3,605 Forum Posts by "Quarl"
At 7/10/26 02:30 PM, TomFulp wrote:
The normalizing feature was added this past month and is intended to help avoid having to adjust volume up and down while listening to songs (and also avoid attempts to damage people's ears). If it's working as expected, it "raises or lowers the entire recording uniformly, preserving the original dynamic range and tonal quality." Do you think it's doing something otherwise?
Finding and turning it off wasn't too hard but having it on by default was... new and exciting, took me off guard, I'm probably just over reacting. Normalization sounds very similar to dynamic range compression, though I'm getting the vibe that it's not. Reading about it now, guess it's the default on every music application that I don't use, figures. Audio mastering is one of those subjective arts and some people want a huge sound, this feature is automatically going to offend the artists that pride themselves on loudness and fidelity... had someone mention the normalization on a track of mine about a week ago and had no idea what they were talking about, thought I fucked up my mastering somehow. It might not do anything to the sound other than adjust volume but expect a few people to get really confused by it.
Was helping to judge an audio contest today and realized there's this new "audio normalization" feature that is turned on by default and squishes sound, makes everything quieter. It's not a necissary feature, the volume knob already exists for a reason. It is causing me some stress in that I might have to go back and listen to every song I judged today with that feature turned off so I can hear what the artists are trying to convey without this added "normalization." When was this thing snuck in?
At 6/9/26 02:38 AM, KI1 wrote:What up, big dawgs. It is my great pleasure to be joining the judging panel this year 🎉
Yoooo, not fair. You made a cool image for your rubric? I was just gonna upload some chat GPT bullshit, then draw random scores out of a hat but now I feel small and worthless in comparison. I must compete with you somehow.
BEHOLD, THE RUBRIC FROM WHICH I WILL DELIVER SCORES UNTO THE MASSES D:<
Goodluck everyone! Remember to shake hands with your opponent in every round, be brave! If english is not your primary language and this image prevents you from using a translate function just PM me asking for the text and I will send you the words, spelling errors and all!
Ok, technically not a character I "came up with," it's my friend's dog. Thought Klobig was a hella sick name so I made this Heavy Metal Death Gnar album cover satire. It's supposed to be a joke, the background is from an old Dio album cover I photoshopped over. Does Klobig get his own boss music? Am I too late? I'm too late :'C
At 12/29/25 08:32 AM, JimmyTheCaterpillar wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1506666
i put out a new song that will take u on an EmOtionAL joUrnEy !!! <3
Gave it a listen, loved it! Sorry about the inspiration for it and I wish you well on the journey 🙏
At 11/6/25 12:00 PM, VortexSupernova wrote:
NG does not do any """"optimization"""" to save bandwidth
Mp3 is 90%-95% less data than wav but in blind tests 4/5 people thought mp3 "sounded better" than their high resolution alternatives. Take this data as you will ;]
At 10/26/25 09:28 PM, BiiDot wrote:
its a lot less stressful to post shitty songs in a place full of people who post (more or less) equally shitty songs
RELATABLE.
At 10/26/25 10:56 PM, OVERSCORE wrote:Geometry Dash, originally.
Yes, I was the person on the forums asking “HOW DO I GET MY MOOSICS ON THE CUBEY GAME” and begging for scout, come at me bro
Tried doing this recently with hypno porn, found a discord that makes that kind of content and was like "pls use my slut music." Felt kind of gross after 48 hours of people sending me dick pics and begging for nudes but if someone out there gets accidentally hypnotized into liking my music it will all have been worth it.
At 8/4/25 01:58 PM, Quarl wrote:I'm with holding my supporter status until y'all can admit that futa keeps the lights on.
Still waiting, had my credit card out and everything. Take the bait Tom, our relationship is entirely transactional. Say the words, I will reup my supporter status today. Here, I'll even start the sentence for you:
Futa keeps...
Do what you have to do to survive but I'll never forget the wave of content creators that showed up when tumblr decided to boot their gooners out. There's money to made in cum and I'm with holding my supporter status until y'all can admit that futa keeps the lights on.
