Tangerine's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Undivulged]

Hey, this is awesome. It's nice to hear orchestral pieces from you.

You have a very strong start with the tremolo high strings and the sustained low strings. It sets up the atmosphere for the rest of the piece nicely. I really like your use of woodwinds too.

at 01:53, I think the idea of having staccato strings works well with the context, but I think it would have worked better if you added a little more reverb to them. Just to give it that extra bit of impact. Also to make it work better with everything else, because it sounds slightly displaced.

Not quite sure what happened at 02:04, but I'm sure you're aware of it, haha.

It would have been nice to have a little more brass to even out the timbre distribution, but the piece works regardless.

The orchestration is well done, and everything comes together nicely. My only real critiques are on the mixing, but since you're not using your native daw, it's more or less to be expected. I'm not quite sure what musescore is capable of in terms of composing, I've only used it to find sheet music when IMSLP doesn't have it.

Also, the strings soundfont you used is really good. It's been quite a while since I've used a SoundFont haha. You blended the strings so that you couldn't tell at first glance.

I also like the use of the snare drum in the tragic climax. it adds a lot of power to the piece and what you're trying to convey.

Overall very nice!

50Steaks responds:

I would’ve loved to add reverb but unfortunately, I don’t think that’s possible on musescore. The primary intention with those staccato notes was to increase tension but I can see how they might not fit perfectly when every other instrument (other than the bass which is playing faster notes there as well) isn’t quite following along. The pause before the final climax is something I wasn’t ever able to properly fix so I was forced to leave it in.

As for the sound font, don’t worry I didn’t just use the fairly bad default soundfont. Rather I used the free new musescore 4 sound fonts which took AGES to download, and I took advantage of their tone qualities to make this piece. Thanks for enjoying it

[Trip to Egypt]

oh wow, this was made before I even knew what a chord was

DustifiedGD responds:

I still don't know what a chord is so

[Takeover]

goes hard ngl

DustifiedGD responds:

best dubstep song of all time??????????????????????????

[The Funky Friend]

same

DustifiedGD responds:

me 12 yrs old making this:

[Pachelbel's Canon]

10/10 this piece still gives me nightmares

DustifiedGD responds:

Based piece honestly

[AIM - Bellowers of Grief]

This is wonderful. I love orchestral music so much, haha. Not only is it fun to listen to, it's also fun to make. Best of luck with the NGUAC!

Everratic responds:

Thank you!

[Darkness Rising]

I can never get over those action drums. Putting them along with the low strings makes for an epic sound. I also love how you used the snare and high hat sounding percussion in the middle section to build suspense. Awesome track Benji!

DauntingForce responds:

Thank you Tangerine!

[Far Beyond]

I really love the mix of orchestral sounds and the wubs. I love this so much. I also love the percussive strings in the intro. As well as the vocals later on. Did you record yourself?

Benji-G responds:

Hey Tangerine, thanks a lot! And yeah I recorded the vocals myself, I'm glad you like them :)

[Fig]

Nice!

[Wicked Enchantment]

Woah, this is awesome. You sound so professional, haha.