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By rplktr on July 21, 2024 6:10 pm

It's only magic if you don't know the trick

I welcome all critical feedback. Can relicense if needed, just ask.

126 BPM 5/8, C-phrygian-dominant. Pure analog drums from Analog Rytm. Iridium provides the bass, wavetable choir, and the electric piano. Spectravox vocodes the drums through a Subharmonicon sequence. Two takes of Revstar guitar to close the deal.

Instructions unclear, I followed the instructions, clicked the play button and had a really nice surprise. Good job creating momentum (especially from 1:24 onwards), it really worked all the way through and made me feel like I'm playing a new Deus Ex sequel. The guitars were really nasty, it's a weird combination of abrasive and industrial sounds but it works really well. The only constructive critique I have to make you is that I wish I could hear more of the drums happening behind all that sonic web going on. But that's just my taste and it's really a small thing that ultimately comes down to taste anyways.

Good job smile

I feel like the Revstars are always ignored for some reason despite being decent. Cool to hear one in action. The moogs and Rytm arrangement sounds like a fun setup to experiment with. The instrument choices compliment each other well.

Dark gritty atmosphere. Could be in the soundtrack to quake 1.

This feels like a mixture of industrial, rock, and spelunking! This sounds so badass!!!!! Super dark, atmospheric and just downright cool. Nice job!!!

wow, this rips! really cool to hear this through the rplktr lens!
if i was picking nits, i feel like the heavy guitar overwhelms the mix in parts for my ears (specifically the drums seem like they get lost a bit during those sections). but yeah, that might have been the effect you were going for.
hope your week is going well.

The intense internal dilemma of a machine not knowing what to do anymore
- Ebrit

goes hard. really digging the sound design on the glitchy layers on the guitar sound (which also is really gnarly itself). the left-panned cymbal at the 1:00 mark makes me sound of OG doom OST wink but of course the overall track wouldn't be out of place on the new doom OST.

moloko wrote:

The only constructive critique I have to make you is that I wish I could hear more of the drums happening behind all that sonic web going on.

jwh wrote:

if i was picking nits, i feel like the heavy guitar overwhelms the mix in parts for my ears (specifically the drums seem like they get lost a bit during those sections).

Good point, guys! It's always a struggle for me to balance things just right. Here I really wanted the guitars to be front enough. Maybe some additional sidechaining would help to get the drums out of the background a bit.


moloko wrote:

made me feel like I'm playing a new Deus Ex sequel.

ONE HIT KILL wrote:

Dark gritty atmosphere. Could be in the soundtrack to quake 1.

ddmm64 wrote:

the left-panned cymbal at the 1:00 mark makes me sound of OG doom OST wink but of course the overall track wouldn't be out of place on the new doom OST.

So we have Deus Ex, Quake, and Doom mentioned in the comments here. Interesting how strong this association is! The track wouldn't be a great soundtrack without changes as it would require me to free frequency ranges used in FX, and to loop the thing somewhat. 2 minutes is also too short for a piece that's already this repetitive, so I'd have to prepare some Theme B there as well.

But I guess it works as main menu music big_smile


ENC_ wrote:

I feel like the Revstars are always ignored for some reason despite being decent. Cool to hear one in action.

I definitely love my Revstar. Probably not the best guitar in the universe but I like how it looks, I like how it feels, and I like what I can make with it (while not really being a guitarist).


jegasus wrote:

This feels like a mixture of industrial, rock, and spelunking! This sounds so badass!!!!! Super dark, atmospheric and just downright cool. Nice job!!!

Devieus wrote:

The intense internal dilemma of a machine not knowing what to do anymore
- Ebrit

Thanks for listening, friends!

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