Chee Zeee

my only complaint is that it seems overly compressed. about a minute in is the change of mood, but it's almost the same volume as everything before it, the bass drum and the cymbals should be ear rapingly overpoweringly loud. a piano playing softly is very very very very quiet in a large concert hall, a piano playing loudly is rather quite (somewhere between a section of violas and the 2nd violins perhaps). The percussions would easily be 1.5x as loud if this piece were to be performed. I don't 'feel' the music as much as hear it. That being said, what I am hearing is sonic bliss, definitely have skillz to pay da billz. Good piano as well man, this cat is jelly.

One thing that irks me, perhaps just from not studying orchestration enough in general, is using world music instruments. yasunori mitsuda did this a lot in say chrono cross. if you listen to the theme of lizard rock it has a sitar with an african marimba (dunno if it was intended to be gyil or balafon or what). or for the home telmina it has bagpipes and mandolin. Is it just me or do these clearly not mix well in real life? Especially with bass and drums. This is something of utmost concern to me, is that in real life the mix wouldn't actually be authentic. Are there any resources to help me calculate such things as throwing acoustic world instruments alongside western acoustic and/or electronics? it's obvious that the bagpipes would drown out everything in the telmina case, the one string mandolin repetitive note would not even be heard unless amped (even with the fact that mandolin's 'double' strings). the sitar may be a bit too quiet as would be liked in the lizard rock case, since he has two people on the african vibraphone, not to mention there is another vibraphone that is playing parallel harmonies that sounds kinda choral.

I have liked Mr. Uematsu's page, can't believe I didn't realize I didn't have the 'real' one before that