Casper's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Heading South]

very nice vibes

BusanBlack responds:

Thank you :D

[Purity]

great stuff man

Nxes responds:

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[Estrella]

this is the second track that I've listened to where you said you aren't happy with it, and it blew me away in more than one way lmao

larrynachos responds:

I wouldn't say that I think it's bad, but I just think it wasn't anywhere near it's full potential. I'm glad you liked it!

[The Descent Of A Champion (NGUAC Finals Rank 23)]

straight up fire, this would really fight in some over the top pokemon romhack where the final champion has the whole weather trio in his arsenal

Interloping responds:

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't heavily inspired by the bouncy, catchy scales that Junichi Masuda has whipped up over the decades. I'm glad a pokemon battle is what came to your mind, as a personal dream of mine is to write a track for a pokemon game.

Although I do think weather teams are just obnoxious to play around, and swift swim was rightfully banned about 10 years ago ;-;

[Conductor - NGADM Round 2 & NGUAC Finals!]

High quality stuff all around man. Really reminds me of Life by melodysheep, has some similarish vibes

GameBoyFireworks responds:

Thank you so much! I'll be sure to check that song out. Excited to hear it!

[apocalypse keeper]

The first time I listened to your track I didn't notice you made it with MuseScore, despite that, most of my problems with the song are the mixing and sound selection. The drums sound fairly basic and could use some compression while the other sounds are dry and simple. I like the slight buildup and fade in at 01:24 to 01:30 but it gets pretty repetitive. The melodies themselves and the idea isn't bad, which is why I gave your track a score of 6.5/10. Sorry you didn't make it past the first round, but don't let it discourage you since you show a lot of potential:)

detalexip responds:

thnx

[D4 - Aerodynamix]

Great metal track, very professional sounding overall. Only thing I can critique on is that I think it'd be great to have some drum fills throughout to ocasionally spice things up, as well as help transition and move the song forward. The outro is definitely very unexpected, but other than that it's a very solid song. My final score is 8.5/10, good luck forwards:)

D4W1LL13 responds:

Thanks so much for listening! I will keep note of what you've said!

[CHARACTER SELECT //Level 356.98FM//]

Oh man, the atmosphere is on point :3, all the sound effects make it feel very nostalgic, as well as the instrumentation. The only thing I would have liked to hear more are the drums, even if filtered out, with some compression and slight sidechain and it would be a banger. You can still keep a mellow mood and have the drums knocking. The track does end up being quite repetitive, but with some more melodic elements, maybe a few melodies that come in and out at various times and some more mixing, it could be a great track. My final score is 8/10

AVVENTURA responds:

I will Definitely remember this for future tracks ty so much <3

[A Rainbow Of Impossible Colors]

The song feels a bit all over the place thematically and definitely gets better as it goes on, but for a first attempt at color bass it’s fairly well rounded! Intro sounds more like something closer to dubstep with some slight cyberpunk undertones but, like the rest of the track, is brought together by various effects and transitions. The synths themselves sound great, although the processing is a bit rough around the edges, and there’s definitely some harshness at various times. Something that seriously drags the track down are the drums, mostly sound selection. Snare can easily get obnoxious on replays, there’s times where they are too spaced out and the lack of hi hats/shakers/foley fails to add something rhythmically interesting to fill the background. I don’t know if you were inspired by this, but there’s times when I listened to your track that reminded me of “Shiver” by False Noise. I know that track isn’t color bass but it’s similar in atmosphere/theme and I think you did a great job creating the overall vibe of the song, but you should give a listen to that song to notice how it fills dead space with ear candy and how it uses diverse drum sounds throughout the track. Sorry if I was too harsh on some things, I just think you have a lot of potential and would hate not to see you making some light adjustments to your future songs to hopefully get some major recognition:) My final score for your track is 7/10

Artackni responds:

Don't worry about the feedback being too harsh, it is way better than not saying anything bad about the song in order to "not hurt my feelings"

One of the main reasons for such emptiness is that I usually make really fast songs (200+ bpm) where high tempo helps with it.

I definitely did improve my percussion by a ton after releasing this, which hopefully will be seen in my NGUAC song as well as songs that I finished but can't release yet for various reasons.

I personally like how the snare works with the 1st color section but it does definitely need some variety, one sample for the entire track with 3 distinct parts is not enough. And the same snare doesn't work as well for the 1st section, for example.

As for the harshness of a lot of the sounds, I took notes and will not repeat the same mistakes, hopefully.

Thanks for detailed feedback :D

[Night Veiled Procedural Algorhythm]

Bitcrush so good D: and like, everything else about it. So majestic

YoannBB responds:

Thanks a lot dude!