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Revvin' Up - Alternative Jam #6's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Composition | #6 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
| Creativity | #6 | 3.429 | 3.429 |
| Impression | #7 | 3.143 | 3.143 |
| Credibility | #8 | 2.857 | 2.857 |
| Overall | #8 | 3.029 | 3.029 |
| Sound quality | #9 | 2.429 | 2.429 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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https://soundcloud.com/katiegamedev/revvin-up
Track description | Creative process
This one is definitely a little rough, but I'm really happy to still have gotten something to submit for this jam. I had never heard the Guilty Gear soundtrack before and immediately fell in love with it, but heavy rock/metal is a genre I've never composed in and I think it shows 😅very grateful for any and all feedback!
(Note to self... do not attempt to do three composing jams at the same time...)
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Good job! For a first time in rock/metal that is not that far off. It gives me vibes of early '00s games a bit, which is weirdly nostalgic. I feel like I played a game with similar soundtrack :D
A bit of feedback - with drums for rock/metal the baseline would be kick on 1 & 3 and snare on 2 & 4. Obviously you can play around with kicks, snares are bit more difficult to pull off differently. Fill spaces with hihats (not on same dynamic level, most commonly used would be strong-weak) as 8ths and you have a great base to build up from.
With that going from closed to open hihats will be an easy verse/chorus distinction.
Seeing that you admitted to drums being your weak point I figured you would find this helpful, hope you do!
Thanks so much for the feedback! It's super helpful to hear more about how drums work in this genre, I was guessing for the most part haha
Nice rock melodies and energy. The piano section was my favorite. My main critique would be that at several moments it seems like the percussion is building up to a big exciting moment before kinda' petering out, would've liked to hear the percussion get fast and wild. But overall I liked it.
Thanks! Percussion is definitely one of my weaker areas, will try to go a little more wild next time :D
Great work! I love the composition. The jazzy breakdown in the middle is killer.
Rock/metal is hard to do without real guitars I find. Also, it’s hard to do without the right drum samples. It’s gotta sound hard and aggressive and you can’t really get that without the right tools and sounds. Maybe by using a lot more overdrive and saturation to squeeze out those harmonics??
Thanks so much! Will definitely look into overdrive and saturation the next time I try something like this. If you have any suggestions for guitar/drum samples would be curious 👀
For sure! So I do a lot of rock/metal so I use EZDrummer and a metal add-on pack. I think it was like 300-400 USD total, kind of pricy if you’re just dabbling.
For guitar samples I’ve not really been able to replace just real recordings and amp effects software (I use guitar rig and some other stuff)
but you can get some pretty heavy synths by just modulating them using distortion and saturation. Here’s one of my heavy synth tracks: https://calvinjee.bandcamp.com/track/temperature-limit-exceeded-encounter
“(Note to self... do not attempt to do three composing jams at the same time...)” hahahaha learned that exact lesson myself. I saw you on the motif one I think, what else did you do??
Glad I'm not alone 😅I also did OST Composing Jam [Sandbox] - itch.io last weekend.
Excited to check out your motif submission, don't think I saw that one yet!