50Steaks's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[sunshower]

Pumping out bangers faster than the media pumps out horrific sounding headlines. Yet another clean track with a catchy melody, top notch structuring and mixing, and something I would listen to while doing honestly anything at all. An underappreciated feature of your songs is the length; around 2 minutes works so well. I just have one little knack about the outro: it happens suddenly and since the track flows so well you almost expect it to keep going. Other than that great job here, keep it up.

wilidacious responds:

thank you! i always have trouble with endings, they either seem too sudden or prolonged, i will try to set my mind on improving this for 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚!

[Made of Ruby]

How did you get your music available for GD?

[Panda Eyes - Colorblind]

@KalTheMan replace the second line, “with colors painted on” to “are you the same as us”

[coral]

“Don’t think about listens”? Lol this guy gets thousands per song and for good reason.
Pumping out tracks faster than someone posts news about covid. Impressive considering that they all are equally amazing and have great theming. This is no exception: a simpler track in terms of amount of instruments but that works given that underwater things are so much more peaceful and calming. I just have a small issue with the outro: it ends quite suddenly relative to your other tracks, given that this sounds like a water theme for a game maybe it could have been a loop of some sort rather than ending as it does now. But overall great job as always.

wilidacious responds:

haha, i am grateful when anyone listens! it amazes me every time, and if i could organize my thoughts in writing without second-guessing, i would better express the scope of my gratitude. thanks again for the kind words!

[Centre of the Stage]

Missed this one in my inbox for some reason.
Anyways I love the jazzy feel of the background chords, almost feels like a group of dancers dancing to some ballet type thing (great explanation I know). This quietish thing at 1:18 is really near and I think new to your style although I could be wrong. Absolutely adore the glissandos, they really add a lot of uniqueness and as a string player I know how fun they can be to play. Really well done.

Tangerine responds:

Thanks. My vision while making this is of a small jazz group performing a gig in some casino (I say small but there's quite a few instruments there). I completely agree, Glissandos are loads of fun to do.

[Gliding through the Clouds]

Oh look it’s choir in the background. Very fancy sounding melody, especially when the guitar comes in. Fancy as in grandiose and sounding like a banquet for royalty music. Again, using both sides of the “cello spectrum” (high and low notes) makes that part sound really emotional. The whole song is emotional to be honest, which makes sense given the title. Very well done, I like this more than falire.

[Creo - Ahead of the Curve]

Still my absolute favorite creo song. Everything is perfect here. The percussion is extremely unique, the song isn’t too short or long, the saxophone is done better here than even in Dimension or red haze, the 12/8 time signature is really original, drops are sudden but really catchy nonetheless, I don’t have any complaints. A little sad to see you give up on saxophone recently when this is the potential of the instrument.

[Creo - Wavelight]

Cello! Love the dnb type situation and the song’s progression is really good too, and the strings sound natural and like they were recorded in a studio instead of a bad soundfont.

[i made a song using only a soviet era drum machine]

A strange idea indeed. It somehow works with the feeling of the song, which is almost the opposite of what you’d expect from percussion.

ADR3-N responds:

So there are two settings on the synth itself, a noise on and off, that allow you to essentially turn the 808 into a lead with about an octave and a half of usable range. And then there's an approach modulator that you use to take away some of the typical percussive laser noises of 808 drums and flatten them out. The oscillators aren't even, just like the original drum machine, so I had to use mild pitch correction. Then there are gaps in the octaves covered, so pitch shifting to the rescue haha.

Basically this song was made in the FX, but I had a fun time with the limitations of using only one instrument for every element of the track

[cirrus]

The song’s called cirrus but I’m getting a nautical vibe instead of being in the high clouds; and that probably works to its benefit. This sounds even deeper than Indigo depths and almost feels like a bit of a follow-up, which to be honest is fine with me. It has progression in its sound effects and percussion, something that’s unique to your trancey-ambient style of music as far as I know. The sounds are REALLY well done here, especially with the atmosphere building in the background that most don’t notice but adds a lot to the quality. Outro was again really nice and I think I could learn a thing or two from your outros since I have had a lot of problems making it not end abruptly or feel like it wasn’t finished. Anyways this review is getting too long, take your stars, nothing else to say.

wilidacious responds:

thank you so much! you are actually spot on with the nautical vibes, the image i had in mind was clouds on the horizon line over the ocean on a late spring afternoon, but i like ambiguity!