Qwertyuiopasd's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Vertical Landing]

Here, the crazy words work.

boy this is fun. for some reason half my songs of yours went away, and I've decided to re dl them... so I'm sort of re-discovering some of your old songs, which is fun. but then I see my reviews from when i was 13. What fun.

not much to say about this one. solid, doesn't blow me away, usual blabber.

oh, I meant to put this where you wrote your thing where you said we could ask you to review some of our songs. well... if you see this, Thanks a bunch for randomly reviewing 200th epic, but my best work is Pure Elegance, so if you could review that one, that'd help me a lot when I re-do it. :D

~Qwerty

Anima-Theory responds:

I shall

Thank you for the review :D

Anima

[Bass Serenade]

When life gives you sarah, make serenade!

yay for sexy friends named sarah. anyway.

I disagree with Joobles. I like the louder guitar at 1:04

probably could've picked up the pace near the end of the second minute, but once the bass re-enters it's not bad pacing.

How is that guitar um, made. Is it you or someone playing, or is it a sondfont or something? it sounds really good.

very nice mix of acoustic rock and ambience.

Fear not, Joobles, I do agree about the fade. in this case it's kind of a cop-out. you don't have any more music, so you fade it. It gets you where you want to be, but in an unsatisfying manner.

I don't hate all fades though... but what you need is some kind of reallly strong repetition. the kind of repetition where every other note the treble voice is playing is the same note. A long riff works well during the bulk of the song, but not for an outro.

The best thing I can think of right now, is having you take the loudest guitar, and have that play the same thing that quiet arping guitar does. with that quieter guitar playing as well.

maybe have the drums fall into a very simple kick-snare-kick-snare repetition. or even just snares and hihats.

It's good, but doesn't feel like a ten.

5/5 still, though.
~Qwerty

Anima-Theory responds:

Doesn't feel like a 10?

:(

Thanks for the review :D

Anima

[Dirty Aerodynamics]

mmm.. daft punk riff

that intro... is the most godly thing ever. just fading it in. then the perc, with all those toms... cutoff filter... so good.

anyway. love what you've done with this. How much is taken from the original song, exactly? not necessarily directly lifted, but like the bass hits. it certainly sounds similar to aerodynamic before the actual riff comes in.

I like how everyting gets muddled around 2:45, and then the

...

strings. and snares.

You sir, win the internets.

aw, but it drops. I do like the part with just the bass and perc. but you could have easily mixed it up or something. just had some drum/bass soloing I guess. maybe some of that breakbeat stuff...

could definitely spiced it up more in the last minute, minute and a half, but it's solid gold right now.

5/5
~Qwerty

Anima-Theory responds:

Thanks for the review man

I don't know what to say :D

[Binary Rain]

Rain and Speaches, best backgrounds for ambience

I have to know though, what's the relationship of this rain/thunder and the rain/thunder from During the Storm? is it the same audio, or was it obtained in the same way or something? It doesn't sound exactly the same...

Heh, you could probably do a whole album based around making it all over sounds of a storm that takes anywhere form 30 minutes to an hour.

all the ounds enter nicely. the strings, flute, and then the percussion. again, wonderful voices.

Rather amazing, this song would only be maybe a 6 or a 7 without the storm. but because of the storm, everything sounds better. I dunno.

I don't get why it's binary, other than it was made with a computer, but I know naming this can be annoying.

5/5
~Qwerty

Anima-Theory responds:

I think the sample I used for "During the storm" was a different sample. I can't remember though.

The reason I called it binary rain, is because the wave form of the bass line reminded me of the binary pits on a CD :D

Thanks for the review

Anima

[Bigger on the Inside]

Excellent choice of voices

I love the quieter scratchy industrial perc, and then when the louder perc comes in with the snare, ohhh, so nice.

all the sounds have different qualities, which often I would say makes the piece sound fragmented... but these all work together. the pad and synth going around in the background, the perc, and then the vibes.

gets a little repetitive around 3:00, you could've probably used the vibe variation about 10 seconds sooner. then again, repetition is good for the relaxation.

outro is alright, but could be much improved. I'd've dropped the most "violent" percs, the kicks and snares, for the outro, and just had the more treble run perc going, and I'd fade it. as good percussion as that was, when I'm falling alseep to ambience, it's nice to just slide off into sleep. if it did fade, it would be perfect at the end of a sleeping CD. put that on, only play it once, and then if you're not asleep by the end, you'll slide off soon after.

