Good work
I like this track, I've heard some of the tunes in this one before, but still it is a very good track indeed. Didn't like the ending much but the entire track felt like I'm in a battle in Greece or something. Well either way man this was very well done. 5d it,
Keep it pimpin'
BN out
You have?! I have no idea where you may have heard this track before, but if you could PLEASE tell me! I would love to know from where. It's not unknown that sometimes I subconciously put in a piece or segment not completely mine, though I was fairly sure this time it was.
In any case, thanks for the review Broken, i'm glad you liked it ^^.
Again ?
Again with you? You keep making good music >_< Ahh! Lol. Okay, let's see here...
From what I got from this is skeletal soldiers are marching upon a bloodied and death infested field as they march in line and kill any who survive.
Hm, as for the review. The strings complemented very well with the song. The timpani fit in perfectly to set the mood. And the part where it almost sounds like people are saying "Ing Pahk" kicked ass! Those kinds of verses just make an iron-clad song so tyranically good! :P Good work and keep it up (Cant wait for the full ver of this...)
I'm sorry :'(
I'll start throwing in random SCREECHING white noise segments right away to right this horrible wrong! From this day onward, nobody shall hear my works without losting at LEST 50% of their hearing!
And motor skills if I can get that bad that fast.
The crowd is actually supposed to be shouting "E - O!" for Escalation Online, but... uuh... my cruddy mixing?
:D
But I agree, they added a good deal to the piece, I didn't think they would be that useful, but they is!
Thank you for the review and image Stealth, greatly appreciated! I'm glad you liked the piece ^^.
Nice
I like. It's very angry which I personally love. Maybe the angriest one you have done. I love the choir part... Reminds me of flying. You're very good at it.
I haven't seen you online in awhile. I wonder do you want to post what we have done of our piece? I have it posted at soundclick already but I can always deleted it once we have the final version.
Yeah man, sorry about that. My finals are starting to group on me. After this weekend, the final tests come streaming, after which I should have no problem coming online.
I think I will post what we have thus far, and then when this week is up, we'll wrap that bad boy up!
I'm glad you liked this piece Slayer, thank you for the review.
A demo?
Aww, they're nowhere near as fun as full songs. Aah well... if it's a work in progress, I suppose a finished version will come sooner or later. ;)
Hmm. This doesn't quite have the same grandeur, the same great feeling as your other songs in the beginning. Also - your drums' quality is questionable. The reeverb detracts from the sound quality, in my opinion.
The melody of the song takes its time to develop, too. But once it does, it's good! It really gets that epic feeling that I think you're aiming at... however, the strings that play it feel a bit weak and could have used something in the lower range to support them... some brass, I think, would have done nicely and also the right ones might add to your attitude... if not, then some lower-end strings would help.
Interesting choice with the sitar... though it feels a bit out of place. I'm no expert with them... but single notes won't do if you want one in this song. I think that you should try getting a "strummed" feeling on the sitar, strumming a chord. Something like that. Experiment... I'm sure that multiple notes strummed together will have much greater effect than single ones. Of course, single notes are okay in between strums... like I said, experiment. ;)
I like those chanting effects there! However, they share the similar low-quality sound with the drums. Was this, by any chance, exported at a low bitrate? That might explain it... if not, well... keep trying to make it sound better, I guess.
You end on an interesting note... that high-pitched and plucked-sounding violin (that's what it sounded like to me) gives it a bit of that Meditteranean feel... if you know what I mean. :P It also gives the song a feel of regret, as if all of the warriors who participated in this brutal fight depicted in your song suddenly look at the firey, bloody battlefield about them and regret the damage they have caused to each other... and themselves. No, I'm not giving you any more of an story than that... it's a work in progress, after all. :P I'm saving the full thing for if you upload it on NG.
Last question - can you tell me about this Escalation game? I'm interested. :)
Great work, Maestro, though it could definitely use more. I'm looking forward to hearing the finished version. :)
Some very interesting suggestions Karco. Though I can agree with what you said, there are still some problems i'd have to learn how to deal with before I could actually deliver what you say.
Firstly, the lower end of this song is mad saturated. You'd be surprised, frankly I am too. I suspect it may be the reverbed timpani that eat up so much of it, as it's rather hard to hear them. The reverbed timpani are also not really low quality, I suspect that it's the mix and competition of other instruments that got in its way.
For the sitar, strumming does not work for the "droning" sitar as they call it. Strumming makes it sound like one giant sitaric white noise, if you know what I mean. I will try putting in a normal sitar, see if that works, i'm just worried of clashing then. I mean the song already has a fair deal of clashing in it, I worry what chords may do to it at this point *I am even considering removing it*
The choirs are probably suffering in quality due to instrument competition and reverb levels.
You know, i've never tried exporting this higher then 128kb/s. I highly doubt exporting it higher would help, but this IS perhaps my busiest piece, so perhaps it needs more room. I'll try 192 next.
That plucking sound, an awesome instrument. I know exactly what you feel and mean, and thats why it was there.
www.escalation-online.com is the game in question. We just started the new website so it's a little scattered, but the game will be out shortly. The full piece of this will probably be a main theme/battle theme within that game.
Thank you greatly for the review Karco, always a pleasure! I'm glad you liked it ^^.
Epic.
This is very nice... the way you built the intensity up to its release was fantastic. This truly sounds like something out of a movie... and I'm usually very picky about stuff like that. The tension is just... tense. And those underlying middle-eastern instruments were genius; it added a whole nother level to the experience. I'm getting a very 300-ish vibe from this... but then it's ruined by the Italian guitar picking / accordion stuff XD Which is not to say that it's bad; it just made me realize I wasn't listening to the 300 soundtrack. Excellent work. 5/5 easy, even in its "demo" state.
Heh, yeah, when I first started making music I was always looking for new sounds to put into the piece. Ethnic instruments nobody has heard off, to give them a taste few will have experienced in any other way.
Recently I noticed i've been sticking around the same instruments way too much, so I decided to try putting some new stuff in again :D.
This one in particular has the Droning Sitar, the Erhu Violin, and as you meantioned, the plucking was the Tremolo Satari (I think thats the name). I hope to make the final version much more diverse, hopefully it will not bleed from it's core if I do.
Thank you for teh review attempted! I'm glad you liked the piece ^^.