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Sierra Rising - Mara

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Another happy return to chill drum n´ bass. Went all out on the pads, basses and transition effects. I still need to work on my melodies, but I couldn´t think of how to extend this one. I should have kept the piano reverb lower, darn it.


I hope you like it, and be sure to leave a review, they are really helpful!


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EP Link: http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/c27382d3ee06ec6af9e6935e363eb43e

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hats are suuuuuper loud! i thought it was weird the way they sway at first but i ended up enjoying that a lot, though if they sat under the kick/snare instead of on top it'd be better. i don't think the piano reverb is an issue, actually it kinda blurs the notes out and makes them sit really nicely with the pad sound. the kick could do with some boosting, just to bring it a little bit below the snare (which is perfect btw).

the main thing with your melody is that you have very few repeated phrases at all within it, and since it's a really long melody it makes it hard to remember. you also use some strange voice leadings which clash with the underlying chords (e.g. 3m14s). my rule of thumb is if you can sing or hum it out loud it's probably a good melody. honestly if your melody and chord progression was half as long and you just repeated it twice it'd already improve things quite a lot!

overall your sound design is pretty interesting, and you've identified melodies as a weakness already. keep it up!

SierraRising responds:

I´ll be sure to lower the hats next time. Actually the high end in general could have probably been lower, come to think of it.
I never thought of singing or humming my melodies out, that´s really cool. The melody actually does repeat twice, and I probably should have left a bit more memorable repetition, it´s just that repetition has been a huge problem for me and I wanted to end that.

Thank you very much for the review, it means a lot to me!

Phenomenal! This kept me interested through the whole thing, it was enjoyable to listen to, and I love the blend of instruments in it, plus the effects. What program did you use to make this?

SierraRising responds:

Thank you so much for the kind words!
I use FL Studio for my productions.

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Uploaded
Oct 15, 2015
5:01 PM EDT
Genre
Drum N Bass
File Info
Song
7.3 MB
4 min 34 sec

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Please contact me if you would like to use this in a project. We can discuss the details.