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High Noon at Midnight

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Created using Jummbox, a mod of Beepbox

Do not use my content for your creations.


What's up, listeners? Welcome to Day 3 of Jamuary! I really gotta get pushing on making more new content, because I'm running out of backlog tracks to post! But enough about poor scheduling, today I have a fun one for you all! This one was inspired somewhat by one of the tracks from one of my favorite fighting games from last year, Them's Fightin' Herds.


If you haven't played it, it makes sense, but do give the soundtrack a fair chance. Actually one of the best OSTs I've heard in a really long time.


Remember to vote and comment below, and be sure to follow for more! I'm still chugging away at this, and I'm scheduling tomorrow's song as we speak. Until then!

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I think you gotta eq out the percussion a bit so it doesn't limit the rest of the song. Also, I'd reccomend putting some bars of silence at the end of the song until the reverbs of all the instruments can fade out so it doesn't just cut off.

The melodies are great, overall the track has the vibe of a final boss of sorts. I don't really see it as a fighting game track if that was the aim, seeing that it was inspired by a fighting game OST, but maybe a jrpg battle track.

My main issue is that the track feels quite muddy, would be nice to give the individual instruments more room to breathe and shine in their own specialized frequencies instead of overwhelming the ear by trying to all be equally loud and occupying the same space on the frequency spectrum, everything outside the lead instrument kind of turns into one big mushy texture.

By giving each instrument more clarity and eliminating unnecessary frequencies - you can make them sound more impactful and give the illusion that the music is way louder and more impactful in the result. I am not sure how Jummbox or Beepbox work but I sure hope they have mastering and EQ'ing plugins.

Currently the track sounds good on the first listen, it would get me pumped if I heard it in a game, but I can tell I would get tired of it very quickly due to how it is constantly sticking to that loud and too full for its own good sound for the entire duration of the track, maybe adding some calmer bits in the middle would serve such compositions better, similarly to how drawn compositions have areas of great detail and areas of minimal detail to give the viewer's eye a place to rest on.

I hope the feedback is helpful, I am not great at specifics so I am mainly going by personal experience and feel here.

ButterBees responds:

This is great stuff! I'm gonna be honest, I have no idea what EQ plug-ins are, and I don't really know how to clean up audio and make it sound less muddled.

But this was pretty helpful advice, nonetheless. Also yeah, I mainly work with JRPG songs since it's part of the main projects I wanna make, so... yeah.

Awesome stuff! Gives me a high stakes vibe, or maybe something in a desolate place, like a mountain at night.

Day 3 of Jamuary? Already? that's like 1/10th of the month gone by now, woah. It's gonna be a shame when it end because here you come with yet another great piece, and man I love how you change the keys right before the middle so rappidly. And chords don't have a 'correct order' for you, you somehow make completely disstatched chords work together really well by really going into the uncharted territories. My only issue with this is that there's no real ending.

Also if you are going to tell one of your favourite recent OSTs, then I have to recommend the ost to Gunman Clive, it's not great, but it's a silly little game I recently 100% on my 3ds and it deserves credit where it's due since it does what it sets out to do very well.

ButterBees responds:

You don't know how much I appreciate comments like these. It really makes my day!
I also recommend checking out some of my stuff from the last year or two! I've really been doing my best to improve over these past few years.

Thanks for the recommendation too! I'll be sure to check it out.

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135
Votes
5
Score
3.75 / 5.00

Uploaded
Jan 3, 2024
1:57 PM EST
Genre
Video Game
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Song
3.6 MB
2 min 39 sec
Software
  • BeepBox
Misc. Kit
  • JummBox - Jummbus

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