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The Last Ronin

By Snake Plissken

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Yannick

Originality:	7	Technical:	5
Theme:	7	Quality:	6
Arrangement:	6	Global:	6

Sunbuster

Originality:	8	Technical:	7
Theme:	9	Quality:	8
Arrangement:	6	Global:	8

Well, it's a great track, some mideval romantic downtempo. When I listen to it, I think film music. I can picture some great warrior with a mission, on his way to fullfill it. Guess that's what the title implies also, to some extent.

Technically, not much bad to say about it. Biggest problem I have with it is the lenght. I find it a bit too long for such a slow track. Even though it's "only" about 6:30 long, it feels like 10 minutes at least. It felt a bit dragged out.

The chorus could have had a wider stereofield. I would experiment with putting different panning on the various notes to achieve this. Or try with putting a really big reverb on it, bigger than it is now, empty cathedral type.

I'm not so sure about the guitar. The melody is good, I especially like how the notes bend a bit in the end. But it's the travelling from one channel to another that I have a problem with. Instead of having a stereo delay on it, I'd put a mono delay, or at least pull back a bit on the depth of the stereo delay.

The piano sounds more like a guitar than a piano imo, especially on the high notes. A slightly muddier piano I think could work better.

The snare I think is a bit too far out to the left, since there's really nothing that balances it on the right. Either try putting the snare closer to the center, or move the hihats further to the right. Otherwise the drumprogramming is good, especially like how the tomtoms travel from one channel to the other when they play, and the dark snarehits that echoe out with a long reverb.

Overall, this is a great piece of work, even though I had a bit to say about various things. Like I said in the beginning, this track has movie soundtrack written all over it. Keep it up!