50Steaks's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Pumpkin King]

I guess we both have really good Halloween tracks lined up right now.

This is phenomenal. Unlike with autumn wind, the discordant choir PERFECTLY fits with the theming. I’m not sure if you’re a nightmare before Christmas fan, but I could also picture a headless horseman type pumpkin king, especially at the very end with the rapid fire dissonant chords. It actually feels like I’m being chased and I have to run for my life. I also love the violin solo and the muffled piano.

I don’t honestly have any major critiques with this. Everything is so well done and incredibly tightly composed. You had a vision and went for it. Gotta love your trumpet soundfont, I think it’s actually better than musescore 4 which is saying a lot.

Now as I was saying, I’ve almost finished my Halloween piece. It started as a simple addition to the my singing monsters remix series I was doing, but it’s morphed into something entirely new. I think you’re going to love it. I want it to release on Halloween itself

Tangerine responds:

Thanks! I used to watch Nightmare Before Christmas a lot as a kid.

Yeah haha, after making autumn wind, I wanted to lean into the spookiness as much as I possibly could. It is probably also what made the climax of this song the most unique out of all of my songs.

Thanks, the trumpet vst I used is the Spitfire Studio Brass solo trumpet. I've also started using spitfire studio woodwinds for the woodwinds because I love their sound.

I can't wait for your track. Are you going to submit it for the spooktacular this year? All you gotta do is add halloween2023 to the tag of the song.

[Autumn Wind]

I thought I reviewed this already, sorry about that.

This is probably one of my favorite tracks from you since the carnival one. The melody here is just so fun to listen to. The main criticism I have with this is the choir: I don’t think it fits the vibe you’re trying to go for. Anything you put the choir in sounds really nice, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t see the thematic connection between the calming winds of fall, orange and red trees dotting the landscape with the rustles of their leaves overhead, walking down a trail as dusk swiftly approaches, illuminating the sky with a purple to orange gradient connects with the battle-driven hardy sound of the choir soundfont you used. That was a REALLY long sentence lol.

But I like the way the song flows. The transition into the final climax, with the swift crescendo, I think fits really well. The outro is cool too. But my absolute favorite part has to be 2:37-2:50. I adore the flute there; this is what I imagined when I think of the scenario above. Overall, great job, although I think there’s a chance you’re using choir a bit too much recently.

Tangerine responds:

It's nice to hear from you 50. I feel like I could have executed the second section of the song better if I built up to it a little bit more. Maybe bringing in the choir earlier or switching the first half of it out with the strings.

The reason why I went so hard with the choir is because I was planning on making this my song for the spooky season, so I planned to make a slightly spookier section. But in hindsight with my actual spooky song, this was sort of not needed.

Honestly, 2:37-2:50 is my favorite part too. Though, I've listened to it so much that the flute sounds flat to me haha.

[-Wildflowers-]

Okay you’ve posted 119 songs at this point, I think you deserve someone to scout you. I’ll be that person I guess
This shows great potential, but it is just a little too consistently dissonant for my liking. I am a fan of the percussion though.

Creeperforce24 responds:

Yeah, I’m not that good at pure orchestra yet, mainly in adding orchestral instruments into my tracks. I feel I will get better, thanks.

[EFFUGIUM]

For the record, you’ll have to DM a GD mod if you want to get your songs in there. Do that through the discord and you’ll be fine

Sileudies responds:

yeah, thats the reason i uploaded this. they wanted another song up so they could confirm i was not a bot

[underscores - trustfall!]

Really only made decent by the GD level accompanying this. You get to join the nighthawk isolation club of songs only made good by GD levels

[over]

These are some weird spacey sound effects you got going on. It sounds like two pans being rubbed together, or when you run your fingernails on those metal grooved benches at a high school football game. The song itself is actually solid but I wish it had some more development

[life is just a loop]

I've heard that beginning few notes before from somewhere else. Unfortunately the development of the structure is not great.

I just realized where I heard it, it was a DHMIS song named Father's Day.

NitroOrient responds:

this song is kinda bad tbh. nowhere near as good as other songs like this

[jumper]

Okay but this is actually good and I could see someone finishing and developing this into a full song. I'm not joking. The distorted pad thing at the end is really cool sounding, it's just too short and repetitive.

[transient]

Harmonically, this 1 measure repeated 8 times is the most complex so far! I like the little note at the end.