The composition and arrangement is really well done, can't believe you wrote this in single day! The reverbs and echo on the flute is a bit too much I think, but other than that it is an amazingly written piece!
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Technically I didn't "write" this in one day since all the melodic material I used was from my 2 other scrapped tracks made earlier in the jam, I just had a really hard time coming up with an arrangement that wasn't too High-Energy until I made this one.
First scrapped track i spent too much time trying to make work was some live recorded vocals with some FX to make it "dreamy" and tried to combine that with some live nylon guitar.
Second scrapped track i made after being stuck for multiple days on the first idea, and i made it purposefully blatantly too "epic" and not suitable for this jam to clear my head a bit.
On the last day I took the melody from the vocal/guitar sketch and the sort of variation of that i came up with for the epic sketch and that sorta turned into the final thing.
I posted these in the discord devlog channel, but for reference here's all the scrapped sketches that became the final thing:
I really should've had the echo effect on a bus and put a low cut/high cut on it like Alex mentioned, and the funny thing is i had my reverb itself on a buss and an EQ before it to remove muddiness 😅.
The plugin i used for the echo was the NI replika delay, but has a diffusion mode that's pretty good for washy ambient echo sounds.
Only ever used it for basic delay stuff, but really liked the sound of the diffusion mode for this type of ambient music (the preset i used was Soft clouds, for anyone interested).