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Reviews for "Battle of Mount Meggido"

Here I am again!

This is a very nice song! I'm not going to take off very many points for the sound quality because you've explained why that is already. This sounds very epic and suspenseful with the arpeggiating strings and choir. I thought I heard the strings clash a couple of times, but that only made it more suspenseful and full of action. The orchestra hits helped that too. I really liked the hammer sound, don't really know what that is. (Maybe the tubular bells?) And the piano part around 2:06 (where I'm assuming Gabriel falls) really captures the sudden realization that a beautiful soul has just vanished from the world. Very nice part. All in all, this is a very epic track. Fix the sound quality, and this would be awesome!

I'll review some more of your stuff later, but for right now keep up the good work!

LacrimosaMuse responds:

thanks again lol, ya i see wat u mean by the strings clashing, the violin part didnt turn out exactly the way i wanted it to but as i said im trying to rewrite it on a defferent program to help fix some of the mistakes, ha the hammer sound was a tube bells/chimes (theyre basically the same thing, but the chimes ring longer so i doubled the parts and cut their volume in half

O.O

Wow! Once again you make a masterpiece!!! My type of classical music! I love the heavy percussion and the repetition, I also love the gradual adding of different sounds and instruments!

LacrimosaMuse responds:

thank you, im trying to do a marching band show now as a side project with the same sorta setup, heavy bass drum unisons, dragged snare/tenor, and gradual adding of brass and woodwinds

hmmmm

I'll ignore the dodgy attempt at a biblical representation or the use of biblical themes and go straight to the song.
For a battle of gods and demons, especially armaggedon you need a lot more in a song then this to really capture epic. You had a decent idea, but it fell flat because of the following reasons:
You probably busted the decibel range on your program so the drums sound supressed and they cause the song to fall flat.
How many violins did you use? Too few anyway, for epic you need HUNDREDS of instruments, or heavy control of the instruments, that means lots of articulation, crescendo and the like. You really need to pull out the feeling behind something, and that often takes more skill then most people give credit for.
Choirs are an excellent idea but you really need a lot more bass then what you had, something ground shaking, rumbing, thundering in our ears. That especially goes for the drums, make them thunder, those ones sounded like cheap twenty dollar drums amplified a whole load of times.
You need more instruments and more control over each instrument section, ie weave them in and out of each other, epic is complex, thus the epic songs also need to be complex. This one's far too simple.
Some of those instruments were mildly annoying with the length they went on for in a sustained note, I'm not sure it's possible to make a violin sound on one note for 30 seconds and it sounded jarringly unrealistic, it really grated on my nerves.
I couldn't pick out the Gabriel section, there wasn't nearly enough contrast or feeling or the sense of loss as a being of unimaginable power is struck down.
The choirs need to be less sustained, use more stacato, shorter notes, hum haaa, hum hum haaaa, sort of thing not haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa onwards to infinity, and punctuate the notes with drums and short bursts of violins, chellos and other strings.
You don't have any brass! Where's the brass?!! Where are the brazen trumpets?!! The earthquake trombones?!! The horns? The Saxaphones? You can't do an epic piece like this without some sort of bass brass in there.
And finally, you need to work on the intruments, they sounded tinny and unrealistic, you should look for some proper instrument packs.

LacrimosaMuse responds:

i should have kinda explained the process behind the piece to avoid bad scores for no reason, i had to copy it onto Sonar using drag and drop, this explains why the choir can only do voice ahhhs, the violins sound like vibraphones, and the timpani are just snare drums EQd down alot. Needless to say, crescendos and sticattos, and overall complex dynamics were out of the question. the decibal ranges and the chimes/timps were created after the song was finalized on east and west. with that aside, however, thank you for your review, ive been working on rewriting the song on a different program to use more brass and keep the timps on a decent sound, ill let u know when that comes up
(btw, saxes are woodwinds lol)

I bumped you up

Since you had no rating (and your piece was 6 days old). Hopefully you'll get a fair judgement now. :]

LacrimosaMuse responds:

thanks to both of you for the help, ive been trying to get my music noticed and get some opinions on it

Cool Man!

Sweet song!! Really liked it. Very epic. My band's name used to be Meggido. XD
Keep up the great work!