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Authority of Darkness (New Collab underway!)

Posted by MaestroRage - January 14th, 2008


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A couple days ago my Ministry of Rock library package came in and i've been busting out teh tunes all the time. Currently me and LadyArsenic are engrossed in another collab which is a story of two great forces of darkness combating each other for the supreme title, Legend of Darkness. Without giving too much of the story away the characters consist of one ruthless brutal War Lord, or Void Knight and a sly nimble Siren, who is of course sung by our own LadyArsenic.

The way it will work is each villain will be given a number of instruments to depict their nature, and depending on the battle status the instruments will respond. For example at the beginning the Void Knight initiates the fight, blade slashing, tearing apart the scenery, huge waves of destructive force shattering the silence and raising the ocean to the sky, booming explosions riddling the surface as if scattered leaves from a dying tree.

The Void Knight's instruments are largely guitar, chants, the Siren's will be the flute and strings. This is not all of course, but more will be revealed at a later date.

Authority of Darkness Demo

On another note, our very own DarKsidE555 decided to show me why I should never ever waste 500 dollars on synth guitars again with his awesome juice thrust over the song.

Authority of DarKsidE555

Rig has pleasantly taken it upon himself to add some sweet sweet arse additions on top.

Authority of Rig

Due to some unforseen but very fortunate events Rig and DarKsidE555 will both be official members of this project! I am very happy to have them both helping!

I assume I should put leave some update notes here for both the collab members as well as people following the project.

Update: January 30th 2008
- Rig is currently working on creating the percussion lines for the entire song. The song's battle parts, or really the parts which need percussion are fully done, percussion has been put off production to let Rig have as much room as possible. Additional bass lines and further tweaks are put in this trust worthy hands
- I am done all of LadyArsenic's parts. There is the climactic ending part to finish which I am working with LadyArsenic on now.
- DarKsidE555 knows what the entire piece will sound like, and is generating ideas and playing to replace the synth guitar work.

Song currently: 4:30 in length, another minute or so for the sad ending is predicted.
Estimated length: 5:30'ish

Some questions that have been pm'ed or asked on Rig's post, here for you in case you are also wondering.

Q: Who will submit this collab?
A: For now I will submit it under this account, of course full credits, links are going to be given to all collab members, and the second the multi audio author system is in place, they're all going up there.

Q: What Genre is it?
A: Honestly I couldn't tell you. It's got a lot of power metal in it, so I SUPPOSE we could put it in Heavy Metal, but it will also have an incredibly high level of instruments of the orchestral variety, so really i'm going to go for Classical, however if DarKsidE555 beefs it up with enough metal, I suppose we would have no choice :D!!!

Q: When will it be done?
A: When it is. We're not rushing it, we're going to make this something special.


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That made my asshole EXPLODE!!!

Hey! Speaking of stalking and such... I'm gonna start lurking here again. :)

For the last time it's "DarKsidE555"...not DarkSide >:(

Stupid no0bzor. But what to expect from somebody that wastes 500 dollars on shit, when he can have everything he needs for free. >:(

No0bs these days. pff.

I shall cast teh RULE 10 now! >:(

A simple edit makes your post look like redundent fail!

Changed :D!

Also i'm currently doing LadyArsenic's part for the song, not too much guitar work, the ending is going to be kicking arse with it, prepare your rules, and your 10's >:(!

Needs moar drums.
<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?5zjxx5lmtym">http://www.mediafire.com/?5zjxx5lmtym </a>

Check and Mate

brilliantly done Rig! I'm going to have to steal your brain for the end production as well :D!

Rule 10 yet again. You forgot to edit the link. lmao, now who's the redundent fail around here!? ;D

I don't see what you're talking about :D!

The drums are just various samples - I have one kick drum, four snares, two hats, and two cymbals, all combined with selective EQ and compression. There's two FX bass drums in there too, you can hear the really long one quite easily.
Anyways, I highpassed DarKsidE555's track a bit and added my own bassline with 3xOsc. The guitar was too loud, but luckily it's mostly in the middle of the stereo field - I used a VST called Width (lol) to turn down whatever was playing perfectly in the middle.
I thought the beginning needed more, so I threw in some ambient FX. :) After that, it was a matter of some EQ and compression over everything.

