MaestroSorrow's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Electrofying Bass Sequence]

Nice :D

This song would be incredibly hard to equalize in my opinion, that ripping, raw saw, has such impact without ruining the flow of the song, so i'm to take it you've done equalizing and works like this for a while then yes?

In any case, the song itself portrays a frantic, race like feel. Now don't laugh at this image, but for some reason I keep imagining a cube like increasing and decreasing in size like you know how some music players will have a shape or something fluctuate with the music, I get that image, maybe due to my overly imaginative mind :P.

I didn't quite understand the vox voice, but it gave the piece a lot of the direction it needed to go, but I did understand the word "engage", which made me think more of racing.

Racing is good :D.

In any case, good stuff, again impressive work FoD, i'm glad I dropped by your page. Keep up the good work!

Father-of-Death responds:

Yay!!!

Another greatly wrote review!!!!

<3

thanks a billion!!!

[SQ in G min - I. Largo v.2.0]

Neat

What a haunting melody. I felt the strings portrayed a very dark, subtle, lonely feeling. The pizzicato plucks that came in somewhere later I didn't quite understand to be honest. It didn't really add anything to the image, however it was a neat addition, perhaps i'm just not seeing it.

In any case, you've got all the highs and low ends covered as I believe a String Quartet should do (though I felt at times the high end was a bit much), but other then that, the melody continues, pushing, and always existing with the initial core you gave it.

I know this is supposed to be a string quartet, but I keep imagining what an oboe would do for the piece, my imagination runs away without me sometimes, it may not even sound good, but I could be wrong.

In any case, good piece! I did enjoy it so :D. Keep em coming WinTang, keep up the good fight!

WinTang responds:

Thanks a lot again!

Pizz plucks are really intended as a kinda harsh break, to precede repeating the figure of the beginning for the third time. It's meant to be some sort of pre-climax.

Other than that a oboe obviously doesn't belong in a string quartet, I'd have to seriously rewrite this in order to add it. An oboe among strings will stand out a lot, which means it should play the lead, which means I have to dissect the whole thing because now the lead is pretty much equally distributed among the four instruments. Alternatively the oboe could fully harmonize the melody, which I believe would emphasize it too much - I wanted this to be a lake of tone with shards of melody surfacing and sinking again, if you catch my drift (excuse the aquatics pun).

I do love oboes by the way. You'll just have to keep an eye on this page to satisfy your imagination.

I'll stop being schmuck now, I am very happy with your reviews, you have a great ear.

[Yakity Techno]

Neat

XD.

I actually laughed to hear this song, it sounds so damn funny for some reason. It makes me think of like some crazy chase scene... that melody sounds familiar!

But from where! It doesn't matter, it was damn entertaining XD. You seem to like these high plucky synths, I do say they are like the bells for me. If I don't use them, I feel empty :(.

There's not much to say about this song FoD, a great listen, well made as usual. The ending was a tad abrupt but meh, who cares.

Keep em coming! Keep up the good fight!

Father-of-Death responds:

"Keep up the good fight!" eh?

I'm tryin!!!

You rule man! and some how you type these long reviews in no time!!!

[Salty Popcorn]

Love teh equalizing!

XD, I suppose this answers my question back in the "Retro tune", I had asked if you knew the song Popcorn.

"Duuur, FoD don't know the song, but he do a grood jorb remixing it!"

Mental note updated.

Like in Retro you've got mastering and equalizing down, the plucky popcorn synth is the perfect sound, but what i'm more impressed with is when that plucky synth passed by and you bring in this great mix. That part of the song sounded so full, so epic, so dame full of energy. I would say it is by far my favorite part of the song!

The percussional aspects here were pretty good, solid, stable, and kept things moving. I wasn't looking for anything revolutionairy percussion wise so i'm actually glad you didn't go too far out with it, acceptable.

In any case another great track! Keep em coming FoD, keep up the good fight!

Father-of-Death responds:

Ha Ha Ha!!!

Yeah when you said "have you heard the popcorn song?" I went, No shit shurlock!!!

Ha Ha! It's ok man! I've made worse mistakes.

Thanks for your complimants and your time! =D

[Retro Tune]

Retro slamming : D

You weren't joking with that retro feel eh?! I love it! That plucky synth is what made me think retro, I can almost imagine myself playing like world championship pong to this! Oh man, people GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!

Thats right, i'm here and proud, and a pong champion back in it's day.

That plucky synth also made me thing of the song "Popcorn", don't know if you know it, but yeah!

The break down you had at the beginning made me think of things slowing down and then these robots came in and put on some top hats and did... retro things that robots do.

Back to the song.

Your mastering and equalizing are all impressive, nothing clipped, nothing competed with each other, the synths and the sounds worked well together. You've got a lot of things morphing, changing and moving, and thats a skill I can respect, it takes work and patience and I feel you have those.

Moving onto the next pieces. Good work FoD, keep up the good work, and keep em coming!

Father-of-Death responds:

Wow!

one long review you got there pal!!!

I worked oh so hard on this piece and was scared to put it out here on NG. I didn't think it was good enough. But you made me feel good about my choice! =D

thanks alot man! this review means so so so much!!!

[High Voltage]

Impressive!

Now this beat was damn impressive!

You've got some sick SICK synths going on here. The energy coming from this piece far surpasses the other two, however with such energy I felt were some lacking points.

