This is beautiful!!! I think you did a great job with this OST. You somehow managed to perfectly blur the lines between cute melodies and creeping dread, which I imagine is not easy to do! However, these songs really needed some better mastering. They were really quiet overall and sometimes some parts, like your swells, would be VERY loud. That being said, this issue wasn't present enough to bring down the OST as a whole, it just caused an occasional shock, which I don't think was intended haha. Really great job though, I loved it!
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Thank you for the kind words! As for the comments on mixing, I'll be sure to be more careful about it for future songs. I have somewhat poor hearing so I only realized after I submitted that the tracks were pretty quiet when compared to other songs lol. As for the swells, I did intend for them to be a tad bit loud to invoke a sense of panic (maybe?), but yeah in hindsight perhaps I went a bit too overboard on it lol so I'll keep this in mind for future tracks.
Again, thank you so much for listening and have a wonderful day! :D
Yeah I try not to be too harsh about mixing issues since I know a lot of people with hearing issues can have a hard time with it and while it's important, I definitely wouldn't want to lean into any elitist perspectives especially since even mixing can be very subjective. Also your swells definitely did what you wanted, just maybe a bit too well haha all is good though, have a wonderful day as well!