Calamaistr's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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!

[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~!

[DownThere]

This stuff is pulling you in or something

But it doesnt give the feeling that it all belongs together, nor comes together.

Some submelodies come and go, but the ambience is rather strong.

Cant say i liked the dry snare hits though, and there should be alot more going on as you responded to the fellow below me.

The tunnel thing did make sense anyway.

Greets -cal.

Scrototype responds:

I can see your point with the snare, it doesn't exactly fit. I'll see about fixing that as well as adding more. Thanks for the review!

[HalloweenSpecial-Frankenstein]

this is halloween

I dont celebrate halloween but it must be.

One point of critique however, the timpani sounds very muffled, dont know if thats intentional but i think it could sound better.

Well, you know im already a sucker for this kind of weird-walz music since i make it myself now and then.

oh and guess :p

another 5.

sorohanro responds:

Timpani I wanted soft, more like mp, just to underline the bass.
Thanks for review :)

[Jazzy Trumpet Loop]

you should make more

I love jazz, id like to hear more :) with more chord shifts, heck perhaps a concerto.

Ill check back ofcourse.
Oh and a 5.

sorohanro responds:

This track is more of a demo of my trumpet samples than a "real track" and as harmony it's quite basic.
Feel free to download and use the sample/ loop packs ;) (see on my website). Thanks for review.

[Robot Samba]

hmm

reminds me alot of a collection of obscure dnb underground stuff i had on my pc a year ago. The quality is excellent but seeing as im more into the pure melodical things these days its not what i would have on my mp3 player. :)
Still a 5, ofcourse.

sorohanro responds:

It's not what i would have on my mp3 player too :)))
Well, fooling around for "Robot Day"... my wife totally hate this track :))

[Amazon Groove]

love the combination of

the warm bass guitar with the flute at the start, but ofcourse the whole thing sounds solid and pleasant, slightly caribean.. i can picture myself laying in the sun with it with a glass of grapefruit juice.

AHHH the chord just shifted, brilliant man. Im going to favorite this now haha.
Oh and ofcourse youre getting 5ed aswell. :)

sorohanro responds:

He he... that's one of my own favorites...
Bass it's a double bass (sampled... I think Kontakt Player) and flute is a ocarina actually (sampled also).

[Orchestra loop]

structured but a bit dull

But the worst is.. its so loud. Almost hurts the ears.. i guess thats intentional in this genre but still.

Anyway i gave you a 3 and a 7 cause it does sound nice overall.

janiev responds:

Oh.. well.. no it is not really my intention to hurt ears :P I will look at it. Hehe :P