RealTin3Sn's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Waves]

This is good.

I'm not a huge fan of the introduction. Then again I never liked rap that much anyway, but something about the delivery just doesn't work. It needs to be changed.

Beyond that I absolutely LOVE what you've done with this. It sounds so dreamy, and you definitely nailed the anime feel! This sounds like one of those songs you'd hear on a YouTube lo-fi playlist in the best possible way.

Keep it up!

-Tin3Sn.

[polyrhythmic experiment]

This is really neat!

I like the feel of this. Polyrhythms really are something special aren't they? They don't get enough attention.

Good job using normal rhythms to transition into the special stuff instead of just thrusting the listener in there too. Helps make it sound more accessible.

In all, keep up stuff like this. It's really cool!

-TIn3Sn.

AnimeOPMak responds:

thx!

[CLOUDS DIVIDE (PENULTIMATE MIX)]

Alright here's my review:

Worse than the other mix but still rules!

The extended version I reviewed (the one where I said I gave you all follows because it f-ing slapped, which is true) felt like an absolutely otherworldy experience. This version, in contrast, is much more conventional but stands out for being relaxing yet inspiration too.

As usual ADR3-N I loved you performance here! You absolutely shred at the mic and I like that you don't shy away from expressing emotions in your voice. It really makes me feel like there is a person behind it not a persona.

Instrumentally I wasn't happy about hearing the massive instrumental in the main version. That probably made the song as special as it was. Though I guess this does work as a kind of dreamy song, and I do love vocal layering towards the end too.

Lyrically, this seems like it rules too. It's not my specialty but I like these lyrics a lot.

In all, I'm seriously impressed ADR3-N you were able to mix something like this all by yourself. It really sounds amazing and as someone who struggles with this, it gives me a lot of hope for my own journey!

It's really great. I actually gave this a fave while listening I like it so much. Keep this up!

-Tin3Sn.

ADR3-N responds:

Yo! Sad that the mix was not to your preference but I'm just not as talented of a writer and arranger as @Troisnyx and some of our more spirited collaborators! :') I'm very much a keep it simple kind of producer in terms of melody, and if I try to go big with my productions, they can get cluttered. Electronic music and metal is more my specialty so that massive mix you liked actually is not to my particular taste! Haha. Not to say I don't like it, but I would have just done it differently and that's OK! I also have hearing damage so, well, it is what it is

Now if by mix you mean production, I can definitely understand that too. This is more poppy/clubby and the final version is a magnum opus.

I'm not sure if some of my rap was censored in the previous version for referencing unalive-ness but this is the original version of my lyrical performances for Clouds and thus the freshest. For the last version we did, I had to vocally jam some new lyrics and melodies to not only fill space but get into the emotional headspace to rerecord all of these takes!

All in all I'm really glad you liked it!

[Holiday Memories - Tankmas 2024]

So great!

I love the feel of this. I think you perfectly nailed the theme of "Holiday Memories" and this piece is one of my favourites in the Tankmas collection. It's so delicate and moving and just listening to it has already helped get me in the Christmas spirit.

The only problem for me is that it feels too short, but it's still quite good enough to get a 5.

Congratulations!

-T3.

[Dancing in the Snow]

This is amazing!

You perfectly nailed the snowy and Christmassy vibes of this, this might be my favourite (although not the best) of all the songs in Tankmas 2024 thus far!

I'm faving and downloading this! You're a great composer.

-Tin3Sn.

Edit: This is my 50th song I've reviewed!

[The Wanderer]

Reviewing your song as the guy who contributed as of yet the most popular song on the project~. So let's get to it!

I love the atmosphere in this! I think in terms of capturing the adventurous spirit you did perfectly because this feels like a LoTR style-piece. The instrumentation is great. As for Winter, it didn't always imagine me of a winter wonderland, but it really suits your picture (which is BEAUTIFUL by the way). I definitely feel like I'm journeying through a wet wintry forest.

My only complaint is that this sometimes makes me think of Spring for some reason and not Winter, but it's still a wonderful song. Again I love the sound of this.

Great work!

-Tin3Sn.

Everratic responds:

Thank you for the review, Tin3Sn! I was more focused on capturing a feeling of holiday togetherness with friends and family than strictly winter vibes. I composed a very wintry track last year and decided to do something different this time :)

[Autumn Carnival Waltz]

Hey Solacitude. It's your friend Tin3Sn here.

With Autumn leaving us, let me run by you a review of this piece.

This is fabulous!

This feels like something i would hear in one of those noir films. It sounds classical but isn't fully. I wonder if this was your intention or not. Besides that, you did a great job on the Autumn atmosphere too. It makes me feel like I'm seeing the trees start to brown and the nights grow darker, though it is also still uplifting.