Of course, that's getting a bit utilitarian.

other than that, no real problems with it. Love the vibes.

5/5
~Qwerty

Anima-Theory responds:

I loved working with percussion. I have never written drums like this before. I will write drums like this in the future though, I was very pleased how they turned out.

I don't quite understand what you mean by fragmented :P

I had a lot of trouble with ending this song, that's why the ending sucks :P

This song was designed to help relax a friend of mine, because she wassn't sleeping well.

Thanks for the review man

Much love :P

Anima

[The Waves]

Another, good wholesome Anima song!

sounds *cough* mildly simmilar to some of your other works, but then again you can say that about every artist.

I've had this on my iTunes for a while, but haven't listened to it recently. This one really reminds me of your earlier work, which I enjoyed, things like shining eyes, and frigid, notsure those exactly sound like this, but y'know, '06.

Was listening through for this review, and I was going to give it an 8 or 9, since it didn't really blow me away, but then I remembered how much I like the points where you drop the beat, and the last minute.

normally I don't like fades, but this one worked. maybe because it doesn't take very long at all.

5/5, what else would I vote?

~Qwerty

Anima-Theory responds:

Coming up with original sound trance is really hard, hence a lot of artists fail :P

Thanks for the review man :D

Anima

[Rave From The Grave! Remix]

i'll just review this one 2.0

I'm sort of reviewing both of them though.

it's interesting, because in the slower version, the piano sounds better. and so does the stuff at 1:27, but the percussion and real lead sound better faster. I would attest that there is a quick and easily solution to your problem: Tempo Filter!

have it start out moderately fast, maybe not as fast as the first. Then have it slow down as part of the piano part, then near the end of the piano, have it build back up, and when you re-enter the rave, you can go even faster, then you could add some crazy lead going high and arpegiating and just going craazy, and then build back down untill you have an outro.

as far as the outro goes, I don't know if I really like either of them. this one needs another beat and some silence, you just can't cut something off at the end of the last measure, interestingly enough.

I like the one voice fading out with the perc staying though.

going along with my other suggestions. I would have the ipano come back in to go for the outro, and then maybe have a cutoff filter outro on the percussion.

always remember: cutoff filters on percussion can sound oh so nice and make it interesting without cutting up the beats.

in fact... if you don't want to do another remix of this/don't want to use my suggestions, and if this is in Fruity Loops, I'd like a copy of the file so I can just re-mix it myself :P

~Qwerty

[The Numbers Tell Stories]

I respectfully Disagree BreeD

the melodies don't seem to be conflicting. if they are, then just remember it ndoesn't matter if the notes go together or not, either way it tells something. just something different.

I will say that it got a bit busy, which is probably what you were going for. the 3 steps down was a good idea, and the 3xOsc is yes, less... O.O ... MAH EARZ

but the main meoldies and apregiations are good. I especially like the bassline. maybe a tone down the perc a bit.

~Qwerty

[Iraqvietnamiraqcaliforniairaq]

Some of it was a bit... GWAR

in any song, always try to get to the next part faster. 1:30 could've come alot sooner. after that the pacing is good. AFter it gets going, I just started listening to it and enjoying it. Diversity is always good in a song.

Good bass, good ending.

5/5

~Qwerty

[Duane Is Gay ~Club 140 Mix~]

Very Solid beats!

good use of the voice synth. it's kinda cheesy without being hella annoying.

I like the bass and strings progression, but I can't help but think I heard it somewhere.

actually... the "lyrics" in this make me laugh... all the beark-downs and such are awesome. especially the one at 1:20

a bit over-use of the hit, and you could've had the last two things the string hit be varied, either every other or every fourth time.

but the perc/voice slicing is awesome.