After some lukewarm response to my previous update to "Sealing the Void," I decided to give it just one more try. This time, I've tried to take some of the criticism into account and make the piece sound better. Jez wasn't satisfied with the voice, so I worked with the attack and release times as well as the reverb to try and make it come across as a bit more natural. I hope I've succeeded with this. Also, I had some complaints about the drums not being powerful enough. I went back and checked the original and tried to work my drums to match. They're not ridiculously powerful, as they were in the CIN special (which was weird in a lot of ways and very different from the original), but they are a bit stronger and hopefully give more of a beat. The last improvement from the original is mainly for RV, who said that the bass sound wasn't good. Well, I went out and got a
much nicer bass package (again recommended to me by Dominic Glynn, so you know you can't go wrong there) and redid the bass using that -- hopefully there will be no more issues there.
I also noticed a couple more small differences between mine and the original which have hopefully been corrected this time through. There is a subtle backing guitar in the background after the first time through, and I've added that in now. There is also one string note in there that just comes in out of nowhere, never heard before and never heard again. (Silly Murray...
) Anyway, that's in there now too.
There is also one more substantial change -- an addition of a new section to the end. In my original version, I stopped at a certain point because I thought the last section was too difficult to recapture in all its minute detail, so I just decided to keep the piece brief and not do that section. My second version was essentially a remade version of the first one, so that section didn't appear there either. For version 3, though, I decided that I should do it, so I've now added the last bit that you hear as Rose journeys to see the Doctor at Bad Wolf Bay. There are added guitars and many new string sections overlaid. I hope you all like the new version!
(Please note that aside from any unforeseen screwups on my part, this will likely be the final version.)
Click here to download "Sealing the Void" version 3!