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At first it sounded pretty serious and dark, like it should fit into a horror movie. Like an eldritch horror waiting under the ice. But the more it went on it also showed a humoristic or comicy side, like a Danny Elfman track before catching up with the main theme again. All in all it either reminded me of a Tim Burton movie or a bit more light hearted horror theme like in an old Rayman game.

While your song surrounds the listener fully, it tells a story and has a nice progression with motives changing and the arrangement doing so too nicely. However, I feel like most of your sounds used for the song are very strong in the high. Specially your strings, synths, piano und vocals. When playing together they create just an undefined woosh of sounds. Overall the whole mix is tending to miss some mids, lower mids and bass. I’d highly recommend filtering you instruments more and giving your sounds more space in their own frequency space. The would in the on hand live up the mix more and gives each instrument more definition within the song. Also you’d get more bucks out of your arrangement changes, since the song has some timbral changes as well.

Sadly the mixing and use of the sonic spectrum leaves something to be desired. But all in all it is a pretty solid entry nonetheless.

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Thank you for your feedback! I’m indeed heavily influenced by Danny Elfman, and I explicitly asked myself while composing, “What would Danny Elfman do?” to bring more variety and try to be more cinematic. It’s funny how noticeable it is.

Regarding the mixing issues, I think I may have overused saturation on my tracks and made some poor decisions during the mixing process. I boosted the high frequencies and reduced the bass, so it’s possible the track sounded much better before the mix. I must have been too heavy-handed with the processing. It’s great to receive feedback to help me improve!