Ackee39's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[~:Skyline:~]

Beutiful melodies, great pacing, wonderful drops... this is exactly the type of dubstep i like. Apart from windglass, this is my fav song of yours

[Against All Odds]

Havent heard from you in a while so this was a nice surprise. Nice little chill jingle, instruments are nice and i overall like the melody. Panning is a bit confusing and snare could be louder but apart from that this is very nice.

[Final Gamble (Revibe)]

Nice

[-Haunted woods-]

Pretty good song overall, i think its vibes are solid and **Comes to 1:14** HOLY CRAP THAT MELODY ITS OFFICIAL THIS IS THE BEST PRE-2014 SONG OF WATERFLAME WITH NO COMPETITION

[The View From Here]

This is so great! The melodies are greatly mastered, and flow smoothly from one to the other, the chord progression is great, and the sound design is like nothing i've seen; It's got this cool lyric-like design to it that I barely ever see, with all the curves and slides that change every note. And finally, a song that gets soft drums right. I'm normally very nitpicky on soft drums, but this song does it right; by making it stand out, despite being quietly mastered. I'm pretty mixed on the compression of the song, but I think that it adds to the synthwave-like vibe to the song so i'm cool with it. overall a great song that I'll definitely come back to

ChronoNomad responds:

Hey, it's awesome to see another review from you so soon, Ackee39! Really glad to hear that you enjoy the ride, man. I love being able to put my own personal spin on some cool Synthwave vibes. In fact, I often incorporate note slides and grace notes in my music, which - now that you mention it - I don't really hear all that often. I guess that's just me doing my thing.

I'm happy to hear that you dig the softer drums, especially since that seems to be a pretty rare opinion. While I'm not against hard-thumping beats (far from it), I try not to overdo it. Not everything needs heavy percussion to be impactful, and in this case I really wanted the musical elements to shine through without being overcome by drums.

It's not the first time compression was mentioned, and while I didn't really add compression to the final mix, I did use a lot of EQ effects and such on the instruments themselves, so I guess that's what makes it sound compressed. It's meant to have kind of dystopian sound, so it seems to work out well enough.

Thanks once again for a very detailed review! It's very much appreciated, and I hope you'll keep spinning my tracks. May you always enjoy the ride.

[Chill]

Nice progressive chiptune! Has a bit of a beta VVVVVV vibe, which i like. I think the arpeggio is a bit too loud though, which kinda messes with the vibe btu i still think this is pretty nice.

[Bump in the Nightmare]

An absolute banger! I love the vibes of this one! Feels a bit empty at parts but i like it that way!

ChronoNomad responds:

Very much part of the plan, I assure you! I do enjoy a bit of nuance to my haunting melodies...as do you, it seems! Much appreciated, Ackee39.

[Operation: Evolution]

This song is very meh, even for back then.

Let's start with the positives: The guitar solo on its own is pretty nice. In fact, everything on its own sounds okay at worst and great at best. The chord progression, while generic, is pretty good. I'm one of the people that like the bass-vocal thingy, And overall, the pacing for the first 75% of the song is pretty good.

But now we must get into the negatives: The synths are generic and like everything you ever do, the mixing on the guitar and the synths is especially atrocious, the drums are terrible, the random claps are way too crisp, the kick is washed out, the snare is almost nonexistent and is mixed terribly, and if I'm being honest the last 25% is atrocious and the ending is very unsatisfying, given to what it had been building up to

So I guess a mixed bag is an appropriate takeaway here. Go on, give me your angry reactions.

[Idiosyncrasy]

Really good! Only real complaint is that I wish the melody at the start would have been utilised more, at the moment it kind of exists and then doesn't, which is a shame because its freaking beautiful. But apart from that, this is really catchy and good, and has this great bounce vibe to it

[Snowy roads]

How do you make a 45 minute progressive, consistent, but engaging song that never feels too repetitive? How? I've seen a crap ton of inconsistent songs that get repetitive at around minute 4!