Hi, it's pretty good, I'm not sure, but I think you're using legato brass, is that so? I think it would be better suited to a articulation with more attack where each note hit sounds with "a new breath" perhaps portato, staccato.... Combined with a sustain articulation.

I also see that the reverb blurs the sound a bit. Less reverb tail perhaps? In any case, good job, I hope to see it finished.

Cheers

I don't know the BBO instruments well, but I imagine they work just like the synchron-ized instruments. You can create your own articulation in a custom branch, just copy and paste the patch you want and combine it in a new branch. Then you can make them sound at the same time by clicking on the "layer" icon turning it blue and mixing in how much each one sounds and even assigning it a cc parameter if you wish.

So you used short notes, because it seems to me that it lacks attack. Maybe you can solve it with a dynamic FF but a low expression value, I don't know huh, just to say something, every time I do something new, I experience a lot, I never know exactly what is needed. It's frustrating

Percussion would tell you to sound a little lower and somewhat more distant, but I understand that it is a work in progress and that you are still refining it. 

In any case, all I'm telling you is comparing it to the original, something that may not be too fair. 

Cheers

Hello there,

Here my indiana jones theme finished and excep some litle stuff i am very happy of the result. 

Hope you will enjoy it and give me your feedbacks =)

See you!

Gilles, overall I enjoyed this vivacious, swashbuckling romp, well done!

If I may, I have just a few constructive criticisms to offer that I hope would lead to improvement of some important aspects of your production. These observations came to me as I listened for the first time, and I'm fairly sure about them now that I've compared your work to the published film score production posted in YouTube.

1. Reverb is a little too strong; one consequence being that the lead brass seems too far back in the mix. I'd try a slightly drier setting and perhaps add some pre-delay, to help bring the lead brass forward.

2. The opening low brass "bed" sounded very odd to me at first - almost as if it's single notes bent downwards at the end. In the published film score production this low brass opening plays extremely short, tight and snappy staccato notes, but in your production these notes are only barely separated if at all. John Williams' opening few bars here are very important in preparing us for the spirit of the whole piece.

3. Some of the accompaniment parts are a little too quiet for a film score - especially a blockbuster adventure film score like this one. (Unlike the world of classical music, Hollywood has never been about making people strain their eyes and ears to take in the "background", lol.) It could be remedied with level automation, but if that's a bit awkward, maybe try some upward compression here and there, maybe even on the master bus. (Upward compression applies positive gain at levels below the threshold. Only a few compressors can do this, but for example I think it's possible with Melda Production's free version of MCompressor - see the YouTube tutorial on making custom compression curves with this plugin.)

Overall though, your piece allowed me to savour and enjoy the pace, verve and excitement conjured up by Hollywood's own 'Tchaikovsky'. Thank you Gilles.

Hello there,

Here the new version with the feedback rework. I managed to try things that made me understand even more what i can do with VSL (Thanks Macker for your feedbacks ;))

Enjoy and give me some feedbacks =)

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