In the darkness it was created to control men. A force of evil so intense that it could turn friends against each other. Betrayal, darkness... evil... twilight... darkness...
Just kidding, I wrote this thing inspired by this other thing and together they make stuff:
I toil in the darkness, notes screech across a sequencer. A scream rings out in the night, a baby cries. A howl picks up on the wind, is it a monstrous wolf or an elderitch horror? Tantacles slither across a piano, a lone note pierces the darkness. It's the key of C.
Just wanted to leave more than an emoji, thanks for doing the work Whirlguy. Happy to see all the slots filled up! Slightly unrelated, I love that I still get notifications from the 20 year anniversary project :3
At 1/30/25 06:01 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:At 1/30/25 05:51 AM, xeiavica wrote:What happened to small government? It was here a minute ago. I don't remember throwing it.
I hadn't even heard that term actually... wonder if we've really had any small governments during my lifetime, feels like everything's been getting progressively more and more intrusive, and regulated, more and more instances of control developed under the pretenses of progress, integrity and safety. Even if it's all done with good intent bureaucracy has a tendency to compound, and the reasons for cumulative regulation muddle.
We could probably use some kind of societal reset, like the Mayans used to practice. Every few centuries just burn everything down and start anew; begone all old, outdated non-serving dogmas and customs...
There never was "small government," it was just a tagline used by republicans to paint an image of a government run by the good-old-boys. I'm kind of surprised you've never heard a conservative go on about how a government should be small enough to have absolutely no effect on our lives but big enough to tell gay people they can't get married. A government should be small enough to not have the power to take away our guns but big enough to supply all our police with military gear and weapons. "Small government" has been used by conservatives in the US as a subversive talking point for at least the last 50 years. The only time in our history we had anything resembling a "small government" was at the start when we had a much smaller country anyways and the only people that could vote were white land owning males.
I also like the phrase "constitutional originalist" because everyone seems to forget that part where white land owning males had all the power. Clarence Thomas claims to be a constitutional originalist, which is probably the most entertaining fact about his political views. Sorry if I displayed any political bias in my response but I really find the term "small government" an annoyingly deceptive phrase.
At 1/29/25 10:04 AM, Piss wrote:I started using Newgrounds when I was 8. Sorry, Tom.
Ditto, I had the chance once to look him in the eyes and say "don't worry Tom, I turned out just fine" but I was lying. Newgrounds totally made me weird.
At 1/19/25 10:42 AM, Quarl wrote:I wouldn't mind writing something a little more melodic, Rhodes keys, some lax percussion kit... I can do that city pop section if no one else picks it up.
Edit: I'm also kind of surprised we don't have a bunch of audio artists tripping over themselves to do the theatrical part. Every time I judge a comp there's like 500 theatrical orchestrations. What's up with that?
Ah, just realized that was a section that reopened. Sorry, the drugs make me slow.
I wouldn't mind writing something a little more melodic, Rhodes keys, some lax percussion kit... I can do that city pop section if no one else picks it up.
Edit: I'm also kind of surprised we don't have a bunch of audio artists tripping over themselves to do the theatrical part. Every time I judge a comp there's like 500 theatrical orchestrations. What's up with that?
Sorry for all the updates but I think I'm happy with this version, don't think I want to put too much more work into it. I'll revise later if I need to better jive with my neighbors <3
At 1/11/25 11:56 AM, Quarl wrote:lol, Get Out Of My Car. Not my best work but at least we're at the hospital. File has two beats, I think I like the double time drums better. Or maybe I dislike both equally?
Here's another zip file with two WIPs, I think I like the direction these are going in better...
lol, Get Out Of My Car. Not my best work but at least we're at the hospital. File has two beats, I think I like the double time drums better. Or maybe I dislike both equally?
I'll do some glitch core, #7. Will download the sample when I wake up, play around with some stuff! Thanks for tagging me, I barely notice anything these days. I'm a lurk monster.
