Reviews for AIM - Bellowers of Grief

[BlazingDragon]

Gorgeous track! I'm a sucker for the Dorian mode (minor with the sixth note in the scale raised a half step), which you use at the beginning. This piece feels somewhere between Jeremy Soule's Skyrim soundtrack and Harry Gregson-Williams' Narnia score.

My only advice is to master the track. You have plenty of room to maximize the volume without losing the dynamic range. If this appeared in a playlist, listeners would have to turn their speakers up to clearly hear.

And congrats on this being Frontpaged today!

Everratic responds:

Thanks for the review! It's nice to hear from you again :D I'm also a sucker for Dorian! I definitely took some inspiration from Jeremy Soule and will check out the Narnia score.

I get that the track could theoretically be louder, and that in the waveform above it appears that it can simply be raised, however, I did carefully master the track and chose this specific volume level. Although it's quiet by NG standards, the truth is that the peaks of this song are louder than many orchestral and film mixes, including many Skyrim songs. This kind of orchestral music is extremely dynamically sensitive so I wanted a clean, non-limited sound. I'm not a professional, so if you feel I'm wrong or missing something, please feel free to follow up :)

[Tangerine]

This is wonderful. I love orchestral music so much, haha. Not only is it fun to listen to, it's also fun to make. Best of luck with the NGUAC!

Everratic responds:

Thank you!

[damifortune]

(disclaimer: AIM judge review here! these are just my opinions and thoughts, you can take from them whatever you like! music is subjective and all that. <3)

very lovely orchestral writing. mournful and slow-moving and full of space. the couple of big swells are very thoughtful and well-positioned; i love how they are just little moments of contrast that blow in for a moment and then fade back away. the tone really does set a far-off, frigid isolation, and this would make for some really wonderful background music for a scene in such a setting as your chosen artwork. you paint well with the orchestral colors; i like what you chose to feature, such as the clarinet, and your string writing. as far as i'm concerned you really nailed the vibe you set out to accomplish! let's get you a video game to score, eh?

Everratic responds:

Thanks for the review and for judging :D

I'd love to score a video game!

[Nisker121]

beautiful
the chronicles of narnia

Everratic responds:

Thanks for the comment!

[LordAndiso]

The culmination gave me goosebumps! good job! :O

Everratic responds:

Awesome, thanks :D