50Steaks's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tsunami]

I probably would have rated this higher of ASN didn’t exist, but here we are. I see this as the precursor to that song, having a really catchy baseline and chords but a not so catchy melody. “Beginner music producer” my ass, you know how to mix better than I ever could and have been doing this for 5 years. Every song improves on the last, or tries something completely new, and that has to be respected. A lot of artists made 3-4 really good songs like 3 years ago and their modern songs kinda suck ( F-777, TheFatRat, pretty much every geometry dash artist) or aren’t producing anymore (dimrain47, xtrullor, bossfight, foreverbound, etc). I hope you’re whitelisted by Robtop soon because all this music is going underappreciated.

[A Note to My Lost Lover]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard so much emotion and effort put into a musescore track. It works! Somehow it works! I can see how people would sympathize with this song and start bawling. I didn’t though because I never had a gf. ;(

theweathermanYT responds:

I’m glad you enjoyed! On the other piece I used a separate soundfont and echo settings so yeah I’ll stick to these lmao. It’s always much better to not have a gf than to have a bad one like I did ;(. I’m excited to hopefully see your return to my future pieces! :)

[The Hope for Someday]

Really good intentions with this song. But I don’t want to let that impression stand in the way of an honest review, so here goes.
Everything sounds pretty good until 2:45 with frankly... less than optimal brass sounds going on. It begins to emanate musescore; I’ve used it before and it has questionable sounds so I don’t blame you. Also, at 3:30 it sounds really nice, actually that might be my favorite part. Every melody is perfectly fitting to commemorate a friend and I respect that. Finally, at 0:59 there is a weird note there but idk. Other than those pretty minor complaints, really good work.

theweathermanYT responds:

Thank you so much for the honest review! Yeah it’s in MuseScore... I wish I could help the sounds this program spits out. The review is much appreciated! I’m glad you enjoyed :)

[QTZ]

Ok I checked your old account because I can relate to losing an old account; happened to me twice over the past... almost 3 years. I found that you once tried to make music but gave up because the “site” you used was garbage. I’m beginning to see the backstory here. If I could give a recommendation, I’d recommend getting some actual software to produce your... audio... I’m sure it would turn out far better than stuff like this. Judging it as a song, it is not very good. Judging it as audio, it’s audio. I could say that any objectively baseless song on newgrounds is good because it’s audio and not music; obviously newgrounds doesn’t say “upload audio” to literally mean any audio file, although that is technically allowed don’t expect it to be well received. These are just my thoughts, don’t take me too seriously( I have no idea about the inner workings of the site or anything

Edit: to your reply I said “...audio...” in response to you saying on my first review ever on your songs that it “wasn’t meant to be music”, this also explains why I said “judging it as audio”. Also I literally said at the end to NOT TAKE ME SERIOUSLY no I wasn’t trying to insult you and no my review on End was not sarcastic I actually can see artistic intent behind that song. In terms of how to improve... I don’t know, how would anyone know? I just randomly found you on the audio portal and didn’t know what to expect going in. Also also, I only left this specific review on this song as more of a general message than review the song, but didn’t want to sound confrontational with a DM.

Silios-Desai responds:

first of all, I didn't lose my old account, I switched because i sure as hell wasn't gonna pay to change the name. I don't remember "giving up", but the site i was using *back then* was terrible. what I'm using now is fucking amazing (to me), although limited. I literally just started making music, and I'm comfortable with what I have. most programs I have used are frustrating and confusing. I can make my music however I want to make it, and just because its shit doesn't mean what I'm using is shit, its that I don't have practice. also, you say "judging it as audio" which means i assume you don't think this is meant to be a song. I tried pretty fucking hard on this one, and you just telling me it isn't good without telling me how to actually improve is kind of insulting. don't expect everyone to be a musical genius.

edit: when reading this over again, i noticed what you said about my music around the middle of the paragraph. "getting some actual software to produce your... audio..." this feels like the goal was to insult me. not even calling it a song, or music. if that was your goal, then go fuck yourself. if you WERENT trying to insult me, then i wanna know why you said it that way.

[Theory of F# Minor]

Probably my 2nd best song on this account. It’s original, catchy, and silly. Really good for restoring the glory of this account after Shepard’s tone and piano abyss kinda tarnished it. I actually quite like this song. (not anymore)

[Piano abyss]

Remember how I said on a review on a song from DustifiedGD that lunar abyss remix was deleted? Well I thought I could resolve the internal conflict within myself about deleting such a popular song by releasing this. It didn’t help. I just took lunar abyss and solar abyss and mashed them up, but only the melodies and made it piano. Not a good recipe for a song.

[Shepard’s tone]

This was a joke song because I stopped taking my own account seriously. Actually what happened was I watched a YouTube video about Shepard’s tone, and so tried to make a beat out of it. Then I gave up and made the lousy ending it has now, since Shepard’s tones aren’t supposed to end. It’s just not a good sign for the future of this account to see this as my most recent post.

Albin3825 responds:

Holy hell I think this might be the worst song I’ve ever released.

[Papers, Please Remix]

Papers please bias aside, I would not rate this song very high. The best moment in the whole song is 1:42, with the relatively complicated baseline. The final drop is lacking some serious mixing. It’s not a good song. But it’s not terrible either. It’s just weird.

[Shostakovich - Waltz 2 Remake]

Pretty much the spiritual successor to At the carnival. Not much to say, it’s unoriginal and bland