Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[11 oclock. (8 bit)]

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well, review other people stuff and a handfull of them might be nice enough to review you back. besides, there's nothing constructive i can say for something like this other than good job. im not a fan of video game music but it sounds like you nailed what ever you were going for. kind of reminds me of dragon warrior monsters.

Calamaistr responds:

dont know that title but maybe it helps that ive been listening to this track non stop for the past hour on repeat. :]

I think people expect to much HI FI ORCHESTRA WAOEHAOH 'present' video game music in this genre and when they hear a chipsound they twitch and fall to the ground.

'what...in the world.. IS THAT SOUND?!'

'its not from this planet.. this cannot be music'

'i was born in '95 whatever happened before that .. must be FORGOTTEN'

'we need more hans zimmer in videogame'

something like that.

[A Fresh Start [LOOP]]

mur :)

you know, I can't decide won whether that snare s too loud or not. i really like it driving the rhythm the way it is but on the other hand I can kind of imagine it being a tad quieter. like I said, I can't decide. my only other complaint is how short/ repetitive the loop is. i wish this could be a full on jam. this has some serious funk to it! love it man.

bladerunner627 responds:

Oh but it is. I rarely post full tunes on Ng anymore on the grounds that abit of my stuff has been getting signed lately, that and I don't really have much of a following here anyways. Checkout my soundcloud at soundcloud.com/inkadnb if you'd to hear better previews. Thanks for the feedback!

[Luxury Car]

yoddle.

Maw, great track. I love hat you have here but mind if I make a few suggestions?

There's a little too much panning at the beginning for me. That synth sounds really awkward all the way over there. Play with some background intangibles. Those are just background noises that don't really contribute to the main melody or rhythm. They just float around and create atmosphere... kind of like a pad but a pad is usually more melodic... that doesn't mean it has to be though.

Try EQing and compressing that drum kick to bring forward some more bass and color. Add a hi hat rhythm to phatten up those drums a little. A shaker can even accompany the hi hats. Play wit it.

That's all I'll leave you with. Again, great track sir. Keep on keeping on.

[Underground light(notforchild)]

mur :)

"Preview of my new project.I whish that someone who actually know something about dnb tell my some advice or something."

murrrrrr, darkstep? liquid? idm? nuero? tech?

alright, there's that drop. heavy shit dude. im loving it. first thing I'm noticing is how bright that kick is. my opinion; too much. slap a filter, EQ or something on it maybe to cut those highs from something that should be mid to low.

the intro kind of got me a little bored. i think it was too quite compared to the chorus... which is REALLY over compressed. don't do that. over compression kind of ruins the sound. i love rich full sounds.

the ideas are all great! i love that rhythm and that lead, sexy. love the modulation on all that. i might just recommend taking a step back from a project for a day or two and going back and mastering it... if your not already doing that. I have that problem actually :p

great tune man! hope to hear more from you :)

kulajs responds:

Wow man thank you very much for this advices i will try to do my best,and thanks for taking time to write this review and listen my song!!Big up..;)

[Jazzman - Yet Another WIP]

murp

I'm not picking up a whole ton of audible bass. I can hear some sort of sub back there but maybe you can bring it forward a bit with some distortion/ filtering/ compression? So much of this sounds really bright to me. Great melodies and rhythms. I can hear that pendulum in there. I love that lead at the dub break down. I might say play with some more panning to help widen things up. I heard you play with it a bit during the dub break but you could probably create some more room in your mix if you widened that kit.

great song! mur C:

mr-jazzman responds:

Yeah. Some other things I noticed now too: Bad levels, and incorrect compression. =P That'll do it. Panning is good, but too much can get it to sound weak (especially if you're stereo separating). Thanks for the honest review, and glad you liked it overall! =D

[What in the Fuck? (Chromanut)]

murstep

lol. love the name man. im sure chron wouldn't at all care for this but know that I find it super sexy, super dirty and super duper. all at the same time. my only complaint is how short it is. it's like i'm listening to a strip tease. next time, take off ALL your clothes instead of just your shoes.

Chromanut responds:

if taking off your shoes constitutes a strip tease then ive been giving out stripteases for decades

[This is techno (#4)]

murp!

Nice breezy sound you got here. The mix sounds pretty good too. My only suggestion is that the lead might be just a tad too loud and that kit could use more punch but that's minor and subjective. Those melodies are mad sexy :)

johnfn responds:

Nah, I think your criticisms are valid. I'm always looking for ways to improve. It's funny though, I had worried that maybe I made the beat too loud. It seems with techno that that's never actually the case ;P Thanks for the review!

[[TJ] Drosera Ramellosa]

acsmkacmksdf

FUCK. I wrote this up twice already but I accidentally exited the browsers. AFGADFGADFGAFGFDG

ok, so I like the song but there's a few things to be said about it. The rhythm, I like it but it's not technically 5/4. I can hear how the beat fits into a sequence of 5/4 but you still managed to make the beat sound like it's 4/4.

The mix sounds kind of muddy so here's a few quick tips for your mixing.

-Pan: Panning creates the illusion that sounds are louder than they really are. Therefor if you pan a sound all the way to the left you can turn it's level down to create more space in the mix for everything else.

-Layer: Layering is simply taking two sounds and putting them on top of each other to create a new sound. Let's start with the snare. It sounds to me like mostly mid range. Find a snare that fits into the high range such as an 808 and slam it on top of the first snare. Viola. The old snare and the new snare combined make a much fuller sound.

-Compress: This one takes some getting used to but compression can do all sorts of neat things. It mostly just gives you more control of your sound. As this is my third time typing this up for you I'm just gonna link to some tutorial. Save my ass some time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd8hKh F1K4Q

That should keep you busy for some time. Keep experimenting with the sounds and g'luck with your music!

TrohnJavolta responds:

I sort of feel ashamed now that you took so much time out to write that review (3 times).

Regarding that time signature: that is probably because I'm not very familiar with "strange" time signatures yet. I basically did K----S---------K--S-- or something like that, which isn't all that different from the 'standard' drum and bass beat, I suppose.

I'm not much of a kind in abstract drum programming, but I'll work on it.

As for the other tips: I actually do know about all these, and I usually apply them as well. This song, however was "slapped together" in 4 hours and was more of an experiment, a mockery, if you will, of dubstep. I tried to fit it into dumbstep (which I seem to have failed at), because I'd like to join your little clique.

So yeah, the bad, rushed mixing and such can be explained by the fact that it was actually rushed.

Thanks for the pointers and the nice review though! (And the undeserved ten ;-)