Wow, loving this atmosphere! Has a nice chord progression and bassline that carries a familiar theme throughout as the listener is carried throughout every stage of the song.
Would love to see this in a game someday ☺️
Truly a 5/5 😌
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Midnights-Ocean responds:
Makes me very happy that those themes shined through for you. Indeed. I'd love to see this in a game. Thanks so much! : )
Well done on another front page mate, it's always deserved.
Just doing a first pass on my normal speakers. Really digging this. Has something of Tricky about it. Deep bass, tripping percussion with some nice pads. Love your use of foley soundscapes, they lend a level of atmosphere to the track which compliment the progression. You have some beautiful fm synths in play, bright, glassy but full of warmth.
The choice to use a natural kit is absolutely the correct one for me, making the mix retain a naturalist vibe.
On monitors now :)
Bass is full. The panning is great. love once we hit 1:20. Now strangely, the snare sounds lower in the mix, lacking some snap, I'd maybe tighten the envelope as it has a weird of tone drop off in the reverb.
3:40 is beautiful, all of it is. Love to hear a take where we go more indie, get some back verb'd guitars in, ebow. There's places you can go with this and none would be wrong. Again, vocals would be epic.
Enjoyed this thrice on different gear. Excellent work and you deserve to be recognised for it.
Midnights-Ocean responds:
Thanks mate! The reviews are always appreciated. This one was the culmination of a lot of nature recordings I had taken at the time. That snare yeah. I’m glad you noticed that. I had a tough call to make, keep the longer reverb on it throughout the entire tune or switch to a shorter verb once the tune got going to save some mud in the mix. I don’t like the inconsistency that made though. I definitely like the longer verb better. Maybe I’ll find a way to better preserve the tone of the long verb while cutting down on mud. A reverb wet side EQ is in order perhaps. Maybe even an automated one. Next time I boot this project up, I’ll tackle that.
There's nothing sweeter than a well balanced FM patch <:3. I always feel like I’ve succeeded when people talk about all the things that could be done with a piece. The places it could go. I want my art to be inspiring and if it writes new things in people’s minds naturally, I’d say that’s inspiring. Glad you like! Cheers. : )
This deserves to be in some kind of horror short or game. Very ominous and eery, these drones are a perfect fit for this. The kind of drum pattern which you are using here reminds me a lot of a 90s drumloop from the Distorted Reality sample CD. You should really give the OST of Rayman 2 a listen some time, some of your ambient tracks remind me so much of the work of Eric Chevalier on the Rayman 2 OST.
Great use of percussion in combination with the synths. Not a huge fan of the distorted part around 03:33, but the advent of business around 04:00 and later adds to the 'storyline' in this piece of a chaotic and unknown path which leads to strange ways and an unexpected journey.
That hi-hat effect around 04:45 is very nice.
Where did you get the bird samples from? Fadeout and outro work great.
Magnificent piece.
Midnights-Ocean responds:
Wow! Thank you for such a wonderful in depth review! I used to listen to the Rayman 1 CD when I was a kid. I never got a hold of the 2nd game though. I should look into it for a listen. I suppose this song could be dark or light themed depending on the visuals used. I like when music has a broad bandwidth of emotions to work with. It’s more like real life that way IMO. I’m so happy you saw a story line in this. It was written as such. It’s to be expected that there will be elements people like and ones they don’t. I’m glad you enjoyed the journey though! All the samples were made by me. I used a field recorder to get all the chime, bowl, rain, bell and bird sounds. Only stock sample was the thunder. : )
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