Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Rig - I Love Cowbell]

lol.

Writers block?

Rig responds:

No, cowbell!

[I Never Lose--_--extended]

sweetness

You have such quirky dnb vibes. That melody at the beginning reminded me of some sort of chip tune, flying into those strings... good melodies... your drum choices always confuse me. I'm not sure where you get your ideas for what constitutes a good drum kit, but I love the fact that you always experiment with it. Always a surprise.

Fun reese line. I'm not sure what I'd change, but it seems like it's lacking something... that main line just seems a little weak... catchy, but it's missing something... maybe a little more depth of some sort... I don't know... it's so hard to tell...

Nice rhythmic change up. It really adds quite a bit of sass to the mix. It's subtle, but it works really well. Those fills rock hard too. What program are you using sir? You switched from fl to reason around a year and a half ago right?

PERVOK responds:

Hmm... I think I switched under a year ago. Thanks for the review, man!

[Rig - CTSG Credits]

My cock is back in action.

And it's bigger than it was before we started the collab. You always make really interesting compositional choices. Sometimes your tracks make me quirk my head and ask myself "wha?" Seriously, I love it. Where do your ideas come from? Can I buy them? Platonically of course.

Rig responds:

They come from the sweet release of everything but drugs and alcohol.

[Carbon Baby (Demo)]

yeah!

Hell yeah man. This is sounding like it's really coming along. That intro was fucking ace. That reese around 35 sounds like it needs a little bit of tweaking though. Maybe try turning the semi all the way up (I'm not sure but I think that's essentially the same as raising the notation up an octave... which might make it sound like crap. Who knows!)

Try backing the reese up with a sub bass that works with the same melody. You can also try experimenting with some more hi hat tricks. One thing I like to do is have one hi hat with some delay on it and one without. You can make some really fun rhythms that way. It's a hell of a lot less stress then going in and changing the velocity of each note.

Oh yeah, also try filtering/ automating that reese. You can get some really crazy sounds by changing the properties of the synth in real time. I know this is a work in progress, and what you have right now sounds awesome. Just try tweaking some things and you'll have gold.

WritersBlock responds:

Awesome. Thanks for the tips, Quarl. I'll probably finish the track off, then run an iron over it, so to speak, and add those touch ups that you mentioned.

[The Zero Song!]

hmmm...

pshhh. I just gave you a five and your score still went down. Seriously. Check out this image to see what I'm talking about.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v10 2/slum262/zerovote.jpg

I'm telling you. This song is destined to fail :(

Casualty responds:

Pff, that always happens when you are the second person to vote 5 on something that's rated 5 already.

But thanks for your vote and review!

[Feeble Human (DnB CTSG part)]

rawr

The loop rocks. If you think you'll have to change anything, keep an eye open in the forum. Trogdar will let you know if you need to change anything there.

Nice kit. Amen?

alextheDJ responds:

Thanks!!! Yes, it is indeed Amen. cool I'll keep checkin the forum. \m/
I don't know why this got zero bombed, but whatever :P

[Abyssal Industry]

rawr.

Never listened to this account. I had no idea you could do drum and bass. Pretty sick mix too. The intro has a really nice atmosphere about it. AR. Liking those bells/ alarms. There's something wrong at 31. I feel like it was something on the drum kit being panned. Soem of the panning is awesome, but there's just that one sound, it comes in later too... meh, opinions. Aside from that one drum, I actually really loved them. The reese is pretty cool. All over the map, just like a reese should be.

Great job sir. Good luck in the mac, and yes. His name is hank.

S3C responds:

yea, I've been trying to make DnB since mid may :)

Good luck to you in the competition to and thanks for the review Quarl!

[DnB CTSG Thing.]

fuck yeah!

fecking amazing sir, great reeses, nice solid drum work. I'm gealous of your dnbz :P

Funky.

DJ-NOSEBLEED responds:

<3 Quarl :3

[Sailing a Ship Into The Sun]

All of what your about to read is opinion.

Liking the track. Not 100% sure I'd call this dnb or idm, but it's a valiant effort. There are certain paradigms in dnb tracks. You seem to recognize some of them, but I think you just need another year to get it down to a science. A common stereotype of dnb includes a tempo that stays within 170-180 bpm... I never go as slow as 170 though, I usually stay within 175-178. Classic two step rhythm at the beginning of the rhythmic work, but you can usually get a much more dynamic rhythm by working with break beats. It's a preference of mine, but that's only because I refuse to work with the two step format.

Nav likes to hound me about some sort of 64 bar structure thing. I think it's a load of crud but if you plan on djing, it's probably worth it for the transitions. Now, melodies are a great thing to have in intros, but a melody is never the focus of a dnb track. They're necessary, but the reese or bass line is usually the focus. A reese is basically a distorted sawtooth wave format. In reason they're really easy to make using the malstrom, but I'm guessing you use FL. At least, I assume thats what the Fl in the authors comments is referring to. If you used reason I could give you some tips on how to make fun reese lines, but I don't know the differences between the programs first hand.

There's probably a lot more I can tell you but I'm not sure if we should worry about any of that. You said it yourself that you think this is your best. When it comes right down to it, music is a personal thing. It's all preference. I could sit here and preach to you all the connotations of what is and what isn't dnb, but there really isn't any point. I always get alternating reviews from different people and it's really frustrating to try and satisfy them all. Creativity is so under rated. Also, it's more fun to try and figure it out on your own. Go google dnb and see what you can find :P

Keep producing and you'll eventually learn yourself a new genre :D

Cebster responds:

haha thanks i really read through all that and i completly understand what you mean. yeah i prett much didnt really think this was a dNB song other then the two step and your comment reinsures me. but i figured id upload it here because it does have that two step and i thought people would get akick out of it. also your pretty much right about the mealody. i guess i just didnt really take into consideration what Dnb standerds people have. but if you ever listened to venition snares or even the DnB classic, its not all resse or hard bass. the style that people proudce on new grounds is more dark step. anyways thanks for the comment. yeah that song i reviewed of yours i really liked it. i downloaded it. hahah pretty chill.

[Rig & Spawn - 16 Bar Assassin]

nice.

Damn, I was thinking of doing a muffin rap on top of this... kind of kills the joy.

Awesome mix. I don't agree with some of those iffy kick/snare rolls, but whatever. The MC rocks. See if he's interested in doing a dnb track. There's nothing I love more than a dnb track with vox.

Rig responds:

Sure, I'll find out. And go ahead and muffinize it if you want! :D

You could also get in touch with him at war-spawn.newgrounds.com