This is cool! I dig the harmony leading to the drop/ climax, well done!
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Deep Sea Dreaming (Alternative Soundtrack #4)'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Credibility | #14 | 3.111 | 3.111 |
| Composition | #14 | 3.389 | 3.389 |
| Overall | #19 | 3.111 | 3.111 |
| Creativity | #19 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Impression | #20 | 3.056 | 3.056 |
| Sound quality | #27 | 2.667 | 2.667 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Streaming link
https://soundcloud.com/katiegamedev/deep-sea-dreaming
Track description | Creative process
My thought process was to do a piece very much in the style of the original, but a little eerier and almost dreamlike (hence the title). I've never played the game all the way through, so I've never heard this song in context, but the title made me want to go for an underwater vibe. I also thought I'd use some more acoustic instruments than the original, at least in the beginning, and then slowly transition to more synths as the track builds in intensity.
I've never done a music jam before, so definitely open to any and all feedback folks have - hope you enjoy as well :)
Comments
85 days ago(+1)
Thanks so much! What do you mean by "every stem in your composition is floating"? I want to make sure I know what you mean so I can fix it in future compositions haha
Hahaha I'll try to explain it better, but let's use this image as a reference:
(remembering that this is one of the ways we can mix a song, however, to explain to you what I meant, it will be easier to guide us by this model, hahahaha)
Basically, we have two incredible vectors for “positioning” the tracks/stems/lines, which are: Panorama and Reverb.
“PAN” helps to shift the sound to the right, left and/or spread the width of the volume of what we're hearing. Reverberation gives us a sense of the depth positioning of what we're hearing (whether it's closer or further away - remember that I'm talking about “basically”, as there are many other factors such as reflection, type of material, etc.).
So I think you've understood how much we can play with where we want each instrument to be in a way that relates left/right to near/far, where the volume (db) will give us the amount of force to notice.
Returning to the image, now look at how the author positioned the instruments. As well as getting a sense of volume and pan, we can also interpret that the height at which he placed the names of the instruments could also be the distance from the central convergence of the image from near to far.
So, finally, answering your question about your composition (lol): the impression of fluctuation is more to do with the fact that I can't understand if it's on purpose that the instruments don't have a fixed positioning during your music or if it's so that they behave as if they were floating from side to side. That's what I meant: if it's to float, make it more obvious (which makes sense, as they sound like they're being played by ghost musicians hahahahah).
(sorry for my English, I'm Brazilian)
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