Castle Paradox

[Artimus Bena]

I'm approximately 15 minutes into the compilation. After I'm finished this may become a portfolio of sorts to help me get work somewhere (game or indie film maybe?). I prefer in-depth critique, but any and all comments are welcome.



http://bena.castleparadox.com/eldardeen/Eldardeen01-_Overture.mp3
http://bena.castleparadox.com/eldardeen/Eldardeen02-_Wedonkinds_Ship.mp3
http://bena.castleparadox.com/eldardeen/Eldardeen03-_Pirates_off_the_Port_Bow.mp3
http://bena.castleparadox.com/eldardeen/Eldardeen04-_Premonition.mp3
http://bena.castleparadox.com/eldardeen/Eldardeen05-_War_Path.mp3
http://bena.castleparadox.com/eldardeen/Eldardeen06-_A_Simple_Feeling.mp3
http://bena.castleparadox.com/eldardeen/Eldardeen07-_The_Spider_Approaches.mp3

http://bena.castleparadox.com/strum.mp3


Overture-Opening title music

Wedonkind's Ship-Wedonkind is on his way somewhere, but where? He ponders a parchment letter addressed to him.

Pirates off the Port Bow-The pondering is cut a little short. Wedonkind ends up being thrown into the turbulent water below, as the pirate ship slams into his smaller vessel.

Premonition-Wedonkind washes ashore, taken prisoner, while the king's last troops board ships headed for the last unconquered terrirory. Eldan, a Seerin Master begins to see future events unfold within his higher senses.

War Path-Wedonkind busts out of his cell, as the emperor's troops sail toward the last free kingdom.

A Simple Feeling-An old love is caught up in the mess. She hides with Wedonkind in a closet, while nightfall soaks the sky.

The Spider Approaches-Wedonkind begins his dangerous mission, seeded deeply within the island fortress of Eldardeen.


Strum - This actually is something I wrote for my band; there's guitar and voice, but this sounded so nice by itself that I decided to put it in Eldardeen. At the moment, it has not been assigned a scene.
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[Setu_Firestorm]

These pieces are awesome. They're well composed, and give the project its own unique sound. I ran into many issues with peaking.

Now, there's an easy way to fix this. If I remember right, you're using Nuendo, and the way you fix that is by opening the Devices drop menu and choosing one of the mixers. Now, what I do is lower all volume levels (usually take them all down at least 2 to 3 decibels) just to allow more room, then go into the EQ/filter window of the Stereo Out channel (by clicking the small "E" circle button). In there, where there are the empty slots, click on one of them and choose Dynasone (for compression, unless you use a different plugin for it. Set compression AMT to 2 or 3). This will drastically bring up the volume, so if it's still peaking then, continue to bring the levels down until it doesn't peak throughout (some peaking's fine). Then, choose another empty slot and look for Peak Master (if you installed everything on the CD I gave you, then it should be there). From there, you don't really need to set anything for Peak Master, because it defaults at 0.00db, which will cap off the peaking at 0.00db which is the safe point.

That's just a good tactic to get good rich sound without peaking.
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[Artimus Bena]

-Added Strum
-The Spider Approaches has been WAYYY improved, with eastern-sounding bridge added. Rather badass.
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SACRE BLEU!

|||Compositions!
|||Eldardeen Soundtrack!
|||Red Mercury!