Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[TRANS RIOT MUSIC]

Snare after that first drop has a crispy snap to it on my Sennheiser's but I know that hi-freq snare pop would be painful on a pair of Audio Technica's. Even without switching the cans it's killing me a little on my Sennheiser babies. Include your equipment in your tags so I can know what to listen to this on, it rocks so damn hard but I want to hear it with the apparatus you intend it for. Should I turn around and plug this into my PA system? Something tells me it's gonna shake my house apart if I give it a go on the monitors... SHOULD I DO IT? SHOULD I SHAKE THE HOUSE DOWN??

FREE99 responds:

yes Yes. YES

also mixing these songs is impossible @ this point too messy, all are at +1 LUFS etc.. made with SHURE SRH840s doesnt sound painful 2 us on mac speakers, HR824's, a scarlett solo, iPhones, or DT 770s but our ears are also. used to a beating at this point. appreciate that feedback / might play around w it a bit ^^ <3

[Nowhere 2 Go (Feat. Milkypossum & Maxxjamez)]

Woof, y'all three are killing it. Explosive beats, catchy hook, romantic old school drum machine samples... perfect music collab <3

YasiinClemens responds:

Thank you so much 😭

[Shining Star ✨]

I mean, I'd toss this into cinematic or video game. Those genres tend to blend styles and ideas freely as both a movie or a video game needs music that evolves with the action. Also, VG producers tend to be super chill and experimental. Nice people. Either genre fits this just fine.

I'd give this some bigger constructive crits but I'm not an FL user. Instruments all sound hella nice, those FL presets? Kids these days get the best preset synths and drum loops, in my day we had to scrape drums off of youtube <3

EDIT/RE: it's all good love. I was actually mostly curious about that drum loop. I started in GarageBand back in 2006/2007, used only preset instruments and drum samples. Everyone starts somewhere but it looks like you've been at it a few years now. You're age excites me, you're at a great place for 16, prodigy <3

CJspellsfish responds:

aight, I change that genre to a videogame. didn't wanna mark it vgm because I dont wanna put all my songs in one genre.
the instruments used:
FLEX/Essential Strings/Violins Staccato
FLEX/General Midi Library/Timpani
GMS/Leads & Synths/Drivepass
NES VST/Triangle
FLEX/General Midi Library/Synthbass 101
FLEX/Essential Strings/Cellos Sustain
FPC/Electronic/707
Sytrus/Arp/303ish 4
FLEX/Essential Pianos/Electric Piano
GMS/Classic Detune TE
LABS/Percussion/Percussion
Boobass
FLEX/Histebe Electronica/Between Voices
samples used:
drum loop (idk where its from)
a very short static sound

[She Makes You Feel Like You're Alone]

As a bad bitch, I take offense to this song but also... I don't care because I'M BAD YO. I LOVE MYSELF, you just sads.

That wah'd up guitar solo was perfect. Damn Joe-Mega, calm down. That guitar solo takes a goofy song and makes it actually legit good. Blues/Hip-hop/Synthwave/Indy rock sandwich xD

Vocals are channeling some Faith No More... and now I'm listening to Epic... HOW DOES THAT SONG ALWAYS GET BACK INTO MY EAR??? D:<

Joe-Mega responds:

Damn, too kind truly.

[The catalyst [ambient djent 2]]

Wow, wrapped up in an almost two hour jam? Love it when creative projects happen like that. Nice guitar patches, I'm guessing it's all in DAW? I only recently patched up some guitars for a project, never liked digital sounding guitars but digital instruments have gotten better every year :D

SchattenDnB responds:

Yes, the idea was to create a short metal demo just for the sake of it, I used to make a lot of my older music in this way since I really didn't have much of a choice. Getting the full version of my DAW really changed that in a way. Everything is all in the DAW, I understand the issue behind digital guitars, i just use them in between demos and also for aesthetic purposes as well since i can't get the same result out of my current guitar. I still fiddle around with it nonetheless and can even play some of the riffs I've wrote.