And don't listen to DarKsidE - he wouldn't know rule 10 if it came up and bit him in the ass.
>:(

Fascinating...

I will have to look into this Width VST. It may be something I need.

So you attached a separate EQ and Compressors onto EACH sample? As in a different EQ for each of the four snares or did you group them and then apply a EQ onto that group?

The bassline I heard towards the end, not so much in the middle, though I understand the reasoning behind it, I always felt there was some bass lacking in the overall mix.

The ambient FX are also very top notch. From which library did you use them from? And though I loved them, in the final mix I must request we drop the fire and crickets. The story calls for a scene which is cold with no warmth whatsoever, and crickets and a fire would give a warm sentiment not fitting.

Thanks for this really useful tidbit though, cheers!

AND RIG MAKES ME SICK!

Rig makes me sick too! If only I knew half of what he does!!!!

DAMN YOU RIG >:*(!

Aww. My jealous fan posted in your news post. He doesn't want me to collab with anybody but himself. Isn't that cuuuute? :3

worthy of the cutesy face fo sho.

Also worthy of Angry Kirby kicking arse

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You must finish this song, it sounds so badass. DarkSidE555's guitar, MaestroRage's orchestra, Rig's drums, they all seem to blend in perfectly. Please finish this song!

I honestly didn't expect to have any help but with Rig and DarKsidE kicking along, it could really become something fierce.

Lets wait and see :O!

Whoa. That so many people can stack on the same project like that while keeping that awesome quality is amazing. :D I really want to see where this goes... >:)

hopefully, not to hell. Unless we go there to grab the energy we need for awesome levels.

Then we can go to hell, but only for a short stay.

"I hope I can count on you two to help towards the end :D!"

Count on me? WTF no0b! O:

I'm fucking begging you for a version I can work with! >:(

I swear i'm almost done LadyArsenic's singing part, after that it's back to the Void Knight for more ass kicking action, and there's where the guitar kicks back in :D!

I'll send you both an updated version later on tonight

No crickets? You've got it. That's not a fire sample, though - those are waves, and that's what was in YOUR mix. lol

I swear there were crickets in there >:(!

LIES AND SLANDER RIG!

I might have imagined it. I'm like that.

Wow, sounds great! I can't wait to see what else comes out of your big new stack of toys err.. tools.

:-)

Toyls?

It's funny because I won't get a chance to use the new toys in this piece :D! At least not the guitars. DarKsidE555 is going to make sure of that with his RIPPING awesomness *super metal guitar solo!*

I suppose that just means i'll have to use them for other projects. Like I don't know... adventure RPG like game...

maybe!? ;)

I do believe that I exploded in white man-cream all over my keyboard.

Then I listened to it again, and then took off my headphones, and then did it on them.

SRSLY. AWESOME. >:(

Do you remember that movie, Ghost Busters? when they had to kill that giant marshmellow guy, and he literally kerploded in white man-cream?

Wrong thing to be thinking about when I read that. Seriously dude, get some help!

Also if your headphones are going to need therapy. Get right on that.

You'll be one of the first to know when it's done Solus, I think you'll really like it :D!!!

O.O woah that scared the living daylights out of me! Maestro you've really outdone yourself.

<a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/119027">http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/liste n/119027</a>
tell rig that i did this to his song! or loop!

OMG! How do you do what you do?!
Lol, I haven't heard it yet... slow internet, etc... I'll check it out when you put it up on newgrounds.

Hows the project going?
Last update was 20th...

quite right, i'll update it now! Big progress since last update :D! Thanks for the prod.

Here's a thought - once this gets finished, I'm going to attempt a review rivaling the one I gave for Vengeful Mind Break. >:)

On another note, that list of mine's up, if you want to take a look. ;)

I saw a list of the collaborators here in another thread... holy hell this will be amazing. The demo I heard shows that well.

I mean... seriously, this may even fit the very definition of awesome.

I even personally grant you permission to make a n00besque post in audio as soon as it goes up just to tell everyone it is. (And on that note: n00besque is a word. At least by the internal spell-check. You have to use the zeros though. That's pretty amazing in itself.)

But yeah! Please make sure we all know as soon as this epic piece graces the portal!

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