Pingu's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ghosts]

Nice beat for a potential lyrical hip hop track. It isn't too in your face, so it won't override any potential vocal stem. It does need a slight adjustment to loop seamlessly, but that should be an easy fix if you wanted. Good work!

KnockVoltage responds:

Thanks!

[Snowing]

Nice beat to this one. I can definitely visualize a nice snowfall (even if I don't want to right now). My only negative thought is I think it may not be the best fit into ambient. Good work nevertheless!

[Corkscrew - Rigel (Orion EP)]

Lovely blend of piano with DnB. The pacing was fast and upbeat, bit it had a nice breather midway. I liked how it rebuilt back up to the same level instead of just shocking into it. As the final notes came, I found myself wanting more. Good work!

ItzCorkscrew responds:

Thank you very much <3

[Redemption]

The bells, waves breaking and seagulls were interesting elements in this track. I liked the climax at 2:35, the other sounds were still there but no longer the focus by that point. Good work!

[Don't Know What to Call This]

I'd suggest "Time marches forward" for a title. The beat has a bit of a marching theme to it, it's upbeat. I can picture a character moving along a forest path towards a distant castle.

Roydley responds:

That's a good suggestion. I can totally feel that. All the songs that I made were supposed to have a cool adventurous feel to it.

[Again]

You seem to be nailing the demo. Gotta make the monies to upgrade to producer now. A little bit of grilling will follow:

0:47 felt out of place, but it came back at 1:45 and felt a little more part of the track. There was a good beat consistent right until it cut off at 4:15, then came back at 4:19, that was a bit jarring. I know the extensions in demo are minimal, but I'd maybe look to soften that bit if you wanted to move it out of focus. That last bit is really my only complaint, I had this prepped at a 4 but took it down half with the sharp stem cut (rounded down up to 4 on vote, such is life). Keep at it man!

[Sunset]

Good start! The bass has some good feel to it, and it loops fairly well. It'll be nice to see this incorporated into a full song in the future!

[You've Reached The End]

I like the mournful piano opening. It was interesting to hear the odd processor sound coming in on the right side of the balance, I don't think I've heard one in a while that seems to split the stems like that. Many people just do a back and forth, and I think this worked out well!

The simple introduction of the chiptune was nice, I found it helped ease into it. Chiptune doesn't generally come to mind when I think of ambient music, but they way you worked it in worked really well. Congrats on the frontpage, short as it was!

FateModified responds:

Hi, thank you for the review!

I've been experimenting lately with placing different instruments in different positions in the panorama in order to get a more interesting and clearer mix. I think maybe little by little I'm starting to get a better feel for how panning can improve my mixes.

When I started making the song, I didn't plan on the chiptune, but I stumbled upon the setting in Massive and found that it fit really well. It's funny because the way I make music is just by experimenting and trying different things until something sounds good to me.

Cheers! :D