johnfn's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Weighting For Weightlessness]

soo good ughhh <333333

are you ever gonna return to this style

pls say yes

Kingbastard responds:

Hey man, thank you:) I hope so! My ability to sing has somewhat diminished over the years, so I struggle to record this style now, even though I have countless songs written and in my head. I certainly want to, but currently have too many other projects to work on and finish before starting anything in this sort of style. I will, one day, I'm sure of it:)

[Far Away (Never Enough)]

been putting your r3 track on loop pretty much all day, so decided to drop by this one too. dang man, i feel like you've been putting out really excellent music that's been neglected by participants and judges alike, and it makes me pretty sad. (i mean the whole "you havent left a review in 3 years" thing probably has some effect on that, but still...)

anyway yea i feel like you really hit your stride in r3, but this is pretty freaking great too my friend!

[Just a Little Improv]

i enjoyed it yeahhhh good playing yes good job, also what's that chord at 2:27, its wonderful

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

I think that's just a normal F# (or Gb) dim, diminished chord. Aka, start with any note, and go up three semitones for the next note. Keep doing it and you have that almost horror style diminished chord :D

Glad ya enjoyed it, thanks for checking it out! :D

P.S. I play a broken up diminished chord between 1:02-1:05

[Simple (ft. Michelle Kim)]

wow, fantastic! i don't know how i missed your music earlier and now i feel bad, i REALLY like this!

[Don't Give Up]

hahaha this is wonderful man! i love these kind of ngadm surprises.

the missing hamilton track???

bassfiddlejones responds:

HOW DOES A BASTARD, ORPHAN, SON OF A...

[Last Hope]

fantastic writing my friend!! im too lazy to critique right now, just wanna say this rocks. ok bye

CloakedSoup responds:

Haha thanks!

[Gladiolus]

wow we both did 1 more singer than normal

also, wow your melody writing is even better than before. :o

etherealwinds responds:

three vs three baby

yay i improved a thing!

good luck grant <3

[A Dude Named Grant]

who is this mysterious grant person everyone keeps talking about

P.S. /SO/ tempted to leave a 9/10 review that just says "you added reverb" but...... nah let's keep that nice row of stars ;-)

Onefin responds:

relax, the version on the chips website has no reverb

i think

[Invisible Magic]

i think the core idea of this song is phenomenal, even better than your last one. /however/ the song has a couple of problems that really nag me...

first off, i dont think the song really starts until "what I want for me", which is about halfway through the song! once you do get to that point, THE SONG IS AMAZING. but that intro just... it doesn't really do anything? It's nice, it's chill, it's not offensive at all, but compared to the absolutely bonkers good second half, it almost seems like it should be part of another song.

second off, why on earth does "we all carry it" fade out?? i mean the sighing vocals you fade into are really nice and stuff but, ugh, its such a wasted opportunity for an AMAZING transition! like imagine if instead of fading it built and built into the "i need to be loved" section??? IT WOULD BE SO GOOD.

finally, the mix needs some more love tbh. i disagree strongly with proudaardvark, the vocals (particularly in the "i need to be loved" section) need to be brought much more to the front! at a section like 2:30 they're dangerously close to falling into the "background instrumentation" bucket, which makes no sense at all for a song which should so clearly be driven by vocals! and also, imagine how good this song would sound with bigger drums in that climactic final section?!? UGH

you still get 10/10 from me because this song is amazing. so i guess with those issues fixed it would be an 11/10 or so... =P

FinnMK responds:

Haha, well all good comments. Tbh I agree with most of it and I knew about much of it when I released the song. I was limited by time on this one; I knew I wouldn't have (and I haven't) time to work on it in the last three days of the round, so it got released with some errors and incomplete thoughts.

At the end of the day, I think the core idea is really solid even if my execution of it isn't. You have some great musical ideas for it!

[g o o d t h i n g]

the mix is actually perfect on my end, maybe you should add a few more compressors?

midimachine responds:

これは良いこと！