Done Well
You have achieved what you wanted! This makes you picture someonw endlessly goin through a hot, sweltering desert with out water for days and days and days...
Great job!
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Reviews for "_-={An Endless Desert}=-_"
MaestroRage responds:
Then you have seen the image that this song is based! Thank you for the review, i'm glad you liked it!
There will be a significant update on this song soon, I hope you will hear it when it does come out.
Hmm, this must be your MAC entry, huh?
Considering how you've submitted it under Ambient... :P I can't say I agree with your genre choice, though - it sounds like any other classical piece, with a lot of extra reverb. It's definitely closer to ambience than a lot of your other songs, though...
I really like your melodywork, as well as the instruments used, at the section that begins at around 0:52! :D Quite uplifting, in a sense, though I can also hear desperation, and a bit of stubbornness - as if the guy walking through the desert somehow KNOWS sooner or later he's going to get somewhere, and he's not going to stop until he does. Interesting. :)
The panflute at the very end was a bit dramatic, but that's probably just my taste in music speaking. I'm also hearing a loop, and though it's a bit cut-off sounding, it actually sounds pretty good! :D Were you being absent-minded or something again when you submitted this as a song? :P
The image of the desert is great - it's not quite perfect, but it's a small difference anyway! To make it stronger I would probably have made a bit more use of the low ranges of the piano, like you did in the beginning of the song, while EQing it so it doesn't make the song sound muddy that way. Did you experiment with those reverbed-sounding strings in the background, too? Maybe removing them would add to the empty, wasteland feeling - but maybe it would make the song sound TOO empty. I have no idea. :P
As for your story... well, I don't have time right now (I'm at school right now... shhh :P) but when I do I'll get back to you in a PM. ;) Great work with this, I'm looking forward to hearing more! :)
MaestroRage responds:
quite right Karco, this isn't really an ambient track on the grounds it has a discernible melody. Right away I realized my folly after studying Ambient a bit more. I just can't help it. I see chords, I see no melody, I fix :(
I should have used more lower on the piano, that is a good suggestion... probably should have read through and responded to all these before I went off to make the extended version... oh well, updating is thar for a reason :D!
I did also play around with the reverbs, and attempt to clean up the muddy low end. Thats such a problem with so many of my works. I really need to learn how to equalize the low end properly >:(. Removing the strings = disaster my good sir. They stay.
Thank you kindly for the review Karco, greatly appreciated, i'm glad you liked it!
I Like it.
Its tight and well done. A tad short i thought. a bit more length to explore some more themes would have been cool, but all and all well done. 9/10, and a vote of 5
Amazing.
This gives a sense of mystery, and conjures up the image of a vast empty space... very suited to a desert. I'm in the pre-production stages of a Flash movie set in the desert, and I'm going to use this in it. THANK YOU for making such epic music!