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New Ambience: Ship of the Line
🕑 Added 2024-04-10 18:24:18 +0000 UTCGreetings Patrons,
Or should I say, Ahoy! This week's ambience takes us to sea in a fast, sturdy ship. This is one of those tracks where the music decided what the eventual ambience was going to be. A few days into it I began thinking it sounded vaguely militaristic, and more specifically, naval. I can't actually describe what that means musically, perhaps it was because the earliest versions were all extremely drum-centric.
As I added more instruments, the drums in their original state, made less sense. It was way too busy. Remembering the lesson that I re-learn every single day, if you want to make a thing better, take something away. Once the drums were removed I could finally hear the orchestration (or lack thereof) and start fixing it. I then added a sparser rhythm track that didn't overwhelm the music as much.
The ambience is wind, waves, rope, cloth and wood - just as Lord Nelson commanded.
As this track is in Patreon sneak-peek mode, I've included the mixed version, as well as ambience-only and music-only versions of the track here, for patrons. Additionally, I created a mixed and ambience 'storm' version. Not really a full-on storm, consider it more of a heavy seas and a bit of weather variation.
The music track on it's own will work across a variety of genres as an action or adventuring background.
Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.
Best,
Tim
Comments
Luke Aleo
Life lesson: "if you want to make a thing better, take something away."
Floyd Bullard
I recently began DM-ing (for the first time!) a campaign of watery adventures. They initially take place in the fishing village of Saltmarsh and its environs, but will eventually take the characters across wide seas to strange and dangerous lands. This track will definitely have its moment (or several), along with High Seas Pursuit and a continuing favorite: Pirates! Tim, I don't know who you are or anything about you, but I'm always impressed by your talent and creativity, and grateful to you for sharing these tracks widely. Thank you!!!
André alias DD
Yes, I love it.
eiragwen
This one gave me epic chills! It felt in the best way Basil Poledouris-esque. Fantastic!
Jeff P
This is an amazing piece. It’s just what I needed for my sea campaign. I love your work!
