Nanashi's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Artificial Intelligence Evolved]

The work is very well put together, but I think your inspiration from Jablonsky is a bit overboard. Some of these themes are only a few notes off from a certain toy inspired Bay film we've all seen recently. Nothing wrong with being inspired by a fantastic composer, but it wouldn't hurt to mention him in your credits.

EvilRaccoon responds:

Heh, if you know me you can hear all my stuff is inspired by Zimmer, jablonsky, mancini, rabin, Gregson williams etc. Jablonsky is seriously inspired by zimmer, yet you never hear him credit him. If I were to write who i was inspired by, i'd run out of space here. ;)

Thanks tho!

[LED (MSB) - (wip)]

LOL! Voted 5 during the intro. Then the beat dropped and I tried to vote 5 again. Just love it. Unique sound, pleasing and flawlessly mastered into a wave that maximizes use of the dynamic range. Keep it up.

GrantBowtie responds:

Thanks

[(NUB)Dog-Walk Demon Battle]

Holy jesus! I've been following your work for some time and I was in the middle of a last minute 'OhMyGodThatThingIsDueAndIts1Am!' moment when I came across this. The description totally sells it. I don't normally like 8bit music, but as a whole, I was quite entertained. 5 stars, high five, and 5.00 voite (worth 5.95 votes :P)

[(HoS) Templar Attack]

Your bass and percussion needs some tweaking. One of the low drums you are using is being played at a pitch much lower than the original sample, resulting in some unpleasant sounding rattle (You'll hear this in my music too, which is how I recognized it)
I also feel the percussion would sound much better with some sort of stereo separation. Right now its VERY center-channel. For example, listen to how Hans Zimmer uses his Taikos. VAST separation.

I know there are some free low drums /Taikos out there that would work better for you. I'd also advise a little bit of 'humanization' for your strings. Its tough to make a digital sample library sound like it isn't digital, but a bit of variation helps.

As to the song and structure, it feels like the first half of a song. Not to say it is too short, but it builds up and up, then kinda hovers there before ending. Again, this is an issue I have too, which is why I notice it so quickly.

When you ask for feedback, also try and include a bit of info about what sample libraries you use, what software you use and how you 'master' it all in the end. I'm not sure if you were looking for such a technical response, but that's the best I can do.

I do quite like the vocal work though. Its nice to hear 'real' voices instead of a string of vowels running together. :)

HonorOfStyle responds:

Thanks for the lengthy technical review! It helps out a ton with understanding where exactly the weaknesses in my music are.

[Rising Tension (Mac Mix)]

Fantastic! I love it! All of the instruments sound like a live sample, IE no transition issues with the strings, as you find most of the time.

The voice obviously has transition issues, but voices are nearly impossible. Actually I've kinda' grown to like the 'sampled' sounding voices like this one. I'm curious where this one is from. Is it one of the Native Instruments?

F4LL0UT responds:

Thanks. :) Well, as for the strings I'm using several different libraries, none of which is state-of-the art, but if you use decent reverb settings, play the instruments well and spend a little time on on manually polishing the legato (instead of simply quantizing the recording) you can achieve this even with rather simple libraries.

As for the vocals: it's the soprano soloist from East West's Symphonic Choirs. Actually I believe that by experimenting a bit with some of its features I could've gotten much better transitions but I'm still rather satisfied with how it turned out - one of the main problems is that the panning isn't the same for each note so you'd have to fix this manually. But I have to say that when actually using the library's choirs there's almost no problem with the transitions. Also I believe that the soloists from Voices of Passion are much more advanced, considering the authenticity but this one is pretty much exactly what I wanted in this piece.

['10 Tron: The Legacy]

One very VERY accurate emulation

I loved the TRON soundtrack, and I give this work a huge 10 despite the fact that you are using someone elses theme because you managed to do some amazing work simply by ear. That distorted hit sounds EXACTLY like the real one.

I also love that you kinda went off and did your own thing a bit, painting your own little picture with someone elses colors. VERY nice!

[-Dream P.1-]

Good stuff

I love this kind of stuff. I love it when people put two instruments together that don't traditionally work together, and make it function.

Thanks for sharing it with us ^_^

Back-From-Purgatory responds:

You're very welcome!

[SkypeStep]

Nice!

I'm sure most of the low score comes from non skype users who just think it sounds annoying. I like it! Its well done, and also because every time I'm slow to answer a call, I notice how the ring seems to be begging to become a song.

Good stuff yo.

[Season of Hope (30DC)]

Um.... dude, why hasn't this been reviewed yet?

Wow, super impressive yo! Next month you should do the opposite and compose one song in 30 days. You might blow some minds.

Good work. High five. Fave.

BlazingDragon responds:

Lol. I think that I'll take you up on that idea! Thanks, man. :D

[Kesha Take it off SNB Remix]

Nice!

I agree, this isn't bad for lazy. I'm impressed because you've applied destructive distortions to the vocals, but instead of flat out losing audio fidelity, they've become 'instrumentized' in a way. This is actually harder to pull off than one might think.

Cool stuff.