MaestroSorrow's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[DarkA - feedback (loop)]

Neat.

so tense...

I didn't quite like the chord progression, however it does make for a good beat.

DJdarkangel responds:

IF i fix it a little if you ask me :)

[Glorious Return]

Quite enjoyable.

This piece had a heavy flavour of chaotic randomness. Not random, as in, the notes made no sense and distrubuted randomly, but random as in it kept me guessing to how it would go for a long time.

90% of the time, I can guess what the next note, or how the melody of a song will go, this kept me guessing for a while.

There were some bells in the background, I feel if you made them much deeper, resonate much more, increased their volume dramatically, it would give a "divine" feeling to the piece, the 'return' of a 'glorious' warrior or king.

Again, you've easily bypassed my standards. 5/5

Slayer-of-trolls responds:

Thanks alot for the review.

Yeah, the background piano didn't repeat the same line really. It's a litte different everytime and the harp changes alittle too. I try to make my songs somewhat unpredictable. I don't like music that is overly predictable. Too unpredictable and it's chaos.

The bells, I think, are my least favorite part. They make it sound more chessy than I wanted. So I'll definetly try that. I was stuck on this so I was hoping for some ideas.

[Rebirth of Dawn 2]

Bittersweet Rebirth!

exceptional melody! I think this is my favorite amongst what you have here. Because I loved this so much, I INSTANTLY turned to uber critical mode, where I try to find fault. It was very difficult, but here goes anyways.

I think the high pitched piano notes should be accompanied with some heavier, lower notes. Even just a repeating deep note would make it resonate more. Like what you did when the strings took a little break, and the heavy piano notes came in for a short time. If you did something like that for the harp/high pitched piano note, I think it may improve the piece.

However when the high pitched piano notes first come in, keep that, that was good. I'm referring to when the piano comes back, add a little extra flavour to it.

The piano solo at the end was a bit off, I would have ended the song with just the fading of strings, or a harp and piano duo ending. I LOVED this whole dance with the strings harp and Staccato strings (I think they're Staccato).

The only reason I've written so much, is because I geniuenly care for this piece. Congrats, keep them coming.

*5'age if more from me*

Slayer-of-trolls responds:

Thanks! I'm a fan of your work.

The pizzicato strings and harp is my favorite part too. It sounds like it's tripping and then it comes back around agian. I originaly had a piano play with the longer melody in a lower octive.

I'll try that but it probably won't be for a while. I'm getting sick of this song.

Thanks for review

[Nation of the Okra]

Nice

I feel the bass might have been a tad bit too loud, it overpowered a lot of the instruments. However I do understand that you tried to create a dark (black ambient) track, I feel lowering the bass a bit might help enhance that effect.

The fact that its also extremely loopable extends its power.

Keep them coming.

Slayer-of-trolls responds:

Thanks. I was trying something new.

[Dark Intro]

Very impressed

For a song you made in three seconds, its ALARMINGLY impressive.

The guitar and string duo fit too well for my words to describe.

I am a huge fan of the guitar, and to hear it live like this only made it all the more enjoyable. You have to email me and scream when its done, otherwise I may have to harm you.

For some reason those Fret noises only added to its overal beauty...

I would remove the crash noises, it disturbs the air the guitar and strings produce.

Volume levels were mastered

Track placement and mixing was mastered.

5'age from me. Great stuff, keep them coming.

Slayer-of-trolls responds:

Wow thanks! Really? I don't know, this song was done sooooo quickly but that's great that alot of people seem to like it.

[RETRO TECHNO]

How strange.

Hmm, definatly not your best work, but i'll tell you what I really think, because holding back will not help you.

The beat was solid, here is my advice and personal thoughts.

The beat was solid as I said, however that rapid repeating noise started to get slightly irratating to listen to.

The blend of instruments was extremely unique, however this time I feel that the instruments didn't belong well together.

The song has intense potential, it has a lot of interesting sections that made me perk my ears for careful listening, it doesnt deserve what it got, its not that bad, don't let the others let you believe so.

You've just gotta keep going at it man, eventually you can rise above them all ^^.

poo-on-you responds:

Haha don't worry about it man, this song isn't entirely serious anyways ^__^ One of my friends one day was like "hey, make a retro song!" and I was like "well whats that?" and he was like "well, it has to have lots of hits in it and a crazy bassline".

So yeah :P Anyways, it's most of my other music that matters to me, but if you really think it has potential I might check into it a little more.

[Delerious!]

Sweet >_<!

The sudden melody change was very unexpected and wonderful! It completely drew me in to see what else you would throw at me. The waves of new sounds and instruments really made it diverse and interesting to listen to.

Volume levels were well mastered

Track placement and mixing was well mastered

You've got a very original ear, and neat imagination ot come up with something like this.

Also stop playing around with that pitch thing

--_--"

5'age from me.

poo-on-you responds:

Thanks for the nice review :D

Haha fear the pitch bending power! Haha it's fun to play with, although I do overuse it just a little bit sometimes. As far as having an original ear, I really only use my ear. I don't ever use specific chords or anything in my music. I tend to find I enjoy people's music who write by ear better.

Thanks a lot for the good vote.

[Hidden Opocrathy]

Usable anywhere.

It was a bit creepy, something cynical, something devious waiting under the mask.

Something unique.

The instrument choice in this one was quite exceptional.

My advice.

The intro was very well built, I would get the piano sounds a bit deeper. Either go very deep, or very high, I feel those two extremes would make it sound better.

Also rather then the plucking noises, if you used some string sounds, it would make it darker, as that noise gave it a happy sense to it.

Also the ending was a bit too abrupt.

Overal though, I liked it quite a bit.

5'age.

DemonicScythe responds:

I did make the begining purposly sound sinister and then it gradualy got to a happier side and hence the name Opocrathy instead of Apocalipse... kinda like after a war everything gradualy gets better untill the next time and well i tried to loop it best i could.

[-=Essence=-]

Quite enjoyable.

don't quit, you have potential! I really enjoyed this ones melody! I didn't find this kiddy at all, I found it a perfect peace for a budding child, devouring the world around him/her, just loving every second of it. Or I guess in this scenerio, the child is absorbing the essence of everything!

I can see this in any game, the mood can be used for a HUGE variety of ways.

Don't make me hunt you down and break something, you've got the ear and talent, keep them coming ^^.

DemonicScythe responds:

I thought it was fairly kiddy myself and i tried to loop this one too but seems it didnt work out quite right... I guess ill work on one more song and if it also gets a 0 for score thats going to be the finnal song i make. it will probably be done in a day or so if i work on it all night or all day and im going to give this one my all

[Mystic Ensemble]

Neat.

It sounds amazing, however when you make it louder, it begins to distort to a rather large degree, making it sound worse.

However the melody and beat were amazing.

JVUnderground responds:

Yeah I realize the problem of the distortion. At the time I was thinking man... this needs to get louder have the beat stronger.. so I put blooddrive effect lol

thx for the review