Buoy's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Marine Theme (Long Vers)]

lmao

At this very point we have the same amount of reviews.
So how about me reviewing you this time?
I liked this, it`s a really happy tune, but it`s not especially... outstanding, though.

Upbeat, it was, but how about you sitting back and r-e-l-a-x
a little? Since this is really stressing and hurt any form of musical sense after a while.

As usual you used some kind of trancelead, but that`s not very original, so you won`t get especially much on that either, sorry.

the very electronic background instrument could be a nice addition, that would be the was you played it`s desire. It went out pretty well, but still insanely stressing.
I suggest you to use a more intelligent melody for it, or eventually just remove it, I think the last suggestion would be the best either way.

Drums.
These were the main part of the song! I think it cheered it up quite a lot. Still they also are a part of the stress in the song. If you had them a bit slower and added some other kind of drum as an alternate drum track, it would be much better.

Then it`s time for the bass. I really can hear it here, and it`s kinda wet for an instrument.
I liked this! You had a great melody, but it`S just going on as a very short loop of 3 seconds all the time, not diversed, not anything like that. Could need an improvement.

For the main instrument, you had a very good idea for a melody, which went quite happy, but as said, not very enjoyable. If you had it even higher and thouht out semi-melodies and such with the same instrument, then I would like more.
Also, could you please make another melody for it? Since this was more like some Weebl and Bob- like thing, which I like, but when it`s used in any other case, it turns out like some rushed crap.

Now that I`ve laid the synths behind, how about looking at the overall feel and how it was put together.
These tracks are all quite happy, and so are they melodies, they are damn stressing.

If you slowed it down, it would turn either a lot more enjoyable or really weird. Either way it would have been better!
Since in the lenght it`s really annoying to listen to this loop, I usually listen to it again while reviewing it, to be sure I remember it all.

In this case this could be some of the most annoying experience I`ve ever gotten.
Like if I was caught in a tivoli with way too stressed clowns and such trying too hard making it good and failing.
You seem to have tried too hard.

This didn`t really fit any marine theme, so I wonder why you called it that? You should call it Tivoli Theme or something like that, since that is the first thing I imagine.

And then for the final line,
Nice track, very stressing, I liked it but not in the lenght.

Q

Stealth-Emergence responds:

It's actually a cover of the Marines Hymn, a guy requested that someone do this for him! I just cheated really :( it was rushed but I cheated majorly!

he wanted a techno version of it done, it's normally played by a marching band :)

I cheated by using a Midi file (oh the shame XD) not to worry though the guy was happy with it, which was all I was interested in!

Thanks for another review SBB I must owe you some now, I'll crack on with some shortly

Thanks again, Peace Out!

Stealth

[_-={The Tanks Thunder}=-_]

For such

I see how your descriptions are philosophical and nearly apic, and so are your songs.
This could be the prove there realy are some really good music composers in this little portal.

You seem to really like making these stories, and I`d really like to see you make a movie or a book with all these stories, since these soundtracks could fit almost immeadately.

There`s one bad thing about reviewing you. I can`t get these reviews to actually seem serious. These tracks are so complex and yet impossible to break into pieces, that there is nearly no way to analyze the song and come up with stuff that could make the song better. Maybe there is no way making it better, maybe it is perfect as it is.

This one would be the one song I would be most likely to see in any war scene. It doesn`t seem like this song was as a war theme, it seems more like war was made to this song.
And that`s pretty well done.
And to say it right, this was FLAWLESS. Honestly.
Keep it up, Maestro!

Q

MaestroRage responds:

Thank you SBB, truth be told, I do enjoy writing stories and worlds. In fact that is the very reason I started music. I wanted to give people a world, an image, and I wanted them to live this moment, so that they can experience different things, think of varied angles and percieve what they may not have otherwise. I realize thats pretty big headed of me to talk like that, but that is the reason behind all of my pieces. To instil that image or world I wanted them to create.

As for the book or movie, I was in fact writing a book, and it's almost done, though I need to do some very heavy refining, as there is quite a few parts that could be said better, or don't need be said at all.

Very early on I was crazy with the layers, adding more and more layers, and this is where my fascination with complexity stems from. As a direct consequence I can't write songs with only 2 or 3 instruments XD. I'll learn that one day too.

Thank you for the review SBB, i'm glad you liked the piece, it is one of my personal fav's and there is a big remake of it coming along! Hope to see you there when it's done!

[_-={A Place for Dreams}=-]

Well, whoa

I`ve seen you around in the forum quite a lot, and your stories are awesome. So I wanted to check out your audio too.
So this is the first I`ll check. And I must say; whoa. You really are awesome.

There`s an unique structure in this. It makes me feel warm, calm and cold inside at the same time. It`s a mystic here, and it`s making it obvious too. I`ve never heard anything like this before, it feels like there is a movie, and within it is a story.

Maybe it is the instruments? I have indeed heard all of them before, but not as... systematically set up like this.
Like... as a story, huh?

There IS one single flaw. And that single flaw is the tiny bell in the very start, which is set really loud, and it kinda spoils some of the other here.

Anyways that is just a bag. You wouldn`t resubmit it with a lower set tiny little bell, huh?

