Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Without Stress]

I hate to burst your bubble but I counted the drums in 4/4. Snare always falls on the third quarter note but that fourth pulse is still there. You can count this in 3/4, the pulse will eventually overlap 4/4 every 12th quarter note but I'm not getting a prominent 3/4 pulse out of this.

Time signatures can be a strange concept but I'm glad your trying it out. Writing stuff that divides time in ways your not used can lead to interesting ideas and new jams. Try 3/4 again, try to get the drums on a good triple "waltz." You can do it!

Wouldn't be fair if I left you on a critical note, the jam still funks nicely. Moody, chill, pro. Loved the birds, they always make wonderful pads. Just googled this for the musical trivia, birdsongs in music:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdsong_in_music

Birds have always informed our musicality so I'm always sampling them and noticing when others do it too <3

Casper responds:

Yeeeah i had to do the drum pattern several times due to weird rhythms and awful sound selection , i've been producing way too little to get time signatures haha. This was rushed, I'm working on some music for a video game and figuring stuff out for my album. Thanks for the review:)

edit: im counting.. 2/4? tf did i do this is a disaster, a chill disaster

[stormz uh brewin]

Lol, "pop."

I'm listening to this on some low fidelity tablet monitors but I love the crazy eccentric jungle energy. Nice breaks, synths all contribute to a good harmony. That lead goes all over the place. Your my hero, this goes hard. Great track beenie :D

beenibroh responds:

thanks man :)

[Jamuary 2022 (Day11) - A Possible Mission?]

Don''t you mean... see if you can HEAR it? Sorry, it's a semantic issue and has nothing to do with the track itself. Great work. Love that play around the mission impossible theme. Love me some 5/4.

metalblinga responds:

Thanks! 😄

[Jamuary 2022 (Day8) - Clear skies and a new day]

I wouldn't call this an attempt, you wrote a really chill song and three hours is impressive. Congrats on writing something really relaxing in that three hour time frame. Track is polished and lovely. Honestly, I'm finding it way easier to write "chill type songs" on short notice but I've been saying this a lot: great music doesn't have to be an extravagant affair. Great music creates feelings, and this guitar is making me reflective. The pads are gentle and work in perfect harmony. Great work metalblinga :3

metalblinga responds:

Thank you! That means a lot 😊

[honk if your brain isn't working (mine hasn't in a while) [jamuary2022]]

Glad to have you back, track sounds great. The instruments work really well together, trippy modulations on those patches. Loved the perc. That little ball whistle sample is a smart detail. I don't think I've ever used a ball whistle in a song. I really wanted to use one in my highschool band but I suppose we all had creative differences :'c

vermeen responds:

thanks so much quarl! i live for these oddly-specific anecdotes. glad you liked it

[Cruisin [Jamuary Day 6]]

Love those funky clav pitch mods. I just used your track to demonstrate an effect to my mate. Reggie Watts will use his loop gear to make fast pitch modulations on his voice, noticable on his performance of "Kwanzaa Juice," but they're more obvious on your clav thing than his voice.

If you've never watched Kwanzaa Juice... do it.

milkypossum responds:

I'll have to look it up, but phasers and pitch mods on clav are always the way to go for funky beats!!

[Midnight Feeling (Jamuary2022)]

Sleepy jams, love the simplicity of it. Incredible music doesn't always have to be an extravagant affair. Drums rock solid. That melodic sample pad is perfect on this. Or at least, I'm guessing that synth patch is based off some heavily modulated sample? Whatever it is, I like :3

Only constructive crit I might make would be to add a few atmospheric samples. Birds chirping, waves crashing, wind chimes, a loud crowd, some traffic. Something like that would turn this into a classic. This track has some hella romantic vibes, dank, wish you liked it as much as I do. Give it some time, you might come back to this track in five or ten years and laugh at how much it's grown on you <3

DiosselMusic responds:

Im glad to read your comments :)
and about the atmospheric sample... i was about to add vinyl sounds, but after i added it i said to myself:
hey, this sounds bad
I was trying for a while to get it to work but then I gave up lol
Sometimes I get a little lazy looking for samples, I always end up using the same rain sample

[Thoughts]

Old school hip hop vibes, RJD2 ghostwriter, lo-fi goodness <3

I love what can be done with a good drum kit and some nice samples. To be honest, I'm actually more interested in the drum rhythms and textures than the melody samples. Just pointing out a drummer's bias, beats get my attention fast :3

Casper responds:

The melody isn't that special, i was too lazy to write my own stuff lmao, i always focus on drums a bit more, over this period i learned how to compress and eq them properly (well for lofi i also turn down the project's sample rate sometimes when its boom bap drums instead of rims and stuff).
Thanks for the review <3

[2022 - Loop #1]

Just wanted to let you know, I voted 5 because you told us to in the Jamuary thread. I'm such sheep D':

Screch responds:

Excellent..

[Jamuary 2022 (Day4) - Flat North]

This takes me back to Alfred Uni, 2007-2011. We composed sonic art and music using analog Doepfer synthesizers. Your synth patch has an analog sound and style to it. I love a good patch to make the machines sing their weird songs. Bless your heart KamskiSketchi. This is cool : ]

Kamskii responds:

It's nice to see that this song brought you back some good old memories. I'm a big sucker when it comes to synthesizers, and seeing your warm comment makes me want to keep experimenting more with using synth patches for future tracks. Thank you and best wishes Quarl!