Liontamer ⚖️ Posted Wednesday at 04:22 PM Posted Wednesday at 04:22 PM (edited) Artist Name: L.T.H Please accept this :'( Games & Sources Edited 3 hours ago by Hemophiliac closed vote
Liontamer ⚖️ Posted Wednesday at 04:34 PM Author Posted Wednesday at 04:34 PM No lie on the tin, though it's hard not to argue this isn't TOO low fidelity, since it has no highs and even lack some mids. :-D Pretty basic textures and plodding energy, not inherently a bad thing, but this also doesn't go much of anywhere over time, even taking subtlely and a narrower dynamic curve into account. Finally had the spookier lead at 1:36 for a different kind of energy but that ended up being a minimal development and ultimately dragged out. At 2:14, the melody was doubled, which was a nice idea, but by 2:34 that idea got tired quickly. The ending was flat as well. Even if Jun Senuoe sent this, I couldn't roll with it, intruiging as the concept may be to some extent; if something's positioned as lo-fi, it still has to be a fully developed arrangement with reasonably well-rounded production, which this isn't just yet. NO (resubmit)
Chimpazilla ⚖️ Posted Thursday at 06:31 PM Posted Thursday at 06:31 PM The artist's comment of "please accept this :'(" strikes me as sad, there's already low confidence that this mix will be good enough. Larry covered the points very well, I'm basically co-signing with him. The highs have been rolled off above 3KHz, and that alone does not suffice for lo-fi. The arrangement is simplistic and repetitive and overly conservative to the source song, and it lacks real personalization and development. I suggest you take that low-pass EQ off the mix, and focus on the arrangement first, giving it some personalization and proper structure. Introduce some changeups, some original this or that, textures and ear candy and whatnot. Then in the mixdown stage, that's when to focus on how to get this sounding like proper lo-fi, which is a process in and of itself and involves quite a bit more finesse than just slapping an EQ on the master and murdering the top end. NO
Hemophiliac ⚖️ Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago Rubber-stamping this in agreement with the others here: Lofi is more than just a general "sound". You want to focus on maximizing what's there while remaining as minimal as possible. What's here feels like a short-cut on the general idea of what lofi is. Seems like an EQ applied on the master to cut the highs and roll off some of the low end too. This arrangement also needs more personalization too other than a slower tempo. The background elements are static and repetitive. Change things up from time to time, introduce new sections, new instruments, anything. To me this is a work-in-progress concept still, and not a finished and polished idea yet. NO
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