NickPerrin's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Forest Temple (OoT)]

Well done

Great remake of a great track.... Just been replaying this game, loved this music. Keep it up.

Sorrow-316 responds:

Thank you For your comment =)

[_-={A Dark Cut}=-_]

Very nice...

No one is more consistent in their quality of work than what I've heard from you. It only ever goes from good to excellent. Pretty damn commendable... keep up the good work man! By the way, we should collabo again at some point in the future.

[Mega Man 3 - Intro]

Excellent remix

I love all the NES megaman 8-bit tunes. You do it great justice. Solid playing and strong arrangement. It rocks! Keep it up!

[Megaman NES Compilation]

Great! Yes!

10/10 because of the combo of nostalgia and pure musical awesome. That's not fair, using nostalgia to get my ratings!

Haha seriously though, this is surprisingly cohesive, and is a ton of fun to listen to. A great tribute to the music.

EliteFerrex responds:

Wow, a review from the master of 8-bit! Thanks a lot for your support! =D

[Homicidal Rampage]

!!!!

The other unseen side of WW?
This sounds pretty sick. I won't go on about it musically, I feel that isn't necessary with you haha. The sound production and stylizing is very engaging. cool stuff

[Thinking In Slow Motion]

The people have spoken!

Thanks for the kind review. Whatever the case, you've got #1, and it's an impressive thing. Who's the guy below who said "I'm into the guy stuff/it's good if you're a girl"? I guess I forgot to change the gender mode on my DAW. haha I just don't get some people's attitudes towards music, like it's an accesory or something.

On to the song - nice that a year old song got so much attention! Really mellow tune, but also soothing, and not draining. The (presumably sampled) acoustic guitar sounded rigid/hard-picked, otherwise sonically this track is quite excellent. Very much like its title, it slows down your thought and provides escape. Because it is relatively simple, listening to the track is easy to just enjoy, first listen or fourth.

Nice work. Let's see if we can grab top spots again in a week or two, sound good? haha

SuperGoodSound responds:

yeah - geez. no kidding. a twofer would be cool. lol. I mean, 11 thousand plays, you know? That just sounds so extraordinary. And to think I like never take myself seriously.

But I should probably go back and try to make the song "more metal" like the guy mentioned above. The world I guess is just not ready for this piece here... : )

[Thracian-Jazz]

Excellent

Amazing rhythms and textures... such an engrossing feel, especially with the use of the Kaval. I would write a more detailed review but I am tired coming back from work today. Suffice to say, this is exactly the song I needed to hear tonight... I'm glad I clicked the jazz section today!

sorohanro responds:

thanx, i appreciate this
there are a lot of very good artists in the jazz section (No1r, Xerochi and many more ...)

[Requiem for the Great Citizen]

Great

Very touching stuff. Reminds me that I need to listen to more Shostakovich. So apparently you were gone for a while? Anyway, good to have you back with some new music! Simple but effective orchestration - the few "abrupt", for lack of a better word, transitions from strings to woodwinds really add a lot of colour to the piece. It manages to be grand and sweeping without overdoing it, which is nice when most are throwing everything they can at the listener to overwhelm them. Oops, I think I do that. Haha.

Also, sounds like it would make great videogame music. I can visualize Pokemon jumping around and battling to this music.

Hahahaha just kidding.... Keep up the good work.

--NP

Winterwind-NS responds:

Nick!
Yeah, I don't know what people are talking about, I don't think I ever left.
Haha pokemon, totally. Anyways, listen to more Shostakovitch now!
and thanks for the kind review.

-Winter

[Classical Beatdown]

Amateur garageband stuff...

I'm not sure how this is on the top 30 front page list, but I do not feel it is deserved. It is clear that every part of this song is a loop, and while that is not grounds to lower a song's rating, the song itself is badly arranged. The style is inconsistent, parts that don't fit together melodically or rhythmically are layered, and loops just drop out at random times which feels totally unnatural.

Using GB is fun and messing around with loops can be gratifying, but I just don't feel this song is worth uploading here yet.

My advice would be to aim for more consistent flow in the track, to have logical progression of instrumentation and thematic devices, and to try your best to make loops sound natural when used so sporadically. Also, ensure that layered parts are in the same key and work together. A song of all loops that is cleverly arranged can be quite interesting even if you know the loops well already, but simply dragging and dropping loops that sound good on their own and calling it a song is not quite there yet.

Hope you appreciate this review, I am not trying to be an asshole in saying all this. Just being brutally honest.

[Scribbler - The Broken Keys]

Nice!

Quite enjoyable and effective in its simplicity.
As others have said, this piece suffers due to the piano sound alone. This sounds like default GM midi, taking all the expressiveness and dynamics out of a piece that would sound twice as good if those factors were more apparent.
You say "It's really because I don't know how to use VST's really well and prefer the sound of a real instrument over a synthetic instrument... "
I would say get even a piano VST. Even a low-end one would sound better than this. Good VSTs sound closer and closer to the real thing. Having a quality piano instrument to record this with would not make it any less "raw" and "live", it would only improve it.

Good stuff, keep it up!

Scribbler responds:

I agree, the piano isn't the best sounding one but it's all I can use at this point in time. I will ook into VSTs like you said and will definitely keep producing stuff.

Thanks for the review.