WinTang's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[[plastic+pbj] - Requiemelt]

Cool!

attemptedperfection said you were very good - I kinda forgot about that, but I remember when I saw the ad. So here I am! Lol! I crack myself up sometimes.

I recognize the tune from pitbulljones - it's cool that you didn't choose to spice up the very effectively basic composition, and maintained that lo-fi sound as well.

I thought up the best metaphor ever. This production is a SARCOFAGUS for pitbulljones' tune! It protects the body from decaying AND makes it look fancier!
Damn, I feel like doing an IQ test now :)

Anyway, it reminds me a bit of Radiohead (Kid A/Amnesiac style) with the heavily echoed sustainedness and chaotic beats and all.

Wonderful job. 5/5

neighborhood-plastic responds:

hahaha! thanks a lot, man. attemptedperfection is a great artist as well.
take it easy

[Hero's Theme (w.i.p)]

Good job.

This is very interesting. Inventive piano playing/sampling (loved the bit with the triplets!), good drums, nice mixing too, overall a good job. It's indeed not classical, but neither is Arbiter's music - it's both modern orchestral or something like that, and this is just slightly more modern with its poppy drums and all.

All stuff that has been said about getting better sounds aside, I suggest you try to establish more of a structure in the song: in a theme, usually various scenarios come up. In the case of a hero, you'd for example introduce him first, then have him go into battle, then have him almost lose, then have him come to his senses and eventually be victorious. Throughout these situations, you'd have a melodic theme, say 8 bars long, that you arrange differently to suit the different situations. Don't get me wrong, I hear different situations now but there is not really an element that leads me to combine them into one whole story. Hope this makes sense to you.

Anyway, it gets my 5. Hope you don't mind that I don't listen to your techno and drum 'n bass right now, I'm still recovering from a massive headache :)

cornandbeans responds:

woa, thanks for the review. I see what you mean now, how the events take place in the song. Of course, its a work in progress, so I can still make changes to it. :D

....and I do know how much your head can hurt after listening to drum 'n bass with your head hurting in the first place. When you recover, be sure to check out event horizon. ;D Thanks again for an extremely helpful review,

~cornandbeans

[*+ *...Frozen...*+ *]

Yeah, cool :)

This is not your best tune IMO, but let's blame it on getting used to the new dist :)
Kickass sound indeed - the palm mutes are badass and it has that nice gutsplitting grind to it.
Drums are way better than on your previous tunes, too - what'd you change?

I wasn't very happy with the lead on this one though. It tends to get a little whiny because it follows the metre of the powerchordage all the time, and as someone else suggested it would benefit from a little less treble and more bass.

But ok. Now finish Aggression with this new baby!

4/5

DarKsidE555 responds:

Always thankful for constructive criticism and fair votes. Well, I'm currently messing around with the drums, I have to develope a new kit. Those we're old presets and I think there was some reverb on the snair what made it sound better.

Tell you what, the leads weren't that great because I did this very fast, I just wanted a hole track for me to listen to my new distortion. Other then I thought, it turned out pretty sweet.

Thanks for checking it out Win! :)

[J Marsh - New Daze]

Indeed,

You bet your ass we are a nice community to share some music with! :D

Neat song here, I like that delayed lead synth a lot. The beat is very 90s - which is fine but also a little corny (remember Maxx and all that?). Luckily you have a good sense for atmospheric sampling and mastering.

Still, the whole rhythm section started to get a little old after a while - but seeing as how this tune is a few years old I'll first check your other stuff to see if that is really something you tend to not pay attention to :)

Good job, overall!

Doc-Marsh responds:

Thanks for the review. Yeah, 90s for sure on that beat. I appreciate the feedback.

[Piano Piece OP #1]

Kickass!

Because Rucklo and I hate each other with a passion, I'm going to disagree with him and say that the high note was perfect - chirpy and great.

Man, take this further, it ends way too soon. It's almost a shame that you gave the beat away in the description, it's definitely a nice surprise and adds a lot of funkiness to it. Very good!

The piano loop is really pwetty. You could've done more with the strings, like adding two more parts that sort of meander around the one that you already have. Keep that one of course, sustaining notes are good. Very good.

This gets my 5 but I hope you expand it someday. If you do, let me know.

Check out my stuff, too!

(Rucklo I still lub you, in a perfectly healthy, but very gay way.)

orange-peel responds:

Again, I agree with you on the length of the trk, i never got round to finishing it, but seeming as the comments have been positive I think i just might expand on it. I do regret giving away the beat in the description, but if i didnt i wonder how many people might turn off after the fade:)

[-Orr-Nocturne in C# Minor]

Excellent.

