Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Coleslaw]

hahahahahaha, classic nuero funk, had a Noisia vibe. So compressed though. Did you just slap a compressor on top of a compressor before slapping a compressor on the compressor? Like damn son. This track is a wall of frequency. Kudos.

BiPolarBeat responds:

I mean, a lot of the sounds are distorted and sidechained, also there's a distortion on the master bus on the sub so you can (kinda) hear it on phones and sub-par stuff. Also it's crushed to -6.5 LUFS so maybe that's that :///

[Basic Quackanomics]

NAC JUDGE REVIEW

I have never heard anything so perfect ion my entire life. You must have schooled at Berkeley College of Music because the mix is phenomenal. I’ve never heard such a perfect song. I cried when the lead kicked in. It was like hearing the most perfect duck in the world, and I cried. Did I mention that I cried? I’m still crying. I can’t stop crying. Please, call me an ambulance. I’m dehydrating at a rate I can’t compensate for. I’m drinking water but I can’t consume it fast enough. I’m going to cry myself to death, dear god why.

Your song scored 53 out of 786 dildos.

[RaveYard]

NAC JUDGE REVIEW

Woah, I liked the goth dark industry vibe your animals gave me. I was on the edge of my seat, which scared me. After readjusting my chair I took my headphones off because my boyfriend started talking to me. He said “oh, I didn’t realize we have apples.” Then he started to talk to our cat. Our cat really loves bagels. I let your song loop a few times but I didn’t hear it because I was still talking to my boyfriend about making hot dogs for dinner. We have steak but no one feels like cooking it :c

Since you went out of your way to make sure 100% of the sound from your track is animal noises, I went out of my way to give you extra points.

Your track scored 5 out of 17 shot guns.

[Gabex08]

NAC JUDGE REVIEW

You would have scored well with those amen break samples. I can probably guarantee that I’m the only judge with an amen break tattoo.

Those animal samples sound tossed on top though. The rhythms are so intricately programmed that you had it in you to plug those animals in with some more creativity. That bark could have been put on a sampler, patched through an arp, then pitch bent like a Squarepusher pad line ripping 32nd notes. Filtered with some heavy reverb a dog arp could probably fill up a lot of space as a pad too.

Since the samples feel so tossed on top it’s hard for me to judge this as highly as a few of the others. The jungle made me super happy though.

I thrust your song 4 out of 12 nachos

[Sea Lion Synth]

NAC JUDGE REVIEW

This track managed to keep my attention for awhile. The melodies swirled and evolved enough to keep me listening for one minute and thirty seconds without distraction. Then I had to start looping it because I was asked to judge this and the next fifty seven times I listened helped clarify that it’s not just a good song because of those evolving melodies. I can hear your effort trough my headphones. You really captured the pure talent of that sea lion. I can almost close my eyes and see a moist Lion, singing it’s heart out.

I give this song 9 out of 14 fresh fish

AceMantra responds:

The sea lion may have eaten some autotuna.

[Animal Ravers (NAC March)]

NAC JUDGE REVIEW

It’s a great house track in the background. Ten out of ten as far as the track goes. I feel like you really used your animal samples to the fullest in this. They’re mixed in well, nothing jarring about them. Some competitors seemed to drop the samples on top as an afterthought. No proof you didn’t do that too but your mix skills really put everything together well. It’s not a short song either. If it weren’t for the dragon ball z samples, I’d approve of this in a club setting. Nice fat bass Aydi.

This track goes to a lot of places too. It’s not necessarily a short little thing. You kept this from getting stale. You killed me with that ending though, artist’s apathy. The ending really captured the feeling an artist experiences when they take a long hard look into the mirror and say “I need to stop doing drugs.”

I give this track 18 out of 7 stubbed toes.

[Grim Reaper]

I didn't have expectations walking into this but this genuinely had me laughing half way through. Awesome awkward. Beat by Slap is tight. Good combo :)

Teqneek responds:

Thank you. Even on my most serious, depressing songs I still can't seem to help it, there's always some off the wall funniness in there. Glad you liked it!

[林檎 "Ringo" [Lofi]]

Another goldie D. Only constructive feedback would be that I wanted to hear a snappier, crisper snare but I'm a slob. The bass rolls hard in this. Tight hi hat rhythms. Super chill Scyoc :D

DreamEater responds:

Thank you once again, very much for your kind words :).

It's crazy that you mention the snare tone! I actually had a snappier snare in a previous render of this track, but I pulled it back a little bit because I was worried that It was cutting through the mix a little too much.

Thank you so much for listening and giving such awesome feedback Cory, It is always greatly appreciated. I hope you and the fam are having a wonderful holiday!

[ALL IIIIIII]

hahahahahaha, I loved that bassy switch up at the intro. Really smart music scj. I bet this bangs on some nice big monitors. Unf, 1:09 is fooking huge. Those bass lines make me super happy. Curious, why is this under "dance" when this is clearly progressive drum and bass?

Outro was clean.