MaestroSorrow's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Eternity Light]

Excellent!

niiice! For sure you must make this longer! I feel though again, the distortion levels were a bit too high, but it is greatly improved, your skill in this field has no doubt expanded rather neatly, and I look forward to what you can bring to this song's full versoin ^^. Keep them coming CagedRealm.

5/5 from me.

CagedRealm responds:

Thanks for the input and review I will definatly make use of your advice. As far as distortion goes I will try but I have shitty speakers.

[.A New Hope.]

Quite impressed.

Look at you John, got a great deal of good composers listening to your every note, I will now joine them ^^.

Onto the review!

The sad melody was exceptional, it grabbed my attention right away, and as John_Floyd suggested, some eqaulizing would have done this piece a lot of justice.

There seems to be a clash in notes here man, the two piano melodies are not very compatible, I would recommend introducing them seperatly instead of at the same time, or look over those notes, keep one of them simple bass notes, and keep the lighter melody going.

I would advice against trying to create melodies on top of an instrument with the same instrument, that keeps them muffled. For example, instead of having them both piano's, have one of them perhaps a violin, and then the other a piano, this adds a lot of flavour, AND it allows the melody to flow much smoother, as well as adding to the voice and emotions of the piece.

4/5 from me JohnF_N, keep them coming, I will keep listening.

johnfn responds:

Thanks for the review! It totally just made my day :D

Yeah the melody was a stroke of luck. I was hitting random notes and then I realized 'hey, that's pretty good'. I realized after testing out John Floyd's advice that that did really help it out (especially drums)

Yeah, you're right about the two piano melodies, the second one totally drowns out the first. I'll keep your idea about bass/melody in mind, that could be helpful.

Your also right about the two instrument thing. Most of the time I try to use seperate instruments for each melody, but for some reason now and then I use the same one. I'll keep this in mind in the future, cause your totally right :D

Thanks for the review again, this is very helpful!

[.In the Blue.]

Great stuff!

so ashamed at not visiting your page yet, but I am here now, ONTO THE REVIEW!

The melody for this made me feel so powerful, its the song of the undying warrior, forever pushing on, those who stand in his way, will find the cold taste of steel!

There is too much distortion, I would highly recommend an compresser effect (if your using Fruity Studio's) to keep the distortion levels down.

Overal, its a very up and going piece! I loved it.

Theres just the volume issue, if that was fixed, this song would not only rock, it would pwn!

5/5 from me, because I play this in my head with proper volume levels and it blows me away.

Keep them coming JohnF_N, i'll keep my eye on you ^^.

johnfn responds:

Haha don't worry it's no problem. I like your description, I must say, it's nowhere near what I was thinking when I finished it.

Your right about the distortion. I always screw something up and then come back a little later after I submit and realize. This time I left it open overnight to come back in the morning and listen to it again, and fixed a lot of stuff. Then I submitted. Later on I was listening to it again and I was like holy crap, that instrument sucks. So yeah, hindsight is 20:20 ^^ I need someone else to listen to my stuff beforehand. :P

And also, you're totally right about the volume, that's something I never even realized before.

Anyways, thanks for the fair vote and review. And I will keep them comming, as long as I stay bored like this :D

[Happy Birthday Adalie]

Heh, nice!

heh, so giddy, so light. I love it!

I hope she enjoyed it, truly its quite a delightful piece! I'm sure it will be used for a flash, its got a very light kinda step to it that could be used in pretty much any comical flash.

4/5 from me again Rythim_Man, keep them coming.

Rythim-Man responds:

Again the instruments are out of proportions because of a problem converting old files to new mp3. I'm making a new one right now so tomorow expect a well detailed song. I feel so special! I have 2 reviews! Wow, my song must be like...listenable! Someone else review, comeon, someone else! Don't be shy...I don't bite...often. Wait till you hear Pick-a-boo, (shoot I need better names for songs.) And I hope she enjoyed it too. Love her like a cuzin.

[Match With King Dee Dee Remix]

Good stuff.

I don't play Kirby much, however you've done very well in this remix, very soft, very gentle, yet firm and aggressive in its stance. I loved the instrument choice.

Though the trumpet should be louder, I had to strain my ears to hear it.

Good work, keep them coming ^^.

BTW, you should have posted this in Video Game, when you put songs in Misc, they very rarely get listened to.

