Downtempo

[pauli]

This is a great song. It was hard for me to determine the musical role intended for each of the sound effect tracks... it took a couple rough mixes before it became apparent. There also seems to be a bit of digital distortion on quite a few of the tracks.. there's a lot of sub on the unprocessed hat and shakers, which is a pretty big clue from the get go, but the bass synth and the transitional swells in the beginning both have a bit of the "swirly whirlies" like you get with low bit rate mp3s, and it's not readily apparent until you start distorting and saturating to give the tracks a little flavor. Probably these distortions are from a waveshaper or bit-crusher to lend to the lo-fi atmosphere, but I still did the best I could to control the side effects with EQ and editing.

Since there's been so much talk about loudness-normalization (EBU r128) on the forum lately, I got an EBU compliant meter and mastered this to -20 LUFS... about halfway between the EBU standard and Apple Soundcheck. LRA seems low at 10.5 LU, but the droning pad and bass sort of put a low ceiling on dynamics throughout most of the song.

Hope you like, comments/criticisms are welcome.