larrynachos's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Classical Style Waltz]

Again, too quiet. Cranking the volume down doesn't give the song a sense of calm and controlled. For that, you need to tweak the velocities of each note.

The melody and structure on this one are worse than the last one. Notes seem scatterbrained and meaningless. Whatever kind of sensation you were attempting to inspire into the listener is lost on me, and I think lost on many others.

Keep improving!

NiborBobbin responds:

This is an interesting review but there are some notes that you have made which are unusual.

Firstly, too quite? I think you may have either controls on your computer/browser that are affecting the output. This song plays well on multiple speakers and headphones so too quite is a very poor reason to review a song poorly.

Secondly the melody and structure are scatterbrained and meaningless? I have tried uploading an improved version of this song with no success. But going back, this music uses the same style as mozart and bach so unless they too are meaningless then you have no ability to understand how music like this is composed.

I will keep improving my own compositions but you too need to improve your ability to review a piece of music. Just because I give a low rating for others work does not mean that you should feel obliged to put my own work down unless you have some real tangible points.

[Classic Style War]

The song is too quiet and distant, which ruins everything. The melody is fairly decent. Sounds like the background music to an old warcraft game, only with crappy midi instruments.

Keep trying to improve!

NiborBobbin responds:

This song is too quiet and distant. Well as stated before you clearly have either hearing issues or your sound system is faulty.

Secondly, MIDI instruments? These instruments are apart of an orchestra VST who's samples are taken from actual instruments. This clearly shows that you have no idea what you are talking about.

A helpful review would be such as "the french horns where out of place and should be replaced with bassons" or "I think an up/down bow would be better for the bass". Your review is vague at most and unhelpful.

Just because I review other projects with great critism does not mean that you can respond in an unfair manner. But this is all up to point of view and interpritation.

[A Lonely Christmas]

GORGEOUS.

OH MY GOD.

This piece is so beautiful. That reverse piano effect is to die for. I've always wanted to compose a piece with that effect, but I could never get it right. But you certainly did. Excellent work! I'm probably going to be falling asleep to this song for the next few weeks haha.

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

Thanks a ton dude! And sorry for the late reply :3
I'm glad that you too liked the effect; I was a bit worried at first, but you and a few others erased all of my doubts.

If you want to know how to reproduce this effect, you can read my ramblings in my reply to BlueOceans's review! It's a bit of a mess, but I think you'll be able to figure it out :D

Merry Christmas, larrynachos!

[FD - The Snowman]

Simply beautiful. Instant favorite! This is amazing <3

ForgottenDawn responds:

Thanks

[Pixels [ Loop ]]

Oh man, I really envy your electronic music composition skills. This is incredible!

Teckmo-X responds:

Lmfao thank you Larry. I think I kinda shifted myself a bit after Eruption so I could make better music. Well I hope it is at least better than what I had before lol. Your music isn't bad either. Always a nice flow to it but regardless thank you ^.^

[Ain't Nuthin Sweet - Freestyle (Prod. Mophead367)]

Sick beat, and fantastic rapping!

SucoVidya responds:

Cheers, had to wait for go ahead from the author to up this one. Was a fortnight delayed.

[The Power of Passion]

(Is my review ban over? If you're reading this, the answer is yes! Yay!)

Damn, I'm loving this loop! It loops so flawlessly too <3

This is an amazing blend of music! The more cinematic percussion sounds so intense, but the melody still keeps that classic mellow "LSD" feel. I love it so much!

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

Whaa, did you have a review ban? How does one even get one o.O? Anywho, it seems to be over :)

Thanks dude, I'm glad to hear that you like this loop. After making so many short and silly loops, I've kinda got the hang of making them seemless, unless I'm doing something weird :p

Yeah, as this was only a short test project, I just did my classic LSD thing with the melodies, as they're not really the main focus of the track anyway. I've got to say I'm really loving Stormdrum 3 so far! I've been lacking a good percussion library for so long now, and it feels great to finally have one. I didn't realize until I used it how big a difference there was in quality between a library such as this, and the stuff you get for less money. The biggest difference, is the amount of power I was easily able to get out of this without the track beginning to clip.

Thanks for checking by!

[Allhelgona]

2spoopy! I like how subtle the atmosphere is in this song. Keep up the good work!

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

Very spoopy indeed XD
Good to hear that ya like the subtle atmosphere, as that is essentially what makes this track. I've been a bit busy lately, but I have a few things I'm working a bit on, as well as several plans for later. As always, I'll keep making stuff :)
It's awesome to see that things have been going well for you lately!

[Halloween Knight~]

Wow, this is awesome! Mind if I remix it?

neonshudder responds:

Go for it, I'd have to dig up the files for it though. I threw this together a few years back for a short horror film thing so I'm not sure I have the files off hand immediately. Shoot me an e-mail at [e-mail]