I hear the story of your 24 hour struggle to write a track for the NGADM! xP
Although I'll say, for the short amount of time that you had for working on this track, you did a very good job. ^.^ The mixing sounds a little off at some parts, and there's also a need to actually work more on it. That ending sounded like you ran out of time and just clicked render. xD
In any case, great effort, and I wish you the best!
~Phyrnna ^_^
Haha. Thanks! You're right, the mixing probably suffered the most from the time constraints. And the ending I suppose. It sounded good when I exported it, but I swear it has changed a bit since then...
Whatever, this is my submission and I stand by it. I probably won't make it to the next round because Steampianist's track is AMAZING, but this was fun anyway. :)
excellent! I love the latter half, partly because it sounds almost similar to my own submission, especially the 7/8 drum pattern. I guess great minds think alike. ;-)
I love the string part that kicks in at 2:40 onward. it conveys a sense of suspense which is perfect for a main title sequence. considering you wrote this in a limited window of time, you did a great job!
Thanks a lot! I definitely see the similarity! ;)
Of all the NGADM songs, this one has the best intro, and I would argue that the intro and the quiet part at 1:40 are the strongest parts of this song. The rest is a good attempt at action-ish music, but isn't quite as well executed as the quieter parts. I really like the ideas the song explores, but I'm pretty sure time-constraints prevented you from really effectively exploring them. I kind of want to try and remix this song myself just to try and get closer to what you were shooting for.
Feel free to remix!
Not really an attempt at action-ish music, I was aiming at that totally-overblown kind of style that you get in the main titles of action flicks, but I didn't quite hit that either.
And yeah, I had about a day to write this and if I had had more time after I got back to my studio I would have done some things differently, but I stand by it anyway!
Send me a link if you do remix. ;)
What i think is good on this track is that you tried to be versitile. You changed the mood quite good. Just the transitions could be better. I dont know if its my boxes but i think the strings could need more volume. But like MichaelJ i think some of the ideas are pretty cool. Hope you will got less softwar / hardwareproblems in the future ... i know this problem. It stops the creative flow while composing and its extremely hard do stay motivated. For this circumstances good job!
This is an NGADM Round 2 review.
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Well, the first thing I was delighted to see was that this time you actually made a full-length idea, and not a small almost experimental track with little content. This is, in fact, entirely the other extreme. It's long and crammed full of sweet ideas and content! Other than a slight generic feeling I got from this track, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Some aspects of it are really professional-sounding, especially due to your clear mix, great interplay of different elements, and, of course, excellent instrument samples and sounds. For instance, 2:16, while being a pretty typical transitional element in this kind of music, sounded phenomenal, and what followed was a great 7/8 section with immaculate percussion work.
As I said, there are some great ideas here, full of detail that I can only truly appreciate when I turn my volume up. For example, I love the atmospheric pad you use at the beginning, the saw synth in the background 1:07, the way the brass staccato plays along with the percussion at 2:21, the many reverse effects you use in the track, and so on. I like how at 3:18 you, in a sense, brought all of the different ideas of the track together, such as the single notes of the piano from the very beginning and the drum beat from 1:07, all layered on top of your fast-paced background from 2:21. Solid composition overall, and immaculate atmosphere-building.
I'm not quite sure about the track's production. As I said above, to truly enjoy this track, I had to turn up the volume a lot. Surely enough, I checked your waveform, and the only form of mastering you seem to have done is a quick normalise at the end, because there's a lot of unused headroom due to a spike in the waveform at the very end which hit the normalising threshold. Even when I turn my volume up, I still feel that the instruments are all confined towards a limited range of frequencies and could've spanned a more expansive range of the mix. I'd like to feel more low-end boom from the drums and a sharper high-end.
This track is a bit lacking in production, despite being clear and pleasant to listen to, and it's a bit generic, but overall solid!
Score: 8.3/10