Calamaistr's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[NP - Submission]

mmm.

You just raised a bit in my favorite composers list man. seriosu.

This is just weird in the 'great way.
You know i was wondering this evening where the people who have a real sense of musical harmony and melody are on NG and how could i have forgotten about you. :)

Anyway, when i listened to this track i pictured weird floating cloud like heads in a robotic enviroment. That sub doesnt irritate with so much going on either. (the bass i mean) its just never to loud and alot of clicks and ticks and ploinks bells and that ear 'filling' wooh going on every now and then again, im glad i thought of giving my 'fav composers' list a visit again to stumble upon this.

Instafav.

-cal.

[NP - Fairy Dust]

woo!

On the get go i hear you have even better instrumentation (oh and effects) than i do! I actually like this kind of sound while i normally i cringe the more high fidelity instrumentation gets (with the annoying frequency hiss only hearable by awesome people)

Anyway, enough about trivial things.

This is just obviously a piece with alot of work behind it to make it sound right, the instruments all sound very close to eachother while still panned on their own turf and the background ploinks are very nice.
Oh and that flute is really soothing. :)

amazing stuff man.
-cal.

[Rising of a Hero]

per-fect taiko

Has a sharp frequency that i dont like however..
I guess i like raw sound above mastered.

Anyway the taiko sounds very wet and real, so thumbs up on that one.
It also fades nicely at the end :)

greets cal.

sorohanro responds:

Sharp frequency...You mean the violin ? or flute ?
Somehow I cant hear what you say .

[Kimes Animation Project]

i like the retroesque instrumentation @ start.

aside from that its a bit loud its a enjoyable little piece.
I also always enjoy the chord progressions you throw around. :)

greets cal.

sorohanro responds:

Sound a bit like a Mellotron :))
Thanks for review.

[Far from Finished! [EC]]

brilliant panned trio's etc.

If you were a woman i would definately abduct you to my villain island underground base place house basement room.

One tip btw: try to when you pan stuff on the left like at the end of the track, to counterpan some sounds on the right to make it sound a bit more full.

I have no criticism anyway. Favoriting aswell cause 1: its 87654321bit and 2: its manly and 3: its alot like megaman and 4: 8bit megamans face is manly.

[musingsthefirst]

Instrumentation is ok but

You really, really need to work on your melody, its really really bad.
The melody goes nowhere, meets no harmony, has no emotion to it whatsoever and thus in no way is interesting to the listener.

I know this sounds extremely harsh but im always honest about these things, i dont know if this is your most recent work (i came upon this track by a topic someone posting it as an example) but if it is study some theory, preferably bach.

[Oblong_8]

ahh totempoles

At first i couldnt make out much, it sounded slightly random but boy is that a wrong thought, i chose to sit it through in respect to your review on one of my tracks and its a great track!, especially with the guitars eventually. I now recognice its a loose melody (on the rhode like bells), in the literal sense, ive done that myself occasionally too and i know very well you always have to get used to these things a bit.

Its like a field of windblown grassland and alot of colorful totempoles. (if i visualise)
Atleast something surreal.

Hope this makes sense. :p

This is good enough to favorite, ill check out your other tracks sometime soon. Greets -cal.

Tokolos responds:

Hey, thanks for the review calamaistr/
much appreciated

[Illumine]

not what it could be.

whats with everyone that makes solo piano tracks using 200% reverb, thats not what a real piano sounds like man. Aside from the echo.
It would sound so much better without all that, trust me.

VoidGames responds:

yea i definitely get where your coming from!
i'll definitely keep this in mind next time i write a song because i just went back and lowered it a little and it does sound more natural
thanks for the feed back cala!

[Artifice and Inquisition]

du du dududu du

Love the choice of, hmm.. snarelike-snare.

The analoglike bassline sounds slightly dry but np.
I always like the vocalsounds you use throughout your works, its a nice style. :)
I'd have no problem hearing this on an online radiostation.

The deconstructing of the synthlike dulcimer was a nice suprise btw.
Hit me again when you got something new. :)

greets -cal.

[RoboWizard [EC]]

Start made me want to review right away

Holy shit guy, why dont you make stuff like this all day long for me to hear? ;)

Its so generic in the good way (atmosphere) :)
and jazzy! and jam, and inyoface-face.

(like the face of 8bit megaman looking at you all serious)

Keep making stuff like this, really. Im even going to fav this :D

EmperorCharlemagne responds:

Ha ha, glad you liked!
I wanted to make something both simple and catchy, and I think I did that, but I can't resist throwing in complex stuff (for good or bad) into my songs, which is where the solo came into play. :p I do what's fun, and that's making things quasi-jazzy!

I am planning on making more of this styled stuff (I have at least three or four tracks for this project to do!), so I will provide, rest assured.

Thanks for the review~!