silencefreedom's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Always be There]

MUNICH TUM OLD SCHOOL MEETS? YEEHAH BABY! Waffles you are coming too? Awesome little piece.

I'm going to Munich tomorrow, when will you come?

Wurfel-Waffles responds:

Going on this Saturday. Same location, of course.

[Fuaimeanna na Farraige]

Now this is the idea you have been talking about on the BBS? Damn you cunning... waffle!!!

I can't find anything to criticize you. It's perfect and clean! The ending is cleaned off nicely. Over 4 minutes but not boring at all. Great choice of chord progressions.

The unique of this song are:

- Guitar/bells/staccato-string leading, the melodies give you the feeling of rushing but never feel boring.

- Drum. I surprise that you are a quick learner. You have learned how to humanize the beats from our first collaboration. Kudos for the light rock bass-drum beats too.

- You beat me for using tracker to make this. In fact you beat any non-tracker classical musicians on Newgrounds. I know that you are a module-head since Amiga's Protracker. Kudos!

- You are maestro for turning Soundfont into something that marvelous. I salute to you Bernd!

- Last but nor least. It sounds so realistic. If I didn't read the description and even didn't know you, I would have thought this was live recorded.

Great work. Alright then, I am going to come up with something that unique to my style. Wait for that! Grr Grr!

Wurfel-Waffles responds:

You mad, Koenig? :3 ...jk lol! *salute with waffles*

Probably this is the largest project I have done so far on my own. I have to admit that it was difficult. I don't think the mock-up Irish strings are perfect. There are still some light vibrations around (I couldn't control my bow without having a need for 'extra vibration'!).

I think I got influences largely from Secret Garden duo, especially from Fionnuala Sherry (I luv her fiddling!). She's so hot too...nvm! Also from Máiréad Nesbitt.

I actually want to learn all kinds of fiddling style all around the world. Like I'm always curious how Hindi fiddling works. Or Chinese fiddling when I saw Tina Guo performed it. Fucking awesome.

Hell, my mom is half Irish. My dad is half Norwegian (...that drunk). I think it's in my genes that I know how to play bowed strings. My mom plays cello and my dad plays Norwegian fiddle.

So yeah I probably got influences from my parents too because I can move from cello to fiddle easily even distanced with years without playing any of them.
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For tracker, I think except Scream Tracker and Renoise I used all other trackers on almost all platforms. From C64, Amiga, Atari to DOS and Linux. I like tracker because it's conveniences. You can do quick editing without wasting time on extra mixing. Some great trackers are Impulse Tracker, SunVox, ModPlug, Protracker and Fasttracker 2.

I actually have experienced with real life Celtic instruments in Dublin. However I never have any chance to learn how to play Irish nor Celtic fiddling styles professionally.

Soundfont samples are pretty decent. Same to Edirol Orchestra. I don't think I need to upgrade to some fancy money-waster shits like East West or Project Sam. Just in my opinions. I'm still a scener. I have warez and demoscene spirits. If I don't have something then I make it my own.

Hell, you were a scener once too. Where the fuck is your coding spirit, Koenig?

Thank you for your detailed reviews. I hope you read my uber-detailed replies too (I bet you will).

Come up with something epic then? Bite me bro!

[SF || Wurfel - Firestorm]

Why did you compress my guitar's strats? Now they sound so synthetic. Bu nice mastering anyway, I see you are catching up, Mr. Waffles!

Anyway, do you want to submit our latest project or wait until the end of the week?

Wurfel-Waffles responds:

Lol did you really want the 'strats' to completely take out your spiccatos and my brass staccatos?

Alright I'll submit it today. Also what's with the whining? What's the matter?

[Tzu - Shining Star]

Emotional piece.

Only one request, the4 pad seems to be out of balance. A little work on EQ would be better.

Otherwise good work.

[RE:Edd's Crappy Song]

Good to try out new thing

Glad that you are working on something "useful", like I said before. You have a hidden talent with music composition. Just open it more.

I'm supporting on you. Have a good day!

[Os Vs Mjattie -of Softest Rain]

Nice work

The instrument volumes need to be a bit more balance. Overall the song is pretty good. Merry Christmas.

ObsidianSnow responds:

Thanks, bud.

[Pre-Battle Tension]

Pretty nice

Sounds like you are using SD2, pretty good use. I don't expect more mass orchestra sets. Like rcvtk said, powerful tension is very important, you bring up the strong emotions for the melodies.

Step responds:

Yeah. Glad you think it's alright.

By the way, I used Stormdrum 1 here ;).

Thanks for reviewing!

[TI:.Lovelyness Squared]

Nice work!

I like the beats and repeating piano melodies. Good work.

TIMarbury responds:

Thanks!

[D17 - Minutes to Midnight]

Good use of Symphonic Choir

Sounds like you have got too many influences. Need more develop in melodies. Pretty nice atmosphere.

Echo responds:

"Sounds like you have got too many influences."

Can't help it if my music is influenced by other people, we all are...

"Need more develop in melodies."

That's true. But then again, i posted this a few months ago and i think that i've improved more since then, seeing as ive been working on several projects for scoring games and such.

"Pretty nice atmosphere."

Tks ;D

Overall, tks for the review and your help.

Darklight

[.:A New Life v2:.]

Hello Berkleer :)

You are in Berklee also? Nice to meet you! I'm newbie for only the first semester, in film scoring. Pretty nice song.

GronmonSE responds:

Negative, sir. I didn't get in.

I'm currently just learning theory, might reapply in a year or two though.

Thanks :)