Will's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Quag Quest]

Great to see you in the feed again!

[Starlight City]

Your mixing is great!

ZaneLittle responds:

Thank you!

[Frog Funk]

This is fantastic!

[Frida's Fascinations]

Love the castanets and the tango rhythm, not to mention the solos, keep it up!

[oxi_gen]

This is impressive stuff! Keep it up and you might have a promising future on this site dude

KawaiSprite responds:

i hope to do pretty well here i love newgwounds hehe

[Robot Wants a New Sax]

Clearly your prog rock roots can be applied to any style of music, it shines in this sickass acid jazz! I was laughing my ass off at the inhumanly fast sax solo, but you know what? You explained in the story that it's a robot, so there ya go.

Mackievellian responds:

Thanks for the review my dude, I'm glad it could give you a laugh

[K.K. Schmoovin [Jamuary Day 18]]

KK's been getting singing lessons from Boyfriend

milkypossum responds:

Nah K.K. is the blueprint. K.K. walked so boyfriend could run

[Machinations]

Fun and great mix! There we go!

ItsBurner responds:

We dit it !!! Thank you very much Will =]

~Burner

[Maracanã]

Hey, that's Take 5!

I love your compositions dude. Will say though, I personally feel like the ones I've heard sit in a weird gray area between chiptune and not. They have a really narrow mix and choice of instruments/drums that evoke chiptune, but none of the limitation. I think I'd like to see you either a) get into Famitracker and embrace the true 4-channel chiptune workflow or b) stick to the synth sound, but expand and widen your mixes, both horizontally (more stereo width) and vertically (deeper bass, higher highs, fuller frequency spread).

Keep it up!

ItsBurner responds:

Hello, Will, glad you like my work.
Thank you very much for your criticism, it's much appreciated (and I agree with all of it).
These "8-bit style tracks" are indeed not true chiptune as I've never bothered to learn tracker software (was intimidated by the interface), I've resorted to basic synthesizer sounds for the 8-bit "illusion", and also using bitcrushed drum samples for the rhythm part. Basically it's 8-bit sounds but not 8-bit music as it's all done in FL20, generally unmixed (the limiter is shielding my ears from a bad mix).

As a fun tidbit, I usually write my melodies this way and if it sounds good I move on to higher quality VSTs (M1, Wavestation, Diva) and take the time to mix and master, otherwise I just shelf it or lazily mix it for Newgrounds to test the waters.

Thank you !

~Burner

[Stasis]

Fantastic and so clean