GrapheneKid's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[dancers need hours]

This is pretty good! The main melody is catchy and the rhythm is very energetic. I think the mix feels a little too loud on the low end though, it causes a lot of details to get washed out when things get really busy and a lot of the song gets forced into the background.

flashmakeit responds:

That is so true. I should be more careful. Thanks for the score, listening to my audio and commenting on it.

[JAMUARY 2023 (Day 4) - Blind Alley]

Really digging the flow of this one, especially the lead instrument. The tone switches near the end are cool too.

Viraxor responds:

Thanks!

[[Day 4] Just More Experimentation]

This is good for being done in such a hurry! The vocals are a little hard to hear at times. The whole song has a very homegrown feel to it, especially the guitar.

Scareev responds:

it's crazy how waking up and then going straight to singing can sometimes give something like this xd, and yeahh, the vocals are in fact hard to hear, maybe i exagerated at the bitcrush effect a bit lol, thanks for the feedback ^-^!!!

[(#3) misinformation]

This was a fun listen! I think the orchestral instruments add a nice bit of depth to everything. It did feel like the percussion was kinda drowning it out though in your mix. Fusing organic and inorganic elements together in music can be tricky but you did good with this!

FL-DMD responds:

You’re totally correct! I ain’t afraid of anything I might not have been able to fix, because it was just 1 day’s effort 😍

[Bitter Root, Sweet Leaf (Day 3)]

I can very nearly picture sitting next to a river deep in the woods with this. It's so vividly-painted, the strings wash over you with such emotion, and the leads are just off-tune enough to give the whole thing a rustic feel. This is a very beautiful song.

SilverPoyozo responds:

Definitely tried to go for that "vibrant green" image, glad it came across well enough. Thank you!

[Happy Town (Jamuary Day 3)]

I'm in the same boat as you, trying to juggle a song a day while working full-time has put my sleep schedule into a real rut.

This was a cool track! The harpsichord is nicely-done. I love the brass section in this, it feels pretty majestic. Not sure if it's the right scale for a town, but it'd be cool to hear it be used for fanfare or something like that.

It can be hard to make those kinds of instruments sound authentic though. I notice that when you have the brass play a lot of notes in a small amount of time, the immersion is broken a bit and it feels kind of artificial. When you're emulating an instrument using a synth, I find it helps to think about the limitations of the instrument and adjust your programming to match. Maybe try watching videos on YouTube of people playing the instruments to get a feel for the instrument's limitations. Just like with digital photography, you've got to add some of those humanlike imperfections back in, or else your song will feel like it is stuck in the uncanny valley.

Also I completely forgot this song loops automatically, so it made for pretty good "focusing" music while I was writing this, lol

MauveDash responds:

Aye, what you're essentially hearing is a composition without the humanization as a result of rushing

[[Day 3] Lab N' Science]

Ooh this is pretty trippy. It does clip in a few places, though that might just be my headphones. I like the guitar a lot.

Good luck with your blood exam!

Scareev responds:

ohh thank you!! yeahh i have a little problem with clipping when i put distortion, maybe i have to see how limiters properly work xd

[overflowing gardens (Jamuary Day 3)]

Has an interesting feeling of gloom to it. It almost sounds a bit jazzy in places which I thought was neat. I'm not sure if the vocal samples work too well though, some of them are a little quiet and they don't add anything to the mood of the song from what I can tell.

yourstrulyTV11 responds:

thank you for your feedback on it

[Eulogy to a False Hero - Jamuary Day 3]

This makes me think of sneaking into a villain's hideout to recover something important, but the villain isn't really all that well off financially so it's just a shoddy abandoned complex hidden in the city's industrial park. Like yeah he's evil and all that but you can't help but want him to have someplace nice to hunker down in, y'know?

I love how the brass is so unstable, and that cool "waterfall" sound (?) that's like sliding your hand down the keyboard is great.

MasterHand4444 responds:

The "waterfall" sound is actually a harp from the Mario Paint soundfont LOL. When you sustain it, it has that cool skipping effect on the end and I wanted to implement that skipping in the song!

I also love your interpretation of the scenario; it sounds like a bit in a Cartoon Network show. Good stuff.

[EPIC ACCORDION SOLO! [JAMUARY 2023: DAY 3]]

This is the music that plays when you fight Weird Al Yankovic.

Bruno08 responds:

mfw i find the secret boss weird al yankovic after finding all the secret keys to the secret boss room