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Raining on diamond

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This one took a long time! probably around 8-9 hours in build time. This one is gonna be the start of some gem themed songs, this makes me think of some mario platformer with diamond blocks and it's raining. This is my submission for the NGAUC competition knockout round! good luck everyone and wish me luck too!


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Hey there. Some general commentary on your song for NGAUC.

-This reminds me a fair amount of the Face Shrine from Link's Awakening - at least, the background.
-All of your instruments for the first minute and a half seem to have too much attack time, it's a bit jarring with the loud drums that have an instant attack time.
-Mixing once the drums come in gets fuzzy, downright muddy with the piano.
-Definitely needs more than one sample for each drum if it's going to be

this kind of drumbeat - and once again, they need to be quieter.
-The melody around 3 minutes before it goes out seems to be out of key with the background.
-Cool glitchy sounds after 3 minutes, but I think they could be integrated better as ear candy rather than as their own instrument.
-After 4:30, the main chord instrument is definitely too loud. It overpowers the already overpoweringly loud drums. There really needs to be better levelling and mixing in this piece. It's possible to make something stand out as a new instrument without killing everything else.
-And the song fades out. This is one of the most important things, as it's the final impression a piece leaves - fading out with no conclusion generally isn't the best parting note to leave.

Final score: 5.6/10

I like the melody that you use in the beginning, but it sounds like a preset from autogun. Now they're good presets (if you're not using preset then damn.), but it's something personal to me, that they sound amateurish and lazy, because that is how I've used them when I was learning to make music. But to give you the benefit of the doubt and I'll overlook that.

The thing that actually bothers me are the drums. They are a bit too loud imo and you're using samples that are quite common, and that cymbal just gets tiring.

But you've certainly got the melody part of this song down, it sounds really nice.

Great song!

Credits & Info

Listens
593
Faves:
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Downloads
22
Votes
7
Score
2.57 / 5.00

Uploaded
Jul 24, 2015
9:50 PM EDT
Genre
Experimental
File Info
Song
7 MB
6 min 9 sec

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