EmperorCharlemagne's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[AOTGM - 1 - intro (8b)]

Wonderful concept

Great stuff, you can really shed a tear for the plight of the brittle and fragile glass man...

Keep soldiering on, Glass Man! Fight for everlasting peace!

Calamaistr responds:

well he fought for piece instead, as he dies when you finish the not existing (yet?) game.

seeing as.. battling the sunny weather might be tough for the glass man, battling oceanic plants and really really really small fishies might be tougher.. but battling a mine field while nukes are being dropped is just that little tid bit to much for the glass man??????

ohwell!!!!.

[[Dr.S] Time Trigger]

Nothing wrong with being nerdy!

Sorry for the late reply, but I've been mondo busy.

This is a really sweet mix of three beloved tunes. Nice industrial drums in the background, and I'm glad you switch up the drum loop every now and then; not doing so would make things just a shade boring.

Love the background synths and pads; they sound really cool, both figuratively and literally! In fact, the whole thing almost sounds like a "winter mix" or something like that.

Great stuff!

Dr-Slump responds:

Thanks Emperor!

By no means this was a late reply. Glad you answered! I too thought those synths and pads were specially cool. But not its literary sense. I thought it was summer cool... complete oposite haha.

I guess its good to have flexible interpretations. And now that you said it, i'm leaning more to the winter mix hehe. Anyways, thanks again and until the next one!

[Horizontal climbing (8 bit)]

lots of fun

I gotta say in all of your 8bit songs i REALLY love the sounds you use- they're always so damn crunchy and delicious, in contrast to my work which uses a lot more smoother sounds. Of the two, I prefer yours! : )
Love the harmonies on this one. The chords and contrapuntal stuff you put into this piece in particular put a grin on my face. Keep it up.

Anyhoo, as a small note, I've been pretty busy lately, so I'll try to leave some feedback on more of your works (which I have listened to; good stuff!) soon, hopefully.

Always a fan~

Calamaistr responds:

awesome man, yea you use different soundbanks but no biggie i have different soundbanks too but i always prefer the most crushed sounding, took me a while to find a good accurate famicon bank.
Atm i dont have fruityloops on my pc anymore but it will be installed. (my pc had to get new windows cause it died but a friend made sure i kept all my music and stuff.. pfew.. thought i was done)

Ill be looking forward to your reviews :)

[The Frozen Palace]

Nicely done!

Since I didn't listen with headphones on, the high-pitched noise didn't bother me that much, but I don't think it would have bothered me all that anyway if I did.

Always a reminder, and one I don't think you need to worry about too much, is that the higher the pitch a note is, the lower volume you need for it. The high pitch will carry itself, with or without massive amounts of velocity.

I liked how the song alternated between calm and more frenzied/driven; it created a nice dichotomy and made the song interesting to listen to.

I don't have anything really to critique; this is just overall pretty good. Keep up the nice work.

ShatterTheSky22 responds:

Yes, I've just started using that technique a little more in my newer songs (this is over a year old) to lower the volume of individual high notes as opposed to whole instruments.
And I'm glad you liked it. The intent was to be a character moving from the outdoors into like the battleground or something to that effect.
Thank you for the review!

[TSR Audio]

[Not Worth It (Thirteen Swells)]

Nice job

Good percussive-esque stuff in the background, like the metallic-sounding clashes.

Pretty droning, but not in a bad way- the song has a natural flow and rhythm that makes it pretty listenable. Perhaps you could have put a few (FEW) more varied instruments/synths/pads in there at some point, but I think this piece does fine as is.

treyhaur responds:

I spent about an hour trying to find another sound to work in there but I couldn't find anything that fit without overpowering or just completely clashing with the rest of the piece. Perhaps I gave up just a little too soon...

Thanks for the review!

Trey

[-Cadence-]

Nice Cadence

I think you could have done a little bit more fancy work, maybe do something with some quads or whatnot, but then again, that's my old days in the marching band coming out.

Pretty good all the same.

Par0xysM responds:

Actually, there is a quad part in there. It's just extremely hard to hear due to the fact that I had to utilize drum set toms instead of actual quad samples since I couldn't find any good ones. I initially made this as just a listen through so our drumline could get a feel for what I'd written. Thanks for the review!

[Electrical ants (8bit)]

Probably perfect in every way

Well, really, just, wow.

The percussion and percussive effects, and the rhythm section is fucking incredible.

The melody is interesting, progressive, abstract, yet rockin' and groovy the whole damn time.

The sounds themselves are fucking awesome, and there is not a single point of the piece that did not have me thinking "HELL YEAH!!!"

This is highly polished, professional, and just damned incredible. Many lauds to you fine sir.

Calamaistr responds:

and only two soundchips were used (aside from the percussion scratchys) :p
Initially only one even but added the soft chips later.

Yea i tried to keep the track constantly changing in a sense, taking out certain riffs replacing them with something else, sometimes even making a moment of silence in between for the sake of awesome.

Glad you liked it man. :)
-cal.

8 bit forever!

[Meta Knight's Revenge(GaMetal)]

pretty damn kickin'

I'm really impressed with how well-made this track is.

You redo the Brawl arrangement near perfectly, and all of the instruments sound good. There is perfect balance between rhythm, lead, and percussion here, and there is really nothing for me to point out specifically and say "this doesn't sound right."

Because it all sounds right.

Great job, and keep up the amazing work!

[DK Country 2 - Wasp Hive Remix]

Well done!

A nice update on a well-loved tune!

I always feel this song gets shafted for the excellent Bramble Blast track, so it's nice to see it get some love here.

I would have loved to here the main melody be a bit stronger (because I like it so much), but this is all in all a great track that gets my commendation.

Wonderful!