trunotfals's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[A New Discovery]

my......LAWD. I love your tones. Brother, mayhaps i humbly request that MAYBE we collaborate at sometime soon. I love your vibe, and I love your tones, and I just TRULY think, we could make something great. Let me know, i will not be offended, but GYAT DYAM

BeyondOurEyes responds:

Thank so much! I'd absolutely be down for that sometime, let's toss around some ideas sometime! \m/

[Dreamwalker]

Ay YO this is a SICK kind of djenty blend with synthpop and future holy shite. MAD props dude.

BeyondOurEyes responds:

Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed the blend my man! \m/

[Parallels]

Hell yea dood! I'd give a more constructive review, but I am tired and burntout, if you bug me, I will do so another time if youd like! I just wanted to say that I like this a lot! I'm off to bed now :)

FarFromSundown responds:

I'm glad you liked it. I wouldn't mind hearing your critique on the mix if you had time, but no worries. Thanks for listening dude!

[bLACk iS thE sOUL]

That singing occasionally has this beautiful ring that cuts through at perfect moments, and i love it. This is sick. I might need to snag some of them subharmy vox.

ADR3-N responds:

I haven't quite learned how to put overtones on the bass singing, which is a bummer, but we'll get there!

[BOUNCE (Like a ChEcK) ft. Sirah]

Yea this has no business slapping at all wtf

ADR3-N responds:

I swear it was supposed to be a shit post. I swear!

[Victory of a Soldier]

What are the plugins you used? The french horn tone and articulation and legato sounds so good!

My review for the NGAIC. This is very good! Great pacing, great melody, great harmonization. I loooove that deep deep concert snare. I'm a percussion nerd, and I have no idea how much control you had over that, but its great. I do wish there was a little bit more variance, I really wanted it to go somewhere that gave me more intensity, but im picky, and the piece itself lends to an almost limbo state as that a veteran might feel. The overall dynamics that crescendo to the end are great! Great mixing, great room reverb and all! No complaints overall here, well done!

AceMantra responds:

Hey! Thanks for the review! The French Horn is from an instrument library called CineBrass Core from Cinesamples. I'll post the virtual instruments I used shortly for reference.

The marching snare drums were accompanied with a concert tom to give it a little bit of a deeper sound.

I agree with it needing some more variance; perhaps I'll revisit this piece later. I'm happy you took the time to listen and enjoyed it. Thanks again!

[FD - Aurora Australis]

There's so much going on in this ambience and I LOVE IT. The chord structures that are very ambiguous in nature are so comforting AND build tension and release somehow simultaneously. I'm sure this is a key feature of all ambient music, but it was done beautifully here. I've never actively listened to an ambient piece. The very nature of ambience is to be....well....ambient. To create an atmosphere and exist in the background to instill a very ambiguous or other specific feeling within someone. Gosh. Music is fascinating.

One person listening to this might even say it isn't music, there's no real rhythm, no real chord pattern, no melody, but what I think is that it is fully music. It instills a very specific feeling, which is what to me, music does at its CORE. I have no negative feedback, the way all of the sounds and notes fade in and out is executed beautifully, the mixing is stellar. Thank you for review, and there's mine! Awesome job.

ForgottenDawn responds:

Thank you! My goodness. This piece is essentially built around Emin - Cmaj - Dmaj, but with more or less incidental sus4s and additional voicings up top overlapping with one another to create this mist-like ebb-and-flow feeling. You're most welcome for the feedback, and you love to see one more happy Ambient fan. :D

[Desert Fever]

What VST's do you use? I have zero critique on this one, this, is, amazing. I would really love to know how you made this., and pick your brain someday.

Official nguac score; 10/10, only perfect I've ever given.

Well.

Done.

VociferousMusic responds:

Thanks for the review - I feel honored to have received the first 10 score from you :3

I'm using the Kontakt 6 player exclusively since a while, and the soundtrack contains the following libraries:

- Cinematic Strings (Doubles Basses, 2nd Cellos, Violas, Violins)
- Amadeus Symphonic Orchestra (Bassoon)
- Action Strikes (Tambourine, Shaker, Taiko)
- Acoustic Saz (Saz)
- Ethno World 6 (voice at 3:35 and 5:31, Sitar, Shellhorn, Udu)
- Tina Guo Cello (for the 1st Cello phrases)
- Saga Acoustic Trailer Percussion (Cymbals, Toms, Sticks)
- World Impact Global Percussion (Bongo)
- Organic Voices Volume 2 (all other voices)
- Ilya Efimov Duduk (Duduk)
- Shahrazad (Clarinet)
- Ney v1.1 (Ney flute)
- Lumina (Alto flute)
- CineBrass Pro (Horns, Trombones)
- Voices of the Apocalypse (background choir, shouts)

[Nebulous - Paranoia (NGUAC 2020 | R3)]

I dont like this track, in a good way, because it elicited real fear especially after reading your idea of the track.

the intro is really interesting, maybe utilizing some aspects of FL Gross beat, or maybe your own production, but the over-all vibe, is truly terrifying, which is what you were going for i assume.

I am trying to judge this simply on overall composition which includes the scary parts. and honestly, you truly

TRULY,

created a scary and anxiety ridden vibe that made me 1; creeped out. 2; uncomfortable. 3; honestly scared to listen to it.

great job with your vibe here. I have very little criticism because this music you've created hit me in a scary, and weird way.

Overall Composition; 8.25
Overall Production; 7
Overall Impression; 9

Score; 8.08

---offical NGUAC review--

ShockblastDeluxe responds:

Heh, well, thanks for listening! :D

And I hope you've been able to recover from it. :P

[Remembering the Fallen]

I love the somber aura youve created at the beginning, the motiff being introduced in the piano is so subtle, and well done, then the flute taking it over, then the trumpet taking it over in a very patriotic tone, so well done as an original piece while also not leaning way to heavily into patriotic ideas on its own, then you add the war-time style snare with the trumpet at the same time, beautiful, and the way you transistion these ides into a dramatic conglomerate, honestly very few wrods, very emotionally moving, and I;m blown away. great motiff, great variations, great execution, amazing.

Overall Composition; 9.25
Overall Production; 8.5
Overall Impression; 9

Score; 8.91

potato-stick responds:

Really appreciate it! I spent a lot of time considering these variations and have been working on orchestration that properly evokes certain stylistic tendencies such as the trumpet and snare for a military band feel. I wanted to cover a lot of ground while creating a somber, yet honoring tone so I appreciate you taking the time to take a listen.