Danman87's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Heart of Melodies (v1.1)]

Very touching!

I really enjoyed this piece a lot! Especially the melody around the 40 seconds mark was pretty enjoyable. Great tune!

I think other people mentioned the recording quality already. If you're going to re-record I'd suggest you to record with a two mic setup, one directly in the piano (at the outside towards the hammers) and one directly at your player position to capture the room. This will help you within the mixing progress. Now I'm not sure what kind of equipment you're using but I'd also suggest to avoid clipping by lowering the mic input volume or using a limiter if your mixer allows that.

Just a few tips if you were going to re-record it. I'd really go for it, it's definitely worth it!

SatoDraygonFist2 responds:

Ahh...thank you. I will certainly keep that in mind when the re-recording happens. No, seriosuly. Thanks for telling me how to go about it. I've been biting my nails trying to get this better, clearer version to happen lol.

:-)

Thanks for the words!

[Remembrance Day (WW2 inspired)]

Amazing

Sorry man, I'm late but finally got a chance to comment on this right now. The movements in this piece are amazing, there's so much depth and emotion into this piece it's incredible! Great use of the horns as well! Makes me think of some kind of graveyard scene at the end of a war movie.

Very impressive!

chrishaigh responds:

Thanks Denny that means alot coming from you mate

[Mysterious Roots]

Very nice!

Great piece man! I really dig the use of percussion here, really makes me want to go on an expedition. It's very well arranged and it sounds like a professional production, great job!

And yes, professional equipment is pretty darn expensive although I think Eastwest has some pretty good deals to offer lately.

10/10 scarabs from me ;)

race1 responds:

Thanks. Yeah it really wasn't that expensive and I got two other livraries with it. yay.

I have another piece I'm working on but I don't know if it's ready yet.

I really want to get the strings from Vienna symphonic Library but I'm 281 dollars short (the full price) of getting them.

Thanks for listening.

["Joker" Gotham Menace]

Great

Hey Kaiyoti, great to see you on NG as well! Amazing music as always, I absolutelly love the synths (self-programmed?) in this track. Hope you're going to upload some of your other music as well. I guess you got some pretty cool stuff to show.

Take care!

~Denny

KaiyotiMusic responds:

Thanks Dan... I only use custom made patches :)

[L&M Logo 2008]

Very nice!

I really liked this one, my only suggestion is to do a bit of equalization. Try to turn the area around 600Hz down by 2 - 3 dB and higher 15000Hz by 1 - 2 dB or so. This should give you a very clear result if that was intended. ;)

Apart from that it was awesome, keep it up man!

SHADOWFOX2 responds:

Equalization huh? I was going for more of a surround/stereo type feel, instead of the one I had before where the panning was there, but it didn't really sound "real". Clear is good though, glad to know there's a music expert critique guy out there who, with a familiar name, probably has a good share of music! Thanks for your thoughts!

[~Symphony of the Night~]

Carouselish =O

Okay, it's probably a bit too happy for Resident Evil at the beginning, nothing bad though. I really liked the twist in the middle, sounded like something was comming.

By the way did you use a keyboard? Sounds pretty much like that. Hope you're getting forward with your new compositions as well, can't wait to hear them! ;D

Cosmos8942 responds:

I would absolutely LOVE to get 'forward' with my new compositions...but without a computer to work on I am unable to do so (not my computer right now). So for the time being I have to simply sit here and allow all the tunes I have to roll around in my head.

I did not use a keyboard, rather I have a program that has many very nice samples on it that I can use. That and I mess around in FL studio until I get something that sounds good (FL is not the program :P).

Thanks for the review...always love getting reviews...even more so when they are from those that I love (music wise!...Don't want anyone to think that I am wierder than I actually am...stalker wise O.o)

Thanks though :D,
-AJ-

[The Morning After]

Not bad actually

Great to see that you've started writing. From what I've heard I can definitely tell that you got the required something that is needed to compose. I really like this piece, reminds me of the good old SNES times actually (which isn't supposed to be bad). Your sense for melodies is really good, just go on and try to grow with every piece! =)

Cosmos8942 responds:

:O...its Danman :D,:D:D:D. How's it going? ^^;. Anyhow I don't have too much to say here other than this is but the beginning (awhile back >.>). Just you [and everyone else] wait until I get back on and start my composing again...hoho...just because I have been gone doesn't mean that I won't be able to write something masterful.

Thanks alot for the review (seriously), you are one of those that I strive to match.
-AJ-

[Remember my Name - part 1/2]

Epic to the bone

Hey there, here comes my delayed review. Better late than never I suppose ;)

1/2

The build up at the beginning is great, the listener is able to feel that something is comming, something of large scale. The choirs have this great "pre-apocalyptic" atmosphere, you really know how to evolve feelings, these short staccato strings are telling me that. The part in the middle comes up with great atmospherical setting, I especially enjoyed the part with the horn around 2:10. Just holding the tension for the next loud passage that follows around 4 mins, definitelly a great part and probably my favorite in this piece.

2/2

Now this has some style, I really dig the downfall of your instruments at the beginning. The part after that is amazing (yes, amazing ;D), would sound even better if you had better instruments, but realism beside. The melody of the high staccato violins is quite catchy, you did a great job on building this part overall. There are simply no flaws or parts were I would have said "Naaa, still needs some work". Great choral parts as usual, you really got a hand for those.

Two times 5/5 by me, this is an incredible piece!

madboss responds:

Wow... thanks a lot for spending your time writing a review for me. You know I after your work I've heard from you on NG I think you really got talent and your opinion is important for me.

I'm really happy that you liked this music. It took an awfull lot of time to compose it from the beginning to the end. Not to mention that I've started to compose it two times...

So thank you for your points and for this review. As far as I manange to get some free time I'll visit your page and write some review for your tracks too - even if you dont have new ones because there are a lot of tracks that I've missed!

[The Beautiful Savage]

Beautiful indeed

First of all, I really like the clean mastering of this production. I mostly stumble upon tracks that are poorly mastered, it´s one very important aspect if you ask me. The mix between orchestral and new age elements is really good, the lo-fi percussion added a rather modern touch to it, which is great. You also came up with some great harmonics here, quite enjoyable at all.

I´ll put an end here because this review is spontaneous. Try keep it up and make something out of it, you got everything that is needed.

MilkMan-Dan responds:

Thanks for the spontaneous review. I agree mastering is very important and I'm rather amatuer at it, but this one really stood out. Glad you liked the song mate and thanks again.

MMD