MaartenC's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Heart of Courage]

Tsk tsk, sheer quality again. Just awesome.

The opening was pretty good, so to say. The melody started pretty fast, and the part after the drums stopped, where the silent part kicked in was just great.

I also liked all the small effects you put into this. It made the song 'whole'.

All with all, this is a great trance song and I hope to hear more again from you!
Keep it up, this was perfect.

[FS: Father and Son (ac.)]

Pleasant, really.

I pretty much like everything about this: your brother sings very well too.
All with all I don't find anything wrong with this, so I'll just name the positive things:

- Song chosen:
Very good. Cat Stevens is an excellent artist, maybe you should do (yet?) more of him.
- Lyrics/singing
Beautiful. Both you and your brother did an amazing part at this. Just well done.
- Guitar play.
Just as always, excellent. 'Nuff said.

Also, I can't hear anything from your cold, so no worries at that. Job well done; keep it up!

FairSquare responds:

Thanks!
And i think the cold was in my favor; it gave my voice an extra edge.
I'll look into Cat Stevens (not literally :O) to find if there are more songs i can cover.

Anyway, thanks again for the review! It's always pleasant to see them ^____^

[Rainwave - Solar Vision 2]

*whistles* Wow, pretty amazing.

I heard of you via Tech-X on newgrounds and decided to check out some of your audio. I've already faved one of them, and this upload, together with part one is going in too. I'm really amazed: I'm not usually a fan of this 'light' music, but sometimes I can enjoy one or two of those songs.

Anyway, the review:

The song starts out, good intro, good fades and the instrument is also plausible. After a while the drums started, well chosen by the way and after a bit of (seemingly) 'exploring' with different melodies and drumsets, the gear goes up a bit. This was done extremely, but then EXTREMELY well.

The melody is good, the drums are strong and the part around 2:00 -where the song goes back a small gear- was timed well.

More things I liked:
- The build-up at 3:15 with the raise in tone before the song bursts again
- The climax following that
- The ending of the song, which was perfect, by the way.
- The song made me feel happy ^^

What I didn't like:
- The instrument is... mwah okay. I'm fairly neutral in the choice of instruments, really so no minus-points for that.
- In the second half of the song, there is quite a lot of repetitiveness in the main melody

All with all, I give you a 9/10 and so a 5/5. I'm gonna download both parts, mix them together as one song and it's going into my favorite list of songs (currently 277 songs there), if that's okay with you, of course.

You deserve to be proud of this, now excuse me, I'm going to check out some other uploads from you. Keep it up!

Indigorain responds:

Wow, thanks for the extremely solid review!
And I really agree with you on you criticism, especially in the midsection, theres a lot of adding and layering melodies, without a great amount of variation. And the instrumentation isn't extremely rare either.
Thanks for the great score, the favouriting, and once again, for the great review! :D