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New Ambience: The Madding Crowd
🕑 Added 2024-06-19 17:13:01 +0000 UTCGreetings Patrons,
The music for this one felt kinetic as I was working on it. Not in an action cue way, it had more of a 'bodies in motion' vibe. It reminded me of walking around in a big city (something I'm quite familiar with!).
There's a positivity here as well. Like when you go out in a crowd and it's not terrible, and even refreshing to be around other people.
Nothing about this screams 'fantasy' to me, so I hope it might be useful for a broad range of stories.
Strings do the heavy lifting with ostinatos, arpeggios, and pizzicato. Voice, harp, dulcimer, most of the woodwind section, celeste, a smattering of brass and assorted percussion round out the party.
The ambience track is layered crowds, miscellaneous activity, livestock, crafting etc. I dived into my Sound Particles application again and created a cool footstep base layer, turning a few footstep samples into a swirling mass of 1000. Then, naturally, I mixed it too loud since I thought it was cool. It's blended much better now!
As this is in Patreon sneak-peek, I've included the mixed version, as well as ambience-only, and music-only versions here. Additionally, I created 2 'less activity' versions, which dials down some of the vocal walla creating a slightly less frantic cityscape.
(And I didn't even mention Thomas Hardy.)
Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.
Best,
Tim
Comments
Tenebrous Trahern
Better for patrons do download and make our own offline playlists, then? Also wondering, if I ever use your work in a video, should I credit by name or brand? I assume using the latter would lead to more traffic to the website.
Tabletop Audio
Probably wouldn't do a play-all as that would be bad for my already high bandwidth bills, but a random select might be interesting. I'd have to think about how to work that in. -TIm
Ben
So crazy question.. but could there be a way to just play all? Or maybe randomly select a track to start playing? Sometimes I'm just brainstorming for my next game, and I don't have a specific track in mind.
Garrett Fuquay
The music only version might be one of my favorite tracks you’ve ever done!
Michael Schofield (making Audio Dramas)
I really like this one. I popped it open to hear, got distracted with some work, and didn't realize it'd run on a loop in my ears for a couple of hours. It really helped me focus lol.
Jamonster66
👏👏👏 Thank you Tim
