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Great track, I really liked the percussive texture in this one. Especially the middle part has a cool, subtle atmosphere. Very enjoyable!
I also got a bit nostalgic when I heard the good old 21 Violins Stac patch from Miroslav. Good mixing here whatsoever! The only thing I'd criticize was the absense of some round robin for the staccato articulations. Apart from that it was great!
Author's Response:
I spent a lot of times to work on the drum and percussion parts, worked really hard. The EWQL Stormdrum got errors with Orchestra Silver somehow I could fix it. I mixed violin stac and full string stac together, sounds better that cello mix with full string. I gonna fix the part that you said.
Thank you for the comment and admits! :D
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I really enjoyed this piece a lot! Especially the melody around the 40 seconds mark was pretty enjoyable. Great tune!
I think other people mentioned the recording quality already. If you're going to re-record I'd suggest you to record with a two mic setup, one directly in the piano (at the outside towards the hammers) and one directly at your player position to capture the room. This will help you within the mixing progress. Now I'm not sure what kind of equipment you're using but I'd also suggest to avoid clipping by lowering the mic input volume or using a limiter if your mixer allows that.
Just a few tips if you were going to re-record it. I'd really go for it, it's definitely worth it!
Author's Response:
Ahh...thank you. I will certainly keep that in mind when the re-recording happens. No, seriosuly. Thanks for telling me how to go about it. I've been biting my nails trying to get this better, clearer version to happen lol.
:-)
Thanks for the words!
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Sorry man, I'm late but finally got a chance to comment on this right now. The movements in this piece are amazing, there's so much depth and emotion into this piece it's incredible! Great use of the horns as well! Makes me think of some kind of graveyard scene at the end of a war movie.
Very impressive!
Author's Response:
Thanks Denny that means alot coming from you mate
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Great piece man! I really dig the use of percussion here, really makes me want to go on an expedition. It's very well arranged and it sounds like a professional production, great job!
And yes, professional equipment is pretty darn expensive although I think Eastwest has some pretty good deals to offer lately.
10/10 scarabs from me ;)
Author's Response:
Thanks. Yeah it really wasn't that expensive and I got two other livraries with it. yay.
I have another piece I'm working on but I don't know if it's ready yet.
I really want to get the strings from Vienna symphonic Library but I'm 281 dollars short (the full price) of getting them.
Thanks for listening.
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Hey Kaiyoti, great to see you on NG as well! Amazing music as always, I absolutelly love the synths (self-programmed?) in this track. Hope you're going to upload some of your other music as well. I guess you got some pretty cool stuff to show.
Take care!
~Denny
Author's Response:
Thanks Dan... I only use custom made patches :)
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Great job, I really liked the percussion! My only suggestion would be adding a limiter since there are quite a few clippings here.
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I really liked this one, my only suggestion is to do a bit of equalization. Try to turn the area around 600Hz down by 2 - 3 dB and higher 15000Hz by 1 - 2 dB or so. This should give you a very clear result if that was intended. ;)
Apart from that it was awesome, keep it up man!
Author's Response:
Equalization huh? I was going for more of a surround/stereo type feel, instead of the one I had before where the panning was there, but it didn't really sound "real". Clear is good though, glad to know there's a music expert critique guy out there who, with a familiar name, probably has a good share of music! Thanks for your thoughts!
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I gotta admit that I haven't listened to your work since a while. But the more I was impressed of this track, really good job as usual. Especially the part where the choir kicks in was... you know the word ;)
Justin, I always wondered what libraries you're using since you're also making use of a real orchestra. Is it the "standard" East West SO library, VSL or custom build stuff?
Take care man!
~Denny
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Hey Justin, great to see you on NG once again! Great track as usual, I really like the theme around 1:00 min, great job!
Hope your doing well, best regards!
~Denny
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Okay, it's probably a bit too happy for Resident Evil at the beginning, nothing bad though. I really liked the twist in the middle, sounded like something was comming.
By the way did you use a keyboard? Sounds pretty much like that. Hope you're getting forward with your new compositions as well, can't wait to hear them! ;D
Author's Response:
I would absolutely LOVE to get 'forward' with my new compositions...but without a computer to work on I am unable to do so (not my computer right now). So for the time being I have to simply sit here and allow all the tunes I have to roll around in my head.
I did not use a keyboard, rather I have a program that has many very nice samples on it that I can use. That and I mess around in FL studio until I get something that sounds good (FL is not the program :P).
Thanks for the review...always love getting reviews...even more so when they are from those that I love (music wise!...Don't want anyone to think that I am wierder than I actually am...stalker wise O.o)
Thanks though :D,
-AJ-
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