Originally Posted by Superkid11
Fantastic! I prefer your previous release of the album-style extended theme because the middle-eight is louder but it's still great. If I ever get an iPod(it's a nifty piece of hardware but at the moment there's absolutely nothing I could do with it that I couldn't just do on my computer) then Fool's Gold will probably be the first to go on it.
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Thank you. Although I don't know what you mean about the middle-eight being louder... I don't believe I've changed the volumes on any of the main melody instruments. Are you referring to the Derbyshire melody or the brass sections?
Originally Posted by Superkid11
The bassline of Fool's Gold sounds a little different from the usual Derbyshire blassline I noticed... it's a little drummier(even without the drums in the background). That's not a problem, infact I really like it! But did you alter samples of the Derbyshire bassline to make it sound like that or did you find out how to frighteningly closely replicate it on a synthesizer?
(If you mentioned why it sounds like that in the first post I'm sorry. I'm a little dense sometimes. ._.)
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No worries. The Derbyshire bassline and Derbyshire melody are both straight out of the original theme. The Derbyshire bassline sounds punchier for a couple possible reasons... for one, I've heavily boosted the mid to high range frequencies on the Derbyshire bassline (as Murray did on his version) to make it come through clearer in the mix. Additionally, I have a couple of additional electronic basslines that were synthesized by me playing over top of the Derbyshire bassline. Sometimes the sounds of each tend to meld together to form that final punchier sound.
For the record, the Derbyshire bassline cannot be replicated on a synthesizer. Give up now.
Originally Posted by Superkid11
... and what the heck is a FLAC file?
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FLAC is a lossless form of audio compression. When you listen to an MP3 file, you are essentially listening to compressed audio. With most forms of audio compression, you are sacrificing some of the original audio data in order to get the file size down that much. This is what's known as lossy compression. FLAC, however, unlike MP3 compression, is lossless compression. The audio is compressed, but you lose no audio data whatsoever in the process. It's a much more ideal format for music storage than lossy compression. As Pete linked above, you can get the FLAC codec from their web site. With that, FLAC will play in most media players.