The New World

Been FOREVER since I've been out here! This is my first composition after having graduated from art school. It's so great to have the time again!

The New World

Welcome back!

Musically this is as pleasant and well executed as ever. I'm glad you haven't lost your edge. Love the orchestration and the harmonies — extremely mature.

The mix I do not like. The sequencing is mostly fine but there's a really irritating edginess and high-frequency spikiness to the mix that makes it very hard to listen to. Anything you can do to kill some of that harshness? The woodwinds could also stand to be pushed back a bit. In fact, the placement of instruments overall could use a bit of tweaking. There's a general lack of depth in the mix so it sounds more flat and lifeless than I would have liked with such intricate musical lines.

Overall a nice listen though, thank you for sharing and nice to see you're back with comments on others' work too — good on you! :) Stick around if you can!

Thanks Marius! I appreciate the kind words. I know exactly what you're talking about with the mixing now, and I think I'm going to try and re-record the whole thing with Cubase. I've been trying to get a good mix out of Finale, but there's just really so little you can do in terms of production. But I'm going to get this right, dammit!

I really like the feeling you've created here. And yes you're right, use Cubase, not Finale for the mix ;) Overall, it's been orchestrated pretty nicely too...kudos for that!! Since this is the pre-mixed one, I'll hold back in comments, since Marius has pointed most of the flaws. And art school...which one??

Nice stuff, thanks for sharing!!

I'm going to try and re-record the whole thing with Cubase.

HI

good luck for you

and if you get trouble and you cant record anything

you should go to Devices...->Device Setup. Under VST Multitrack, select your input device (the Alesis). Then make sure to go to Devices...->VST Inputs and enable whichever inputs you're going to use. Then on the mixer, pick a track and assign it to pull from one of the inputs you just enabled. You should be seeing the meters dance on Cubase now. Arm the track, press record, and off you go.

Looking forward to your success

cheers

Vietnam holiday/Halong/Mui Ne

Okay, did my best to remix and master it. I definitely don't think I could be a sound engineer because I'm about to beat my head against the wall. Hopefully this sounds better than the last incarnation!

It does!

The mix seems clearer and more punchy. The louder portions still had some nasty frequency clashes, but overall the effect is better. What sorts of things did you do to the mix?

It does!

The mix seems clearer and more punchy. The louder portions still had some nasty frequency clashes, but overall the effect is better. What sorts of things did you do to the mix?

Thanks for listening again, Marius. Well, I went to the library and found a book on home recording, though a bit late in the process. What I had been doing previously, was to combine instruments into sections of the orchestra in a recorded audio file and then go from there with the four different sections. But this makes going back and tweaking certain parts a nightmare as you have to go back and re-record the whole section if you change any of the VST instruments. So instead, I just crossed my fingers and hoped that my computer wouldn't explode by loading all the instruments of the orchestra in GPO (there's no way my computer could handle doing this with EWQLSO). The biggest confusion I have with mixing is getting that sense of wide (but clear) stereo space. I can use the full range of panning and EQ, but just can't get that nice full, wide sound.

Thanks for the feedback!

1. Wow.

2. WOW!

This is one of the better pieces I've heard today, and I completely agree with Marius and Cheese. It has a great "undiscovered" feel to it, and I think the title describes the work with perfect accuracy. Your recording sounds very professional and clean, so whatever you did on the second mix, keep doing that in the future. I personally use FL Studio 9 with EWQLSO Gold, and my computer (a mid-grade desktop) can handle almost everything I throw at it in there. The worst problem I get is a slight fuzz when too many EWQL channels are playing at once, but that's easily manageable.

All in all, amazing job with the writing and construction of this piece. I could easily see this put into a game or something like that.

Congratulations on a good work.

MC

Thanks MC. And thanks Cheeselord and Ieoha, who I stupidly forgot to thank earlier! Sorry guys!

Yeah, I've been working a lot with GPO because for whatever reason, my PC just handles a whole orchestra better with it than with EWQL. But no doubt, I think most of EWQL's samples are superior and I think a lot of what was driving me crazy during the mixing of this particular piece was me wanting those GPO samples to sound different. I may have to try experimenting more with how much my PC can handle - I'd love to start using a complete EWQL orchestra setup.

Thanks again for commenting. Glad you liked it!

Love 0:09. So majestic. And the flute flourish was nice too.

French horn right after and then the trumpet. Lovely colours.

1:20 had a definite Zelda feel.

1:35 was another great moment.

The brass chord at 1:59 was neat but felt unintentionally out of time. If you could some how make it a bit more intentionally out of time or just in time, that would be great.

Awesome work, Murr. You rock!

-John

Thanks John. Glad you enjoyed it! As for those brass chords at the end, they are in time, but perhaps the piece would benefit a ritard as well. Is that maybe what you're perceiving? Anyway, thanks for commenting!

Strange. I can't hear it now. It still feels off with the motive right before it, but it's in time with that low brass sound. Idk! Nice job still though.

-John