There were just so many subtleties I wanted to include with this one. I’ve at this point had five chances to remake the melody from early July of 2020, so I wanted this to live up to how I thought the best Missouri would sound like. What I accomplished exceeded my expectations: this atmosphere is really what I wanted from the beginning. At the final climax, 3:57, the distortion goes away and you can hear the song clearly one last time. It was almost like the peak of the Missouri melody. On top of that, what I did with the low notes as you said is I gave them a ton of bass and no high frequencies and did the opposite for most of the other instruments. This produced a gritty, slightly distorted sound that I adored and still left enough room to not sound messy. As for the pitch bending at the end, I felt it was the most appropriate ending for a Halloween song such as this.
What do I plan to do after I’m done? I talked about this in a news post a few months back: essentially I joked about making a song for every country. Honestly there are close to 200 countries currently on this planet, and some of them I know absolutely nothing about so that wouldn’t really work that well. Another option is to just post random songs, but I was kinda planning to just have this account be dedicated to the series as a sort of piece of internet history, and to release more songs would only bloat what’s already there, if that makes any sense. In other words, 50 songs for 50 states; I could just as easily make an alternate account to post future songs on if I were to go the route of posting random songs with no correlation. At this point I haven’t decided which, or a third option to start making songs on cities, which would also be difficult. Another option I see is to make songs on Canadian provinces, but I can’t tell you two differences between Saskatchewan and Alberta. This issue is even a problem right now as I struggle to see if I can make two songs for North and South Dakota when they are practically the same thing.
A long review deserves a long reply lol. TL:DR I am surprised you thought this was my best as always, although I did put a lot of effort into sound design. For the future I don’t know but am considering making a second account.