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copet802 years ago (1 edit)

Thanks for listening and for the comment. I have to admit, limiting it to 2 hours per track only gave me barely enough time for orchestration and arrangement, but very inadequate window for mixing. That forced me to mix on the go, while orchestrating. I couldn’t really do any proper individual track mixing or even on bus level. The only thing I did after was to slap on a reverb on the stereo bus haha. But yeah I understand the limit now :)

Hopefully for what it’s worth, it shows my effort on everything minus the proper mix. 

May I ask, do you have any specific track that you think is lacking if compared to the rest?

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LukasWho2 years ago (1 edit)

First of all, don't get me wrong, I think you did a great job at mixing, especially considering the short time frame. It's just that some instruments feel a little to unnatural to be believable.

I think the most glaring example are the bagpipes in the Barbarian's theme, where ironically I think the amount of dynamics you added to the track worked against your favour. Even though Uilleann pipes seem to allow for a little dynamics (not an expert!), usually bagpipes aren't a very dynamic instrument. Hearing them play crescendos and decrescendos in such a manner just doesn't feel very realistic.

EDIT: Another example is the brass fanfare at the end of the main theme. While I very much understand you didn't want it to be in focus too much, as a former trumpet player myself it just seems pretty unrealistic to me that brass players could play such a high fanfare without being about twice as loud as the rest of the orchestra combined. I'm exaggerating to make a point here, of course, but I hope you get the idea.

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copet802 years ago (2 edits)

I truly agree! Thanks for pointing them out, especially the bagpipe. Honestly, I didn't know that they can't be played with much dynamics, as you can obviously tell now that I didn't do research (which I should have) on how Uilleann pipes are played and what they can do. Many thanks for pointing it out, I think after the Jam is over I will go back to remove the automations and polish it.

Same thing with the brass, yes I agree they should be much louder at the end. Given more time, I would replace it with proper brass swells patches rather than automating them. Thank you :)

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