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Title: Into the Dark
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Artist: TiLT
Genre: Soundtrack/Game: Soundtrack
Reviewed by: thecanary on December 15, 2008 (All reviews by thecanary)

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1Overall Description
Excellent production and an engaging, menacing melodic theme make this a piece worthy of an epic Hollywood film. The listener is literally taken into the dark on a heavily percussive orchestral ride. This piece makes its mood clear from the very first note and maintains that atmosphere to its last. Most impressive about the song is its hyper-professional sound quality and the always interesting but always on-point flow of the melody.
 
2Arrangement Description
The only complaint I can even think of for this piece is its arrangement along the stereo spectrum. Toward the end, I was starting to feel like too much was going on in the left channel, which got to be a little bit of a distraction to my ear after the third or fourth listen. When the horn section charges in at 5:56, it covers the distraction nicely though.
 
3Sound Quality Description
I wish I could be useful and point out some kind of deficiency here that I could maybe give some good advice to the artist about- but I'm reasonably sure that Tilt is the one who should be giving me advice on sound quality. Superb work- there is a level of organic sound quality here that is very admirable.
 
Comments
Dec 17 2008 4:13 pm
by thecanary replying to TiLT
That makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it.



Dec 17 2008 1:41 am
by TiLT
Nice review, thanks! :) One little note about the panning: The orchestra in this track was arranged in the same way as an actual orchestra. Since the theme is to a large degree dominated by violins, placed on the left side of the hall, parts of it will feel like it leans too much to the left. I try to use the instruments on the right side of the hall to compensate, but that's not always possible without sacrificing my artistic vision.



Dec 15 2008 5:12 pm
by thecanary
I forgot to state in my review that something about this tune puts me to mind of the music from Terminator 2- one of my favorite movies.