durn's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Blue Mood [Ambient]]

sooooo ambient

loved it. everything about it. from the fullness of the decay on the piano to the quick filter cutoffs you do at a minute in.

just... ah, so lovely. :) it feels like the long drive home after working outside in the glorious face of mother nature all day. tired, sore, but fulfilled.

glad I checked your stuff out. :) nice song man.

landscapers1 responds:

I was in a blue mood while making this, lol ^-^. Thanks for the helpful review durn!

[I wanna be Pro (sample)]

you've got talent

sounds really good, bit too much echo on the vocals. sorry if I came across like a jerk on my other review. :) had just never heard anyone rap about video games before. it's a new and different generation comin' up though, so there'll prolly be plenty of it in time. :D

D90 responds:

naw bro, its all good, i appreciate all reviews negative or bad, thanks a ton

[Helth-MH16: Heaven Is CloseWIP]

A-w-e-s-o-m-e-!-!-!

Congrats on a truly inspiring collaboration, you two. :) After hearing this I fully expected the original, Heaven is Close, to be an electronic track. To hear that Helth took a beautiful symphonic tune and turned it into some killer house is just awesome. :)

A little over-compressed at times (specifically 2:22 or so, the fullness of the pad goes a little nasty on the ears, around 3:20 or so as wel, bit much) and I don't like how the reverse kick is side-chained, it adds a weird hole to the sound. the rest of this song is just beautiful.

I was gonna give a nine due to the problems but decided they're so minor, and really, you two deserve a 10 on this. :)

Way to go, guys!

FairSquare responds:

Thank you!
And Helth deserves most credit for this, really.
I appreciate your review :D

[Death Knight]

whitest Submission EVER

lol, sorry, so geeky. I love it but am curious as to whether this is supposed to be a joke? like, it seems like something lonely island would do in jest... it IS a joke, right?

Right??!?

[{Vic} Minding my mind]

aye, coulda expanded the melody a bit

use some alternating chords when it's just the piano. would break up the monotony a bit. otherwise everything else is sick. :) nice stuff, man. very laid back, could see some very intelligent rhymes being dropped over top of this.

ZOMGBIE responds:

Thanks a lot. I was trying different things to do to break up the monotony in those parts, but nothing really worked. I guess I just need a bit more time to really figure out what I wanna do. I will give the alternating chords a shot though. (I don't know why that didn't occur to me.)

[Monodisc - Transcendent WIP]

oh, that piano melody is so nice

like a dream. I like this a lot. :) should definitely keep working on this one. started off a bit slow for my liking but I loved that weird synth you brought in to bridge the piano notes kinda reminded me of boards of canada style sound. actually, ya. the whole song. very boards of canada. :) awesome!

tijnn responds:

Oooh ya!

That's what i want to hear, thanks for the kind review (:

[Quarl- Empirical]

Kees pleh?

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Quarl responds:

?llew sa redro ni sdrawkcab eb ecnetnes eht ni sdrow eht t'ndluoW

[Nostr0mo]

sounds like a movie score

love the lead synths you picked. very 80s. not sure why you picked goth as genre, this could easily be used in a video game. :)

digital-musician responds:

ahh. now that you mention it. thanks for the review.

[March w/ Decay]

eq the feedback

kinda a bit much. nice effect but could be eq'd to sound a lot nicer and not so ear-bleeding. :) build up to that, if that's the effect you are looking for, all the time just makes it hurt :p

otherwise I like it.. kinda weird how it dissolves at 2:30 or so in, not sure if those're wrong notes or intended.

a lotta reverb at times, kinda muddies the sound too. tone down the intensity of the effects a bit and this'll be a bit better. :)

[.:Dream Chaser]

stretches the mind

at first I was like "this doesn't sound right" but then upon listening to it through again ithe notes all flowed... it just took my mind a bit to adjust, weird and neat. :) I like it.