Have fun kids, adults, babies, and everyone that doesn't identify as one of those three categories! I believe in your elderitch appendages, cause terror <3
At 8/26/24 08:58 PM, ADR3-N wrote:
This sounds uncomfortably close to my college experience. Please tell me you didn't see that. Please.
Your college secrets live on!!
At 8/25/24 07:43 PM, AED-4 wrote:
Long story short, your entry was perfectly fine, and is included in the competition :)
Oh wow, thank you. I really came to accept that I'd be DQ'd and was totally ok with it. I'm sorry if I annoyed anyone, thanks for taking it easy on me and my weirdness. I will contact my public relations lawyer and ask them what I can do to remedy any harm that came from my actions, or have your lawyers contact my lawyers. Investors will get paid in back rooms as usual, drug fueled orgies between lawyers will take place, but at least we won't have to worry about Twitter. A young sleepless intern will find the right words to use on social media to mitigate any harm caused by my sex tapes I WAS ONLY AT THE ORGY BECAUSE I NEEDED SOME SUGAR FOR MY COOKIES. I JUST WALKED IN AND HAD NO IDEA IT WAS HAPPENING, KANYE INVITED HIMSELF D:
At 8/15/24 01:18 PM, Quarl wrote:
Feel free to disqualify
...and just to clarify, I'm not terribly bothered. I'm just refusing to change my song at this point because I suck at reading directions and I have some weird integrity problem. I don't like modifying my creative decisions for NG competitions, please disqualify me so I can back to playing cyberpunk nonstop ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
At 8/13/24 04:22 AM, AED-4 wrote:At 8/10/24 04:10 PM, HvCMiniRayzor wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1349060
Got my round one submission ready Lets ball🏀
Wishing everyone good luck once again☮♥🎴
Hey, sorry for the late response but yeah, this cannot be accepted as an NGADM entry as unreleased tracks (which I have understood this track to be) do not fulfill the section 4.1 criteria: "The track must be a completely new production, with no work having been performed on it before the round for which the track is to be submitted to has begun".
In addition, while one is indeed allowed to have other artists on your submission in a featuring role when not in a team, I'd like to in general remind that all the writing (both instrumental and lyrical) must be done by you, the producer.
Just going to put in that this rule is stupidly stringent. The vocal samples in my song were paid for a month or so before auditions; $200 out of pocket. I directed Plasmarift to record multiple monologues specifically so that I could chop and sample them up for ANY of my future EDM projects. The vocal samples in question have never been used before (other sections of this monologue have been used though). Using your own words, my song is disqualified and I never considered this to be a problem because I sourced all my samples ethically and worked closely with Plasmarift to get the most out of the process to get what I wanted.
The "I love you and I've always loved you" was recorded by me for a previous NGADM compilation put together by LD. Guess I can't sample myself either?
Feel free to disqualify, I love getting booted from NGADM. It's like a fetish or something:
That's the spirit. I'm looking at some of those names surprised by their outcomes but then I realized there were 258 entrants, that's absolutely crazy.
At 8/7/24 03:03 AM, AVKid4 wrote:"Dad Wake UP! I got mentioned on newgrounds!"
Apologies I didn't have the basement-dwelling energy to review everyone this year. I'll try to respond to personal requests DM'd at me for competition reviews but if I'm slow about it: have patience. This is my sloth year, I've become bad at turning on my computer.
In the meantime, support each other by giving out back rubs and foot baths.
I wasn't being serious when I said "I demand to be taken seriously" but I got such a nice message from automated-external-defibrillator-4 that I have decided to reapply. As someone that loves having free time and hates anxiety, roast me:
^ Voice actor was paid, can guarantee I'm gonna recycle his sample folder until he's sick of getting tagged in my songs.
At 7/8/24 10:21 AM, Quarl wrote:This is the best song I've ever written and I demand to be taken seriously.
https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1316292
This is the best song I've ever written and I demand to be taken seriously.
