listen to.

[Immersion]

Lol, I saw the title and the first thing I thought about was that Pendulum album by the same name.

Huge spaces, cool rhythms. Could have used more dolphin sounds tho. Put some more sea animals in this and you have some classic underwater vibes.

[Five_four]

I love song titles that are just the time signature. Could have used a random bar of 7/4 to confuse and infuriate noobs.

Edit: those high pitch chirps could use some automated reverb and resonance spikes to give off some under water vibes :D

[modus - Paracosm (ft. Miss Lina)]

Lol, I too have Sennheiser HD 650s.

Perfect track in every way. Get in my favorites now.

[Hardbite]

This is some really nice nuero. Heavy bass Fw. Fills were tight, filtering was ace. I really loved this :D

FwWFW responds:

Thank you so much

[Listerine 2.0]

I'm not sure if we politically see eye to eye on everything but your lyrics were vague enough that we can still be friends! Rejoice! Really nice writing ADR. Back track kicked nice. Loved that slap bass, drums were tight :D

ADR3-N responds:

Haha, as long as you don't think it's okay to shoot people who disagree with you for being "fascist", I can come sit at the table. And I mean that in the sense of you shooting me, not me refusing to talk to you. Bolshevism is a dumb, failed ideology. <3

Thanks!

[Galaxy far away]

Loved it. Those atmospheric pad sweeps were really mellow and nice. The hook had such a lovely upbeat swing to it. I'd have liked crisper sounds but that's probably because I'm old and can't hear certain tones as well as I used to. I'm so flipping old. Still, a little more mid to high freq snare layers would have pleased me. I bias hard when I say that drums are the single most important element for dance genres so if they don't hit the right tones, it hurts.

I'm loving those melody change ups in part two. It's a little subtle though. That second hook might have benefited from a solid lead instrument playing harmony with the other synths. I'd have glided in a rich 2 oscillator saw/sine synth with high portamento to give off a floating vibe. Drool.

Keep pounding out cool tunes Bary <3

[Life Support System]

Tops idm wax, really love these atonal rhythmic noises <3 <3

[Death to Ye Three]

Those violins were feeding me some serious Mendelssohn vibes, couldn't get enough. Sorry to ask but what are you using to get those vocals? They're great but they sounded a little cramped for space at the intro. After 00:17 every thing works out really nicely. Might have just been the highs of that white noise. What was that white noise supposed to be? Is that a result of EQ? Sounded like it could have been perc but I think the mix could have been better without it, imo. I also noticed there was a flanger or phaser on the vocals before the two minute mark. That was kind of weird, maybe that caused the mix problem I'm having?

Seriously, those violins blew me away. Good stuff lsd <3

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

Hey, and thank you for the review!
I think in the intro, what happened is... Normally when I go through a mix I check the sound on many different headphones as well as my speakers. But as this is the NGADM, I finished the song somewhere around 5am, and I used only my main set of headphones. Thus, there is just a little bit too much reverb that is heard in headphones with less space, especially on the high end. All of the parts in the intro end with "nus" or "mus" or "tus". This leads to the "S" syllable becoming a bit intense, which is probably the white noise you're referring to. I wonder if maybe a de-esser could've worked, or maybe I could've worked on the release. I don't really mind it, but I can hear what you mean!

It's a flanger indeed, but the effect is only active between 1:47-2:00, for the slowdown and unconventional key/chords.

I'm glad you like the violins, those were definitely the hardest and most time-consuming part! Even though I knew immediately what I wanted to do with them, I had to spend hours putting all the notes and harmonies in :'D

[GAY]

This sounds like it was a ton of fun to record. I'm kind of jealous.