Krichotomy's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[through a dark wood]

Beautiful notes. Great... everything! I even love the sudden (but not harsh) change to the guitar part (though the switch back to piano didn't quite feel right). The synths blend into the mix very well! My complaint is that many things feel way too isolated to one stereo channel or the other. Even if you don't fix that, I'll fix it on my copy right after I download it. :)

johnfn responds:

Thanks! Yeah so about the hard panning - I actually got that idea when I was listening to some old 60's music. Musicians would often pan the guitar solo hard left and the chords hard right - probably because they didn't have sophisticated mixing equipment, come to think of it - but our ears would be pretty good at listening to it as an entire piece. I'm going to guess that the problem in my piece is the sudden switch between non panned and panned, so I'll have to keep that in mind...

Thanks for leaving a review :-)

[Equinox]

Great loop!

BenTibbetts responds:

Thank you!

["Level One" - Game Music]

Great work. I imagine a space-shooter game, in which everything dances! When you are in the cockpit, moving around, you see all the crew dancing. And when you go into ship-view you see aliens and asteroids dancing. Haha!

XayberOptix responds:

HAHA! That's quite a visual! Glad you could make something of it. :)

[Grand Scheme]

To borrow the words of a friend: "Very nice. I love this track! It's mixed very well too. I have no criticisms of this. Great job" :D

That's not entirely true, though. The mixing is wonderful. The song is wonderful. But, if you think of it like a plot line, I think it sounds a bit too flat. Maybe it could use more building and dropping of volume and/or intensity in places. I would point to this as a good example of what I'm talking about: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/508619
The difference isn't huge, but I think the impact is significant.

OpenLight responds:

Thanks. I'll keep that criticism in mind for sure! I tried to go for that, but it may have been a direction that wasn't the best.

[chase_scene-sample]

Love it!

SilverPoyozo responds:

Thank you!

[Coldness]

Upgrading to FL Studio, are we? :)

Pretty cool. This has a great overall sound. I think the sidechaining came out well.

K-Pone responds:

I don't actually want to go over to FL Studio as my main DAW. I still prefer LMMS, but some things simply can't be done in LMMS like they could in FL Studio. So, that's why I have FL Studio here as well.

[Makai Core ~ Hokkai]

Without the chords, bridge, and melody from the original, this feels a bit empty. The original "told a story", while this just hangs really tight to a single idea. Of course, that may be the effect you want, and that is fine.

I like the use of the piano and the chimey-thingy. The drums aren't too bad. The cheap chorus patch is kinda annoying because of the way each note starts, the chimes sound too "close", and the 'snare roll' sounds like an aweful glitch.

Darknessbreaker responds:

Well in fact this track was a practise for accords and drums to me. So... i really focused on them and ended up without the other stuff xD. It seems like i have to look over my drum stuff another time ^^. Thanks for your review.

[Fhurinza]

Nice one dude, and not terribly similar to any other music in my collection.

DanJohansen responds:

Awesome, glad it is enjoyed man.

[Farewell to Life]

Thanks! Wow, you guys really put a lot of work into sample gathering. Even going to a local Chinese community! The samples sound great.

To be honest, though, the overall track sounds very confused, and I find it to be neither relaxing nor enlightening, but, well, confusing. I think too many instruments are "overlapping", and are "fighting each other". I think the quickly-plucked thing in the background might be the main source of confusion.

What is that called? I think it might be called "too much counterpoint".

Perhaps my western ears are just spoiled to music with a lot of "rule" to it. Grin.

[Hero of the Day]

Fun! Thanks for sharing this.

"If I'm still around when all my trials are done
I'm gonna blow a village up just for fun"

XD

headphoamz responds:

Thanks K!