WinTang's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[dj_padman - Acid eyesore]

Swell

Hehe you seem to have developed a love for these ominous synth riffs, with lots of chromatic intervals. Is a very nice area to explore but just gotta be careful that it doesn't get corny. This hit the nail on the head though. Great interlude with the eerie strings, though the voice sample felt a little bit misplaced.

Does resemble Aphex Twin at times, I'd have liked a little glitchiness but that's also because I know you do that so well :)

Really good stuff this, I gotta figure out how to use synths properly...

dj-padman1 responds:

cheers for the review man. The minor 2nd is without a doubt the best musical interval in existence. Detuned, say....20 cents :)

[dj_padman - Electroflipper]

Hey man,

haven't been around your page anymore and it was about time. Real nice track this. It gets a tad melodramatic though, if you permit the expression. Just a little heavy on pads at places.

Real good rhythm section with a real driving bass, pretty intense. In full gear the track really shines, with the somewhat old-school tech attack. Very rich.

Let's see what else I've been missing out on! 5/5 here :)

dj-padman1 responds:

Hey, do you have a brother with a similar name?
Long time no see man, too long..
And you haven't missed much, I was fairly inactive at that time.
Gotta turn that around! Catch ya.

[DJR - SRSLY?]

Woo

Kickass stuff man, I loved when it started glitching :)

The track could do with a little variety, a hint of a lead maybe - but it's deep and intense as hell. Great sound on those drums, really grinding.

DJRunaway responds:

Wow, thanks alot man :) I actually wasn't planning on finishing this... Although I have a great new drumkit now... Hmmm... Maybe I will :D

[Drive by(51 secs)]

Great

Again, great - not a note too many. Nice deep bass and dirty industrial drums, it has a great atmosphere.

I just thought that higher synth in my left speaker sounded a bit cheap though, almost childish...
Or maybe it was at too high an octave to blend with the overall spectre?

Meh, doesn't bug me at all actually :) Great track.

[Completed Repairs (4min20sec)]

Tup-f-tsee kack-tsee (best drum onomatopoeia ever)

Ahh I recognize this from the previous version, still love it. Very old-school feel to it.
Can't be arsed to check what the differences are though so I'll start anew.

The interlude (without the beat) was beautiful, nice inverted climax too.
It becomes a little worn out towards the end though when it gets pretty gratuitous leads. Picks up at the portamento solo, luckily, very well done that.

Overall great track, but a little long-winded at places, a bit too long overall. Lotsa praise for the competing melodies, again.

[Stratodancer (4min33sec)]

Whoa

Great track man.

It has the simplicity and layeredness which makes me like stuff like Underworld so much.
I love the lead synth, it plays a pretty sad melody but the blunt phrasing gives it a great hook. The whole rhythm section is awesome, it really rolls along smoothly, very well done.

It helps that I'm very in the mood for this. It really entices me - it's built very delicately with all the syncopating melody snippets and it slowly harpoons its way into my brain where it starts revolving. Awesome.

I just read what attemptedperfection wrote and that's simply another way to describe the very same sensation.

I am going to assume that you carefully planned this track out and it's not merely luck of the draw - it's too thoroughly good for that :)

Thanks for the unexpected pleasure of this track! It helped make my night!

All 10s, a 5 and one of my relatively rare downloads!

AdmiralConquistador responds:

Wow, great review!

This song was no mere luck of the draw -
It took painstaking hours, walking away from the computer, refreshing my ears, listening again for another hour, walking away, coming back, tweaking some automation somewhere in the mix, changing one eq setting, compressing this or that, panning this or that, filtering this or that... One of my favorite things about this song is the subtle production notes: Around 2:50, when the reverse cymbal hits, is filtered to around 1700hz, and that introduces the arpeggio for the first time, and then 8 measures after that I bring back the same reverse cymbal, but unfiltered this time... it's very subtle and most people won't notice it, but I find it effective at drawing you in for the finale. I'm glad that the melodies were catchy; when I'm told that they gnaw relentlessly and harpoon theirselves into my audiences' brain, I'm a very happy guy, hah.

Thanks for the amazing review, I'm off to return the favor.

-ac-

[Slipping Away (Stealth)]

No leprechauns were harmed...

Oof! This time sometimes the harmonies are REALLY off I'm afraid... that's just bugging me, I can't relax while I'm listening to this because I don't rely on it being beautiful :(

Again, it's the lack of direction in the song that pulls me off, while I really like the mood set by the instruments (that 'ahh' was a tad corny, but fun nonetheless).

There's good ideas there, just have to be worked out more properly, you'll get there.

Stealth-Emergence responds:

yeah though I think that may be due to the wrong sets of instruments in parts. :(

I'm sure I will get there, eventually!

Thanks Wintang!

Peace Out!

Stealth

[MindSight]

Hmm

I thought this started out promising, but to be honest it just went on kinda naggingly.

You might wanna pick up some music theory. I think you show talent in atmosphere and arrangement, but your compositions are very direction-less. Since you show that you want do stuff that focuses more on melody than generic dance music, it would really help your music when you put more harmonical structure within.

Also consider varying in volume of the various instruments you use. At some points it seemed you had randomly muted a section for the sake of diversity.

If you can put more into the struction and composition of your music, you can probably become very good.

Stealth-Emergence responds:

Ahh yeah the lack of music theory has come to bite me in the arse ;) yeah I do have a book here which I've been meaning to work through, I think I'll crack on with that a little sooner now!

and the volume variations, is something I haven't thought a great deal about yet! so thanks for the heads up on that!

Yeah I need to start focusing on structure more, maybe I should revert back to writing on my piano or guitar, as I think I yield better results from pieces that I compose on those instruments first, then transpose those into FL

Thanks for your heads up WinTang!

Peace Out!

Stealth

[Unknown Danger]

Hehe

This is a fun track man, nice work.

I like the glitched up drums but I think you might make the sequence a little longer, because they became completely predictable in their unpredictableness.

I like your choice of instruments, the sound of the piano is a good addition to contrast with the noisiness. The lead it plays is pretty unconvincing though, it sounds too random, you should pay more attention to creating a good lead melody.

And the scream at the end was too cheesy!! XD

Otherwise very nice, good atmosphere.

Stealth-Emergence responds:

excellent, thanks WinTang, I had fun making this, as all of the samples were made by me, including my very distrorted vocals in parts, and household items which I used granular synthesis techniques on

When you say unconvincing about the, with regards to the piano part, do you mean it doesn't quite fulfil the mood of the piece?

ahh the scream, well I had other ideas to include with the piece, had I of thought of how to implement those other ideas, the scream would have added to the feel. and the impact of the other ideas I had. however I couldn't work out the additional ideas for this. and I'm sure the idea will hit me later, when I'm working on something else lol

Thanks for your review WinTang!

Peace Out!

Stealth

[Danalpa's Riff Metalcaniz]

Tasty

What a great tempo, I was so joyfully swaying in my chair listening to this. Crisp sound man, great crunchy dist on the main guitar and beautiful sustains on the lead. Good drum kit too.
Kind of A Perfect Circle-y, whenever they're any good (and not just some fucking goth-occulty-verbalhocuspocus crap, don't get me started though).

Halfway though it started to dawn on me that the rhythm guitar gets too blown away by the drums, since riffage like that relies a lot on the impact of palm mutes, and they were just too quiet to have that deep oomph.

Great tune overall anyhow, very catching. Which is even better than catchy.

Metalcan responds:

Thanks for the nice review! Much appreciated.