sorohanro's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

["Earth" by Muramatsu, feat. Emily Kaplan]

Very nice composition and performance. To my taste, it could have been recorded with less room, a closer mic setup, but hey, that's just my taste. Anyway, congrats.

BenTibbetts responds:

Thanks Mihai! Yes, probably should have put the mic closer. Very resonant room (church, all hard reflective surfaces).

[Gaudete]

Impressive! Don't know how this passed over my "radar".

Troisnyx responds:

Eeee, cheers. ^_^ I hope to do a much better quality one in future, now that I've got a few more drums in my arsenal.

[A Breeze From Home ~ Vocal Ver.]

Could have used a real guitar. I like the reverb on the voice.

Troisnyx responds:

I did use a real guitar, but I didn't have the muscle memory and was making too many mistakes. In fact, that Les Paul is still present in the track, just not in the forefront due to the errors ^_^'

[Halloween Inn]

I can hear the inspiration from "This is Halloween" by Danny Elfman from "The Nightmare Before Christmas". Well done. The theremin sound is a nice touch.

VociferousMusic responds:

Now you make me curious about that. How would you come to that conclusion? Haha.
Well, no, my inspiration didn't come from that track. This soundtrack actually was created from my other track 'Spooky Adventure'. I had the order to compose a softer version of the mentioned track and this came out. The other mentioned track was inspired by classical swing jazz/boogie woogie music.

[Winds of the Autumn]

Interesting choice of instruments... 2 baritone saxophones?
Some instruments doesn't sound like live instruments, more like Broadway Big Band by Fable Sounds, but the composition is nice.

VociferousMusic responds:

I have looked for the "Broadway Big Band" you mentioned. After I have seen the preview video, I got to the conclusion, that the sound package contains live-performed instruments, that were recorded and converted into wav-files, which is not very different from what I have done with this song.

Yes, it might not sound that obvious, but there is one baritone sax placed in the foreground and the other in the background.

[Hors la loi (NGRMC)]

Very nice track. Not perfect, I don't like the mix, but the music is really cool, as usual.
Troisnyx, one of the most gifted musicians in the universe.

Now about the mix, the drums seems to be somehow panned to the left, the voice doesn't cut enough through the mix (for my taste) and generally speaking, could be a bit louder and cleaner. Loved the "phone" effect on the voice.

Troisnyx responds:

Glad you enjoyed the track -- and thank you for the high praise ;_; ❤️ I felt like this was let down by the mix and I'd like to be able to make a good job out of this.

The snare seems a bit panned to the left from what I can hear; I remember attempting to pan every drum individually to resemble the kit setup I have. The voice is too nasal for my taste, as someone rightly pointed out earlier, which is something I desperately need to work on.

[Jazza York 2002]

Nice track. In some places it sounds like that sax solo was looped/ sampled from somewhere, but generally speaking, nice track.
Could use some effects on the sax, it's a bit dry and doesn't fit "in the same room" with the other instruments. Try some slap-back delay or a pinch of reverb.

BLUXIETY responds:

I do appreciate the feedback! I will take your advice! Much obliged my friend!

[Hail King Gregg]

In some parts that brass plugin sounds so cheesy, but hey, it's free.
The combination between the pretty standard chord progression and the bebop-ish part at 0:58 makes it to stand out. Could have some soloing, real or vst instrument.

Sledgeh-ogg responds:

Didn't see your review until now, but thanks. Don't really get what you mean by "Could have some soloing, real or vst instrument", but I'm glad you liked the track. Sadly, i don't have any solution to the cheesiness of the plugin, other than actually having a brass band play it, which isn't really a possibility.

[Road to Jalalabad]

You know what? That's a cool track! Love the groove and the rhythm trick you did at 01:02. Could use some more variation after 01:41, but again, nice groove going there.

Sledgeh-ogg responds:

Glad you liked it. I didn't mean to write stuck, I meant sick. I wrote on my phone, and I wrote with the touch keyboard thing where you make smooth movements instead of pressing every single letter. I accidently pressed 2,5 star, when I would actually have given it a 4 star rating. I realized this as I had already passed submit. I guess newgrounds isn't optimizes for phones. Especially not when you're on the desktop version (which I was) on mobile.

[Ernies Joyride (Cover)]

A classic track that I hated, now in a version that finally is in the right style :D

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

HAHA, SUCCESS! lol. Glad you dug it, even a litte!! haha. Thanks brother. Hope all is well with you!