JimmyTheCaterpillar's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[tripping over]

it's got some strong pieces to it -- i think the way that you employ this sort of glitch effect is varied and remains interesting throughout the piece,, and I also like the little melodies/arpeggios sprinkled in. i can see what you mean by out of ideas, i feel the piece lacks cohesion in its elements but, idk i can see the effort and the skills being employed -- i know shit's hard rn, but the important thing is that you're still putting in the work! that's hype af, you got it!

[Blind Faith]

i love this. i love how much you stretched this atmosphere and i think you did so very successfully. the climactic portion of the song shreds out of the intro and the transition is honestly so lovely and cool!!!!!!!! it seems there is some off-beat stuff throughout this final portion though, it's quite subtle but i hear it specifically at around 3:42-3:46.

thank you so much for making and sharing this! it's awesome

OPFX responds:

Good ears! Thanks for listening!

[Opoxori - Skill]

need to hear this in the club bad!!!

i think this track is soooo killer and i love it and thank you for making it!! the start to 1:10 is basically flawless.

I love what's happening at 1:24-1:42, though it hears just almosttt off-the-rails, very loosely-contained.

super fun work, i love how much you mangled the sample :D

Opoxori responds:

Thank you very much one day I will put this up live :3

[didnt mean to]

i LOVE these woodpecker DRUMS !!! C:

[AIM - HardTech2009 - Corrupt Module]

i love how you juice the intro for everything it's got -- i loved that build-up and it really amped me for most of the track.

even though i didn't specifically dislike it, i felt that the dnb loop was a little like.. cliche? idk, the whole track drips with its own flair and style -- the dnb felt out-of-place... that said the faint, kinda yadadayadadya yammering underlaid with the dnb loop was really cool,, i liked it!

also i fucking love your alt cover art for the piece!!! so so so cool :D

CorruptModule responds:

Thanks! Yeah i do get what you mean by the loop being cliché. Since i wanted to go for that og feel i kinda just went for something that feels familiar. I do think I could’ve put more effort for that originality but i was vibein so hard it would hard for me to change it. I’ll work on more stuff like this later and I’ll make sure to go bonkers with the dnb loop next time.

Im glad you liked the art. Ive seen a ton of dnb mix and albums with that style i wanted to make my own.

Thanks for the review tho I really appreciate the criticism. Have a good one lad.👍

[Cat Destroyer & Lunulata - Journey To A Unknown Star]

I love the playfulness in this track, and how it gets a little dulled over time into something more eerie. you consistently switch up the sounds and their loops so that it never gets dull. Thank you for sharing, I like this! it really is a progressive journey!

CatDestroyer04 responds:

Thank you! I'm very happy that you liked the track (>u<)

[When you're playing baseball in the field with your friends but it's getting dark out and Mom is cal]

LOVE THE PAN FLUTE HERE AHH what a perfect addition to what the first half of the song builds up. Very very indicative of childhood neighborhood nostalgia. Very dusk. Very cool! I wish it had more of a cohesive ending -- but I imagine it might have been intended as a loop? Anyway, thank you for sharing!

TurtleBox420 responds:

Yup! This track and another track were used as Day and Night loops for a small little backyard baseball inspired game on Itch. I don't know if the game released yet, I don't play a lot of video games to be honest.

Oddly enough I think there was a point where I experimented with having both tracks (both of which are around 1:09 for loop purposes) have a section near the ends and starts that would blend them together, this ended up not working out when the Developer just made Day and Night two different game modes as opposed to giving the game a functional in game day / night cycle.

[Odo Lost]

I love the sharp droning at :27. This track is DRENCHED in eerie and dread. I love how sharp everything is, the synth lead, the horn cutting in the background. I love how the melody continues throughout the song. I feel like the mixing could have been a bitttttt better, but, as an emulation of 70-80 years ago, I respect the presentation. I really enjoyed this!

TurtleBox420 responds:

The Synth is actually a cello I own pitched up. Mixing this was incredibly challenging, as we develop the soundtrack for this project I find myself experimenting with more and more different ways to emulate the sound of the original Godzilla OST.

Trying to recreate the analog soundspace of something like the original record is a bit wild. Things end up sounding to artifical or way to low fidelity to be pleasing for modern viewers.

Did a bit of research on how tracks like Deadly Broadcast were "mixed" back in 1954 and the overall soundtrack and tried to apply a lot of that to the tracks going forward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTdH2bkGS6M&list=PL3c2UQa5GRqOaQF3x_My5x_L0KYQqdh2k&index=15

We took a lot at the Diagetic music within the film and sort of tried to replicate a mix of that with the actual recorded soundtrack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGZQhbdX8jk&list=PL3c2UQa5GRqOaQF3x_My5x_L0KYQqdh2k&index=26 The more blatant "This is composed horror" we could get the better but it was super hard to really find a strong foot with this and the other tracks we worked on that day.

I'll have more posted here from this project soon hopefully. Mixing High Fidelity audio and trying to find EQ settings that that further set the mix back 100 years is such a challenge, but I'm learning a lot from it.

The best piece of advice I could give for recreating stuff like this is do NOT use filters, lol. They're way to front and center and sort of just feel way to pushed as opposed to just layering a bunch of different instruments with higher shelved EQs.

I'll do some screenshots of the mixes of these on my Patreon when the project is done probably.

[Amigo]

I think this is a pretty fun track! I love how full and crunchy everything sounds. I really enjoy how it fades out into singing, which I imagine is one of the samples, I think it creates an atmosphere that is city-drenched and kinda cyberpunky, almost. As a soundtrack piece for a game, I think this is very strong.

(as an aside, I sense bitterness when I read that most ppl won't "get" this music. it reads as generally unproductive and kinda tragic. I love weird shit. let people appreciate if and when they will, yk? i'm grateful to hear your efforts regardless.)

TurtleBox420 responds:

There's no bitterness at all, there's a lot of freaks like me on NewGrounds who just really want to make weird shit like this over stuff that would typically get front paged or scouted quickly. There was a period online where places like NG and /mu/ were basically just homes to people making the most weird and non-traditional compositions and all I mean is that I miss that era of online music sharing.

A lot of what we see on NewGrounds today is similar in a lot of ways, and I don't think anything's wrong with that but I personally wish more people would experiment with weird software like Amigo and weirder daws like Bitwig with absurd FX generators and stuff.

I think it's safe to say from my behavior that I truly love music and music composition, I'm just sort of old enough to know that most people won't understand a lot of stuff in this more experimental lane, and that mostly comes from writing a ton of really far out ambient albums lol.

[Friends]

i really like the sense of the progression in the song! The way the song mostly continues forward without looping back on itself too much seriously aids to a sense of nostalgia evoked in the listener as they kind of imagine alongside the song.

I thought the little lead bit around 2:20 was super cute too.

I feel that the song could be just a little shorter, it drags a biiit toward the end and in parts here and there, but overall it is a very pleasant listen, and I think you definitely achieved what you set out to do,, so nice job! Keep going :D

PotangNG responds:

I agree completely with what you said about the length, I think I might have milked the melodies a bit much haha! I'm glad you liked the lead bit, that's one of my attempts at sound design (which I am a complete beginner at). Thanks for taking a listen!