Soundtrack for a dark alley...

[Gopher]

This is a soundtrack that I've made for an up-and-coming user module for Never Winter Nights 2 (they released the toolkit a couple months before the game itself, which apparently came out yesterday in the states or something).

Brief synopsis is that the track is a backing piece for a particularly unpleasant part of town with your classic dark alleys, beggars, muggers and the like.

I'd be interested to know what you think.

http://www.dragonslay.co.uk/Misc/Hiv...rev-081006.mp3

[Thorolf]

Nice work!

However, I find the initial screeching sounds a little too prominent in the mix. This could be fixed by applying multi-band compressing tools (mastering tools), or by going back to the mix and adjust a level, and maybe some EQ–ing.

Very soundtrack-ish. I especially liked the way you let the drum sounds develop.



Regards

[high_school_bassoonist]

nice, not my style, but good job.

[MaestroX]

Nice, I agree with Thorolf about the initial screeching sounds. Are you using EWQL RA tp produce the sounds in this?

[Forte]

A cool piece. I would have thought this to be a more eastern piece, rather than urban dark alley. What made you choose them intruments? Also what are they?

[Gopher]

Sorry for the delay in posting. It's nice to know that ISPs in this country (UK) still aren't worth their weight in urine. Thank god for university connections.

I've used EWQLSOGXP for the bulk of the instruments and Ra for the ethnic ones (The dudek and the Santour). The initial high freq stuff is an SOG instrument, one of the gong patches I believe. I've toned it down a bit now; I think I capped it at 10khz and lowered the volume. I guess because I'm an "old" guy I have a little trouble hearing the higher stuff ;o).
The reasoning for their selection was sort of two-fold: Firstly, I've had Ra for the best part of 8 months but this is the first time I've used them; secondly, the song specification was for something a bit more exotic, so I thought I'd give it a shot. So, really, it's just not a Western dark alley. :o)

Thanks for the comments, I really appreciate it.

[MaestroX]

Good stuff, its strange about older people not hearing the high tones as much. Believe it or not in England someone has developed a "ring tone" for a mobile phone that only young people can hear so they can have their phone on in class.

What ISP you on? Because the service of mine has been crap lately so as soon as my contract with then is up I'm going to change.

[Gopher]

We were with Freeserve-->Wanadoo-->Orange, which was okay for most of the time, until something goes wrong, which it did a number of times (with increasing frequency in the recent months). However, it now seems that they have an unfixable error on their side which has basically forced us to find a new ISP. I don't know who we will be with - my brother is sorting out the details - but I believe he favours the smaller independant ISP, mainly because technical support isn't non-existant until you try and quit.

[MaestroX]

Same experience with my supplier Tiscali. My contract ends with them soon so I'm going to find a new ISP. I'll make a note not to go with Freeserve, Wanadoo or Orange.

[Gopher]

Originally Posted by MaestroX

Same experience with my supplier Tiscali. My contract ends with them soon so I'm going to find a new ISP. I'll make a note not to go with Freeserve, Wanadoo or Orange.

This site may be useful for you - I saw my brother using it the other day:

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/