SoulSecure's Reviews

[NeoGeoFeels <3]

This is pretty neat man. I understand the time constraints, but it either should be longer OR you can make this better by having the music come to a conclusion instead of just cutting it off like that. I think that would be a massive improvement.

Good job!

Fantino7w7 responds:

thank you! if I understand what you say about the sound but I cut it in that segment at will : D

[Sword in a Stone]

You should do a sequel to this.

[KR47 Klassic: Dan's World 3]

That ending was great

['DUCKS!']

Do a full game. I haven't really been all that intrigued by a game on here since Gravity Duck and I like this. I'd drop the 8-bit music, though. I know it's your thang or w/e, but it really doesn't go very well with your art style, if you ask me.

[The Treeva Experience]

Cool but unsatisfactory... IN A GOOD WAY

I found the whole thing thouroughly enjoyable. Sure, I thought you could've done more with it but there's always the thought of doing a different project with the ideas from this project incorporated into the next. THEREFORE! It wasn't ACTUALLY unsatisfactory, to the extent of how cool it was, but then again WAS because of my lust for more. >.> In other words: I don't make sense.

[AIM - Rampage of The Dark Paladin]

So when I started listening to this I was like, "Oh, this gon' be some lame Final Fantasy junk," and then you hit the rampage switch. Yeah that was a fun ride, lol. It regardless does sound Final Fantasy inspired musically.

I enjoy the melodies and the ups and downs the song takes in energy. I dislike your liberal usage of what I could call as "N00bverb" TM. I know what it's like man, we ALL do it, but you are using too much reverb which is muddying up the mix a lot.

I would work on your mix. It needs to be a bit crisper, try upping the high-highs a bit on the master channel's EQ. Work on your individual drum volumn levels so you don't have to rely so heavily on compression to make it work (although fixing the amount of reverb used on the drums will help with this as well). While I'm thinkin' about it, I personally cut the low frequencies off in my reverb when I put 'verb on my own drum samples, which helps me not destroy everything with "bassverb" TM.

I recommend makin' your bassline a lot busier during the high energy parts to keep up with that ENERGY. Think power metal.

Cool song. Did enjoy. Would recommend. Fits the art. Sounds like Nobuo Uematsu. Needs ironing out.

ScorchedRain responds:

thank you for the proper review, i also thought i need to learn much more producing stuff. its the composition that i always focus on recently. I also think about seperating drum tracks so i could focus on them one by one. But since my daw is a lite version, i could only put 8 tracks. Havin to save space, I just combine the drums into 1 track. Really appreciate this

[AIM - Nurture]

Nahhh, you slayed me yo. I already loved what was happening here and then you get to the 1:09 mark where you were slowing it down and speeding it back up. Then 1:46 hit with those pitched claps and I was like THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED THE SONG TO DO HERE.

I am a big fan of trip-hop, lounge, and similar stuff so this whole trend of that type of music becoming popular but just called something else is something I'm benefitting from.

Anyway, I listened to the song (while lookin' at the art... This is how the AIM is s'pose to work) before I read your description and I see that you must've hit the nail on the head with conveying what you wanted here. I was totally thinking about chillin' on a porch in a chair lookin' at jungle foliage and eatin' a mango.

Did you straight up record yourself eatin' a mango in here? If you did you should include that in the description, it would get you more points IMO.

Love it. Good mixing. Fun panning. Awesome effects to keep the song interesting and moving. Matches the art. Good work.

Latadenata responds:

Thank you so much!!! This comment makes me incredibly happy to read, I am really glad you liked it this much!

It also makes me delighted to see that you felt just exactly what I was trying to convey!

Also, I did not make the eating fruit sounds myself but it would have been a good idea that I will definitely keep in mind for some thematic sounds in the future, so thanks for the idea!

[AIM - Pyromancers Village]

Yo what gives? I'm the baglama guy around here! Aw who am I kidding, great to see another Newgrounder that plays saz! And another American at that!

I love the idea here and the melodies are awesome, but the sequencing is all janky and messed up for some reason.

Once you get around the 1:50 mark your saz playing becomes pretty messy, I would recommend re-recording the section from 1:50 to 2:28 so that your two saz melodies there line up better (at the moment they are not played in a synchronous way).

At 2:28 I'm assuming this is a sustained high duduk note? Those sustains are pitchy. I know that if you are new to playing the duduk (I can't play woodwinds/brass at all myself) that it might not be able to be helped much. What I would do is try to record ONE good one and then copy-paste it the amount of times you need it.

For real yo, I love what's here in that it sounds like something I would've done myself like 12 years ago. It is so fun to hear baglama being used in a non-Turkish trad way from somebody else! I think it goes very well with the associated art as well. Just needs some mix work and rework some of those recordings.

Drop me a PM some time!

Artist-Lost responds:

thank you for the critique. I'm pretty new to software composition, I normally just play live stuff at medieval type events. One thing I'm struggling with is latency between my feedback and what I'm recording, its been making it difficult to keep time consistently. As for the Duduk, yeah I'm brand new to reed instruments in general, my emboucher is a bit to weak still to keep a steady tone so I end up squeezing. Glad to see other people on here using some of the less common traditional instruments!

[jazzmaster]

Duuude! What's goin' on with that cray fret board? Is it only scalloped on the treble side?? That's madddd bro. Love the jazzmaster body style. My Electric mando is a jazzmaster body.

I can't figure out what the yellow round thing is on the bottom of the tub. An ashtray? Yeah, I think so. Sorry I can't really give any good advice here, I'm a musician. Came here from the AIM!

The art style is super!

[Pixel Day 2023 banner]

This is some sweet art for pixel day. I'm diggin' the flora goin' on in here.

[Ryu is Hawt]

I remember that! I don't remember what happened in your skit, but I remember the characters looked hilarious!