[Pony][Wip][Critique Please] Conduit - Dreams of Flight

[Conduit]

https://soundcloud.com/flatflish/dreams-of-flight-wip-1

This is a quick piece, took me a few hours to finish. It's repetitive, sleepy, and not meant to be a masterpiece. Critique is encouraged.

To-do:
- Play with drum volume / velocity
- Play with cello volume in the intro

[Motivfs]

I don't really listen to pieces like this (Orchestral-based), so do take my critique very gently.

I love the mood of this piece, it really does breathe what you've titled it, I definitely feel a connection between both the title and the piece itself. I love the whole flow of it, and the tempo changes fit quite well imho.

I love the little arpeggio you throw in there, adds so much flavour to this piece, but I feel that it might be too far panned to the right, it was very noticeable, and became somewhat of a distraction at 2:20 ish with the piano. I'm not too sure if the panning like that is regular in orchestral-based pieces, so definitely take that critique light to heart.

As for the repetitiveness that you so speak of, it might have been, but I barely realize it, maybe it's because I got sucked into the piece because I love calm, gentle songs like this. Maybe leave that for someone with a bit more knowledge on this side of the spectrum to critique.

[Conduit]

Thanks, the panning was an issue with how I exported it, it'll be fixed in the final version.

[Conduit]

Sorry my last post was so short, I was at a friends house. I didn't mean to blow off your critique that hard. :/

Anyway, your critique is just as good as any other, regardless of if your comfortable with the genre. You pointed out some important things I missed, and it really does help. So thanks again, and I'm glad you enjoyed the piece, I'll post the final version here once I'm done.

[Motivfs]

Sorry my last post was so short, I was at a friends house. I didn't mean to blow off your critique that hard. :/

Anyway, your critique is just as good as any other, regardless of if your comfortable with the genre. You pointed out some important things I missed, and it really does help. So thanks again, and I'm glad you enjoyed the piece, I'll post the final version here once I'm done.

Oh it's fine! I didn't feel you avoided my critique one bit, don't worry about it and good luck with the final piece!

[Forza SoundFire]

Sounds good.
Try playing with a delay/echo synchronised to the beat. It'll be interesting to hear the dissonance of the echoes of the old notes against the new harmonies.

That kick drum is very prominent - if you're mixing on small headphones, take a look at the waveform after you've bounced down and you'll see the peaks!

[Conduit]

I'll try the echo, and I'm aware of the multitude of mixing issues, but thanks anyway for taking the time to listen and offer your advice.