LucidShadowDreamer's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Immortal Fear]

Now this track, is really my style of stuff to listen to! A very tasteful choice of both chords and melody. It's a very emotional piece, which makes it all the better. You can see from the download ratio that this is a good composition, not only to me, but many others as well.

The instrument choices are good, and they emphasize just the right spots of the melody too. Your pickiness payed of, as it gave a great dynamic value to this piece (especially good job for this being soundfonts, or in the very least the violin). The repetition doesn't really bother me either. As johnfn usually says: a good melody deserves repetition :)
I hear nothing bad with the mix either.

Once again, it's great to see you back, and with some new genres too! You have a speldid taste for good melodies and chords, which I appreciate very much; keep up the good work :D

Everratic responds:

"Now this track, is really my style of stuff to listen to!"

I actually listened to your ngadm song for inspiration :D

"(especially good job for this being soundfonts, or in the very least the violin). "

Everything except the piano and choir pad is a soundfont.

"The instrument choices are good, and they emphasize just the right spots of the melody too."

I'm glad you liked the instruments. With the violin and flute, I tried to choose melodic notes that emphasized the piano melody or enhanced a chord's emotion.

"Once again, it's great to see you back, and with some new genres too! You have a speldid taste for good melodies and chords, which I appreciate very much; keep up the good work :D"

I'm glad to be back. Thank you for reviewing my new songs!

[Across The Mist]

Man, this is an awesome track!
So atmospheric, and interesting. Wonderful instrument choices, sweet chords and melodies, as well as good use of dynamics, and a good set of percussion to top it off.

While I do see why you'd put this under classical, I also think that ambient would fit it quite well :)
Amazing job, dude!

NicholasCabraja responds:

Thanks man! Ya this was a bitch to mix. I ended up bouncing all my tracks and throughing it into Pro Tools. First time doing that! I feel that mixing in only audio rather thank midi forces me to make everything fit without making major midi changes - if the arrangements good enough of course. :P
The solo vocalist in the beginning was a huge pain in the ass to sit right. So much head voice.
I can feel the ambience genre now that you mention it. The drums are the only dry thing to be honest! But hey, songs should have a 360 degree feel!

Really glad you liked it! Means a lot!

[One Inch From Death]

Whoo! This is an awesome track dude, as I'm sure you knew already :)

[Papyrus]

Aww, but I can only make really okay pasta :(

Well this sure is an interesting piece. I think the sounds design is pretty darn awesome. Once the real melodies start floating in, they've got some nice flow too. The mixing is splendid as well. All the creativity that went into this piece is pretty amazing. So much unique and unconverntional stuff going on o.O
And somehow, the track still manages to be structured :/

The sound at the end is just brilliant to top it off. Easy favorite :p

FinaLee responds:

Yay! Thanks as always for the kind words, LSD!

[Adventure - Echoes of Adventure]

This is one of my favorites from the album. I get an excited and adventurous feel from this! The dynamic work here is fantastic :)

stunkel responds:

Honestly, I love it too. I spent such a long time on this track in particular. I kept on coming up with versions of the track that weren't very memorable, or didn't make me feel anything, but then I came up with this melody and I fell in love with it. It was such a good feeling and I'm glad it's your favorite too.

[Naptime Near The Forest Floor]

This was one of my favorites from the competition (which is why it received one of my three votes)! I like how you modified the track a bit for this upload too (with the vocaloid and such). I mean, to be honest, I knew this track was made by you during the competition, because of the style of course XD.

But I already left a short review of this in the thread, so whatevs :p
Great work!

ZipZipper responds:

The vocaloid is meeeeeee :(

[Intensity]

Congratulations on winning the audiopick for Spooktacular!
I want to quote myself on my review of that track:

"I think you've earned a slot as one of the winners with this."

I'd just like to point out how right I was. This must mean my taste in music is spectacular. Which must mean that your music is spectacular, right? Right.
If this track would've been made for a competition, I'm sure it would have good chances too, as the listening experience is wonderful. And you did most of this in one night too, which is really cool :)

I think the download ratio speaksfor itself; people like this track. With this amount of skill, I'm sure you'll make it big with your music some day, if you keep working for it :p

Ahh, we all know the dread of exam week. Good luck with that!
And thanks for making this chill music :3

Noisysundae responds:

Thanks as always man. I think this isn't spooky enough to be in spooktacular.
That view-download ratio...I admit that I spammed tweets with newgrounds hashtag all the time. :P

[There coming to take me away]

This is an awesome cover dude o.O
Way to put your own spin to it too! :D

Great job!!

JayWEccent responds:

Oh thank you so much :)