CRFaithMusic

Okay thankyou for the honesty I'll work on that. I'm still working on my style and manipulating the software as well.

 

I'm only 17 btw and I'm looking forward to starting a music degree next year. At the moment I'm only at the very start of my career. 

 

I appreciate your answers!

Thankyou everyone for the such detailed responses I really appreciate it

JBAdams

I agree completely and I'm starting to work on that.

 

NSMadsen
I think I might work on having a 2 minute demo reel and also a 10 minute one and then the developer can listen to more if they want to. I agree that the retro cue wasn't as good and I've removed it for now... My focus is definitely dramatic/epic orchestral for now however I'm trying to branch out a bit. I'm happy that you got that impression because that was exactly what I was aiming at I'll work on presenting it more efficiently.

 

Calum Bowen

I'll be working on presenting the specific best parts of the tracks to make sure you don't skip into a not as good part. 

Wolf's Bane - I only just noticed this myself. I actually didn't pan the samples at all that is how they were to begin with. With my speakers (i think) it sounded a bit more to the centre but when I went to listen with headphones it was overpowering and distracting.

 

Thankyou all so much for the feedback it really helped me out! Thanks!

A few things I noticed:

 

• The sounds by themselves didn't seem completely incorporated into the scene/game. This might be because of reverb or panning I'm not completely sure...
• The bats/birds didn't sound too realistic for the images (I'm guessing this was your budgie)

 

Other than that I thought it was a good attempt

The way I look at it Ollie is that there can't be the good without the bad. Everyone gets knocked back and we all go through it. 

The best thing to do is keep your head up and know that the people who just knocked you back missed out on a great sound designer. Get back out there with twice the enthusiasm and I'm sure a job will land on your doorstep

If I normally feel like I'm getting frustrated with myself I take a break. For me forcing creativity never ever works so I just have a break for a few hours and I find that its come back to me. Once you start getting experienced it gets easier and easier to turn your "creative switch" on and I've found that just doing a little bit everyday no matter what helps with this.

Hope this helps
Caleb

I also wanted to quickly note, that making money with music is not easy, so you should be willing to create music for super cheap or even completely free, that is ofcourse if the developers are trustworthy to actually finish what they started.

I don't agree with this at all - sorry to say, but I think its pretty easy to make money. If you put yourself out there and if you are good enough you should almost surely get a project to work on. I know this from personal experience. Just look through the classifieds section and if you see a dev project that your music would suit you e-mail them even if they aren't requesting a composer. This is how I got my work and in 1 month I had 4 projects (when I had no previous experience).

Hope this helps,
Caleb Faith

Some topics I'd like to cover are:
Acquiring freelance jobs/ Promoting yourself / Proper communication / Writing contracts
Equipment and Software choices
Mixing and Mastering tips (e.g. mastering for mobile devices)
How to analyze and tackle different musical styles, with examples
Applicable music theory

I for one would be very interested in this
You could also perhaps do a breakdown on how you created one of your pieces? Just an idea

Caleb Faith

Love it sounds extremely professional

Caleb

Have you looked at using good VST's. Its one thing which is super easy to improve but sounds a hell of a lot better... i recommend taking a look at this website http://www.soundsonline.com/ and I recommend getting the gold version of this one - http://www.soundsonline.com/Symphonic-Orchestra. Otherwise I quite like them all

I'm not sure if you have but:

• Consider changing the velocities of each note if you are using a DAW i.e. instead of 80, 80, 80, 80 try 85, 78, 81, 80 and it will sound more realistic most the time the first note which is on the beat is stronger
• Fix up the panning on some of the instruments such as some of the strings. It will give you a fuller richer sound.

I hear a lot of build up in your music ... it's emotive which is a good thing and the chord progression works very well.
I like it

I know a great one but I don't know what your definition of expensive is. It has several pricing ranges and I'll give you the link to it

Try this http://www.soundsonline.com/Symphonic-Orchestra


-Caleb

Hey Shea,

Your music is a bit repetitive for me sorry. So I reckon you could work on changing chord progressions around or combining 2 pieces together to create one a bit more interesting

Caleb

Hey guys,

I have got some music which I would like to give to any developers at no cost (except a mention in the credits) for any project with games, film etc.
Please give me any feedback or opinions of my work
Just visit my website and get in contact with me through my website



Thanks