I mean the ethnic percussion and the orchestral percussion snaps nicely and sounds excellent. So does most of the other percussion except maybe the hard impacts don't really sound all that hard hitting. And the transition to the sitar part and the buildup from there is just excellent! You of all people, who talks about transitions all the time, should be proud of yourself :D.
And you really have a thick yet clear mix, with some nice touches here and there like the clarinet stuff and something that sounds like a deep choir sound or something idk.
And the main melody is just something I sooo wish I had come up with myself. It especially shines in the last part there, with the badass string ensemble.
And it ends with the best bang ever! man that was great! I went and downloaded it which isn't something I do often. Awesome work
"I mean the ethnic percussion and the orchestral percussion snaps nicely and sounds excellent."
I'll have to thank Ethnoworld for that. Some of its melodic instruments are a bit bland/dry but the percussion is awesome.
"So does most of the other percussion except maybe the hard impacts don't really sound all that hard hitting."
You're completely right. I didn't feel like EQing them properly and I'm still not satisfied with their volume level.
"And the transition to the sitar part and the buildup from there is just excellent! You of all people, who talks about transitions all the time, should be proud of yourself :D."
Haha :D. Initially I had made it so that at 0:56 after the string note the sitar part immediately starts playing, but the next day I decided it was a terrible idea so I decided to go for a 'beat around the bush until the song finally goes to the next part' plan. Glad it succeeded :3.
"And you really have a thick yet clear mix, with some nice touches here and there like the clarinet stuff and something that sounds like a deep choir sound or something idk."
Thanks, although the only time I used a choir was for the fading effect thing you can first hear at 0:09-ish. The deep sound might be the double bass, I dunno.
"And the main melody is just something I sooo wish I had come up with myself. It especially shines in the last part there, with the badass string ensemble."
That melody is just pure luck. Like I said in the author's comments, it evolved from a mistake I made while playing the D harmonic minor scale on the piano.
"And it ends with the best bang ever! man that was great!"
Lol, the bang at the end took me 20 seconds max :P. I just chose a few random big hits from Stormdrum, and threw in a cello and french horn staccato note.
"I went and downloaded it which isn't something I do often. Awesome work"
Thanks a lot man, I REALLY appreciate the big review as usual, all the good feedback is inspiring me to work a bit more on this. But yeah, thanks again!
