Rexy Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 RebeccaETripp Rebecca Tripp http://www.crystalechosound.com/ ID: 48262 Game(s): FF10 Song Title: Sprouting Omens Songs Remixed: Sprouting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 track is at least -4db from 0 if not more. the original is essentially Zanarkand with some slightly altered chords and some different instrumentation. i thought the name was 'movement in green', the name was confusing to me until i saw that it just had two ways to translate the name. there's some sustained strings in the opening, and then a very open and light transcription of the Zanarkand melody. more comes in at 0:43, but the background until 1:04 is primarily sustains with (IMO non-idiomatic) pizz for the melodic content. at 1:04 we get a more traditional presentation of the melody, and the balance and orchestration is more reactive and vibrant. the bass pizz is still not very realistic in its usage, but there's some nice instrumentation choices aside from that. the glock (or tuned glass? can't really tell) is quite piercing in this context however and i found it to be offputting in some places. the paralleled lines between glock and harp though were clever and nicely framed. at 2:32 the melody shifts to more pizz in the cellos and bass, and it sounds odd since it's so artificially prominent due to volumization. there's a nice recap of the later part of the original melody at 3:05ish, and then an outro. overall i thought the arrangement itself was great. there's tons of variety in how the melodic content is approached, and while i really didn't like the loud pizz of the cello and bass being used to carry the melody, that was minor compared to the overall scoring. zanarkand's melody is just so rich and the track really allowed that to shine through. mastering sounded fine as well aside from it being very quiet - there's some specific instruments that stick out and could use a bit of trimming, like the glock, but that's it. overall this is really solid. the arrangement is transformative, there's a lot of creativity in the approach, and the realization is capable. nice work. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Bowed strings opening things up are super-exposed and too thin. Woodwind was also too thin. There are still obvious uncanny valley issues, particularly with the bowed strings, but unlike the FF3 piece of Rebecca's that I just voted on, this piece doesn't expose the samples quite as much. Arrangement's beautiful, interpretive, and personalized per the Tripp standard. Would love some more depth to the strings, woodwind, and vox, but what's here gets the job done. Wish it was a stronger YES on the production side, but it's there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindWanderer Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 It's... fine, I guess. Really, these seem to be be basically plug-and-play for Rebecca at this point. They're all solid, but they all have the same flaws (too quiet, imperfect realism) and they don't do anything she hasn't done dozens of times already. I'm not excited about it, but I see no reason not to give it a YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimpazilla Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 How did this one get pushed down so far in the queue with three YESses on it? I agree with my fellow judges that this is a lovely interpretive piece, beautiful part writing and instrumentation. Humanization while not perfect is good enough and gets the job done. Mastering as always is on the quiet side. Still, YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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