Through the hellFire and Flames! I'm back, all!! Hoo boy, this was a tough one for sure. Its been forever since I had such an energetic and noodly song! Before I get into my usual overview and commentary, I've got a bit of a hilarious story that happened while recording... Or rather something that happened at the end of my bass recording-session. So, where I'd been keeping my bass, it had managed to build up a little bit of dust and some junk on the strings. I didn't really pay it any mind, and just got to recording and laying down the bass tracks. Well, by the end of the session, I finally looked down at the pickguard and pickups, which were now occupied by many a dust bunny. All that playing and picking managed to knock all that dust and crud loose from the strings! First time, I think I've EVER had that happened. Had myself a good laugh about it while cleaning up the pickguard. Also, on the topic of bass, I decided to try something a bit different. Every once in a while, I get bitten by the "tone bug", and this time, I got the urge to mess around with my signal-chains for processing the bass DI's. I originally set off to try and get a clanky kind of modern metal bass tone, but instead I got a more (for a lack of better terms) honky and farty, "punky" sort of bass. I also decided to sidechain my rhythm guitar bus to control an EQ curve that would boost the honk of the bass tone. So, whenever the rhy guitars were putting out signal, the bass would get a boost of honk and nastiness, to party it up with the rest of the rhythm section. Then, when the rhy guitars are tapering off, or are quiet, the EQ curve will automatically reel things back in to be less nasty. I think I'm definitely going to be making use of this new technique moving forward. I think it really helps the bass be a bit more present, and adds a certain spice to the mix. Tone bug adventures aside, as always, I tried to keep close and true to the original. When things are this fast and energetic, there's usually not too much wiggle room left for me to put my own spin on things (at least, without drastically altering the spirit of the track). That said though, I did manage to make some small little additions in some of the lead parts. I did however have to slow down one of the fast bits towards the later half (though, I think it worked out nicely). I also wound up having to lower some parts in the second-half down by an octave, as things got a bit too high up to play on the guitar. I did consider goofing with a pitch-shifter effect, but decided to just roll with doing it an octave lower. I also got a little sloppy and winged it for the final sweep/shred run, but it all goes by so fast that it hopefully isn't too apparent that I didn't quite get it note for note. One other noticeable change that I did was during the "bass solo" bit before the final chorus. Rather than fade in the rhtyhm guitars, I decided to detune a chord running through the "Metal Pad" straight from the gzdoom soundfont. I forget which song or songs in the DOOM 2 soundtrack also used this sound, but I kept hearing it in my head whenever I got to listening to this part. Then I also slapped on some delay/reverb on it just for good measure and ambience! Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed the "Blood Rush" from this dose of power metal in this here Plutonia MIDI Pack Marathon \m/! ~DAR .OGG DOWNLOAD: https://mega.nz/file/xbsCDAyb#FA52SfZOqnNIOD6LaqfCusITYa98grn0bnylBaTeLSQ Originally Composed By Tristan Clark (Eris Falling) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuo9oFbOttBgeH5T2yOerXw Final Doomer+: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=55061 Brutal Doom: https://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom "Guitarist" sprite by lupinx-kassman, re-color/edits by DAR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure to Like, Share, and Subscribe if you enjoyed! Follow me at: (The Den of DAR) Official DISCORD: https://discord.gg/uEAfRWP SUPPORT / DONATE: https://theofficialdavester2296.wordpress.com/ DAR's Cover-To-Do List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DowH1EIjiLyeg29cFx-4XOWpr7-bl1Pwb2_OfVaQ1SE/edit?usp=sharing Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Davester2296/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Davester2296 Backup Channel: https://odysee.com/@Davester2296:c ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM858ZSNDvI

A nice and slow one to groove to, compared to the last couple of Plutonia tracks! At first, I had thought about going for a more "acoustic" sound on this one, mainly because of the harp. However, I was tempted by my synths, and then I also thought back to my "Jade Empire" (MAP03) cover. From there on out, I wanted to try and go for a sort of retrowave/synthwave sound. Didn't quite get the sound I had set off to find, but I quite like where things ended up. I also got to use a nice free sample library of an instrument called a "kantele". Found this set sometime last year while expanding my acoustic/world-instrument soundfont/sample collection for use with another project. Never had a good opportunity to use it until now, mainly because of its very limited range. Using it in combination with a harp sounded great! The kantele is the one that sounds slightly dissonant/out-of-tune. Those two together, piped through a reverb-send just felt so right for this track! Speaking of piping stuff through some reverb, the sad cello returns! Originally, I had wanted to try using my violin and pitching-shifting down an octave. However, things didn't quite sound right. Not sure if I need to try recording at higher samplerates, and/or try going plugged in, rather than mic'd up. In any case, I used what I did for the "Watch Your Rock" cover. I took my favorite violin soundfont, and after recording playback, I went and pitch-shifted down an octave. Playing the bass and guitar riff parts were also a lot of fun! Which is a surprise, since I had to tune my Ibanez down to B Standard (bass got to stay in Drop D, thankfully). Low-tension spaghetti-strings weren't a problem this time around while recording the rhythm and lead guitar parts. One of these days though, I'm gonna add a nice baritone or 7-string to my arsenal of instruments over here! Anyhow, the way the new lead part came about was actually pretty funny. I got stuck and then after plucking the first note, I just started tapping around. Liked what I was playing and just rolled with it. I think that the tapped sound really lent itself well to the feel of this track, as well as that section. Aside from the new leads (2:48), I tried to stay close to the original. Only thing I had changed was cutting the "bass solo" (2:15) in half. Originally it had played the same thing a second time, but I felt like I wanted to jump back in with the guitar and other synths a bit sooner. That and I wound up changing a part in the bass solo. While practicing it, I had goofed up and wound up doing a hammer-on and pull-off that sounded really cool, so I kept it. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this addition to the Plutonia MIDI Pack Marathon! ~DAR OGG DOWNLOAD: https://mega.nz/file/kOkwnBDK#J3s_TznaV3Jbl6Z5X6KBQMXexX5tiuehP4gYS5HMjuA Originally Composed By James "Jimmy" Paddock https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesPaddockMusic Final Doomer +: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=55061 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure to Like, Share, and Subscribe if you enjoyed! Follow me at: (The Den of DAR) Official DISCORD: https://discord.gg/uEAfRWP SUPPORT / DONATE: https://theofficialdavester2296.wordpress.com/ DAR's Cover-To-Do List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DowH1EIjiLyeg29cFx-4XOWpr7-bl1Pwb2_OfVaQ1SE/edit?usp=sharing Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Davester2296/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Davester2296 Backup Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Davester2296 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-1oBP-7sjk