badass
not to slow and not to fast its just right i dun see anything i would have u change in it cept putting a tray of snacks infront of ppl so we can eat while enjoying the soothing sounds
Reviews for "~BH~ Crystalline Cloudsca"
ErikMcClure responds:
thanks :3
This shall live at the hands of the five bomber!
since you say it takes so long for you to render with soundfonts, i'm assuming its because you have the high render option on? Does it make a huge difference whether its selected or not?
The Pros:
+Awesome title, the track goes great along with the provided imagery, sounds very lush, I indeed can picture a scene in the sky with this 1
+Original Sounding trance, SYNTHS ROCK, i dig the leads and pads, the sounds are very innovative, great atmosphere, I love how the kick is more complex than just the 4/4 consecutive hits.
+Long release or decay times on the flutes sound great, good usage of effects in this track
+Nice panning on the hats, the line is fairly interesting
+Melodies are great, very enjoyable
+Bassline is another good element in this track, love the sharp sound
+Nice wind FX and other ambient elements in here, again, really helps invoke high levels of imagery
The Cons:
-No clap/snare?
-A bit too compressed for my tastes, regardless it has a nice loudness that would suit well for professional production
-Lowpass the flute synth, the final note on of one of the melodies (1:18ish) is ear piercing D:
-I personally would scroll through the EQs on the synths and make more room for the instruments, maybe some mid cuts on the pads, give more space so you would potentially be able to throw in an audible clap/snare if you wanted to. Maybe rework some of the delay controls, as that makes the mix feel a bit sloppy IMO
So basically, AWESOME job with the synths. They sound lovely, very bright. Compositional and thematic aspects were great as well, except IMO the lack of a snare type element to fill out the beat. Mix is full, and decently well mixed, I just think it could use a tad more tweaking to make this track true ear candy.
5/5
8/10
Btw, I still use your sytrus tutorial a lot. Shame you never got more recognition for it, man :(
ErikMcClure responds:
- I chose a very thin drumloop for this song, since it fit the atmosphere, but I've really never been able to get snares to sound good :(
- I usually try to avoid brickwalling but in this song it just kind of evolved out of the track, even with absolutely no compression. If you look at the actual wave it's rather scary...
- Oops.
- Might give that a shot later, although i've never claimed to have very good mixing skills :P My songs tend to be very blurry, although in this case i used it to my advantage with the flute. I might have a few target pads that i could cut...
Thank your for writing up the third helpful review I've ever gotten.
this is fantastic.
make more my gentle friend!
ErikMcClure responds:
Thanks, I'll try 8D
took 1.5 days to render???
wow... thats alot of time, especially for a four minute song. wow.
ErikMcClure responds:
No it took 1.5 days to make. It took about 4 hours to render, mostly due to FL's idiotic method of rendering soundfonts from a file.