MSXOmega's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ballad of a detuned piano]

Wow. Great.

Your chords, even though they are pretty simple, blow me away. This sounds almost like it belongs in minecraft. Calming, yet weirdly chilling. Especially with the effects you put in. Overall, great song.

Eblanc responds:

Hey, thanks man. Really makes me happy to hear some comments.

Yeah, one of my favorites, It's got it's moments. Decent melody, and some pretty slick guitar noises. I sometimes forget it's a guitar that's making all that background sound and I ask myself "what the hell is that!?"

As for the melody, I forgot what it was, so I picked up my guitar and figured it out. I don't know if you understand the following, but here it is:

Cmaj7 to Dm7.

Bridge:

G7 | F7 | Em7 | Ebmaj7 | Dm7 | Dbmaj7 | Cmaj7

I did a bit of modulation in the bridge. Switched the Fmaj7 for a F7, to have Eb. and have that as a pedal note, and it also makes a bluesy bass melody. Learned that from Radiohead, they do a LOT of modulation.

[{SoulX} Last Stand]

Nice, a bit repetitive

I loved the build up, nice chord progressions. As the song went on, for some reason, the chord became major, and it sounded happy. Then the synth comes in at 1:29, and makes it distorted. It's a bit on the loud side, overpowering other instruments. Also, your percussion samples could be a bit better. It begins to get repetitive after a while though. Not neccessarily a bad thing, but 5 minutes of the same synth isn't exactly fun to listen to, is it? :P Also, there was no real climax, at any point in the song. I was waiting for some intense drums of synth to come in, but none did. D: I love the outro too. However, I felt the intro and outro didn't fit the song at all. Overall, nice song. Try to have some climax theory in your song to keep the listeners listening and interested. :D

DragonsoulX responds:

hmm, at least i can make changes, to it, i'm going to work on this one a bit more. but thanks for the reveiw. and yeah it kind of doesn't have a climax, so i'll try to see if i can find where it would belong. ty