I suck at titles
Seeing the ambient part of the Audio Portal in Newgrounds is the part I enjoy most, I decided taking a look at your ambient track. I don't know what's going on with madboss and his stories to your tracks, but I will not have anything to do with that either way, my part is reviewing a song.
Alright.
The title is Rain Song- A new song, and I do indeed expect rain effects from this track, hence the title. A New Time is a bit questionable what the track may be, but it does exclude fast-paced beats.
So I open the track and get what I expect, rain effects in the beginning, which slowly leads into a part of acoustinc guitar which makes the genre quite questionable as ambient is a genre in electronica, but if the other parts keep the rain effect there's nothing wrong with it.
The melody it plays is remarkable, and it goes forward kinda unproblematic, though it does stop at unexpected places, making the song a bit less comfortable listening to.
And seeing the rain and thunder effects combined with the nylon guitar is the only instruments in the song makes it beautiful, yet it gives an empty and missing feeling, as it would probably not make a whole song, but rather a guitar part of a full song that much more could have been added on.
The guitar melody is not the simple, it is kinda complex with the two melodies going at the same time, but the nylon scratching is going a bit too much at times and does give more style and flavour into the track, but it won't make the song more enjoyable at all.
If this track would have been more on a beat than the random tempo it is played on this time, I would suggest having some calm, low-volumed drums going at the same time, instead of just playing it on a beat as good as you can. You could remove them afterwards if you feel for it if you feel that the drums take away some of the loneliness and feeling of the track, though.
Originality: Hmm... had to take a bit time to figure out this, so I guess I must think about all the elements. Effects of course will boost your score since only a few songs use these, but acoustic gutiar isn't really the least used instrument in the book, so I can't give you a full one. So I guess 7.
Clarity: There is no remarkable clipping or fuzz in the track, and there really isn't anything wrong with the volume, so I have to give you a 10.
Diversity: the guitar and the effects, really not much diversity, but the melody has a relatively diverse going, so I'll give you a 6.
Effort: I don't know if you took the rain as a preset or recorded it yourself, if you did, that would make a MAJOR boost in score. I choose to believe that is what you did and give you a score of 9.
Overall: This is an overall good track, but you could need to have some improvements with the way you play it and the tempo in it. I give you an 8.
I wish you good luck with your next songs!