Orchestral Reviews

[trexoid]

ok, so i do orchestral covers of brony and non-brony songs, though, i need some feedback on how i can make these said orchestral covers better, so, dont hold back, tear my songs apart, rip them to their bare bones and make them beg for mercy, tell me how i can make them better
and just some songs that i think i did my best on:
https://soundcloud.com/trexoid-orchestrations/with-you-freinds-orchestral
https://soundcloud.com/trexoid-orchestrations/awoken-trexoid-orchestral
https://soundcloud.com/trexoid-orchestrations/omnipony-clouds-orchestral
thank you, anyone who reads this, and gives me some advice

[DatWhackProducer]

You'd best do it one at a time, bro. I don't think other people want to search through your entire discog; I know I don't. Pick a few songs, maybe three, and then maybe people will help.

[trexoid]

i did post my best on i belive, but yea, ill fix that

[Conduit]

I'm gonna jot some notes down as I listen. I'm gonna listen to Awoken because its the only one I'm familiar with.

-Better samples would really help
-Watch your dynamics, particularly on the piano
-The use of guitar is questionable, pizzicato strings would fit the mood better
-It gets pretty muddy, you have too many instruments occupying the same frequency range
-The string staccatos at around 1:20 are way to loud. They aren't taking the melody, and shouldn't be the loudest instrument.
-I'm unclear which section of the orchestra is supposed to be leading. It's OK, and in fact one of the best things you can do to change up timbre throughout the song, but each part of the song should have one section taking the lead.
-Your brass sounds too much like strings, it should parpy-er if that makes any sense.
-The tuned percussion at 3:30 is kinda cool, but it is way to all over the place. It's a cool effect, just too much of it.
-Try to transition between parts of the song smoother, if you look at the waveform you can clearly see where you basically stopped the music to change between parts.
-Basically dynamics throughout the entire thing need to be improved a bit. It's all the same volume. A lot of the impact of orchestral comes from transitions from piano to forte and vice versa.
-Oh, and where are the woodwinds?

Overall its pretty good, just doing as you asked and tearing it apart. If you need any clarification feel free to ask. I'd love to hear an original from you.

[trexoid]

-Better samples would really help
-Watch your dynamics, particularly on the piano
-The use of guitar is questionable, pizzicato strings would fit the mood better
-It gets pretty muddy, you have too many instruments occupying the same frequency range
-The string staccatos at around 1:20 are way to loud. They aren't taking the melody, and shouldn't be the loudest instrument.
-I'm unclear which section of the orchestra is supposed to be leading. It's OK, and in fact one of the best things you can do to change up timbre throughout the song, but each part of the song should have one section taking the lead.
-Your brass sounds too much like strings, it should parpy-er if that makes any sense.
-The tuned percussion at 3:30 is kinda cool, but it is way to all over the place. It's a cool effect, just too much of it.
-Try to transition between parts of the song smoother, if you look at the waveform you can clearly see where you basically stopped the music to change between parts.
-Basically dynamics throughout the entire thing need to be improved a bit. It's all the same volume. A lot of the impact of orchestral comes from transitions from piano to forte and vice versa.
-Oh, and where are the woodwinds?

thanks for the advice, ill take this all into consideration on my next project, i am doing this off of a shoestring practically, but i will try to find some better samples, improve a lot on the overall mix, and try to include woodwinds (assuming i can find some decent ones that don't sound like they where made with two pieces of paper and a megaphone) also, the entire thing was made in Mixcraft instead of fl studio, due to its sheet music capability compared to fl studio, I'm hoping to get a hold of some new samples and VSTs for my orchestrations and i hope to also make an original once i learn a bit more about music theory, thank you again