nathanallenpinard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Light and Dark Pt. 9]

Nice piece but...

Those atrings aren't real. Great work on the overall piano playing and orchestration. Just please stop telling people you have an orchestra. Trust me, it won't get you far.

TommyUlysesGrant responds:

Thanks for the review. :)

[CKC - In The Night]

Not bad

For the equipment you seem to have sample wise, it's not bad. It acheives it's own sound, and the orchestra almost gives it a Moby quality to it. Not sure if I would call this hip-hop by itself, but hip-hop influenced. Lyrics over it would obviously change that. NG genres are iffy anyway.

CKC2009 responds:

meh.. this aint sampled

all ym songs are original man

but i get ya

thanks

[Toccata]

Great

This is great. You had the fortunate honor to have a good group of instrumentalists play your music, that's hard to find sometimes.

Due to the 8 piece orchestration, it has a Final Fantasy feel to it. Especially in the way it was engineered. The writing overall had some various feelings in it that make me feel the same. At times it goes back to a more classical vibe.

The strings are REALLY good. Those guys actually know their vibrato.

Excellent writing job. Not sure if I could've done anything close to this complex, but who knows.

robomanus responds:

Thank you for good words. The instrumentalists were my friends from music school and yeah, they are professional. I hope that I will record more pieces with them. Thx for review :D

[Surge of Emotions]

Aha!

I see you've found the usefulness of combining ensemble strings with solo strings. Suggestion: Lower the volume of the solo strings so it mixes well with the ensemble, and boost the 10k hert freq of the ensemble strings a bit to give it that "silver" feeling.

Benesh responds:

Hey thanks !
I have barly no idea about mixing and mastering - so thanks for the hint !

[prelude for dusk]

Neat

A bit repetative but I overall like the unique creepy feel you have here. Nice chord progression and inversions (what notes in the bass from the chord)

oddfellowfloyd responds:

thank you for the words, mate! (yes, i'm familiar with inversions and chords)

i wished the piece to be repetitive, to solidify the theme, but use subtler elements, like sound effects, and slightly building the momentum in the piano and bass and drumms to add to the dreamy, dissociative state of the composition, as a whole, rather than come in with new bits of music. i happen to like some very repetitive music, but even though it SOUNDS repetitive, they add touchees of things here and there, to give the piece depth and breadth, so you don't mind that something is being played over and over again.

i do this because i like the feeling of closing my eyes, and losing myself in the music, almost so much so that i forget how many times i've heard something, and each new time is a sparkley, Sublime experience.

hehe

peace,
~ justin

[Xiro Myth - Mizgarth's Sorrow]

Nice work

I like the overall composition. However, it starts to get repetative at 2:00min. You are using the same chord progression over and over again, which implies a verse only. Not that's it's a golden rule, but having a bridge or some other type of chord progression helps break the redundantcy.

Your strings sound good, however the voicing probably should be worked on a bit (the order of notes you stack up) the bass was a bit too loud at times as well.

The piano was also good, but at parts I lost the structure due to voicing. I hope this all makes sense.

FYI: The player stopped at 2:30, and reloading didn't help.

PhilVille responds:

Aww you missed everything after 2:30?
Darn thats my favorite part.
To me its the most important part because it takes a break from the old material, you should try downloading the full mp3 not that its amazing but it stopping at 2:30 is rather upsetting.

As for the construction of it all Its ABab((ABabCD(A2-B2)) Unfortunately I'm not fully formed yet ^^; So my chord progressions are rather weak amongst the sections. I tried to mix up the cadences a bit to make up for the simple Bass figure.

as for orchestration, sound quality and presence, I'm rather unlearned on what's too much and not enough.
Voicing is my biggest weakness, I'm only proficient on 4 part vocal progression at the moment, I'm sorry about that. full voicing is rather hard for me. I used alot of parallel octaves, I'm just not too sure how else I should stack my notes other than effective doubling, But since you pointed that out to me I'll be especially cautious of it next time.

Don't worry about getting too technical though I'll understand.
Thank you for pointing these out to me, I really wouldn't have caught it myself until too much time had passed. Thank you for your time come again when you can, I really appreciate it.

[{B.A.B.} La Guerra De Los Díos]

Excellent

Nice structure and orchestration. You used just about every instrument in this piece, and although it didn't seem to be powerful at first, the mix later kind of came and "clicked" the beginning seemed weak mixing wise.

blackattackbitch responds:

Glad you stopped by!

This was one of the hardest mixing jobs I've had recently, I could never seem to get the mix exactly the way I wanted.

Thinking back, I should have paid more attention to the intro, but I had kinda gotten to ignoring it after awhile...

Once again, thanks for the review, and glad you liked it!

P.S. I actually have a habit of using as many instruments as possible in my pieces, a habit I'm actually trying to break hahaha

[Piano Prelude No.1]

Very Classic

Classic piano piece that you would otherwise hear at a recital. I think harpsichord would've been more bad ass though (with a good one)

In the terms of the genre "Classical" and mostly the precise writing technique, voicing, and theory you used. Gets a 5.

SuperTonic64 responds:

I originally wrote it for harpsichord, but the instrument can't get the dynamic quality that I was looking for. :D

Thanks for the review! I really love your works, and I'm happy you took the time to look at my stuff! ^_^

~Smartpoetic

[Final Voyage I]

2:00

Best part of the song, I just wish it kept going. It was quite heroic and patriotic sounding.

Good engineering too.

PGegen responds:

Thanks for the review!

PGegen

[The Wind On You]

Neat

Well done. I liked this piece, has a night feel to it. I'm curious of what piano lib that is you have. A word of advice though. Don't quantize your piano (seemed to be at points) if you can't play it solid when recording MIDI, then record at a slower tempo.

Bak-R responds:

Thanks, for your advice. I understand what you mean. it's just for this music, it was a practice so i was concatred on the viola and violin staccato and sustain. I understand what you mean and i'll do my best and take your advice for that the piano seems more real. ^^

Bak.R