Ok....
Are you looking for constructive criticism?
Ok....
Are you looking for constructive criticism?
No holds barred if you wish to give it; although I am mostly posting this just to share it and garner thoughts, and potentially see other people's creations or preferred music, voiceovers, etc. But by all means, speak your mind.
To be clear where I'm coming from, I'm no stranger to hiring voice talent to work on jobs I've done in the past. That said, it's all specifically geared towards the haunt industry, and thus horror related. (I build haunted houses) Pieces often have recorded voice tracks, usually custom to the job.
The thing that leapt out at me with all of your voice work is something that's unfortunately common in people who record samples, and it's something you could benefit from correcting if you're thinking of using these files as samples for potential work:
1.You're playing tracks and/or sound effects in the background. This is hindering your chance to show off your actual voice work. Without breaking out some headphones and going a more detailed listening of the individual tracks, it's the best bit of advice I could give you.
Of particular interest to me in a haunt/horror setting:
2.The "Steppe demons" tracks are actually rather nice. A little too busy, and too fast. I'd like to hear them more focused on the speech and slowed down a touch to make the syllables more distinctive. The background drum kit in the "Ft Crimson and Karl" version (I only passingly listened to the 'soundtrack' one a bit) doesn't seem to fit well with the voices, which call for something more primal, improvised feeling, or even no drums.
3."Fear" track, I'm not sure what it's intended use was, just going off the title. For an actual haunt setting, there's some good beats and notes in the piece, but it's overpowered by that background tone/drone/don't know what the proper term is, which is far too fast and high pitched. A more minimalist pass at this track, drive down the tone by about 2 octaves and push it more to the back (lower volume), minimalize the variance on that tone to let the other beats shine, would better drive across "fear" in my mind, and push it into a dark ambiance piece.
Here is the vocals on their own; minus Karl's addition who added his own vocals and possibly other stuff.
https://instaud.io/6W2#0:00.0 (https://instaud.io/6W2#0:00.0)
I may do a more refurbished edition sometime soon, although I must admit I have no knowledge or education in musical theory or training. I can play a harmonica as far as actual instruments go but that's about it, for the most part I use FL studio. But I'll see what I can do. If you got some instrument type suggestions, let me know and I'll try and experiment.
3. I'll definitely try that, I am new to soundtracks but I am slowly getting the hang of it as time passes on. I'll try a more minimalist take on the Fear track and see how it goes. It's original purpose was just me dabbling/screwing around with FL Studio, I guess I was trying to aim for a somewhat ambient, tense track for a fearful situation or something akin to that.