Love-Hate-War's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Creep Now (Final)]

coooool

Hahaha, woahh, the intro sounds like one of my songs. This one is one of my fave's, sounds much better recorded than the other ones (no offence, they still kicked ass lol!) Love the solo, it's nutty! Keep it up!!

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Haha, thanks man, glad you like it. My soloing sucks, so...thanks for the kind words!hahaha.\m/

[DERANGED (Better Quality)]

woahh

Woah!! The next Hetfield much?!? Haha, this track rocks, just my kinda shit. Gotta love the hard hitting riffs! Just wondering if there is any bass in it, cause it's kinda got a bit lost in the mix. And about that collab, i'd love to do one man!!!

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Thanks alot man! No bass in this that I know of, just Pitchblak's badass guitar. I tried to bass it up in the mix..helped a little. Look forward to workin with you, man!\m/

[The Darkest of Fairies]

Wow...

That was really kind of beautiful. What kind of program do you use for your orchestra sounds? It's kind of hypnotizing, I like the keys playing over the low, slow strings, gave it a kind of ethereal sense to it, and the brass melody added a sense of sadness. Basically, loved it! :D

MilkMan-Dan responds:

All done with one... solitary... Yamaha DGX-305 Keyboard... nothing more... nothing less :). Thanks for enjoying it :).

[String Soundtrack, Reborn]

cool...

Wow...this is really nice, a marked improvement over your earlier work. And especially now you've ditched MIDI *crowd cheers* I like the change of moods from calm and epic...to sense of suspense with the fast paced pizzicato strings.What program you using now? sounds good. Except...are those gaps in the strings meant to be there? Sorry to nit pick at all your work, lol. It's really good though. Im voting 5 ^-^

Scarlatti responds:

Thank you, much. It's good to nitpick. I'm using Sibelius 3, with the Kontakt player. The player does not come with any solo strings, which explains why I haven't written any quartets recently. But I find the strings heavenly and the choir very good when adjusted to a lower level of brightness. It's all very good, to be honest, except the solo male voice. The gaps in the strings are indeed meant to be there. I admit they are not entirely necessary in certain places, but I think at least one of them is very important. I'm working at the continuity thing. Studying counterpoint and whatnot. Anyway: much too late for me to be awake. Damn, I have to get up in about four hours. Thanks for voting five.

[A Weary Heart (A Short Loop)]

Sad

Man that had me reaching for the tissues (not in the sick way..you pervs) I liked the general feel of the guitar and the flute, they work well together, and the subtle strings in the background. It could have benefitted from better mixing, so maybe send your files to someone to mix in future. And maybe read up on some looping tutorials, there's a bit of a skip. Other than that, twas real nice.

SuperTonic64 responds:

...I can actually send my stuff to people who can mix it for me? :O (I really had no clue... I've always done it myself. :P)

As you can tell, I'm a horrible looper, but the only way to get it right is to try. I'll start reading up on looping tutorials, so my next repeating submissions won't skip. ;)

Thanks for the review! ^_^ *blows nose on a tissue* *has a cold though :P*

[The Ballad of Chaos--Part II]

Coolbeans

I think its safe to say I thoroughly enjoyed this. Im currently working on a few projects similar to this, though I haven't posted any of my classical work on newground (on fear of total blammage) I may do soon. I like the graceful, yet epic feel of this peace, it gave me a feeling of general well being :P One small point, i've got a feeling you're using a program like Edirol HQ orchestral, or something similar, and you seem to have gone overboard with the reverb, go to the settings and turn it down a bit. And also you may wanna replace the piano soundfont, the one that comes with orchestral is just plain nasty. other than that, that is one kickass classical jammage...lol.

SuperTonic64 responds:

You should try submitting some songs! Even if you get blammed for it, it helps to learn how to do it better.

I don't use Edirol though! :D I use Finale along with FLstudio in order to write. :D

The piano was really low for what I wrote. I wanted a very low, almost even a meanicing sound.

But I will tone down the reverb, since it seems to be very annoying at some points in the song. :D

Thanks for your review! :)

[Sad Circus]

...uhhh

Uhhh...what is this...? I've heard much better from you...
1) It was EXTREMLY repetetive...i wanted to hack my own ears off by the end...
2) The sound levels were all wrong..xlyphone..thing was much louder than everything else...so sort that out
3) What was that?! General MIDI or something?!?! Get some new soundfonts...please...

Sorry to bitch...its just ive heard better from you...

Scarlatti responds:

That's the bad thing about getting better pretty quickly. There are inevitably a few turds that stick to your shoe. I do like the tune I wrote, but I did it with NoteWorthy composer, and yes, many of the instruments were GM. The truth is, this is the first piece I wrote for multiple instruments that didn't utterly disappoint me on the inaugural listening-through. I think you're right in all three points, though hacking your ears off is going a little too far. It's much less detrimental to your health to throw your computer into a woodchipper.

[Rock Organ in a Minor Key]

cool

The organ work was very nice indeed, had a kind of haunted house/graveyard feel about it. not entirely sure about the beat behind it..didn't really work so well, I would have put a far away timpani sound playing a dull thudding heart beat kind of rythm. but it's your work man, play however you want. great potential...

Scarlatti responds:

Thanks a lot. The heart-beat thing would indeed have been dramatic, but it's a bit too safe. To do something different, like successfully combining a rock beat and a church-ish organ (kind of successfully, anyway), makes one grow more musically than to do something that is more common. But it is harder, and that's why some of my music is perhaps a little off. But you have to admit, I'm getting better. Like the Beatles, but not as pant-shittingly awesome.

[No Pants Oratorio]

good

It was good to a certain extent, the organ when the choir kick in at the beginning didn't flow as well as it could have, it kept stopping and starting, and in the middle, the one note that the organ was playing over and over again was a bit too pronounced and got really annoying. But other than that, some pretty impressive stuff, i especially like the choir sounds, what do you use for that?

PS - Dude..sort your timpani out...it sounds like crap

Scarlatti responds:

Thanks. I rather noticed the problem with the loudness of the one note, but I couldn't think of a way to fix it at the time. I used Korg Choir Ahhs for the choir, which you should be able to get for free on Hammersound.net. And yes, the timpani sucked, I know. But that doesn't matter anymore. MIDI playback is a thing of the past, for me. For now, anyhow.

[Can't Move On]

woahhh...

Woah man...what was that...after hearing your song "A spell of irony" i was looking forward to this...im not trying to sound mean here...but what went wrong...? A couple of things to change: -

1. Your guitar was hideously out of tune...that's never a good thing
2. The drums were playing...what seemed like a different song to the guitar..
3. The riffs were all kinda..mumbled together..make the transistions smoother

Im not trying to be mean, you have alot of talent, this song just doesn't show it :s

April-Footsteps responds:

Lol thanks for the talent comment, I greatly appreciate it. Yeah, I know; this song SUCKS. You can say it =P -> I know it does. But great improvement I think.