nathanallenpinard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[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

[Land of the Setting Sun]

Nice western feeling

I like the western feeling, and the choir. I'm especially happy with the guitar. Which library you using for that? My overall crit is your stacatto strings have that "machine gun" feel to them.

I recommend playing with different velocities and seeing if you can get the strings to play different samples (assuming your samples are velocity sensitive)

If not, try it any. The strings are almost too consistent.

[Meus' Finest Hour]

Nice strings

Impressive use with the solo strings. It's hard to get them to sound decent. I like the forum of the song as well. Well done!

[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

[~McE~ Playing Live 2]

Hmmm

The string/choir mix helps you in the epic/fantasy setting, but despite your arrogant comment, it's really not that interesting enough to me.

I however, am not going to 0 bomb you. Though I really think that comment at the end was uncalled for.

[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

[Adagio for a Dream]

Adagio is a suitable name

Very lamenting like the famous Sam Barber tune.

You however, get extra points for using volume curves and expression. If everyone did this, they'd be way more happy with their strings.

[My Solution]

This is great

Has a nice neo-classical vibe to it, and it's structure really well. Goes places, doesn't get boring. Aside from the ok sounding piano, this gets a 5.

Sounds much like the house-building stage on the Sims.

[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