Qwertyuiopasd's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Joobles- The Deep]

I won't touch on the mastering

I like the transition from the ambient intro to the main synth and bells.

lot's of good composition things, hops around quickly, good pacing. You seem to like claps... I don't like them so much, but I guess they work. try finding better clap sounds. FLs percussion presets aren't very good. I haven't tried this, but I hypothesize using 3ish claps at the same time, or alternating and such, would improve it...

maybe. Dunno.

nice weird, spacy, low stuff around 3:00

okay, 4:09, claps work there. very nice.

don't overuse that deep drum hit though. I classify it as a "Hit" like orchestra hits and stuff. Generally you want to keep those for accents, not a base rythm or meoldy.

I like the piano, but it sounds out of place when it's left too much by itself.

I like how busy it gets, but you have to weigh busy-ness with mastering and levelling.

I ilke the bells at 5:55

definitely great, epic ideas. I definitely want you to post a mastered version of this. then I'd download it.

hey, look at that, good outro. :D

~Qwerty

Joobles responds:

Hey, thanks for the review again! I'll try out that clapping idea to see if it works. I'm actualy getting Anima-theory to do the mastering for the song, once I fix all the composition problems, and figure out how to send a 40megabyte compressed file over the internet = P If you could, would you review my latest submission, Western Gun? I would realy appreciate it :D
Thanks for the criticism, and possible future download!!

[Astral Eclipse (better)]

well now my old review seems obsolete.

though, same thing about the drum fill... well, not much I can say that Anima hasn't already.

You're good at percussion, I can tell you're in drumline. i have a friend who does drumline and learns theory. he's good at like, crazy progressions and keys, and percussion is amazing.

this is definitely better than the first. again, intro and begining of the synth could be tighter. I like the tempo increase.

but yeah, I'm sure you've moved on to more songs, so not much more to say here.

~Qwerty

Joobles responds:

Thanks : D I plan on redoing this song...eventually. Most likely put singing into it. But thanks for the review, it's really appreciated!

[Morning Sunshine]

One of your very best

The drumwork in this is simply amazing.

really feeling the happy hardcore feel.

and... I didn't realize until just now, but that synth sounds suspciiously alot like Silence... is this the unofficial Silence V?

not that I can speak for Joobles, but it sounds like he means that all the people in his drumline (band for percussion and bells) learned it and play it alot. something.

6/5
~Qwerty

Anima-Theory responds:

Its not the same Synth. In this I used a 3xOSC and in SilenceV I used a Z3TA and a Sytrus. SO no, they are different :P

I love happy hardcore music, it's just it's hard to write original music in that genre.

Yeah, I don't know what Joobles is talking about :P

Thanks for the review :D

Anima

[Riverbed]

wonderful main riff

the filters are great, sliding around with the main theme.

ahh, trusty ol' bells, never let ya down.

Good outro on this one. filters work well.

~Qwerty

Anima-Theory responds:

Thanks for the review man :D

Anima

[Saint Of Sanity]

Headbangin' sweetness

love the weird techno thing that sounds like "woooooooow"

yay for bells! excellent strange juxtaposition between that and the DnB stuff going on.

love the snares at 1:20

pretty good outro, it just sort of sneaks up on ya.

~Qwerty

Anima-Theory responds:

Yeah I loved the dirty snare sound as well, and for some reason, I cannot for the life of me replicate that same snare distortion again. :(

Thanks for the review,

Anima

[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