DivoFST's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Frozen River]

Very beautifull and emotional, the quality of the strings is outstanding, the string that comes out panned left at 00:52 is freaking awesome, it cuts through the hole submission and enters my ears with grace *.*
I usually prefer pieces with a little more of a clear structure but this one worked pretty well :)
Cheers and nice work my 2 friends

PS: Is it my PC's problem or there is a click in the end of the song?

[Born a Predator (Madland)]

Whoah, this sounds extremely powerful in the trailer song!
As a solo song i feel it lacks a bit a variety.
Great job!

MrRedstone responds:

It was more meant to be an extension of the trailer track, not really a full song. Thanks for the rating though! Appreciated.

[The Time Before Madness]

I like the song, it has a great Madness Day feel in both the notes and the instruments chosen.
I feel it is a bit short and repetitive for a "regular" song but it is perfect to be used in a movie or in a game regarding Madness day!
Cheers and good luck Deshiel!

DESHIEL responds:

Thanks man, you too.

[I Took Your Pop Rocks....]

Nicey nicey! The psychedelic effects of the guitar worked great and gave an awesome felling while hearing with the headphones, nice job with that. I love the combination of sounds that you present us in that intro and how it all comes together as the buildup for the drums to enter the equation. Once again the guitars in the background have been very well thought, both in playing and in tone and effects, love them.
The main melody on the solo guitar is memorable and not boring at all, it carries the song beautifully.
I like how you did the stop at 02:36, you kept it interesting with lots of sounds coming all over and then when the song returned the new synth you added to the mix was sweet and added a lot.
I think your mixing in this song was pretty damn good!
Also the ending fits a lot better that some of the other endings you have in the album.
From what i heard so far from you, this is your go to song!

LemonCrush responds:

Wow, 5 stars! Thanks. This song has been over a year in the making! I came up with the chords about a year and a half ago, but couldn't figure out what to do with them. One day, it all just hit me. I worked very hard on this song, mostly on the engineering side. Once i had that riff, everything fell into place. mixing everything was the hard part lol. Thanks so much for the kind words.

[Sandusky]

Yups, i like this one a lot! I really like the rhythm guitars and how chose their effects, also the percussion sits perfectly in the song, helping it without taking any of attention from it.
The solo guitar guitar also sounds pretty sweet, it has maybe a little over reverb for my taste but sounds pretty nice as it is :D It might not be real by my ears have some sort of issue with the bend that happens at 00:50, not sure it went all the way.

LemonCrush responds:

Thanks! i debated on this one because i really like it, but was trying to distance myself from just being a guitar player. I'd like to be viewed as an multi-instrumentalist type of musician so I've been trying to move away from putting out solo guitar instrumentals. but this is definitly one of my better pieces in that realm.

[Elocin]

I like the intro to the song, feels pretty faithful to the first song of the EP and sets a pretty good mood to what comes next.
I thing the main melody is just too loud in my opinion and sounds a bit cheesy.
The guitar do fit well only fading in the background but i find myself wondering if the song would not benefit from them becoming more prominent.
The guitar solo riff is pretty sweet but is drowned in the middle of the mix, specially by the loud cheesy synth.

LemonCrush responds:

This is also my least favorite song out of the four. I debated whether or not to include it. It's one of THOSE songs. In the end I decided to keep it, just because.

I've really been trying to expand my horizons outside of being "just a guitarist" and moving into other types of instumentation and such, and this was one of the first songs form that experimentation, so it isn't perfect. It was just good enough to include, or so I thought lol

[Starkey]

I think it was a great idea to start with something that does sound like an intro, the main melody is very enjoyable and the song certainly lives up to the albums name, feels very eerie and spacey as it should be.
Im not sure about the kinda psychedelic stuff you tried to do at 00:26, some of it works and some feel a bit annoying, it does however work pretty good as a buildup to the main melody presented afterwards.
The main issue i see with the song/intro is that it is too long, from about 1:34 forward i don't see any point on keeping the song going and even less if its intended as an intro, and it surely sounds like one.

LemonCrush responds:

I was going for a specific kind of feel with this song, and I'm not really sure how to describe it....you know that minimalist electronic stuff that hipster-ish girls like to listen to? I was kind of going for that, and I guess I missed the mark

It wasn't meant to be an intro per se, it was just meant to be kind of a spacey zone-out kind of song.

[Promises - skyood]

Very beautiful, your choir samples are just gorgeous i love them..
The piano melody is great, very sad indeed...
Complains go to the lenght, i feel it is short for a NGDAM submission and also could have some variations.
Awesome work Skyood :)

skyood responds:

The choir samples (sort of - actually single soprano with a synth doubling it) are something I discovered in the process of making this track-- not at all what I envisioned when I set out.

I definitely agree that there could have been more variation and the track could have been longer ... but free time was a factor for this period (spent half of it at a youth camp), and halfway through I thought to myself, "what's wrong with simple?" and decided to not even mentally go down that road. So here it is, short and straightforward. And I'm kind of happy it turned out that way.

[Skyline]

Great song Wolftacular, i am really happy you ended up submitting :D
I love your voice..the song is pretty awesome indeed, the only complain i might have is because of the mix, seems to have a little too much lower frequencies and reverb making it it sound muddy at times and noise can be heard at the piano solo..other than that this song is really great.

Wolftacular responds:

Yeah lol, I really suck at mixing! But I really appreciate the honest feedback, man! I'm glad you think it's good!!

[Mechanical Anima]

Holy shit...i must fan you *.*
Iv been an avid fan of ZipZipper for a long time and i always thought he would get to the final 8 at least unless he had the misfortune of facing Kor-Rune....but Steam you are freaking awesome...this will be an amazing fight you guys will have..and your style in this song really reminds me of ZipZipper..aren't you guys secret siblings or something? you must be xD
Your mixing is off the charts and the there are so much going on in the song, not sure how you mixed with this kind of flair the Mechanical sounds with the peaceful orchestra..
Overall this is awesome...im really glad i found you SteamPianist!

steampianist responds:

Thank you for for the kind words and I appreciate the review. Im really excited for the results win or lose im glad to have discovered new artists