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Snake Plissken - Rain (extended compo edition)by Snake Plissken |
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Ogg Vorbis version| QBical | ||||||||||||
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Rain is a track by Snake Plissken in the soundtrack/game music genre. The arrangements are quite good, nice chord structures and different motifs and structures keep you intrested but don't deviate from the main theme to much. But overal I find the track a bit flat, it doesn't realy stand out in the mix. The whole track is drowning in reverb, that realy clutters up the instruments and thus giving the track a lack of freshness in the high frequency's, and that's something the track could realy use. Futhermore on a technical side I've counted 7 mpverbs, with somewhat the same settings, this could realy hog up a CPU, you could try to send the tracks to a seperate channel with 1 reverb on it to reduce CPU. I think this is a great song in terms of arrangement and instrumentation, realy top notch, it's just to bad that the technical side isn't up to that same level. I would advise you to look into some orchestral VST samplers or some guides on mixing techniques, because you've got the stuff, but could work it out a bit more. Keep it up! | ||||||||||||
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Right from the get-go one can understand this will be a calm and relaxing piece. Somehow it all feels a bit old romantic adventure movie from the 60's. Good atmoshpere. I miss a sort of majestic sound to this track though. It is perhaps a bit too long for it's own good also. Other than that structures are good and manage to keep things interesting most of the time. Too bad the drums kind of take down the overall feeling a notch. They probably have a bit too much reverb on them, because they sound a bit washy. They could perhaps also get a bit more power. Right now they sound a bit as if they're sorry they exist. A track like this would be served good by having more dynamics also. Have some quiet parts and build up to some climaxes. As it is now it all sounds a bit too even. The instruments in general sound a bit lo-fi, probably the reason I want to place this in a 60's movie. I miss some crispness in the instruments, something that would say this was made in the age of 192kHz DVD-audio. I think I would try this track without percussions and perhaps cut it down in length a bit instead. Add some low bass instead that would give the track energy. Try to create a more dynamic structure. The quality of the samples is a bit lacking imo. Especially the orientalish instruments are a bit dissapointing when it comes to clarity imo. In the end this is a good piece of work, I hope we'll see more of this kind of music. | ||||||||||||
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Originality: 10 <-- Within the MT environment. Theme: 8 Arrangement: 8 Technical: 5 Quality: 8 Global: 8 Nice relaxed moods welcomes you in this both orchestral & dreamy entry, a very melodic flute plays a dreamy melody. As the song info says, this song invites you to go back to nature (if only the winter could get us the nature back...), the song builds into a multipart production, sometimes based on pianos & strings, with some beats here & there, and even some almost chinese sounding parts towards the middle. I like that diversity. While the song misses a global theme that catches you throughout the song, each individual theme works very well and sets the correct mood. Good point here, even if it did not manage to reach the level of Theodor's last year's entry that obviously inspired that production. Arrangement works very well within this musical genre. The big flaw is however on the technical side : Too many quite poor samples, poor mixing (so many overlapping frequencies, filter your strings !), and some instruments mixed way too loud (the strings again... whereas I usually love strings... :) ). In fact, this song rather sounds like a MT conversion of some great midi stuff, unfortunately a conversion done with some average tracking talent. Besides this, I think that if you had covered a broader spectrum of frequencies (deeper basses, higher high pitched instruments...), your song could be technically much better. Even if this kind of music is not suitable for boombastic basses, there is still room for low pitched strings (ah, strings again :-) or other low pitched orchestral instrument. Overall, we have a great song with multiple parts, very film music inspired, that has a lot of very good musical qualities (nothing to blame there) but that would require some re-arrangement and proper sound engeneering to make it perfect. A great entry anyway. Congrats. Also something that I'll probably copy-paste 3 billion times within this reviewing process : NAME YOUR TRACKS ! This would give your audiance and us judges a better view of how your track is built, will help newbies to learn how to use MT and to beat you in next year's compo :) (Fun note : I've written the word "strings" so many times in this review that this page might get googelized in the "underwear" section of google :-) |
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