probablyamoose's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Heal]

Super nice! Massive fan of the tone shifts and melodic/harmonic clarity.

krohex responds:

Thank you so much!

[ic-koomotey - system]

Wish it was longer! Just enchanting.

ic-koomotey responds:

me too, but my system has a WAV file size limit
the file can't be more than 30 megabytes

but update is coming soon...

[Pandemonium]

man that beat goes hard (especially the muted kit from 2:15-2:39); love how it compliments the 7/4! I appreciate odd time sigs that don't actually feel especially odd, and this is definitely that; not to mention that this just sounds clean as hell as a whole. I can only think of two suggestions:
I think the ending chord can be stretched a bit longer to make it sound more definitive as a finisher (if this is intended as a loop, ignore this entire sentence); as it stands, that chord progression is awesome and beautiful, and it feels like it stops a bit too abruptly for how beautiful it is; I think you could milk that feeling for juust a bit longer.
I'd also recommend a little more dynamic/velocity variation, specifically in individual lines/instruments. Now, when it gets big, and there's a lot of moving parts anyway (mostly talking about 1:11-1:50), while it would still be pretty neat, it's not as important. But at other points, especially when it's more melodic, I think having a line (or drum pattern) get louder and quieter, emphasizing and de-emphasizing, would create a really nice flow that you usually only hear in songs using acoustic instruments. While I already really like the pretty melodies (that keyboard stuff holy moly, and that screaming and sliding synth at 1:11-1:50 too) and the full-sounding chords, I think dynamic variation could really make everything come alive.
Overall this is really cool, and yeah the Risk of Rain comes through loud and clear lol (love that soundtrack). Oh, and 7's (5's too) need to be normalized across the board; they're too cool sounding

SharpenedSwords responds:

Tbh I did feel the song was missing something, but I couldn't really tell what. Thanks for the comment! :)

[Thread]

Those chords sound sooo nice, and the instrumentation sounds just right. Don't think I can quite explain why, but 1:04-1:30 is probably my favorite part (it just sounds so FULL). Also really nice work with that percussion; usually I find it a bit too tinny and plasticky for my taste, even when I try to do it myself, but this just sounds full and supportive all the way through! That's probably why I like it so much; it all sounds full. The only thing I would even kind of suggest is to have a little more contrast (dynamic or tonal or whatever), and explore a bit further, but that's probably down to personal taste (I usually prefer a massive amount of progression in a song, like 1f1n1ty's style, for example), and honestly the "staticism" (couldn't think of the word) of this piece feels like it fits alright. Anyway, overall, it dope

Mel responds:

thank you so much! this one was one of my favorites off of the album, so it means a lot