SpoonMix's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Moonlight Crisis (feat. Madison Sheen)]

...speechless <3 <3 SUPER LOVE the voice!! 10 stars!! Possibly the best song I've heard on NG so far. Love the modulations too!

Preds responds:

thanks!!

[Lashmush - Ocean]

...saw you on Discord. I like your style! <3

Lashmush responds:

Thanks for the kind words, always nice to hear people appreciate what I do. c:

[Softboy7 & FlowerBoyDeMii - Dreamwave]

...at first, I thought it sounded like the music from the movie "The Beach", and then the beats came in... WOW!! This is gorgeous! ..and way better!!

Softboy7 responds:

Thank you so much!! :D

[D.E.A.F]

Amazing! Can't imagine being partially deaf at birth. What's it like making music that you can barely hear?

music69012 responds:

Good question!
Well since i was born deaf and only deaf member in the family,
I did wear hearing aids since i was little so without it, the only thing i could hear is loud as a motercycle going past me.
Hearing aids have actually helped me, and music have actually changed my life from a shy and couldn't really speak as well to a confident, creative, loving and talkative person.

Have some lovely teachers who help me learn music as i am a piano players, and i kinda kept improving so far every-time, like improving mixing, key recognitions, what to layer, and what
genre should i do.

Any other questions?

[Universal Pulse]

The bass not landing on the one at the beginning got me interested, and the time signature change from 3/4 to 4/4 was a surprise. Was that what actually happened? The drums came in awkwardly, I had to play this piece 5 times to try to figure it out. If I start somewhere in the middle of the intro, the bass lands on the one and is in 4/4. If I start from the very beginning, it sounds like it's in 3/4 with the bass not landing on the one. What is going on here? Maybe Adam Neely should do the figuring out for us. Love the chord progressions and the catchy melody. Simple; brilliant... Mysterious; puzzling!

Edit: The bass IS on the one. But not having it play at the start makes me count 3/4. And I didn't need Neely to figure it out for me. Whew!

BarbierDoesMusic responds:

Yup! It's in 3/4! What happens at the beginning is that the piano's melody hits on the second pulse of the measure, and since there's nothing else to guide yourself at the start, the entry of the bass makes you move again to figure out that the piano was always in the second pulse. I'm really glad you liked it!!

[Silhouettes (Instrumental) | AlphaStorm]

Like the sound of your guitars... Sounds good even on my crappy laptop speakers. Did you play into a real amp? You deserve more 5 stars... underrated for sure. Absolutely no problem with the mix too... Nice and thick wall of guitar goodness

AlphaStormMusic responds:

Thanks! I actually tracked all the guitars with Helix Native from Line 6* (edit)

[As Screaming Shadows Consume Us]

My only hope is that this creature doesn't show up in my dream and turn it upside down... I mean, music is music, but adding the visual... whoo. Stuff for movies. You must be a rockstar in the movie industry...

LD-W responds:

Ayy thanks! Yeah I composed this piece last year based both around the artwork inspiration, alongside the inspiration of being underneath a hallucinatory 'Paralysis Demon' styled sleep-paralysis episode from start to finish. Haven't been able to get into any scoring for film types of work yet, although I'd love to give it a go

[Lament Of Dissolving Angels]

Thanks for the share, LD. Yeah Trois was right, this can be disturbing. There's so much depth in this piece. I hate that instead of listening, I was trying to figure out what scale you were using... It sounded similar to the 'Lord of the Rings' opening theme, but dipped in acid. Don't tell me the correct answer, but it sounds like you were mixing up harmonic minor scales. Maybe one day I'd be able to compose using those :D

LD-W responds:

Telling you anyway since there's abit more going on than at first glance ;) The main pad was recorded live in Half-Whole Diminished, with said pad having two LFO's (one per layer) in a sine-pattern shifting the microtuning up and down by around half a semi-tone to somewhat throw listerners off what it really is haha

Half-Whole Diminished is pretty easy to remember tbh: it's just three different 8-key scales, with all the other 'modes' just being alternative starting points for those three scales. You could probably to learn how to compose & improv in that, in a day at most

[Necroswamp Abomination]

02:15 Amazing transition (all transitions are) 120GB of RAM! gulp! That's a lot (my workaround is to print to audio, I only got 16GB lol). Do you work with the piano roll or do you use notation? You are a genius! Beautiful work!

LD-W responds:

Thanks for checking the track out! Glad you like it

Yeah I'm an FL user and I do everything from a mixture of mouse & MIDI Live Recordings at high speed to get down thousands of notes per hour for these kinds of projects. Lead lines @ all speeds (including Legato's) are all typically done live at a lower buffer size straight from my MIDI Keyboard, and I'll do any manual stuff via mouse at a higher buffer size for extra CPU-overhead when processing everything later on (mouse-notasted stuff is always done after live-leads for me)

I tend to stack as much RAM as physically supported in my system so I can avoid having to bounce audio down to WAV's (one of my pet peeves in audio processing as a whole), to the point that I've got plans to get a second rack built up so I can double-up my total capacity again for some enormous projects in the future which make this AIM track look small ;)

[vertigo⅄sea]

Hey, so I want to try to build upon your work if I can, is that ok? If I make something good I'll post it on Newgrounds... If :D

nascene responds:

yeah sure you can remix my stuff if you want just give credit yada yada yada