Very good cinematic work! Love the atmosphere you create but be careful of the amount of reverb you put on each instrument, it gets a little muddy in the mids and some of the lows. Use more eq, many sounds are clashing with each other, especially with those drums that take up almost the whole frequency spectrum. But the composition is excellent, you would be an amazing composer for movies if you learned how to mix better, and try investing in some better string and brass sounds (although I myself don't have very good string and brass sounds I know that it will pay off for you in the future). You have a lot of potential, keep up the good work ;)
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So recently I found out about this movie that existed called Godzilla: King Of The Monsters, and while I myself have not seen the movie, I can not stop listening to the Clair de Lune and Over the Rainbow renditions. If you take a chance to listen to them in their entirety, they're absolutely stunning and feels-y. I actually enjoyed it so much that I decided to make a rendition of it for a certain circumstance: Discord's first ever Hack Week, which ends at 11:59 PM PST on the 28th (kinda shameless plug). It's also worth mentioning that Discord provided the branding for everyone to use, which is the same branding that is used for the art of this track.
The melody of this is the same melody that's used in Discord's famous Incoming Call sound. It has a similar structure to Clair la Lune and Over the Rainbow, and I tried to aim for a similar style as well, with some neat additions. I have a slight feeling this is Cinematic, but I'm thinking going the safe way by saying this is New Wave until I know for certain.
btw join NGADM and NGUAC, that's where I'll be these next months
SplatterDash responds:
The reverb has been the one thing I included a lot on this, and the more I listen to the second half the more I realize that was a mistake. Funny enough, I still have yet to really introduce myself fully to EQing, as Live Lite only includes an EQ Three which I barely use. The drums were also one of the things I was worried about making this - in both pieces that inspired this, the drums are really out there, which is what I aimed for in this, but I also wanted to be careful as I couldn't compress it (there would be weird fades around the drums if I did) and considering how limited my options are for production... yeah. Still, thank you for the advice! Hopefully I can enter into something like NGADM in the future and get myself some better strings or brass from that lol
I really love the solo instrument that starts playing at about 0:39. You have a lot of reverb and it makes that solo instrument sound amazing! But when the pad is introduced at about 0:56 with all that reverb added to the pad as well, the reverb is slightly overwhelming and kind of hides the pad. Then when the piano comes in at about 1:13 the reverb really hides the piano and the piano sounds lost in your mix. I would like to be able to hear that piano a little more clearly. Then the whole last half of the song is completely lost in a huge wash of reverb to where the instruments are just drowning in it and it’s all way too clouded. A large amount of reverb sounds great on one maybe two instruments if there is a lot of space between moments of being played (if you play short instances and allow breaks for the listener to hear the reverb decay for some time before introducing more notes) but when you have several instruments playing and no breaks for the effect of the reverb to decay a bit then it becomes a large clouded wash of sound. My suggestion is to use the reverb more sparingly when you have a lot more going on instrumentally. Maybe use some automation to dial down the reverb as more instruments are introduced and where there is a lot more going on. Also try using less or different amounts of reverb on each instrument. Otherwise I love what you are trying to do and I really love that solo instrument with all that reverb when it plays solo. Keep it up! ;)
SplatterDash responds:
I listened back a couple of times, and yeah, I get the point of reverb in the second half. With the pad, I wanted it to kinda stay hidden and support the main solo instrument, but with the piano I was worried about it coming out because I felt like it wasn't so much of a well-written piano part. Still, I think I can make use of the wet/dry knob of the reverb the next time I do something like this - the reason why I used a lot of reverb was to a) make it sound a little realistic, and b) make it sound huge, especially considering this was being done using the maximum amount of channels in any Live Lite file, which is 8 (although it kinda failed me on that end). But still, the more I listen to the second half the more I agree with you that less is more. Thank you for the advice!
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