sorohanro's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Never let go.. (UtÃf¸ya)]

Nice track, good usage of the legato. Very good orchestration that include classical and traditional instruments.

[Manaical Prodigy]

As a concept I think is good. From the ostinato rhythm to the solid string section it breaths a game feel. It has enough variation not to get boring but it doesn't catch too much attention if you have it in a game.
The only thing that stands out in a bad way is the violin solo, a good solo played with a less realistic sound.
My advice is that if you put a solo on top of virtual instruments, then it should sound really good and realistic.

Good track, perfect for a game project.

UltimaTricksta responds:

Thanks for your feedback, Mihai! I've been working on getting a nice violin sound and the only samples I have are those from Garritan Personal Orchestra (used in this piece) and the ones from Edirol Orchestra. For the first time, I tried changing the velocity of some notes to give it some sense of a human feel. But perhaps, I may need to do something more sonically to get the sound right. Again, thank you for your feedback!

[Re:Reveris]

Great music as usual.

Mixing... ouch... Here are some suggestions:
Imagine yourself in a concert hall where "London Symphony Orchestra" is playing your music (that would be great).
- Where would stand the strings ? Violin 1 (left) - Violin 2 (mid-left, more in the back) - Viola (mid right) - Cello (right) - Double Bass (sometimes in the right, sometimes in the back)
- Where would be the piano ? usually in the front of the orchestra if is soloist or in the right, back, behind violin 1
- How about percussion ? that is usually behind all instruments (so, need more reverb to give impression of space).

Troisnyx responds:

Thanks a lot for the input. :D Really. I think that's given me an idea of how the mixing should go. Again, I'll ask for tips in the PMs.

[Day of Reckoning]

Great music but as usual I complain about mixing :))

I would have less thickness on the synth, with some ping-pong delay to enlarge the stereo field. Guitar sounds a little fake and thin. I would make it HUGE by tracking it twice and pan it extremely left and right with different amp/cabinet and eq.
To glue up the whole mix I would put a reverb on send, something medium-small, like a room or "club" and send a little of guitar, synth and even some of the percussion.
The percussion would sound epic if you would use a big reverb (concert hall, arena, stadium sort of type). Same would go great on the piano sound.

Troisnyx responds:

Noted. Thanks a lot for the input! I've got the EQ on, so I can reboot this file and tweak with the mixer.

As for putting the reverb, I'll need to PM you about that -- I'm not sure where that goes, TBH! ^^;

[In an Unrelated Story]

Nice

I was listening some of your tracks and I'm impressed with your sensibility. You have a very good sense of melody and you master quite well the technical aspect of guitar playing.
Nice ideas, good orchestration and very tasteful choice of guitar tones.

I would suggest just to improve the mixing skills and pay more attentions to gain when you record. There are several places where your track is clipping. Slamming a very fast compressor/ limiter as the last effect on your master bus might be a quick fix for this.

KD18 responds:

Thanks for the advice; it's greatly appreciated. I'm actually self-taught in the mixing department and am always trying to learn as much as possible. In terms of a comrpessor/limiter, I actually use my pre-amp's limiter before sending the signal into my computer. Would you suggest adding a digital one in the mix too?

[Nedeleg Laouen!]

Better

You just get better and better :)
I'm glad to see/ hear that your mixing skills get better. Your composition was always good.
There is a bit a machine feel on the ostinato bass groove, but I think it can be interpreted as a VGM style thing...

Troisnyx responds:

Thank you! I'm glad that mixing bit is getting somewhere. ^_^ Anything else I could tweak? x

[Phoenix - Main Theme]

Nice

Nice track.

The only thing that bother me, from the mixing point of view, is the the piano doesn't sound "from the same room". I would put a bit more reverb on the piano, but that's just my opinion.
Maybe if it's used in a movie is good like this, describing two different places...

Sheodon responds:

Thank you.

Yes, I can understand that problem and I could hear it from a lots of other comments. To be honest, it can be described as 2 different situations (since it's a meditative-like story-telling soundtrack), but it's also because when I made this I lacked some useable instruments for my software. However, I've improved it and now I have more realistic sounding instruments. :)

[A Sea Song]

Fair

A simple but quite well done. Good melody and harmony, rhythm fits also the feel of the melody.
Maybe not pipers but a group of sailors playing accordions :)
Loops well.

[[dB] Babulia (Hey! Mix)]

Filters Will Rule The World!

Awesome job man, really really awesome.
Love the filters and the minimalist feel of the guitar.

Decibel responds:

Thanks :)

[Timohi - Babulia House Remix]

Very big

Somehow the sound is very big and orchestral, almost epic I would say (is there such thing as Epic House?).
Nice mix, nice synth theme at 02:16 and 02:36.

10/10 5/5

TheBellmaker responds:

Haha glad you like it. I used some orchestral strings in the background as well, I like how it turned out. Thanks for listening!

Epic house, you say....?