headphoamz's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Last Night]

Really nice clean playing. Emotional! I actually like the dynamics, they give it a gritty feel. I would love to hear this extended.

[orchestral-demo]

As usual I love your chords and just the music flow in general. I hope you write more for this, as it's a little short right now! Please become a composer for anime, you'd do so well.

SilverPoyozo responds:

Thank you!I wish I had put a little more time into it, it feels a little bit iffy.
Maybe I'll revisit it someday.

Man, if I had that chance to I would move to Japan in a heartbeat...someday, who knows :)

[EoS - Offence Failure]

Hey Essence, I saw your post on the forums so I thought I'd give you some feedback about the song!
I think you have some neat riffs here, particularly the main theme that begins the track and the one that shifts at 2:08, but I believe the main reason the song is getting negative ratings is because of the distortion.
There is peaking in nearly every sequence and makes it, at times, a little unbearable to listen to (not because of the quality of the music, but the audio quality itself!). I would recommend playing around with the dynamics of the song, fine tuning it with perhaps a compressor, and seeing if that reduces any overdrive with your volume. :)

EssenceOfScience responds:

Thanks for the response headphoamz, that was quite refreshing :)
I had aimed to use the distortion as an effect to give the music that dirty quality; quite a few of the instruments are purposely overdriven or compressed. It could be that I overdid it because I had to switch to earphones after my headset broke, and I don't know if that affected how much distortion I can hear on my end.

I do agree that I can play with dynamics a little more though, it's not something I am used to doing yet and I also found out how powerful it could be.

Again, thanks for the feedback :D

[Teaching My Students]

I must listen to this while I play chess, so I can feel regal. Well done! Love the harpsichord in here.

Bosa responds:

This is definitely chess music lol! I'm glad you enjoyed it, and I promise I am still working on our song! Appreciate you a ton!

[Medoly]

Like the chords that come in around 0:15. It almost sounds like a hip-hop track at first - nice use of gating to lead up to the climax. Really great percussion! Well mixed, great sense of dynamics, nothing peaking or too harsh. Oh, that's a lovely synth around 1:09. I can't tell if it's a square wave or not but it sounds like it blends right in.
Ha, it almost sounds like a Michael Jackson style with those major chords around 1:45, comparable to his older stuff.
Nice drop at 2:46. Almost unexpected, would have liked it to be more pronounced, have the drums really fuckin' kick around this point, maybe get some off-beat hi-hat panning left/right from center.

Nice, nice use of verb at 3:38. Bringing it back around to the main theme (I think) at around 3:55, like how you kinda went full circle here. I like your double kick here, sounds really well implemented. And god, I haven't heard that beat at 4:31 since ...1998? Love it.
Ooh, really cool synth arp at 4:41. Nice lead out to the finishing riff.

Overall a really well done, thought out track, with a great mastering of EQ, and fun to listen to. Reminds me a little of Snowboard Kids, now that I think of it. What did you use to write this? FL Studio?

Voltus responds:

Thank you VERY much for your review! Yes I'm using fl studio at the moment. I'm really flattered that you like it that much, I've worked on it quite some time to get it sort of perfect. The last drop took quite a lot of eqing to really sound like the way it does now, used to have way to much low mids ^^.

So yeah thanks again and:
YOU ROCK :D

[L'Instant d'un Regard]

This is great! Your composition is wonderful. Reminds me a little of the music from Carmen - sexy, mysterious. I think, in terms of instruments used, the song could be fleshed out a little bit - the VSTs have a bit too much release on them so they don't quite punctuate the transitions.
Other than that, s'my only gripe. I always love how fearlessly you dive into chord progressions. The live vid is great! Makes me miss being in drum corps. :)

camoshark responds:

Thanks Phoam, glad you liked it, and I very much enjoy the comparison to Carmen, at it was one of my inspirations!

Regarding samples, I absolutely despise the ones I have, even after the HEAVY tweaking I had to do to decrease the release tail. Those are EWQLSO samples, and for supposed top-of-the-line quality, I am VERY unimpressed by their quality. Unfortunately, that's the best I've got. If you've got a cheap alternative, I would gladly take a look!

Again, many thanks for the review, and I'm glad to know you also were in a drum corps. Quite a small world this is! :)

[Progress Rmx Short]

Woah! I really like this a lot. Never heard the original, but dang, this is cool. I LOVE the chords that start at 1:23. So powerful and synth-y. What do you use to write?

dj-Jo responds:

Hey (:

Thanks! >_<
:3 I always try to incorporate those dissonant notes when building saw chords. Glad you love it!!!!
I use FL Studios 8 till it crashes >:D hahaha

Thank you for the review!!

[We Are Out Of Bread]

Ooh, really nice loop. Amazing use of dynamics and stereo EQ, and that return is flawless. Could be in a horror game or a dark third-person shooter.

Insanctuary responds:

It's the perfect theme to play when someone is approaching your room when you're masturbating.

[Autumn Sky]

Wow. Already I'm in love. This made me start crying at 0:53.
The change is like a gloomy person telling themselves it will all be okay and then walks with their head held high.
You are so damned unafraid to experiment with chord progression - intense, emotional, but so warm and soft at the same time. The piano sample you used is marvelous. Very expressive, controlled, intentional. BEAUTIFUL.
Gosh. Favorited, 10/10.

[GM - I Surrender(NGADM13)]

Diggin' this one! I agree, production value is great here. Your guitar is always so perfectly balanced in the mix, GUH wish I had yo mixing skillz!

InYourDreams responds:

Oh stop it, youuu! :D... you're always so nice phoamz :). You don't need my mixing skills ;), you can mix fine yourself!... Oh yeah, you know it! mix it... mix it hard! Just the way I like it...

O_O sorry bout that... I get weird when people like my guitar tone :P