Q

MaestroRage responds:

perhaps if I make a remake of the piece, but I do agree the music box sounds are a tad loud at some parts, it seems in my attempts to make it sound like a coming and going memory (getting louder, then softer etc), I may have damaged the song.

You are right, every piece has a story, I write some of them down because I find the image absolutely wonderful, and sadly enough some of them I can't write down, because my words fail me. This is one of those songs, I simply did not know how to write it's existence with words.

I'm grateful you see the structure and reason for each one of these pieces, this is after all, why they exist.

Thank you for the review, once again i'm glad you enjoyed them :D.

[Rock The Techno]

Original

I like the way you combined rock and techno. Doing o turned out being a very original and enjoyable track.
Still, I would like to see a lot more into it. It`s a kinda basic track, though. If you added more melody and such into it, then it would be exciting to listen to all the time.

ErikTheEntertainer responds:

Whoa. Thanks, i always try to have a certain theme for the track. In this one you can guess it. In Akikao i gained inspiration from kinda spooky picture. The Laboratory makes an exeption, i didnt have a theme for it but i wanted to do something that does not sound like the other tracks.

[Khuskan - Nocturne in D Minor]

HAH

Nice classical.
I think there`s such you can add to, it though it`s classical.
If you want to choose another style, you could add stuff like basslines synths and such, but I´m pretty sure you know that of course ;D

There`s a very nice melody. And you`ve also added a huge room feel into it, which makes it sound like if it was played on a concert or a hall.

Good work yeah!

Khuskan responds:

Well, I -could- add bassline synths, but then it wouldn't be a romantic minature, and therefore wouldn't be 'classical'

[RR - Bland]

Cood work, but well

Classical start for music of yours, a weird, bended trancelead, but this time it fuzzes up, so the clarity gets really harsh.
And it stops after some time, but it`s just the bass going a bit time after this. But you shouldn`t add anything, either, it would just sound confusing. So how about this just being a song.
an improvement I think you should have is removing DJ from your name.

DJRaveR responds:

yeah, lol, ummm, the name RaveR is already taken, and I thought that seems Im going to be adding music, I'd put DJ in front of it :P.

[RR - Shift]

Rush?

You shouldn`t make thing in a rush... But this went out quite well, though. It`s pretty basic for a song, but it`s unique too.
Only drums here are clapping, so it may seem a bit dry for it, but since you have such a load of background instrumnets, it turns out being an exciting experience.
Also, check out my stuff PLZ

DJRaveR responds:

Sweet, sure thing. Don't you think it sounds like a march or soemthing, huh, I think it would be sweet for a flash. :P.

[Slipping Away (Stealth)]

For some reason I really liked this.

I love it when flutes are played right, and if they are played like this, I really love it. The flutes in the start of this were played really good, it`s beyond words. The melody was maybe the best melody to a flute.

After the start, it goes out in a guitaric part, which beats up, in which spoiled some of the enjoyment of this. It didn`t really fit the flute, and could have been done when the flutes were ended.

From there on, it really doesn`t impress me much. The voices, seemingly randomly places, sounds more like beatboxes, and makes it more of a comical matter than doing it better.

The mix thereon was really weird, as the piano put in fits the flute, but the guitar didn`t.
You should slow down the guitar a bit, into the tact of the flute.
If you did so the whole song, and not the start only, it would`ve been MUCH better, as the off-tempo guitar seems like random climpring when the flute is the real matter.

Okay, the voices should have been slower too, and either reverbed or removed. what weird synth is playing these voices? It`s voices, but it sounds more like played on a keyboard, huh.

Stealth-Emergence responds:

Thanks for the feedback SBB

yeah well I've spent ages on this and I ended up with this as the result, I really wasn't sure what to do with it once I got it to this stage,

So i've thrown it out here, as I've stated a few times now ;) lol

But thanks to everyone's critique I know where I'm going wrong with this now, and so I will come back to this eventually and mae all the necessary changes

oh as for the voices, they were a soundfont I found, I had a few others which I was umming and erring about using in place of that one, maybe they should have been removed totally!

Well I will note all points made and will re-establish this track at some point

Thanks SBB

Peace Out!

Stealth

[SR - Softened Gaze -Full-]

Well nice!

I liked it quite a lot. It`s a slow and beautiful track.
It begins slowly and relaxed, and continues slowly getting up at it.
Maybe it was a bit too slow, making it boring to wait for the song really catch up.
But at 1:45 or so, you finally release the song, aking it much better.

The flutes shimmer at times, but I don`t know how to prevent that. Maybe lower the scale, but that would be too deep. Or just play it softer.

But I liked this. Nice job!

SineRider responds:

Ah thank you man for the review

[Det är över nu igen]

Good enough

I liked it, but why the holy mighty fucking fingering god do you use swedish titles when you are from Japan?
All MIDIs/wavs at NG seems to be less than 10 seconds long, so maybe there are restrictions at either. Either way, the loop mixed well, nice instruments, and a relaxed and smooth melody.
You should really try getting the files into mp3, as it fits the page better.
Nice song anyways!

raitendo responds:

I'm Swedish, but I lived in Japan (I think I actually moved back to Sweden on the very day you wrote this review). I made this song 4 years ago, but it's nice that somebody would finally write a review for it :) Not that I've been touching any music programs ever since.