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Antarctic Terraformation

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So theres this contest going around that I made this song for. This is meant to be the tip of the iceberg. Future songs will get progressively wierder as they come out.


Yes, the fast part is based on Antarctic Oscillation, because I can't go 5 minutes without making a Risk of Rain 2 reference.

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** A NGAIC REVIEW **

o/ :)

COMPLIMENTS:

I like the simplicity of the drums, and your instrument choices for your main melody. The transitions are pretty tasty too. :D

CRITIQUE:

Your pad/bass is way too loud, sadly. I think it as a whole is a bit too loud, and in looking at the graph of the song, it peaks all the time. Your melodic and harmonic variances (even though the song loops and is a bit repetitive) is actually pretty good, I just think the balancing/mixing between your drums, your instruments, and your pads/bells is uneven and there's defo certain instruments that's overpowering / blasting out the rest of the arrangement (ex: @ 2:50 you have several instruments going nuts at the same time and fighting for 'space', especially the bells, and their timbre is almost piercing). If you want your bass to be powerful, the drums should also pack the punch, and get sidechain compressed together (so you can hear the kicks and snares push through the bass when they come up, and the bass be present at all times), without sacrificing the volume of the song.

Otherwise, I do like this, and think it's pretty weird and EDM/psytrance-inspired.

Good luck on the remaining Layers. Look forward to hearing more from you. :)

SirSandman0 responds:

Thanks for the feedback!

I'll try to work on the volume thing. The software I use is kind of finicky when it comes to master volume, so hopefully I can find a solution to that soon.

such a powerful compassion!!!! i really love on 2:20 when it start to get crazy and messy
trully delivers an intensive combat feeling!

the only thing im missing is more punch in the drums, especially on the last parts where its mainly the beat taking the lead, compression with high attack could really help slipping these transients out and pop more!

ggwp mah dude!

SirSandman0 responds:

thanks for the feedback! Also, good luck on the challenge.

Credits & Info

Listens
176
Downloads
1
Votes
5
Score
4.43 / 5.00

Uploaded
Dec 15, 2022
7:28 PM EST
Genre
Dance
File Info
Song
7.7 MB
3 min 23 sec
Software
  • BandLab

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