Darkhemming

I love it, you've done a great job improving it! I could only think of two things that could be improved this time: 1) The intro sounds very synthetic, until someone in the comments said it was a horn I presumed it was a synth. Not sure if this was intended or not, but it's something to look at 2) At 2:41 the horn gets just a little bit too loud and drowns out the rest of the orchestration, but only for a short time: it backs off nicely once that's done. It sounds like it's just that one note that's really loud. Overall, a tremendous improvement from the original WIP. The tense bit in the middle feels like it belongs there and the build towards the end is balanced a lot better, which makes 2:10 significantly effective than previously. 2:58's greater drop in dynamics also helps towards leading to the final section and makes the fadeout a lot less jarring, which should hopefully be passable by the judges. Someone else can probably pick holes in it, but that's my take. Good job with your work on it so far.

Here are my thoughts from listening to it: Opening is good Very nice at 0:42, I like the strings Perhaps a bit more contrast at 1:15ish, the instruments blend together a little too much for my liking. This is probably simply samples letting you down. After listening for the fourth time I can hear what you're going for and while blending isn't so much of an issue it definitely seems like it's missing some strength. Nice oboe at 1:44, I like the backing as well. The section at 2:08 seems to lack punch for being what you built up to, but the section at 2:30ish is better in that regard. Ending is pretty good, but fadeouts are a pet peeve of mine. It really sounds like it wants to finish on a low, mellow chord. - So far I love the orchestration and structure of the piece, Despite being 3 minutes it doesn't feel short and doesn't get repetitive, even after listening multiple times in a row. I agree with Argie about the mixing in places. The samples are a mixed bag, your upper strings are passable, low brass is a bit lacking, the oboe is great, percussion is weak in general, flute is pretty good although maybe a bit heavy on the reverb. Hopefully that's given you a bit of insight and been helpful. I will be following this one to see what you do with it

I'm interested in helping, I'm a pretty decent flautist. I have no skills nor experience with remixing though.

Wrote a lengthy introduction that got killed by a minimum character count error, so I'll keep it short. I'm a flautist with 10 years experience, very little composing capability or talent, if anyone needs something played I'll do it although I haven't tested my flute with my latest microphone. Soup.