madboss's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Clam Before the Storm]

Really good!

This song is absolutely great! It really brings the mood that it was aimed for. Especially the beginning - great use of tha instruments! The only strange was the horn or brass like instruments in the beginning. They sounded a bit weird - but after that you was using another kind of brass sample. That was ok.

About the structure: it's ok. You could hold the tense feeling all trought the track. The parts and the useage of the instruments are variated enough - but I had a bit of feeling that the song has become a bit repetitive. But that's might be some personal preference.

The end was also greatly done - the strings (?) were playing an absolutely creepy melody and the pizzicatos were guided them well.

So: I liked this one. Keep them coming. I haven't checkd your techno tracks but I think you should work more with classical samples.

Thanks for your vote, madboss! You voted 4 for Clam Before the Storm, raising its score from 0.00 to 4.00.

P.S.: if you have time pls check out my stuff - maybe you'll get some inspiration for your work.

[-Orr- -PURSUIT- Theme]

Heroic!

Hy there!

I must say this song is great - really like a main theme: starting a story/game giving the dominant mood of the forcoming events. So as a main theme this audio serves it's functions really well.

Loved the choir - gendle, soft giving the whole song a kind of heroic feel. (Altough the starting hit didn't showed this way)

The melody is nicly flowing with the string, choirs, brass (?) - maybe you could make the ending a bit more dinamic: faster moving choir and strings with some brass and percussion to reveal somthing about the "Pursuit" - but nonenthless it's a great piece.

PS: if you got time pls check out my tracks. Thnx in advance!

DavidOrr responds:

This piece actually sums up -PURSUIT- pretty well. Check it out in a few days and you'll see what I mean :).

I'm glad you enjoyed the piece, thanks for the review! I'll take a look at your stuff in a few minutes :)

[Spirits of the Sky]

Gentle melody

Hm really gentle melody you have here - I loved it when the guitarre went with the piano. Great job. Well the song in this way is a good one nothing special.

I could imagine some strings when the piano is hand in hand with the guitarre. And these instruments volume raise together to a top - that could be really touching.

There was a high-pitched guiterre at the end... well I feel that it doesn't fit there...

After all nice work - far better than the points you have now. But keep up this is good!

[Hand of the Priestess]

Nice and gentle

Hy there!

I think this traks is really nice - the melody flows softly... It's really relaxing to hear this.

Well maybe my ears misleaded me but the beginning and the first minutes sounded like Aeris theme from FF7 - the structure of the song was different but the melody was so familiar...

And the whole music had a kind of FF like feel for it - but this is rather a positive thing.

I enjoyed it greatly. Great piano play. Just the relaxing thing I need right now. So congratulation - keep it up!

[_-/|While Heaven Burns]

Nice work!

Hy there Maestro!

I've found your segment-account and I must say these sons are showing great things to come... especially in this case.

I loved the beginning: great action score here, with the choir, strings, drums... simply great, loved it...

After that the drums droped and the strings went on - and the organ came in. Well I don't know... I don't like that organ sound. A know what ypur aiming - a church organ sound would blow this stuff up (in a good way) - but this organ is a bit powerlessly sounding for me...

Anyway: patience maestro, wait for the right moment of inspiration and this song will be finished. I'll wait up.

P.S.: I've got a new submission and I suffered a lot with it - like you with this one. Pls drop a rev when you visit my site. "For King and Country" is the song.

[Ode to the lonely]

Moving and beautifull!

Great work there! I loved this one - altough I don't really like solo-instrumental music but this one hit me.

The melody was really beautifull-sad and served the aim that you targeted asolutely well: showing sorrow and sadness of loss.

When the deeper piano hit came there was some anger in the track - and came a part where you repetead the deeper melody parts... now that was great - I don't know why but I loved that the most.

But the main melody is also very well done. Great job!

P.S.: if you're in the mood pls check out my stuff as well. Thnx in advance!

[Welcome to the Field]

OMG... I've lost my words...

Wow dude...
You've imperessed me so much... that I feel I'm a nobody in making music and I have to leave the AP...

But I wont...:) This is awesome... Especially the choir part... It was... like a real choir from a filmscore. Like I'd hear a rejected Gladiator score... Simply beautifull. And then the strings come in. No words are in my head now to express the cataclism of that...

The only one tiny little thing that I'd suggest that dont interrupt the string part so hardly with the drums - let the volume down and then... But I know filmscores are know from sudden changes. I use them also .)

So... Absolutely fantastic job. What program did you used for it? EWQLSO? If yes I'll have to get that... I wanna things like that...

You made me yelous... in a good way >:)

Fantastic job again... Congratulations!

P.S.: I have a recent audio sub. "For King and Country". If you got time pls drop a review. I tried something like here... but I see with less effort.

Bosa responds:

Yet again, a fault at the end with the Vins. Yet, your words are that of a follower. Welcome to Bosa's music.

-ßosa

[Loyal Oath]

Nice try

Hy there!
There's really some similarities between this track and the "Pirates of the Caribbian" soundtrack - it's because you're melody has some parts that quite the same.
But yes - it's a different track. And it's quite ok but it could have been better.
The most important: try to variate your melodies. It's not necessery to write an intermediary melody but if you repeat the same melody continously - no matter that it is plaied on another instrument - the song will become boring. You must vary your songs better than this. At the end you repeted the main melody too much.
The melody was ok and the instruments sounded good as well but maybe you should try to play more instruments or some slow strings at the background - but that depends on your will.
Otherwise it was a nice and enjoyable try. Keep it up this way!

[_-={An Ambitious War}=-_]

Another great one!

Hi there Maestro!
I tought I was a long time on your site so I decided to look around - and I've seen this track in front...
And I listened to it:)
Great job! Almost like a battle-music. I loved the dinamic strings and the high violin. And I see you still in love with bells - it's not a problem: they are fitting greatly in the track.
There are two things I've missed: some more aggressive drums or hits. I think it would give a more epic feel for it. (Or maybe I'm to maniac again with drums and hits.)
Second: on the climax of the track I was missing some brass and trombons. Some brass-hits or riseing brass-lines.
But these are only my ideas - the track is still a great piece. I liked the repeating and continously building structure. It had some excited feeling - like you mentioned:
A warlord is in his tower watching his man preparing his stronghold for the upcoming battle...
And the enemy is nearing...
So summing up: great work I enjoyed greatly. Keep them coming!

MaestroRage responds:

Ah, yes, my love for those damn bells are always with me. It seems every song I make the first question I ask myself is "IS THERE ROOM FOR A BELL!?". If the answer is yes, then in it goes!

DavidOrr mentioned before you that there should be more aggressive drums. I suppose with now two quite talented artists recommending the same thing, I should REALLY go and try to make this idea work.

For the brass hits, I felt they weren't loud enough either, but once again, my lacking skill with equalizing makes this difficult. With time of course, I will learn proper equalizing, and then I could really throw in some crazy things in there!

Thank you for sharing your image, and writing the review ^^. I'm glad you dropped by.