Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[-API- Anaconda]

Classic. I remember when you first put this out. Last I heard of you was that little Lifted Music publicity you got. Come back to us!!

[Veni Sancte Spiritus]

Lovely piece! Judging from one of the last few reviews and the authors comments you don't need me to tell you about the dryness of the recording. Oh well. We've all had pieces with issues we were still incredibly proud of. I over look bigger issues in my own work all the damn time so I'd be a hypocrite to hold anbything against you. The track is still really well done, well written and well sung. Good job Trois!!

Troisnyx responds:

Thank you. <3 While this is a cover, it's one of those pieces I hold to heart: when I first heard it, it was as if light rushed through my veins. Considering this is the Pentecost Sequence... justice or no justice done, I'm just glad and grateful to have sung it.

[Moonshower]

I had a few mixing/mastering issues but the tracks still really good! Those falling delayed arps were relaxing as fuck. The rhythms were tasty as fuck. They almost had a live feel to it but I was too busy kind of being irked by the way they sounded. It think that drum kit could have punched through the mix a lot more. I'd have ditched the reverb on the kit. You don't want the element that's supposed to bring the rhythm together to accidentally muddy things up. When employed sparingly a little reverb on your drums here and there can create a lot of atmosphere. I'll tend to automate a rise in reverb on my drums towards the end of measures.

Sick track man! Don't take this as a negative review. Just throwing out my two cents. Love it!

[Star Bridge(Original)]

I really like it dude! Those hats are high as fuck though. It's not often a mix is muddied up with thin sounds so much as I'm usually pissed off at how much bass things have. Actually, as someone who usually employs too much high end herself I'm kind of impressed. You mixing on earbuds?

Warhector responds:

Thanks very much man! No, I mixed with Fame Studio Monitors and Studio headphones. It was not bad in my ears tho. Are you sure you are not using modified hardware/software? Else thanks for review :)

[Fragment [FB] - Harlock]

Clean as phuck. You're mixing skills have picked up hard over the years man. I think the track overall was a little too repetitive for me but I get that as feedback on a lot of my tracks so you know it's advice coming from someone who can sympathize.

All in all the track is just shit ton of funs. Simple, clean funs :p

[[Cnyght Hunter]]

Damn dude, I loved how dark this was. Really feeling the industrial vibes dude. Those bleepy acid trance stab sounds were perfect. I know the point of industrial isn't supposed to be clean but I felt like if there was anything this song could have benefitted from it was slightly better mixing. Aside from that it's a really sick track. I love it dude.

So dark :3

DESHIEL responds:

I'm still bad at filltering bass ;D

[once more]

Same thing different user for added emphasis. Figure out a way to mix this a little cleaner. All in all the track is sounding really solid. Love it love it. Master her though. Perfect her. Make her beauteous.

[Submerged]

Awesome awesome awesome. That intro had a really chill vibe to it. The drums were spot on. As I'm listening to the track I have to say that I'm most interested in those evolving drum patterns.

I might have dropped the vocals just a tad in certain spots. In certain places those vox are fucking perfect though. Love it! This track is killing it.

motakay responds:

Thanks! Really warming to hear! Spend alot of time programing the drums in natural patterns. :)
Yes, I am sure you are right, I tried to mix the voice as even as I could and listening through different speakers and headphones, but its so hard to get an overall and even level to the vocals.