SourJovis's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Fall of Heroic Dreams]

Great. I like how you make an orchestral piece and still use live instruments. I mean here on newgrounds orchestra equals samples, so this is kind of unique. It also gives this heroic feel.

deadlyfishes responds:

Just wait until you hear my MAC 13 submission, it's all real instruments :3

[Death and Rebirth]

Those soft horns give a nice atmosphere. Nice bass at 3:12, sounds a little unexpected. I wonder how the lyrics would have fit in.

bassfiddlejones responds:

I liked the horns too, haha. Maybe someday I'll decide to add the vocals to this. We shall see!

[~SW~ Astral Nation]

Long reviews. Sorry I won't write anything that long. I just wanted to say how much I liked this song. A journey through sound.

SkyeWint responds:

Yay. Thank you!

[Bosa Piano Intro]

Good song as always (at least as all the songs I've heard by you). I too hope this will be in future flash productions. If not watch a film in my mind while listening to this song.

Bosa responds:

Thank you, sir. You are greatly appreciated!

[Dryfter]

Not sure if I'd call this rock. It seems very synth heavy, or maybe some of the guitars sound too much like synthesizers now I think of it. Nice combination of rock and electronic. Good song.

TheyCallMeCaudex responds:

I really wasn't sure where exactly to put it, either. I based the sound off of certian J-Pop which combines rock, electronic, and chiptune.

[The Golden Toilet]

Great song. I think your mixing skills for chipstep is improving. I think you got the volume levels right in this track, better than in some of the previous tracks in retrospect. The drums sound very good for 8-bit. The kick has quite an impact. The bass isn't too overbearing. I like how the song really picks up after the halfway point. Good melody and countermelodies. The title is brilliant.

wandschrank responds:

Thanks! This song is hard to compare to "This is Chipstep", it is more laid-back, slow and has less synths playing at the same time. It is incredibly hart to mix many of those simple waveforms together as you get a wall of beeping noise in the end. :D

I took a lot of time to mix the bass and compared it to normal, old Dubstep tracks until I got the everything right. Enough subbass, but not too much in the higher frequencies to prevent it from going on your nerves with constant "impact". Which may sound not bassy enough for people with bad speakers, but I can't help them. ;D I'm glad you noticed it, though.

Thanks for your review!

wandschrank

[This is Chipstep]

Hey, why does Chipstep get an own category when Duptune doesn't >:( Anyways nice track. I expected faster drums, with more impact, but I'm not sure if that would make it better. I like the instruments you used. The furby especially.

wandschrank responds:

Yep, I also wonder where the categories for chip & bass and darkchip are. And were is wandschrankstep?

Anyhow, it's hard to make drums with a lot of impact using old soundchips as they mostly consist of noise. I did not want to compress them to death.. maybe I can achieve "better" sounding drums the next time with more tweaking. :D

I recorded the Furby with my Shure SM-58. I guess I have to buy a better microphone for my next track so that the furby sounds even nicer. And, like already mentioned, it caught a cold. Let's all pray Furby recovers from it soon. :(

Thanks for your review!