You've been deserving of a detailed review by me for a long time, and having recently submitted a Nocturne from Grief, and currently working on one of my own, this one is really up my alley!

The piano sounds wonderful. I can't really tell if you played it live or just sequenced it really well, but it's very nicely loose, a lot of pensive pauses and delays, it drags the listener right along.

The composition is good - typical Romanticism most of the times, sometimes a little hint of pop music (add9 chords and such). The theme is well-constructed, the listener "understands" it immediately and will recognize it in the variations as well. Still it doesn't sound generic or predictable.

However, it would have been nice if you varied more in the left hand - after a while I started longing for a break from the arpeggiated chords.

A break which I eventually got in the interlude part at 2:01 - I thought that part was the best, it broke the mood in a real nice way and was just beautifully composed. I wish you had lingered on that a while longer, from 2:31 you seemed a little eager to get back to the main theme, which resulted in what I experienced as an 8 second modulation rush :)

Also, that right-hand part in the intro is really good, you should consider using that technique for another variation on the theme, give it that Chopin feel...

Overall, a 5 and a download well-deserved. Last advice I have is to check out what Simon_F wrote in his review for my "Notturno", it's downright encyclopaedic and you're bound to learn from it!

(Oh, and you may like the tune, as well)

DavidOrr responds:

Wow, this is one of the most detailed reviews I've gotten! All very good points, certainly things to consider. The modulation was very abrupt. I used a variation of the main theme to modulate back to try and make it sound less peculiar, but I could have given it a few more seconds and made the keys I modulate to closer in kinship to eachother.

Arpeggios I feel are this piece's biggest weakness. I was going for a chopin feel, yet a few more variations away from this motion would have been good.

I have a lot of respect for Simon_F and his knowledge of musical theory, it's great to know there are people on Newgrounds that actually spend time to learn that stuff. I'll be sure to check out the review, your tune, and leave a review :).

Thanks for the support!

[FF6 -- Kefka]

Grrreat!

Hey! "LightOtaku"... are you the same guy I know as "DarkOtaku"?

Well anyway, you did a really good job here, I played the game a bunch of times and you captured the mood well while still adding your own sauciness to it!

Very well-dosed arrangement, nice dynamic changes, love the sparse percussion. It's very ominous but not annoyingly "dark". Just like Kefka, that charismatic asshole :)

5 out of 5 for you!

LightOtaku responds:

Thanks! And yes I am.

[Night Strike~]

Awesome.

Great stuff man! Love the intertwining synth riffs, and the part in half-time was a great idea and worked really well! The string section introduces a little melancholy... and then the voice sample - full of surprises. Only criticism I have is that I'd have liked the bass drum to be slightly uhh... deeper, if you know what I mean.
Keep up the good work man! 5/5!

cycerin responds:

Thank you, thank you.

[§Arbiter§ - Arise of Loth]

Well done.

Hey man, thanks for your review.

Lots of things have been said about this already, it's definitely a strong piece.

I must agree with DavidOrr though - it doesn't really progress, which to me kind of degrades it to Heroes of Might and Magic style battle music. I say "degrade", not because HOMM battle music isn't awesome and cleverly made, but because you clearly have the talent and the equipment at your disposal to make music that speaks more for itself.

The melody is good, try using that as a theme and make different variations. Different in dynamics, in harmonies, in instrument configuration (damn, I wish I could write my reviews in Dutch)... you'll end up surprising yourself and you'll have a lot of fun, too!

I'm listening to "Dark winds" now, basically the same story... it sounds awesome and you have a great way of arranging, a definite knack for orchestral percussion, and a tendency to write heroic melodies a la (quote DavidOrr again) Hans Zimmer. Just work on the overall development of a tune.

Both fifened!

Arbiter responds:

No, thanks for YOUR review.
I do actually agree, It doesn't progress as it's the effect I wanted on this song, (besides, I'm lazy) Though, I do agree this song tend to get boring after a while.

I'll probably be using some themes in my next song which should be up in some time.

This tends to get old, but Thanks for your comments, they are all read and apprieciated, and you have all valid points that shall be put into consideration.

Best of Wishes, Chris.

[_-/| Solemn Voices]

Very good!

A beautiful piece and arranged very nicely. Colorful, but resigned all the time. I'm kinda missing a climax, fortissimo, where (to hold onto your metaphor) the listener gets dragged down with mourning and breaks into tears. Or something :)
As the other guy said, this is very promising and I hope to hear a lot more from you!
5/5!

MaestroSegments responds:

you will hear a good deal more from me WinTang, thank you for taking the time to review. I'm glad you felt the same emotions and ideas I was essentially trying to depict.

Take care ^^.