What OVERSCORE said is true too. The ascending chromatic chords are pure genius.

I thoroughly enjoyed this and apologize for the late review~! :D

Keep at your artistry.

-Tin3Sn.

Solacitude responds:

Thank you very much!

You're right I started with a theme that is romantic inspired :P And in key of C minor on top of that.. It might give a first impression of the more "depressing" side of Autumn, then it gets happier and happier, I felt like it gave more uplifting energy to the parts following the first one. I had a kind of movie in my mind while listening to it, a black and white film presenting a group of people in an Autumn scenery, then they go into a carnival where they can find joy despite the darkness, cold temperature and falling leaves. In the end people dance under the lights.

I'm glad you enjoyed! And no need to apologize, it's never too late for a a review! ;)

[Sick w/ my Baby]

Beautiful song!

Not always reminding me of affection directly. But I'm giving you a 5 anyway because (a) Christmas charity and (b) love the moments of brightness towards the end, it captures that warmth you and your partner share rather ingeniously!

On top of that, great textures! This is very abstract but very emotionally moving and technical too. This sounds like something one of my musical mates could've written, it's really good.

Great job and I wish you and your partner wonderful health!

-Tin3Sn.

JimmyTheCaterpillar responds:

You're so kind, thank you !!

[everyday gratitude]

Let me review this first as Thanksgiving song and I'll edit it next year to talk about it relative to tessarakoste:

Woot somebody on the other side of the pond celebrates Thanksgiving! So we're not just a bunch of losers, those of us in the US and Canada. We should be grateful for nothing more than that. :O

But seriously. This is far and away the best Thanksgiving song I ever heard. When I first heard this, I thought you either had to be a wizard or an AI because you had combined all these different, seemingly irreconcilable ideas together flawlessly. This feels exactly like a JRPG composer wrote a Thanksgiving hymn in European style yet it feels so genuine too. Not like a novelty song.

Every note of this captures everything you said in the description without flaw. In other words, this has of the best Theme Representations I've ever heard. It makes me feel like I'm at Plymouth rock and I'm one of the pilgrims, eating dinner with my friends just being grateful for everything life has given me thus far.

My comment about comparing you to a wizard or an AI is not exaggerated. You blended hymns, Thanksgiving, and JRPG music together flawlessly and made something incredibly unique. Just enough to be in my list of the best songs ever.

Happy Thanksgiving Trois!

-Tin3Sn.

Troisnyx responds:

So, Thanksgiving... We don't celebrate it in Europe because we don't have the cultural connection (AND Indigenous peoples would rather we be aware of the ongoing sufferings they have gone through before and since then)

But the notion of giving thanks to our Maker, or to the people who helped us, is very much in us, so thanksgiving with a small T is what this song is about ☺️

And this much I can express

[Carol of the Drum ~ Troisnyx ver. ft. Spadezer]

Much too late but I have to say that this was an incredible, earth-defying version of what is otherwise one of my absolute least favorite Christmas carols.

AMAZING harmonies from both of you! That intro is absolutely haunting and preternatural in its beauty, and the entire song is such a lovely story that reaches an abrupt yet strangely satisfying climax. At 4:34 I mistook your singing for a synth because it's just so tight and perfectly pitched and beautiful.

I did not get all of the lyrics, but reading over them again having finished the song, I think they're very well-crafted and powerful despite their simplicity. I don't even really mind that you changed "boy" to "girl" in the second verse because it was abundantly clear from the beginning this was thoroughly your take on it. More on them later. (Might edit this later or share my more complete thoughts on them over a BlueSky message)

Finally, great drumming, as usual. Ironically that's the one thing a lot of Little Drummer Boy versions seem to lack and most of them substitute with a bland drum beat and a boring rum-pa-puh. You fell victim to neither of these dreadful stereotypes.

In fact, I would say that I can't think of anyone better suited to perform this carol than you. Drumming is to you what time signatures are to me, and it's clear that you really tried to put passion into this carol (which again, most people horribly fail to do). Without being too strongly religious, if there was any way to capture that feeling of hearing "The Call of the Lord", drumming is one of the most creative and beautiful I've ever heard. Because there is something so primordial and even spiritual about rhythms. Maybe that's why I have such a deep connection to unusual time signatures, I don't know.

This is a horribly incomplete review, but as usual Trois you never fail to turn Christmas music with explicit and deeply religious, which is usually the bottom of the music list for me this season, and make songs I'll remember for years to come. I think I'm giving this a fave and I'll probably put this on my best Christmas songs list this year.

-Tin3Sn.