[just a little vibe check]

"Vibe check" is one of those youth slang terms, yes? I think I saw a meme or two vibe checking at the academy awards recently but I try not to know what humans are doing at all times. Loved the arpeggio. Honestly this track is so much more than I was expecting. That jazzy brass patch leads perfectly. Or I think that's a brass sound? It's way high pitch... I really can't identify it, I love it. That modest percussion let's the harmonic instruments do their thing. Harmonies are center stage here. Jeez, I love it when that plucky synth line decides to join the arps in the beginning. I wish I had some headphones on right now to see if there's any panning data but I'll do that laturz...

This is a really tasty music sandwich Mr. Death. I'd mosh to this <3

Father-of-Death responds:

thank you Quarl!!! <3 You are the best! :)

[It's Not Your Fault They Hurt You]

You can always shoehorn this into glitch-hop/IDM but we're given such limited genre tags on Newgrounds. I used to throw songs into "ska" and "bluegrass" out of frustration. Haven't done it in years but you should be safe in hip-hop. The dnb kids would probably get down to this as well, that's a very diverse genre to belong to. DNB artists have eclectic taste... join us midnights. Make your own sub genre of IDM, call it hiphop-step. You have my support and well wishes. HIPHOP-STEP HYPE.

Edit: I completely forgot to say how much I love this track <3

Midnights-Ocean responds:

I really wish the music genre boxes would get an overhaul here. I mean it's all technically breakbeat right? heh. Though you are probably right about the crowd, when I think of D&B I think of faster more busy beats with loads of pitched snares, which I love btw. With this one being more slow I figured, hiphop maybe sorda? lol

Thanks! I kinda have that bad habit of creating new hybrid genres when I make music. I love when music surprises me with fresh combinations. I'm so glad you like it. ^_^

[Path Of The Forgotten]

This sounds beautiful Casper, no surprise there. Instruments are awesome, I love that percussive melody. The sound effects are pro and gorgeous. IMO, track is perfect. I feel like 100% of the tracks you put out are quality. Prove me wrong, I dare you.

Casper responds:

Thanks, I've been having a hard time producing this month, made a lot of WIPs that I am not likely to come back to. I was listening to some of my older songs that I have uploaded on newgrounds and i feel like I rely way more on my tools and samples now. As for the track being perfect, I think the drums could have been cleaner lol. I pitched the original loop down like 6 semitones and tried compressing and cleaning it as much as i could, also has a tiny bit of reverb decay so it wouldn't end suddenly but I guess the crash fixed that anyway.

[Better This Way Sketch]

Give me the BPM Ket, I know what to do with it. Pick meeeeeee. Pick me Ketyri. It needs some orchestral perc, cymbal swells, a Phil Collins rock and roll drum kit, and a hardly distinguishable female vocal sample ripped from a sexy pornhub video but so heavily modulated no one can tell what it is anymore (reverse sex noises, drop the speed 200%, add reverb, pad done). Could probably do the same noise trick with anything actually. Pikachu noises slowed down 500% with some reverb, a few creative pitch bends... you can do it but you should just LET ME. I WANT TO DO IT D:

junipersona responds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP_4HZ2L-JU

[loser]

I'm gonna slip this into the ol' love making playlist. It will sit alongside songs like "Leave the Door Open" by Silk Sonic, "Fuck You Like Animal" by NIN and "Rollercoaster Of Love" by Red Hot Chili Peppers. I hope you're excited to share a playlist with these music legends, you're going up in the world Vurb.

Hella fun dance track. Creative melodies, awesome use of samples. As someone that often uses dnb switch ups I was genuinely happy to hear one in this. Totally unexpected, those kinds of tempo switches usually feature some kind of synth riser or a slow noticable automation change to the BPM. I love how that spastic break just hits out of nowhere. 10/10 dear.

vurb responds:

thanks mom