Dark Times 2 Ft. Jaxon Rhymes

Hey guys. Here's another track that I've spent a bit of time on writing. Same medieval game but this time it's darker, more unnerving, and a bit more bombastic. I mixed everything so it would be a lot more in your face. Hope it worked!

Dark Times 2 Ft. Jaxon Rhymes

-John

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Nice!! As I've said before, I love the harmonisation. I also think that the timpani's really cool, not much, but really added to the sense of dramaticness. I thought it lost a little of it's driving momentum near to the end, and it became a little lost on where to go next.

It is brilliantly mixed and sequenced though - the only nitpickable section is near the end. For example, at 1:45, I don't know why, but those strings erk me :s . 2:12, it all seemed a little chaotic (though maybe you wanted that) I don't think the timpani was sequenced very well either at this point, not enough changing of volume to hammer in the sense of rush.

BTW, is this meant to be looped. If so, you probably shouldn't fade it out, since it'll instantly jump back to full volume.

Overall really awesome stuff, blew my composition out of the water!! I bet teh developer will be pleased with your efforts too :D

Thanks for sharing!!

Thanks, Cheeselord.

Don' worry about the loop. I faded it out just for the sole purpose of showing you it could loop.

It lost it's momentum towards the end? Well that's not good. Perhaps I took it too far down when I softened it.

Trudat, the strings aren't perfect, but I feel I like they were the best of a bad bunch.

Chaos was my intention :shiftyninja:

I think the problem with the timpani was that I emphasized the downbeat a bit too much. I probably could have gotten a smoother sound by balancing the downbeats and offbeats better.

I hope teh developer (as you say) is pleased with it. He liked the last one I did, and then just wanted to hear a darker track.

Thanks, Cheeselord for the comments. I'm sure I've played this for you like 4 times so I appreciate you listening to this again and actually writing something insightful about it :)

-John

Cool track John! I always like to hear a good piano bass line. It's really classical, reminds me some of those old movie scores like Indiana Johnes. I think the snare is really spot on, really cool driving rhythm. And the ominous mid section around 1:20 is also cool, it's like "whats behind that door... what is it??" ;) Good work!

Thanks Phant.

What is behind that door? Who knows!

I'm glad the snare sounded right. I could lay down the rhythm pretty easily but I wasn't sure how loud to make it. My dad suggest I crank it up a notch and so I did.

Thanks for commenting, Phant!

-John

Ahhh! I love the piano bass line, it just screams epic gigantic monster battles (watched Evangelion recently?). It started to get a bit old at 1:14 tho, I didn't think it worked well with the flute. Alone, the flute imo doesn't really hold the momentum by itself. It's an interesting change of pace but it didn't work for me. I love the transition in 2:00, and everything after that. Very chaotic. Very nice work! :D

OMG, Sepharite; you are awesome!

Yes indeed Evangelion! The track that this obviously had a lot of inspiration from was Angel Attack. Upon listening to it now, they change up the instrumentation of the piano bass line. Perhaps I can do the same to keep listeners like you more interested.

Hmmm, pacing and flute, eh? I'll look into it :)

I liked my transition too! I love how simple ideas manifest into an entire section!

Thanks for your comments, Sepharite! Glad to know there's another Evangelion fan here :)

-John

WOW! This sounds amazing. It reminds me of the music from the Turok games (

Thanks a lot, sdlibervir! That Turok track is surprisingly badass; I'm smiling from your generous compliment :)

Oh, 2:08, they bring out the piano ostinato and thus the comparison is cemented.

Thanks for commenting, sdlibervir :D

-John

good stuff john, gives to me a sense of chase but with a wink kinda a way, not totally chilling.

i really like the sound of those trumpets in 0:50-0:55 was that one sample or you played two trumpets on interval?

my ear tells me she'd love to hear some transposition further up in the piece over the cool piano riff, it stays pretty much on the same scale, depends on the scene or what you want it to be naturally.

overall, good!

Thanks for the wonderful insight The J.

The trumpets are doing an interval. Probably a tritone. That was my interval of choice for this piece.

I agree with transposing the ostinato. Some change is needed to keep that section fresher. Right now, it's a day old, but still refrigerated!

Thanks a bunch!

-John