Knocking On The Sky (remastered)

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Knocking On The Sky (remastered)

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https://midnightsocean.bandcamp.com/album/genesis

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XbUxTeRGD

2021-05-12 19:15:57

this is FIRE, or water xd

Midnights-Ocean responds:

Maybe it's both! I don't know lol. Thanks for the 5 : 3

LostChronology

2021-05-12 18:58:54

I really like how mysterious this sounds. Very atmospheric. I can't remember which track exactly, but this reminds me a lot of some of the soundtracks of the Rayman 2 OST. I think it was this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7-QZ2O-Bz0&t=8072s

EDIT: I think specifically this track of Rayman 2 sounds very similar to your track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7-QZ2O-Bz0&t=10456s

I really love this track.

Midnights-Ocean responds:

Hey thanks much!

heh, ah rayman. I remember listening to the OST of the first game on my boom box as a kid. : P

Mel

2021-05-11 01:07:09

very, very visual

Midnights-Ocean responds:

Thank you! My music is always visual to me and I have wondered if it was to anyone else as well.

pitbulljones

2021-05-09 20:23:07

That rumble is peaky, maybe roll the db back before the mix.

Huge chorus, lots of clip. Hats too dry.

love the twhippy percussion, harks to joy division.

2 minutes in. It's peaky. I kinda like it though. There's some nice scrapes, but it's overall overwhelmed by the clipped low end.

I think there's potential in redoing this, as a fresh start, maybe from around the 2 min mark, build into a dnb or breaks. Need to eq the section first.

heard better but 5 anyway

Midnights-Ocean responds:

Ah good. Thanks for all the notes. I was very happy with this as a tune but dissatisfied with the mix. No hats used, just a metal bowl with water. Lows show no clipping, so I'm not sure what you are hearing. Maybe something somewhere. The low end is from a mono synth that sports a bit of percussive high end "pop" along with the lows. The original recording was done on an old 4 track tape machine live. Those kinds of adventures can sometimes be cumbersome to mix afterwards. At 2:30 it sounds like there's some compressor or something clipping on the pad. Did a bit of poking around. The pad's 200Hz band was triggering clip distortion on the main's multi band limiter for some reason. First time I've had that plugin give clip distortion like that. Very odd. I fixed it though. Submission file is replaced with updated mix. Thanks for the feedback.