Sequenced's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Feverdreams]

Not a big fan of the lead synth you chose, but it works.

keep making new shit man. I love it. :)

[Sting of The Jellyfish]

woah.. all that distortion!

Quarl responds:

STING OF THE DURPFISH!!!! BZZZZZZZT!!!!!!

[Hollow Man]

that was awesome

[Bio Rhythm No.6]

Woot! another AC song! definitely reminds me of bonobo.

keep it up.

[The Long Summer]

who is this guy i don't like him

[Cherry Bomb]

Right now I'm picturing short videos of people going through malls and buying shit in with fast / slow effects on different clips.

Please make a music video now.

Quarl responds:

haha, one day I'll buy a video camera... and a bass, and a DJ controller, and some new speakers, and an amp for my new bass and....

I would if I could afford to do it but I'm too poor. I loved making videos back in the day when the equipment was free to use (highschool/college.)

[Smilin' Billy]

Zip, this was a live recording.

And you're right, this reminds me of SimCity too! haha.

[F-Stop - Recharge]

I saw you on the forums. Glad to see a new member abouts!

As for the track, everything sounds fine except I would like to hear a few cymbals to make your transitions slightly more fluid.

That's all I got.

Keep it up.

[This is Chipstep]

Chipstep is the new hip hop? ha. glad to see others getting involved in the genre.

I think if you focus less on the bass this tune would be fantastic. chip music isn't all about bass even if it has step in it. :)

wandschrank responds:

Sadly, there is no chiptunes category, so I keep putting my "bassless" chiptunes into the video game category. This chipstep category on the other hand looked very empty, so I decided to help filling it. ;)

Apparently you got another definition of "chipstep" than most people; if you search it on YouTube, of those overwhelming 922 results (!!), most songs I heard by now had a lot of bass. Many are also not really chiptunes, but normal Dubstep songs with some Chiptune influences (check out the great songs from User N3z-3 on NG, for example, he mixes "traditional" Dubstep with Chiptunes).

Even those made with LSDJ on Gameboy only (search for Cybercrime for example, that stuff is great) are very bassy. Those good old chips were capable of producing quite a nice bass, as you can hear in that Gameboy example. I used the (nicely emulated) chip of a Super Cassette Vision / Yeno console for my bass in this song and did not change it a lot - to make it less bassy, I would have had to play higher notes, which does not sound that nice, or equalize it A LOT - which I did not want, it would have ruined the authenticity . This song, however, may not be an "authentic" chiptune. I wanted to show how it can sound when you mix the sounds of the most awesome old pcs / consoles. The result was surprisingly punchy.. and chipstep.

So overall, I think "chipstep" is a very vaguely defined style that can be interpret in many ways. Most "chipstep" songs you find on the internet mix Dubstep with Chiptunes or make Dubstep-like tracks with chipsounds only, sometimes even with a single Gameboy only.

You are completely right when you say chip music wouldn't be all about bass - and more about melody - but this category is called "Chipstep", and believe me, I will celebrate the day when there will be a "Chiptunes" category for "real" chip music with more melody and less bass and without the "step". But for me (and many others), the "step" in chipstep results in focussing on the bass.

This is only my opinion, though, and maybe it would really sound better without that much bass, who knows? :D

Thanks for your review!

Regards,
wandschrank

[N3Z-3 - Lost Age]

nice man, a lot better than your other chip song. I think more focus on melodies than the step would make me give you 5 stars.

N3z-3 responds:

I wouldn't call other one chip song because It's only partially 8-bit sounding.