Calamaistr's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[One Trick Pony]

This is way to cute, pretty fun how basic jazzy melodies can sound good combined with weird hiphop :P

[Rosso]

Emediately caught my attention cause the background during the intro sounds almost identical to one of my old music®ftp works :D (calamaistr's butterfly, its on ng), im very anti dupstep and dupstep influences so i cant say i enjoy the synth effect but overall this track sounds original and very professional. :)

[A Storm Over Lavender Lane]

1:10 and on caught my main attention, not that i dont appreciate fast compositions but i just didnt feel the theme in that part (probably because it felt more like a breeze than a storm), the slow part felt a bit like waking up and opening your front door and meeting a empty street filled with leaves.

:)

headphoamz responds:

Gotcha, some people like it fast and some like it slower. :P

[Chant de l'Eveil]

I cant remember much music from the original legend of zelda, i was still like 10-12 years old back then or so.

But regardless of that, the atmosphere in this piece is sublime. I love the instrument choices, they sound so crisp and natural. Your voice is also very natural.
Most people try to hard to emitt a 'perfect, faultless voice', wich makes it sound artificial. You do not, you just sing wich befits the universe of zelda :)

Ill listen to this again sometime so ill fav it.

greets.
-cal.

Troisnyx responds:

Cheers, thanks a lot for listening! <3 The instrument choices were the closest I could get to match the Eight Instruments of the Sirens in Link's Awakening. I missed out the Conch Horn, unfortunately, but I got the rest of them in. My bodhran seems to be the "Thunder Drum" of this piece, which I'm grateful for.

I'm glad that you love the voice too... while it was painful for me to get the mic to work half the time, I do know that I did enjoy producing it. ^_^

[Glitched]

This all >feels< (doesnt sound' dont worry :p ) very retro in the positive sense, as in early 90 summer.
Beats me how you create all those effects, then again i only compose in a pianoroll and have to make all effects manually so im not very aware of all the options.

Anyway, very calming and serene, also very summery like i said before.

Sitting on a chair in the neighbourhood with people spraying water everywhere to cool things down, drinking some coffee like. Thats what i can imagine listening to this.

Greets and good luck. :)
-cal.

Sequenced responds:

thanks for the kind words man.

and yes, the summer time inspired me to write something like this. looks like I got it spot on. :)

[Blind Maiden]

Im no fan of autotune wich i heard a bit at the start but that aside, this is very original and immersive.
Im not going to say where i could see it in but instead let me say i could simply lose myself in the atmosphere and im sure those are more fitting words.
I also take it you wrote the text yourself,
If i win round 1 i hope im not put against you or ill have to compose a 6 minute long 8bit opera xD

good job and good luck :)
-cal

etherealwinds responds:

There's absolutely no pitch correction or autotune used ^^ I've practised vocal breaks from chest to head and other techniques such as yodels which could be confused as autotune effects. I did indeed, I like to write poetry in my spare time which helps when writing story-like lyrics. You're very kind, thank you and good luck!

[Anthem of the Adventurer]

Its a bit generic, but very clean and proper aswell, good job :)

ChronoNomad responds:

I suppose that everything is basically generic because it's all been done before. Nothing new under the Sun, and all that. Looking forward to your generic entry for this fantastically generic contest! Let's get...generic. :P

Better generic than geriatric, I suppose.

Anyway, thanks for the generic review. Clean and proper seems legit--in a generic sort of way. Without some explanation about what you think is so 'generic' about it, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. :)

[8bit Going Up]

I like how you use the exact same plugins as i do xD
Anyway i think this is a pretty nice track, perhaps because its both atmospheric and engulfing.

-cal.

wandschrank responds:

I have different ones now; I needed some variation :D Thanks for your review!

[Paprika OST - Parade rmx]

I dont even care that it sounds pretty off, that you like paprika to begin with, and like this track in particular makes me throw you a thumb up xD

wandschrank responds:

I did that on purpose.. at least the terrible recorder playing. :D Paprika is great! Like Inception in good..

[GLIESE 581 G]

Ok have a medal for original sound from me cause this sounds pretty original, me likey.
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I dont like the japstrings though, the melody sounds a bit falsa on the bar.
-cal.