NoamL
Winter <3
Hi folks!
I'd love to be able to share this track in progress in order to ask your advice, but I'm under NDA, so pictures will have to do.
A feedback that I've been getting consistently is "Could we have even more low end in the percussion?" This is a trailer track with massive whacking gran casa + mid/snare hits in the finale (think the recent Avengers: Infinity War trailer among others).
This is how the percussion looks in my spectrum analyzer.
here's what it is competing with.
At the top of the track are vln/viola spiccatos and a violin countermelody. They stay exclusively above 500 Hz:
Below them are some cello spiccatos for harmony:
Massed horns a12 are leading the track with their melody, which goes from the A below middle C up to treble C:
Trombones and low brass play block harmonies:
There is also an extra octave of sub bass during the second half of the finale, provided by Trailer Brass "The Horde":
There is also a synth bass:
There are also some other synth elements, mostly bell-like and pluck instruments that are adding to the ostinatos. They don't have much volume:
Finally there is cello and contrabass playing in octaves, doubling the brass bassline:
Looking at it analytically like this, it seems that the only elements with presence below 150 Hz are
All of your advice is much appreciated! Thanks everyone.
I'd love to be able to share this track in progress in order to ask your advice, but I'm under NDA, so pictures will have to do.
A feedback that I've been getting consistently is "Could we have even more low end in the percussion?" This is a trailer track with massive whacking gran casa + mid/snare hits in the finale (think the recent Avengers: Infinity War trailer among others).
This is how the percussion looks in my spectrum analyzer.
here's what it is competing with.
At the top of the track are vln/viola spiccatos and a violin countermelody. They stay exclusively above 500 Hz:
Below them are some cello spiccatos for harmony:
Massed horns a12 are leading the track with their melody, which goes from the A below middle C up to treble C:
Trombones and low brass play block harmonies:
There is also an extra octave of sub bass during the second half of the finale, provided by Trailer Brass "The Horde":
There is also a synth bass:
There are also some other synth elements, mostly bell-like and pluck instruments that are adding to the ostinatos. They don't have much volume:
Finally there is cello and contrabass playing in octaves, doubling the brass bassline:
Looking at it analytically like this, it seems that the only elements with presence below 150 Hz are
- Trombones and low brass
- Epic trailer "Sub Brass"
- Synth Bass
- Cello and contrabass
- the low end of my percussion (gran casa, gong drum etc)
All of your advice is much appreciated! Thanks everyone.