Rythim-Man responds:

I've had a problem with audio. There is a version of this song that has louder Trumpets and more dynamics but it was too big of a file. The only way I could manage to fit it on here was to redo it without the dynamics (it's a problem with MiDi). Since it was an older song that I made years ago, converting it now was difficult.
And sorry, I should have put it in video games, I don't know what I was thinking. *kicks self in the face* :p

[Dry County]

Too dark for poor me ^^.

k quick note before the real review, yeah upon closer hearing of Village Harvest there WAS indeed a flute, so I am horribly ashamed at having not heard it. (Guess I was too caught up with the melody ^^)

Anyways, nuff with tat, ONTO THE REVIEW!

I don't think this is a good wild west deserty type scene, its far too dark for that. This is something to play in the sahara desert, and a man is walking, dragging himself along, and he sees dark figures following him, always too far to really hurt him, but close enough to drive him to insanity.

The subtle, yet almost random plucks and other effects just MADE the piece, the dark arse strings in the background only added to that flavour.

I would have loved to hear a rattle in there, you've got shacker, bass kick, plucking, but no rattle (and don't say there is one, SO HELP ME GOD GRUMBLE!)

Extremely usable in any flash, and truly the dry country of death looms heavy in the summer ^^.

Grumbleduke responds:

OK so maybe not quite western, more Arizona. I'm English, any American desert is wild west to me :). I still see tumbleweeds and sidewinders (wait aren't sidewinders Saharan? D'oh!)

As for random plucks you are pretty much correct; I paid no attention really to time signature until the end to round it off

There is a rattle. Bar 7 beat 3 then bar 23 beat 1. OK so I lied. No rattle but there is an egg shaker; suppose it doesn't really count though. I tried using one of those latin samba things, don't know the name, with a block you hit one end and a horn-like thing at the other, but it really didn't work.

[Spare Parts Remix (Extended)]

Smile!

as it is just something of longer length, everything I said in the other song applies here ^^.

4/5 again, keep them coming.

Diabolo-ical responds:

:D

[Spare Parts Remix]

Quite interesting.

hmm, i've never heard of this Spare parts of which you remixed, so I have nothing to compare it to, so instead, i'll just give my feedback as to what I thought.

The heavy saw noises, did justice tothe piece, gave it a very spacey, sci-fi feeling, which with a title like "Spare Parts" I assumed it fit perfectly.

Its quite unique, the drums in the background could be made slightly louder, I would have liked to hear them with more life, more "bang" if you know what I mean.

I give this a 4/5, because the melody was not that catching to me, however it was still good work.

Keep them coming Diabolo-ical, i'll keep listening ^^.

Diabolo-ical responds:

Hmm, now this is something to be proud of. I wish I could have made it IDENTICAL to the original, but if I did that, who knows.... maybe it would have been flagged for theft, heh.

Anywho, thanks for this review.

[FFX-2 Theme - Remake]

Too convincing ^^.

omg! At first when I started to hear it, I was thinking... Diabolo-ical... why... WHY did you steal this?! And as my depressed hand slowly started making its way to that [X] button, I suddenly froze... wait a minute... thats not how the melody is supposed to go...

HUZZAH!

it sounds so great, so realistic, I thought you had stolen it, I apologize, I should have never doubted you.

So onto the review!

I liked the melody, the piano sounds like you played it out loud, so thats pretty neat, still I can so hear a violin singing its heart out with the piano. In my opinion, if you wanted to make this sadder,a violin would have done it.

I am more then glad you did not put snares or anything of the sort in there.

The ending was too abrupt.

Still, this DEFINATLY gets a 5/5 from me Diabolo-ical, keep them coming ^^.

Diabolo-ical responds:

Oh dear, I'm an idiot. I made the wrong response to your review for "Spare Parts Remix"... just assume that goes here instead ;) (I've only just got up...)

[|Popcorn Remix|]

Grand stuff ^^

I loved the guitar you used in this song, very moving, and yet the distortion levels on it were at an acceptable level so no overpowering was heard (or no instruments were messed up).

I've always loved this song, just like Tetris, and you've given it a lot of life once more, i'm quite pleased by this piece SilenT ^^.

You have expanded your skills quite nicely just over these past few songs, I look forward to your future works.

5/5 from me, keep them coming.

Dj-SilenT-HunteR responds:

Thank you MaestroSorrow...
I dont know what to say... You really cheered me up :D
Everyday i learn something new in fl :)
they will come