MaestroSorrow's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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

[The Darkest of Fairies]

Sorrow hidden Darkness

Such dark little bastards... look at them... looking at me... DEMANDING I walk into their little traps.

But I say to them I say... "Nyet!" and they leave me be ^^.

Enough with that, ONTO THE REVIEW!

I liked the bell work here, it gave a very light step to it.

The deep DEEP strings however... had that mask of darkness to it, and those horns only fueled the dark fire that burned deep within these fairies fragile frames.

There is also a very heavy drape of sorrow in this piece, mainly consisting of the strings, they add a lot of sadness coupled with the darkness, its quite interesting to see how it all unfolds.

I can't write more, suggestion wise I have little to add, anything else from here on would sound like rant, so i'll cut it here.

As usual a 5/5 from me, with a donut ^^.

Keep them coming Dan.

MilkMan-Dan responds:

mmmm donut. Thanks mate.

[Village Harvest]

Great stuff!

heh, this fits PERFECTLY with your description, a nice simple tune, to nice simple people.

I built such a wonderful world with just this tune alone... it kinda made me sad when the world stopped existing (or when your song ended).

Still, very good melody work.

I am glad you decided not to put any drums in here, that would have drastically altered the songs core, though a cymbol crash would have been appropriate, I would have liked to hear that in here.

And why is there no FLUTE!? Heh, a song like this DEMANDS the use of the nice light, touch of a flute!

Simply amazing Grumbleduke, I am trying to judge your pieces more harshly, as you seem to be getting pretty damn good, but this still gets a 5/5 from me.

Grumbleduke responds:

I don't know how to say this Maestro, but the first time the main melody arrives is a flute. However, the register is a little lower than you would normally play a flute (more of an alto flute really) so it doesn't have the "classic" flute sound, it's a little more mellow. When it gets the violin/english horn combo joining in you can't really hear it. But still, I'm glad you like it that much, and thanks again for the review.

[What The Truck]

Again, pretty impressive/

heh, you should be bored more often!

The intro was was a little too long to have that melody going, I believe you should have brought those drums in sooner, those scratched up drum effect was pretty well done.

I'm not a very big fan of panning sounds, in my opinion they steal too much attention, and are somewhat of a distraction for the listener.

The simple melody is captivating to say the least, its also a great foundation to build a melody upon, I believe that would have done the piece great justice.

Still it was a good piece.

4/5 from me this time Diabolo-ical, cuz i've seen what your capable of and this isn't you at your greatest potential :). Keep them coming.

Diabolo-ical responds:

Hey, cool :D

4/5 is plenty enough. I spent no more than 3/maybe 4 minutes on this one. I was just playing around with what I had at hand, and I thought the outcome was good ENOUGH to upload :) seems I made the right decision to upload it.

Thanks for the praise. You're the best reviewer I've seen to date.

[Battered Senses(1min34sec)demo]

Pretty damn sweet.

oh I love the feeling this piece gives off, especially that subtle, quiet intro.

That build up also did greatly, I rather enjoyed this piece Admiral, I am not that well versed in Trance or Techno, so I won't waste your time with suggestions.

Though I would have liked to hear some sound effects going off in the background ^^.

still a 5/5 from me Admiral, keep them coming.

AdmiralConquistador responds:

Yea man, this is just a demo so it's like 15% complete. Don't worry, I have a feeling this song is going to be spectacular when finished :)

-ac-

[I have a reason]

Good stuff.

yeah the buzz sound was a bit frustrating, but as you explained this is because I am using headphones. For future reference, perhaps you should create two version of the song, especially if somebody wants to put it on their MP3 player, they will be dealing with headphones, not surround sound.

I did try it on surround sound, sounded pretty DAMN neat.

first time i've given a 5/5 for a short loop. Keep them coming phoozle.

phoozle responds:

Thank you

More people are starting to review my music.
Yeah sorry about the buzz, next time ill try it with a headset and ear plug headphones so I get the right sound for all.

Thanks for the review.
P.S. love your music.