Right, so this particular song took me an unusually long time to finish, as in like, a month and a half worth of work. It's a nearly 6 minute long epic prog rock sort of mashup with orchestrated elements, guitar solo wankery, and... well, the same old from me, basically.
Once again i've tried to push my mixing skills to their limit, with a VERY busy and complex mix in this one, probably my fullest mix to date, there is a TON of layering that took a lot of time in order to get to blend without sounding muddy, but the song seems to flow well with a rather nice acoustic/solo section near the beginning which i'm pretty fond of, and it has probably one of my most powerful and heavy climaxes to date. This is likely to going be the last really heavy song from me for a while as i'd like to experiment with some other styles in the coming weeks.
I had to chop down the quality a bit to get it on to newgrounds, so if you'd like the high quality versions please see this page on my site:
http://www.rottenbread.ne t/2010/09/come-red-tide/
Hope you guys enjoy it!
Cheers,
Daniel
smooth
first off great job man i really enjoyed this song, and i understand the volume thing i actually think the lower volume does this song more justice than people can see...well hear, you are a true musician hope i spelled that right, keep up the good work
Hi MdubG,
Thanks for the great review. It's funny about the volume though. In reality, this song is actually mastered pretty loud. Listen to any album from before 1995 (that hasn't been re-mastered) and you'll see just how quiet they are compared to modern records (and my own music). These days everyone wants to crush the audio to make it as loud as possible, introducing tons of clipping distortion in the process that just sounds terrible on anything approaching decent speakers or headphones.
If people want to listen to your music at a higher volume, they have a volume control.. that's what it's there for!
Anyways, it's a pet peeve of mine, haha, but i'm glad that some people appreciate my refusal to crush audio :).
Cheers,
Daniel
Solide work!!
It's very refreshing to hear some real stuff other than Fruit loop emulations :)
The vibe is awesome, the feeling is there, I really liked the song.
My only negative point is that the drum is a little low volume but it might be my metalhead tendencies to crank up the drum ;)
Keep up the great work pal!
Thanks for the feedback satanicpotatoe. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Cheers,
Daniel
this
Is Epic, finna try to get the group to do vocals on stuff like this, keep up the good wrk and i might be intrested in gettin u some good cash for personal beats.
-Watley-
Amazing
I am absolutely blown away by how beautiful this song is Kudos my fellow mammal
Whoa
Brilliant, i love how the layers are slowly introduced they all fit together brilliantly, the tone is really clear and there is nothing (from what i can tell) Lost in the mix. The only critisism i have is the drum sound seems to stick out as not as good quality wise as the rest of the tracks but thats not gonna be noticable to the majority of people ha and dosnt really take much away from the song.
All i really wish is that it went on forever :P
Hi DocMurdock, thanks for the nice write up! I'm not sure what you're referring to in terms of drum quality. If you mean the performance, then I agree with you, drumming is something I constantly strive to improve in my music. Drumming is something i've been picking up slowly (i'm a guitarist, really, not a drummer!), so the performances in my songs are still relatively robotic compared to everything else unfortunately!
Cheers for the review!
Daniel
Please contact me if you would like to use this in a project. We can discuss the details.
Rottenbeard 
