carboluka's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[introp]

Great non-traditional use of the breakbeat

[AIM - Manitoba]

Wow, this one came out of the blue. Great composition, really evocative sound selection and definitely a fitting track for the image. I noticed that sometimes the mix gets pretty quiet (ex. 1:02), and same goes for the volume overall. If you still get the chance, even it out a bit more and raise the volume overall. That's just nitpicking though, great job 👍

[Silent]

Fucking slaps

[We Called Him our Monarch]

Very nice song. Where can I find the solo violin?

Edit: oh wait, it's an erhu isn't it 💀

YoannBB responds:

Yessss it is! It's the amplesound erhu to be precise. However it's hella expensive so I had to wait for a huge discount :/

[AIM - Frenchantress]

I checked out the image, pressed play and it was 100% what I hoped it was gonna sound like. Not in my deepest dreams could this sound any better or fit, insanely good job. PS: that guitar solo is sick, did you play it yourself?

Cresince responds:

Thank you! I really tried to capture the scene. And yes, I played all the guitar parts with my Ibanez hollow body : >

[AIM - Roaming The Golden Plains]

This has really great potential: really somber and warm guitar playing, beautiful arpeggio, and the repetition of the motif to recall the repeting landscape.

The mixing is almost there, but for now it sounds like there is no solid hierarchy among instruments, so they keep muffling each other (the ambient noise too).

The sound selection is good, but the violin isn't giving this track justice at all; besides sounding pretty choppy, maybe the orchestral violin doesn't fit too much with the folkloristic vibe overall: if you have a solo violin in your sound library i recommend you give it a try!

Good luck :)

Flamadour responds:

I took your advice and adjusted the mix. I swapped out the string ensemble VST for a Solo Violin, and a Solo Viola (I couldn't choose between the two so I chose both.) I then put a maximiser on the guitar since its the foundation and basis of the track (It was the only real instrument utilised for the composition and the first instrument used.)

[Snow Girl's Adventure [AIM]]

The song is actually nice and well composed, but i have no idea where and how you found soundfonts this flat and mono lol. A shame, because the really poor quality of the instruments holds this back a lot.

[AIM - Failure of a Fanatic]

The wonky chord progression is so well managed and definitely unexpected in regard to this genre. I'm a sucker for this kind of experiments, and you pulled it off pretty well. Good job!

[AIM - Hope's Memory]

Really nice work, somber and powerful. Overall there is quite a lot of bass and lows getting all jumbled up and phasing (especially that waah bass), which kinda makes the drops less impactful. If you fix that it could elevate this even more. Nice composition nonetheless