I myself was a bit unimpressed overall with the arrangement. Cool idea and notable effort in meshing Carol of the Bells with CV music, but it seemed to much "one or the other", rather than totally fusing the two together. In other words, I never really felt like I was hearing the two completely together. It was more like the track kept alternating back and forth, where the CV themes were a little too straightforward without enough variation during the actual source themes. For the most part, anyway. I did hear the play-off-one-another thing going on a little better there at the end, where they were alternating measure by measure or so.
At any rate, that's not my biggest gripe. I could *possibly* overlook that were it not for the production. It's far too quiet, and the overall mastering/EQ leaves plenty of room for improvement.
Too much reverb. Not that using a lot of reverb is always a bad thing, but it definitely is when the track feels like the reverb is out of control. It's waaaaay too quiet and sounds far back. It's like, if you've ever been near a stadium when theres an event going on, and you can hear the music outside the stadium but it's hard to focus on exactly what's going on. Also, as Larry would say - WHERE'S DA BEEF?
Not a bad start, and I'd love to see SotN get some more love - one of my favorite games. But you'll need to take this one back into the shop in the meanwhile. Keep at it.
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