Halo: Ballade of the Warriors

[Reu]

SUBMITTED.

Composition complete, all sections in. Should be just tweaking from here on.

I just had to do another epic battle scene with crazy drums XD

This time its Halo's theme mixed with Ballade of the puppets from Ghost in the shell: Innocence.

Finished arranagement.

http://www.reubenkee.com/music/remixes/The%20Ballade%20of%20the%20Warriors.mp3

For those who downloaded it last time, there's no update, I just finally got around to submitting and posting the link to the source tune

[avaris]

Wicked cocept dude. Bonus points for Ghost in the Shell too, i loved the original those vocals are from. The leads and harmonies sound thin in the intro. The percussion sounds are much louder, and are masking the brass. As soon as I start getting some feelings relating to the brass the high end percussive come in and overshadow it. The Crashes are a lil sharp, maybe just tone those down a bit. Maybe add a lil bit of reverb with a low decay on 2khz and above on those crashes.

Besides that can't wait to hear more on this track it's sounding pretty awesmoe.

[Reu]

Thanks man. Worked on the lead and harmonies and raised the volume on the instruments.

Updated to same url

[Robotaki]

Your percussion samples are insanely clean. Library? gimme gimme. Sweet work so far. Like the Easter sorta feel, specailly with the vocals. Nice and epic.

[Reu]

The percussions are from the grand daddy of perc sets - stormdrum XD

Ahh I forgot to mention that the vocals are from a track on the Ghost in the shell: Innocence. There's a track with just the singing so I used that XD

[Blackwinged Saron]

30 seconds in and i'm feelin' good about this.

nice pick-up about 50 seconds, and love the GitS vocals at 1:10ish

around 1:40 now, very tempermental...good feeling here

in the 2nd minute i love the sense of urency and impending *something big* i'm getting.

cutoff at 3:15 is and a quick finale, i'm impressed.

This is very well done. I like your originality.

[avaris]

The brass from :20 to :28, did you vary up the velocities on it? It sounds dynamically stagnant. The next brass melody after that sounds better.

Haha right when the GITS vocals came in a helicopter flew by my apartment...all the sudden I was like ohhh that's sweet! It was all low end bc I had my headphones on but it sounded awesome...back to the review.

The percussion hits from 2:01 till 3:07 (it's the same sound going the whole time) tend to get repetative. Try varying up the velocities just a bit. They have such a presence that as the song goes on they tend to loose that presence because they are right up front for about a whole minute. Maybe try to introduce another drum sound to really keep the tension their in the song.

I'm being really picky, I honestly think this song kicks serious ass. It's one thing to have a great concept for a mix it's another to be able to pull it off. I def think you have pulled it off.

[Reu]

Blackwinged Saron: Yeah! You totally felt the sense of urgency I was aiming for

avaris: Will look into that horn and percs. Originally I wanted the percs to just fade into the background when the rest of the instruments and choir came back in, but I agree that another drum to keep the beat changing would help the dynamics.

[Villainelle]

Wow, this is so weird and good.

Those vocals are really unnerving. Cool shizz. To my taste, I'd prefer a slight chorus or delay on them to thicken them up; they sound a bit thin and sharp, cutting a little too harshly through the mix. I'd prefer more low end on them as well, however you'd like to go about it - chorus, double them and lower pitch, or whatever; there's a lot of room in the mix.

Strongly agree w/Avaris's comment about the percussion sounding repetitive from around 2:00 onward, too.

Just nitpicking as well though. This is great stuff all around. Cheers Reuben, love your work.

[electric concerto]

Hmmm... Never heard the original, if you could supply a link maybe? The French Horns could use some EQ tweaking, but other than that, the production sounds great! I love your EQ style, it fits great with the arrangement. Only thing is I need to hear the original before I can give you a proper opinion about the arrangement.

[Reu]

Leah: Yeah those chicks are scary aren't they? XD Aight, I'll play around on the effects on them.

electric concerto: Uhh... I don't really have a link to the halo track atm... will look around.

[Reu]

Reference video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HucuC23X5ew

For those like electric concerto who haven't heard the halo theme before.

Anyway this piece has been submitted. *crosses fingers*