Hey Guys,
 
I'd like to wish you all a very merry xmas.  
Over the past few years this place has become home to me, and quite a few of you have become friends.  It's been a tough year for me musically and I've not been either on here as much as I would like or in fact writing/producing music. Now that I've got some time off, I'm looking forward to hearing your music and getting involved with some comments as well.
 
This is the newest tune of mine. I'm after feedback on composing and production. For this piece I wanted to write a certain theme, I'm not going to mention names as I'm hoping you can hear that in the music.
 
I give you Dark Storm... 
 
https://soundcloud.com/russ-white/dark-storm

 
Russ,
 
 
Well done, very interesting throughout.  The orchestration is spot on and sounds exceptionally professional.   Would be interested to know what sample libraries  you are using on this song.     As for the theme, very simple to guess that one.... I won't give it away other than to say the first movie was released in 1962.
 
 
 
  
 
Regards
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Great piece. Mix sounded OK. Nice piano shredding too. All performances sounded good.

I know the feeling about finding the time. My music production in the last month or so has been poor due to doing exams for work.
 
Listening to the tune it is very nicely orchestrated, especially when the shreddage guitar kicks in. Listening to these on my KRK's I don't seem to be getting any low end growl from the strings. This is only my personal opinion so please do not take it as a criticism, as I really enjoyed the listen.
 
I would be interested to know what sample libraries you used as the arrangement sounding very convincing. 
 
Regards
 
Adrian

Well done Russ! Nice wide open mix.
 
Regards,
Dan

Nice composition, from the opening flute and harp, then the build into the horns and the cellos, then at 1:32 the drums kick in,  I'm thinking...wait, the arpeggiator...nice...the strings at 3:00 are awesome.  I think you could easily continue this piece for another 2 minutes without it becoming stale.  I would revisit some of the opening parts and maybe blend them with some of the latter parts.
 
Epic music in the sense that Hollywood could easily use this in a movie.  The picture of the mountain lends itself to imagining a song of adventure and conquest, or renewal.
 
Production sounds good to me on my headphones
 
Peace
 
Jesse Q Screed

First impression - it sounds great. Like all the movements. 
The quiet part after the build is my favorite like it is after the storm. Maybe some damage happened. Beautiful.
 

I enjoyed that Russ, thanks for sharing.

sounds like a spy movie when it kicks in....
 
I think I'd give a bit more weight to the guitar in the heavy parts.
 
Good job!!

Nothing for me to comment that's any different from others -- wonderful mix...just the way I like to hear 'em.  Nice tasteful use of reverb also.  The various instruments jelled in a pleasing way making the entire work pleasing to the ears.  Well done, indeed.
 
Allan