Cyberdevil's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Free of Charge]

This is so good. So seasonally suitable too... atmospheric stuff, dope instrumental!

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SteveMaddenFootball responds:

Super thank you!

[Tunetober24 #26]

Comb filter huh, good to know the terminology behind the sound. :) Gotta give Valhalla supermassive a try too...

This was really nice. Usually you tend to make tracks build towards an endpoint, just realizing now that maybe there are faults to that norm, building down all the way instead really feels way more soothing, it's not like you need the common plot progression of say a story or movie in music, you don't have to have a crisis and resolution here, a structure that reflects natural progression works fantastic, and this really is the natural progression for winding down, I can really feel my stress dissipate and leave my body. I wonder how much that has to do with the sound and how much it has to do with the structure. Would it work as well without one or the other. Is this just the perfect balance somehow...

So good. Think I might be coming back to this for potential meditation/relaxation purposes...

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[Tunetober24 #25]

Mmm I think this one turned out great though, sense of obligation or no, hopefully you still feel like you're improving with 'em, even if it's an established style at least these recent ones have IMO felt hella polished. Some of the earliest were maybe all the more ambitious, I don't know, but this doesn't feel lazy at all, feels complete; like you're really putting everything into every one lately...

The scratchin' and stuff with the second half in particular here was really good. I believe you asked F-o-D how he did a similar thing with one of his grooves earlier, curious if you got a response there; if this could be based on that? Or your own approach? How do YOU do that? It reminds me a bit of Linkin Park's Hahn type scratchin' from the Re-Animation era. Very cool.

Keep it up dude! Almost at the finish and still deliverin' quality content 100%!

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[Tunetober24 #24]

If you think this is easy you really have mastered the craft man. :D It doesn't sound easy!

I love the coolness the sound has to it too, that icy nature of it all, with ParagonX9 or chainsaw_09 too I always really liked those tracks the most, something about the high notes; the crispness and clarity and soothing nature of it all... I love the style.

Both atmospheric and energetic.

Another dope one!

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[Tunetober24 #23]

Oh this was FIRE! In the coolest way. The longer it goes the more I'm jumping in my seat, with the dnb and jittery beat, feast for the knees, feel of the freeze, a little violin-like streak of defeat in the background, although the race goes on, the chase; the crazy pace to the finish...

Though it's not super long it really feels complete too; really goes through the stages on the way. Transitions seamlessly. Keeps bopping. Stays ferocious too. This is the kind of music I could be making things to (I mean like actually getting some work done, whatever the due, proper audial fuel)... and it sounds new!

One of my favorites so far this year! VERY NICE.

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[Tunetober24 #22]

The angriness does not show though, I thought... oh there it comes. XD

Such a fascinating mixture of ambience and aggressiveness, though even the ambient parts seem to have a somewhat higher tempo than usual, amping up the sense of distress a bit in advance... feels like the dnb bit sound's a little muddled maybe, but then again that probably just ups the sense of aggression too.

Also interesting Asian/Middle Eastern kind of flare on that main melody, flows together nicely...

Dope work dude.

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[Butter Beat]

Oh this is dope! Gritty, bassy, and so smooth... percussion's on point too.

Is butter a metaphor hmmmmmm... I'll se what I can do!

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Father-of-Death responds:

I mutter that butter is making me shutter, I am the butter cutter, I can slice it with a ..... rudder?

[Picochu's Theme]

This was soulful! Wonderful work y'all! Though a little short... it's almost like an introduction.

Y'know, little personal jingles like this would be a very cool thing in podcast intros, if they don't take too long to make hmm...

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SteveMaddenFootball responds:

Yes, that's something I'm thinking about having music in the podcast.

[Tunetober24 #21]

Dang man you managed this in just fifteen minutes?! Your time use is impressive...

Though when you said 'cheap ambient track' I wasn't expecting the ambience to be fully this ambient I must admit, kept waiting for the shift, or the jump, or something... it didn't. XD I am intrigued how you actually make something like this though, technically, it keeps reverberating for so long, is there no limit to reverberation, could you theoretically have something like this just play endlessly, a single note to infinity... but then I wonder how simple it is; how much nuance there is to keeping the sound alive after all, it seems there's more than one layer but I can't really break the structure apart; hear individual ones... actual white noise/atmospheric kind of ambience in back + synth?

Glad you didn't take the L man. :) This was interesting... and not bad either, soothing, simple albeit.

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[dragon poop]

Killed it too! Killer dragon doodoo dude.

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