Corona688's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[This Won't Last (DEMO)]

I don't understand this to be punk, but it's quite nice for that. As you say it's kind of sketchy, sometimes your voice is too quiet to make out, sometimes it drowns out the guitar, and isn't always quite in sync, but as you say with some work this could be quite interesting. Keep chipping at it.

Keegs responds:

Yeah, I feel it. I only did three vocal passes so everything's pretty sketchy. But like I said, I only had a few hours to hammer this out! :p

[Night Chains 2]

This is seriously impressive. Your mastering has improved a LOT since I last wrote a review. I like your instruments, melodies, and arrangements quite a lot. Your music seems to be leading in directions where before it kind of meandered around.

I just wish I understood why you refuse to stop adding monotone voice to everything you make. You've picked a nice voice artist but the way you've slapped it in there -- without rhyme or rhythm, drowning out and clashing with the music -- is really jarring and breaks up the rhythm. I kind of shut my ears off and wait for those parts to be over.

Without the voice, this would be a four-star, at least.

[Demolition Run]

An incredible feeling of nostalgia for something I'd never heard before. Happy to hear this isn't the only project like this you're up to.

As for style, if it's not rock, 'instrumental rock' maybe?

Devastus responds:

Possibly yeah, though at the same time it's more disco-oriented with the basic beat and electronic stuff in it. I reckon there is no correct solution to this mystery :P

Glad you like it!

[-Grid voyage-]

I admit I was skeptical. "Another cheerful Waterflame. How many patterns before it becomes Race Around the World, again?"

It did not.

It has elements of your instrumental STYLE yet DOESN'T emulate the patterns, rhythms, and arrangements of 'race around the world' or even resemble them. My brain resynced every time it broke the mold and failed to follow the pattern I predicted.

It's something new. It's great. :)

The drums seemed a little excessive until I read the description, that's an 80's sounding drum track all right.

Waterflame responds:

Thank you! Glad to hear that! This is one of those tracks where I really tried to expand and break out, try something new, So its great to hear that It comes across :)

[What's Coming to 'em]

I like the beat a lot, and the lyrics do strike a note with me.. but I needed the key to understand them, they were spoken indistinctly and mushily.

Spoonukem responds:

Thanks for the review, I'm glad you liked the track!

As far as the not being able to understand the lyrics issue, this may be corrected when I release the lossless audio format of the album via bandcamp, but I'll see if I can get to possibly correcting these issues for the mp3 before the album release.

Thanks again! :)

[Insufferable]

This strikes me as somewhere between instrumental and chiptune, it starts as instrumental, and slowly blends into mostly synthetic instruments. It'd be interesting to hear an all-chip version of this.

Spadezer responds:

That sounds like fun, and I might just do that. I haven't really experimented with any chiptune stuff yet mostly because I haven't found many instruments in my version of FL that has 8-bit instruments other than the 3x oscillator somewhat resembles 8-bit.
Send me a PM if you have any thoughts or ideas for 8-bit insturments.

And I'm glad you enjoyed my music

[isolation]

Literally painful to listen to.

Spoonukem responds:

No kidding! Thanks for the review though, it is an accurate representation and I appreciate that you took the time to have a listen! :)

[Sonic4-SplashHillAct1...]

It sounds very MIDI, as if you'd fed the sheet music straight into a computer. Technically perfect but there's very little variation between notes.

DrMackFoxx responds:

I won't deny I'm, shall we say, an experienced novice when it comes to composition and music creation. I focus mainly on just giving tunes a different feel with a different sound scheme, namely a piano/electronic one and often adding to the original tune to a degree. Mastering is something I have yet to delve into, mainly as I don't really know what exactly that entails. Or, if the ancient programs I currently have access to are capable of this.

[MMX2 - Intro Stage]

Underrated, I think. But it rather lacks bass presence.

Mental-Note responds:

oh try listening to it with the bass cranked, since I made it in that manner.

[Mechanization]

Did this change? I vaguely remember a different, shorter version.

Spoonukem responds:

It has changed, though it is the same length of time. Maybe you had "Roboter" in mind?