Here comes my latest composition. It's another full orchestra song, but this time non-Disney style for a change ;)
This time, I wanted to create music that you would hear in a movie trailer. The film genre I had in mind was contemporary action-thrillers or mafia / organized crime stuff.
Here we go:
I called it "Coming Soon" :)
One challenge this time was to finetune the drums. I always wanted to create that deep, rich and powerful drum sound that you always hear in this kind of movie trailer. You know, the sound that makes your stomach vibrate when you're sitting in a Dolby THX enabled theater (booooom).
It's kind of hard to tell what instrument they are using for that sound, so I had to experiment a bit.
I took a drumkit and tuned the samples for the floor toms down to a pitch that was almost the same as the bass drum. Combining that sound with Timpani and Gran Cassa samples lead to a pretty nice outcome. A good amount of reverb is also added.
Still not sure if that's the "correct" way of creating this drum sound, but for this song it worked alright :)
nice ,I like your work.
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Hey man
ReplyDeleteI just stumbled upon your blog.
I like your stuff :)
The booom drums you're talking about are often called stomps in the Hollywood world. (that's what I think you're referring to anyway)
You can find such stomps in EWQL Stormdrum 2 for example. However for as far as I can recall, they are just heavily processed orchestral percussion instruments
Cheers
Thanks for checking out my blog.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, "stomps" are what I was referring to! I actually did some research after writing this article and I stumbled upon exactly what you are mentioning: EWQL SD2. Now I'm kind of tempted to get it hehe, but it's also quite a bit of money... we'll see, probably a matter of time ;)
For the time being I might keep trying creating samples based on instruments I already own. Gran Cassa, Timpani...
Thanks a lot for the input. Much appreciated!
Cheers
VERY NICE! You've got some talent there. Would you mind if I use this for a trailer for a vid my buddies and I did one weekend. We were just goofing around and shot a no budget horror short. Or hilarious horror short. Here's a trailer I threw together a while back.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qaJjg3MKFQ
Hi!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment, and apologies for the late reply. I'm glad you like my music. No, I don't mind you using this tune in your trailer vid as long as it's not for commercial use. Would be cool if you could include me in the credits ;) (not a requirement).
Funny vid you put together! Looking forward to the next one!
Ryo