A Request For Help For an Audio Project

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Originally Posted by Brinniel

The music came from the program Garageband. I really wanted to use Ibrin's music and even found a song I thought would work. But when I put it with the voices, the combination of the two was too busy and distracting. It's a shame since it would've been nice to use, but I think her music is beautiful enough to be played as more than just background music. Though if we ever do make anymore recordings like this, we should definitely try to fit her music in somewhere.

That's a nice thought, and thank you for having it. I'm glad you were able to find other music that suited. I realized from the start that my stuff would likely be unsuitable, as they were written to be played as symphonies or suites, meant for an orchestral presentation rather than background music. I have tendency to write what is called "program music," music intended to tell a story by itself (think Dukas' "The Sorceror's Apprentice"), so it's not surprising it didn't want to stay in the background.

And boy, do I understand the problem of getting the balance of sounds just right. I really prefer to spend my time composing rather than acting as a studio technician, dinking with balance and reverb and such, so it frustrates me when I wind up spending more time fighting with those things to get a piece to "play" right than I do composing it in the first place! It seems like a process that never quite ends, 'cause you're always finding something else that needs tweaking. My sympathies, and I hope you get a good grade.