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New Ambience: River of Blood
🕑 Added 2023-04-26 14:54:12 +0000 UTCGreetings Patrons,
Once again, I found myself in a position where the music for this was almost completely finished and I found myself asking; "cool, but what is it?" I'm not sure how I landed on the idea for a river of blood, but it could very likely be that as I was looking over my suggestions list the words River of Blood jumped out at me!
The challenge then, was to make something sound like blood. I tried several approaches and arrived at a combination of pitching the sound of flowing water down, filtering out the higher frequencies, and layering it with thicker sounds of geothermal mud pools and..well..oatmeal.
Musically this is a moody hybrid score. Synths and synthetic drums blended with orchestral instruments, choir, and some sploshy old-school reverbs. I tried to make this weird, without being spooky, and moody, without being overtly dark. I think this would work well for a variety of genres. It could be one of the planes in D&D's multiverse, or a sci-fi planet, or horror, obviously.
As this is in patron-only sneak-peek mode, I've included the mixed-track (live on the site next week), as well as ambience-only and music-only versions. In the original track I populated the landscape with the noises of creatures that I thought might scavenge on the banks. In case you want your landscape lifeless and barren, I've included No-Creatures versions of the ambience-only and mixed tracks as well.
Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.
Best,
Tim
Comments
Rob Leonard
Super job on mixing the SFX for the "blood" and "river" feel...I think you nailed it perfectly. Others I've heard are too "gloopy?" and just sound like bubbling goo. The creature sounds you chose are excellent too. The music is great for all kinds of scenarios. One note though, with the original/main version the music seems to overpower the environmental and creature sounds to the point I can't hear them through most of the track. Not a problem for your patrons though with the alt versions because we can adjust the volumes of those separate tracks layers on each other. Anyway, another awesome set of tracks and I greatly appreciate the work/time you put into these. Cheers!
Luke Aleo
Great job with the music only track too. It's gonna mesh nicely with everything, just like you said :)
