Buoy's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[robotic world]

Gee

Lol that`s good work on the Reason demo song... but it`s maybe the song with less clarity I`ve heard.

It doesn`t sound directly good, it sounds more like it`s cracked together and not very thought of either.

Robotic, well it isn`t. It`s more... cracked, yeah.

I suggest you to heavily lower the volume at some of the soundboxes and use a very effective chorus effect, which maybe could destroy some of the feeling of this song. Since it`s meant to robotic, then I doubt you want.

You could reimport the track from Reason (This can`t be anything else) and then save it at a *insert BIG word here* more quality.

aspachi responds:

i'm working on robotic world #2. this was my first audio i made in my whole life on the computer. so it couldn't have been the best audio. it was my first submission. don't forget to rate them from 1/5 to 5/5 depending how you felt about the song. thanks for another glorious review =).

[Mario Metal Cap Remix]

awww....

I don`t know if I all my newgrounds life have had a different view at scores than they really are?
So... clarity doesn`t synonym to "CLEARity?"
And diversity isn`t how much content it is in the song or how diverse it is? It`s just the same as originality?

Aww... my mrac scores must be so fucked up then....

Gee, but this is sick, I liked your SE better though, due to the awesome beginning.

But this was really great, I fucking loved the synths and your trademark dirty trancelead.

And your version of the melody... I must just say, I bow down to your superiority!

HouseMasta responds:

yea, the SE's are better, as i worked harder on them. thanks anyway for the review!

[MindSight]

Didn`t I review this?

But I thought I did.
Aww.... but, gongratulations on getting to the 1st place on A-Bot`s weekly choices! Must be awesome!

I liked this, it seems like an oriental theme in a city, with many people at a marked, buying and selling different wares.
The sun is going down over the city, and they keep on the selling until it`s night, and everyone has to go home and sleep.
</lol_copying_maestro_in_a_minor_way>

But seriously, this was really good.
You had some great instruments and they all fit the theme you seemingly, but not known, set up, for this song.

Maybe the music box wasn`t really great and broke up some of the feeling of this track.
You could always do some effects with them, like reverbing, chorus and such to make them fit more.

The piano was great and really did fit. Except for the ending, when the piano was very off-tone and seems like you just made it and thought it was OK with that.
If you have an awesome ending, the song always get much better! (Though the beginning is the most important part)

But what I liked most with this song was that electrofied flute, and it makes me wish you had more of it, probably a flute solo, but you didn`t.... :´( (sniff).
Great work and such, I love you tracks man!

War in!

SBB

Stealth-Emergence responds:

Thanks man!

I'm chuffed to bits at that! :)

ahh oriental theme that hadn't occurred to me, I can see it now!

ahh the music box that was a harpsichord which I've kinda grown fond of lately as I used it on Mysteries After Dark too

The electronic flute was a piccolo which I think I put a slight phase on (if I remember rightly)

more of the flute eh? well I wanted to try and avoid flute, just so that I would have the opportunity to explore different avenues with different instruments

But I'm sure I'll use more flute in the not too distant future, as I gotta confess I just love flutes! :)

again thanks for your review SBB

Peace Out!

Stealth

[The Turtle Song]

Turtles!

I like turtles! I liked this song, but not a lot, though.
You had a good guitar, but it`s really empty and sounds like a preset. So it may sound really empty, this track.
Also, you messed up the melody with the two totally mis-plased melodies of the two different guitars.

But I don`t know... if you placed the different tracks and have a drum beat going so that you know where to place them, and also start over again, and play them over and over so you get it right.

You should record the song in small parts and place them as good as you can in a blank song document after playing all parts perfect.

But nice try, if you redid it and made them all right, and improve the technique, (Also maybe find the melody fitting better) then this track could have been great.

[-Until-]

Like

I always appreciate good ambient tracks, this being one of the really good ones.
In the beginning I expected a halfway average sounding track, but it soon evolved into an AMAZING musical experience.
There`s only one of these musical and melody-making synths, however, it was enough....(I think)....
I think!

But be sure not to have too buzzing instruments, though that can add a great flavour, this time it was a little bit lame...

Realy nice and well done ambient sound producers there, though sharp and crushed, they add the breathing sound, always appreciated by me and sure many others.

All of these instruments are pretty cold... how dare you use my style!
But you made it more diverse by some drums I really don`t know how good they were, at one hand, most tracks get much better by the act of adding drums, so did this, but I don`t know if the drums were any good at all!

You could use to soften most of your tracks here, this is very sharp for being ambient, an ambent should be relaxing, and this was... to a point.

Nice track, could have been better, but good work anyways!

attemptedperfection responds:

the "buzzing instruments" were actually a side effect of one of my ambient synth-machines malfunctioning when dealing with overtones... so, rather than re-do them, I decided to keep it, 'cause I thought it sounded rather nifty.
thanks for the detailed review!

[Fuzzy Bean]

Nice

It`s not really jazz, but it went really good either way.
Great melody, a bit diversity, and a lot of feeling.
what I`d like to see is some other things than a guitar, and more intergration into the song.
But you`ll get a four for this one.

[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.

[Sent to You]

Whoa nice

I liked this! The voices were this time at last understandable!
The main reason I liked this was the awesome combination of melody and instrument. They seem to have been systemaically picked, and then choosed by a strict reviewer team. That`s the quality.

So well, how about just keeping it on this way? If you do so, your tracks will all be awesome.

Q