Equalizing, this songs synths are all over the place, I heard quite a bit of "smooshing". The bass was awesome, the guitar that came in later played a mean brutal streak. Impressive in it's nature, again the equalizing and mastering of it was off.

You remind me of my own progression, you have some very interesting, and powerful ideas, it is merely the mechanics and technical aspects of the song you are lacking.

Very nice, keep up the good fight! Keep them coming.

Striker028 responds:

yeah, this song i guess is a little too much like high voltage. next time i'm definetly going to quiet it down a bit. like i said in my other response, you definetly know your way around a song and are probably one of the best reviewers out there. you have no idea how much i appreciate ppl like you coming around and doing stuff like this (or then again, maybe u do ^_^). too bad ur thread got locked, but gl with the 1k anyways

[The Road Ahead]

Interesting

I liked the melody work here, the arpeggiated notes worked well in giving off an adventurous feel, those string chords that came later NAILED that image home. If anything, it were those string chords that finalized the image, and made the songs description true.

The percussion in this song was a tad weak, it is my only complaint. While the strings were playing the snares, hi hats, and claps disrupted the flow of the piece. I would also highly recommend reverbing those percussional notes as they do tend to perform better and sound more realistic when done so.

You've got great melody work in this one, again it was just the percussional stuff. Otherwise, I hear some pretty good potential in you!

Keep up the good fight! Keep them coming.

Striker028 responds:

Thanks dude :). I agree, since this was my first track I just used the four default instruments that FL 6 gives you when you make a new file. I wasn't too good at percussion at the time :P. I appreciate your review, and ur 5 even more XD. Thanks again for the kind words.

[Memory Lane]

Impressive!

Heh, I don't usually associate happy memories with such a nice twist of synths, but for what it's worth they do the job perfectly in portraying a carefree, happy vibe.

The mastering in this song is very well done, you have some potentially frequency raping synths (or sounds that take up a lot of space) and handle them rather well. There was some volume issues in my opinion, but nothing to the extreme, no clipping, so that was acceptable.

I felt at some points there was too much going on, but mostly it was pretty good.

I liked the sliding synths you had near the end :D. It was only there for about a second, but it was pretty good.

Nice way to end it, brittle, fragile, but intact and happy.

Ace ;).

Striker028 responds:

Once again, I appreciate your kind words. You seem to know exactly what a song needs, and that kind of knowledge comes only with experience. I can tell that you've got a lot of it. Thanks for your time!

[_-={The Metal Visage}=-_]

The story behind this song

This is perhaps the most complex story i've tried to tell via Audio, and I wanted to share this story with everybody. Of course if you don't want your images to be tainted by this story I would ask that you first tell me your own impressions (if you want to of course), before reading mind, as i'm sure the two stories would differ greatly.

The story begins with a young man waking up in a labrynth. Darkness closes in on him with only faint linings to make out for the walls and hallways. Ignoring his eyes he uses him psychic "hands" to feel his way through the labrynth. He was here to prove himself a champion to his academy. He reaches out into the darkness and feels nothing, senses nothing. He walks calmly into the labrynth.

He senses something!

It was only for a fleeting moment, but definately another presence was here. A strong presense, one that matched his strength. He begins to jog around. The presence wasn't trying to hide itself anymore, until at last with a final hit to his mind he realizes who it was.

It was somebody he didn't know, yet he knew. His mind felt familiar, but the mind was so dark, so warped and bent for destruction. It leads him, he's running until at last he finds himself in a dimly lit arena. He see's floating on the other side a person with a metal mask. No eye slits, or any other feature, just a circular metal mask to hide everything.

"Who are you?" he asks this person.

And is answered with laughter.

Suddenly mental hammers fly around our hero. Quick with both feet and mind, he reacts accordingly sending shockwaves and disarming hammers that would strike him. Both forces move around very quickly, our hero's mind frantic and filled with a fevor. Yet all he could sense behind the mask is a calm black storm brewing behind what seemed like a gate.

With a sudden blow, our hero is thrown hard against a pillar, smashing both his arm and pillar.

The masked one floats slowly to his direction and stands over him. Reaching out he lifts his brother and breaks into his mind.

"This is me, this is what they left me to become, a monster, a servant to test the accepted, and today, you have failed for the last time!"

With a swift strike the masked one takes the life of his brother and leaves the limp body at the center of the arena. They would come pick up the corpse, and he... well he would wait for their next champion.

That was the full story, I hope you enjoyed it.

MaestroRage responds:

As a last note I would like to claim that the story was in fact much larger and detailed however, with space limitation comes the need to cut and cut some more ;). Well this is still a large bulk of it, so there you go!

[{Christmas Grooves}]

Sweet

wow, that was a pretty neat intro. That panned piano beginning was quite neat, I really enjoyed it!

The piece makes me think of ADD shopping sprees! Like a bunch of girls bobbing their knees as they walk, laughing it up.

The song moved pretty sweetly, the percussions came in at the right time, overal I felt the song was well rounded.

I would have expected to hear those cliche jingle bells like things, but I suppose the song works like this too!

I'd like to invite you to listen to my christmas piece sometime, I just can't get over my own santa voice for some reason xD. I'm sorry i'll stop. Here's my 5, keep them coming ^^.