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Fight for the Future! - NGUAC Knockout 2023

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My knockout round entry for the 2023 NGUAC, Fight for the Future! I've wanted to make a song like this for a while (for my upcoming game, Space Crab VS), and this challenge was the perfect push I needed to start & finish it! Please enjoy listening to this climactic battle song.

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Your song has a jaunty feeling that I adore!, it's a fun, cheery good time.

I feel like mixing wise, the percussion is almost inaudible and that's pretty much I have to say on the mixing side of things.

Compositionally, I love some of the chords you used but the melody felt very improvisational at times and there wasn't enough of it that "stuck" with me, I'd love for it to be more percussion elements to drive the song forward, if you also varied the sound of the lead more before the outro you could change the mood of a piece so much more!.

It wasn't a bad song by any means, just nothing that particularly stuck with me, I enjoyed listening to it!.

CommanderJersey responds:

Thank you, I appreciate your comments! I'll use them to help guide my music going forward.

There is some unidentifiable noise clicking above the mix prior to 30 seconds. It could be some sort of reverb. Speaking of reverb, it is hard to hear anything going on due to lots of low end noise coming from reverb through this piece. Rolling off some of the low end i.e. 250 hz and below can help. Alternatively, manage reverb smartly by applying it where you want it to be heard -- think about how people don't leave the sustain pedal on a piano when they change chords, unless those chords go together -- it causes things to sound muddy.

The kick is very hard to hear throughout the song. Snare could come up throughout. Hihats potentially also. Levels are just in general all over the place. Perhaps not for a chip tune song, but this is not chip.

I am having trouble hearing the bass through the reverb shoegaze and over the amount of sustaining bells, as well as the quite loud leads.

Based on your panning, I think it is part of the reverb on the snare in your beginning I was hearing. Oh no, it was the instrument at 2:14. Rolling off the high end on that delay will help a bit. Due to muddy mix, it was sounding like clipping to me in your intro.

But I would like to say beyond all that that compositionally, this is a great piece, which I really enjoyed. All mix issues aside, it's lively, energetic, and driven. Kind of reminds me of mario kart, tbh. Good work!

CommanderJersey responds:

Thank you for the review, I have been working your feedback into the song to make it better!

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Listens
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Faves:
1
Votes
6
Score
4.30 / 5.00

Uploaded
Aug 26, 2023
11:16 PM EDT
Genre
Video Game
File Info
Song
3.3 MB
2 min 32 sec
Software
  • SunVox

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