Boss battle theme (Alasthor) - Page 2

Pizdzius · 02-11-2011, 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Vaylos

While not primal sounding, is this epic enough?

http://www.thesixtyone.com/jbot#/s/F3zOGIQiWyi/

It might not be battle-ish, but is awesome, put real woman's voice instead of electro choir, and it's a nice pro soundtrack

Miraculix · 02-11-2011, 02:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vaylos

While not primal sounding, is this epic enough?

http://www.thesixtyone.com/jbot#/s/F3zOGIQiWyi/

^_^

Tools used: Kork PadKontrol for percussion, Sampletank2 free edition for female lead, Choir, a mix of soundfonts and the sampletank lead for choir. Strings are the EWQLSO free edition mixed with a couple other orchestral sets I have. DAW (digital audio workstation) used are Reaper and FL-Studio.

It was written for a tabletop RPG game we were playing. The music was to be "creative inspiration" heh. Still despite some of the flaws I think it turned out well. There are a few issues I'm aware of from a production/quality standpoint, and I do plan to correct them, but I'm involved with some other projects so this piece is on the backburner for now.

I'm also passively looking for a better place to store my tracks. Thinking of going with Reverb Nation. I know several who use it, so I'm leaning in that direction. I learned too late that the sixtyone re-compresses any mp3s you upload into 128kbps using whatever algorithm they use. :/

Soundfonts for choir pl0x! I'm using some Papelmedia soundfonts and I thought they were good, but what what you're using sounds better...

Vaylos · 02-11-2011, 03:17 AM

Thank you for the comments everyone.

Most of what I do is self-taught, though I do have some musical training and background. I also visit the home recording connection forums frequently for critiques on anything I've got to the "work-in-progress" stage, And I try to help other musicians and home-studio folks out with questions or critique mixes There are some great folks there with a wealth of experience both music related, and studio/production related.

For the choir sound I used a couple soundfonts that I thought were pretty decent on their own. The papel-media Aahs, KBH-realchoir female patch (think that's what it was called) Which I think the KBH sounds were offered from the music team behind Battle for Wesnoth. I also mixed in the soprano lead sound from Sampletank to help flesh out the top end a bit. I thought it sounded pretty good once everything was layered and mixed together.

I would describe the process of mixing as making a fine sauce. You don't want to add too much of any one herb or spice, but you want a little more of this or a little less of that. Sometimes experimentation can bring about something great. Sometimes it can be a total flop. But even flops help build experience.

This track is probably one of the closest to sounding "pro" that I've achieved without using the large $$$$ packages like EastWest Symphonic Choirs and the new one that came out last year from Voxos. (though I'd kill to have a word-builder, hah.) Maybe next year I can afford one of them.

But you can totally get a good sound with freebies.

I've also started writing a "rule-of-thumb" guide for general mixing and techniques that I use to accompany the other two guides I have up on my site. It's somewhat on the back-burner right now as I've got other projects going on.

Thanks for the comments.

02-11-2011, 03:17 AM	#13
Vaylos Banned Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Coralville, IA Posts: 202	Thank you for the comments everyone. Most of what I do is self-taught, though I do have some musical training and background. I also visit the home recording connection forums frequently for critiques on anything I've got to the "work-in-progress" stage, And I try to help other musicians and home-studio folks out with questions or critique mixes There are some great folks there with a wealth of experience both music related, and studio/production related. For the choir sound I used a couple soundfonts that I thought were pretty decent on their own. The papel-media Aahs, KBH-realchoir female patch (think that's what it was called) Which I think the KBH sounds were offered from the music team behind Battle for Wesnoth. I also mixed in the soprano lead sound from Sampletank to help flesh out the top end a bit. I thought it sounded pretty good once everything was layered and mixed together. I would describe the process of mixing as making a fine sauce. You don't want to add too much of any one herb or spice, but you want a little more of this or a little less of that. Sometimes experimentation can bring about something great. Sometimes it can be a total flop. But even flops help build experience. This track is probably one of the closest to sounding "pro" that I've achieved without using the large $$$$ packages like EastWest Symphonic Choirs and the new one that came out last year from Voxos. (though I'd kill to have a word-builder, hah.) Maybe next year I can afford one of them. But you can totally get a good sound with freebies. I've also started writing a "rule-of-thumb" guide for general mixing and techniques that I use to accompany the other two guides I have up on my site. It's somewhat on the back-burner right now as I've got other projects going on. Thanks for the comments.