Tangerine's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Enjoyment]

Very happy and nice. Great job my friend! I love the videogame style at 00:46. This is a very pretty piece, though not as pretty as your profile picture xd.

The electric guitar is a nice touch as well :)

[Darker times]

Honestly not what I was expecting lol. I was expecting something that sounds super down, like a requiem or something, but I was pleasantly surprised. This kicks ass. Awesome piece my friend!

[Attack of the Drones]

Awesome arrangement. I love the techno elements mixed in with the orchestral ones. Your transitions are very smooth. Very neat

[Strings of the Evolved]

Spookyy

[The Ripper Has Chosen]

very neat

[TheFatRat - Still Here With You]

awesome

[Remembrance]

This is very neat. I like the chord progressions you used with the choirs. It oddly reminds me of some of the music in Steven Universe. Gives me a heavy nostalgic vibe.

In the second half, I like how the pace kicked up a bit and slowly died out into the enchanting choral melody. This is really beautiful and you can tell it was made to spark emotion. The random tubular bell at the end was a funny addition, but it worked well.

As I said before, this song feels really nostalgic, which is honestly perfectly fitting with the name "remembrance" lol. However, there is just one thing I have to mention about the overall song. It's very quiet. I had to put my volume up really high to get it at a comfortable listening level. Turned it up to around 90.

Usually, I add dynamic plugins like Maximus or Soundgoodizer to increase the volume of my work, but you're not on FL anymore, so I'm not too sure what you've got there. But it's not a big deal, the listener can always turn up their volume, but it could possibly turn away some people from listening to it.

It's odd because, in your preview, it was a normal volume. Perhaps there was an exporting issue?

Anyway, I'm sorry I took so long to discover this. Uni started for me 2 weeks ago and I'm still coping with the sudden increase in workload. I'll try to check newgrounds more often, only takes me a few minutes.

50Steaks responds:

Remember when you used Sibelius? Remember how hard it was to make your pieces a decent volume without absolutely destroying the sounds of the instruments? Somehow I was able to avoid this with warbird but the moment you introduce choir and synth, now all of a sudden everything is clipping and making it really hard to increase volumes across the board. So I had to turn down the entire volume of the track just to make room for the ending to get louder, something I’d usually be able to do with automation but ofc I don’t have access to that anymore. As powerful and convenient musescore is, it could really use some automation features, at the very least for volume (the built in velocity feature doesn’t work at all lol).
As for the piece itself, the chime at the end was present in the original so I wanted to include it here too. As someone who started uni back in august I can attest to the increased workload— it’s literally night and day. I went from studying 10 hours a month to studying 10 hours a week on one class. At least I’m still in the university orchestra as a cellist lmao.
But yeah soundgoodizer musescore port would do WONDERS for me. Even just putting it on mobile FL so I could export and add it would be super nice.

[GizzyKittyMusic - Looking Forward]

The beginning certainly gives me Minecraft vibes.

[GizzyKittyMusic - Over The Horizon]

Very cinematic and inspiring. It's kind of funny hearing the buzzing of the guitar though.

GizzyKittyMusic responds:

Yeah I admit the buzzing is a little weird. I just liked the ambience that the particular guitar adds besides the buzzing and wanted to use a sound I hadn't used before.

[Moonbeam]

A dream come true. You two are awesome.