Battle of Bard Mountain music - download?

Frost Warden·3/23/2015, 5:28:08 AM·2 votes·2,933 views

I am absolutely loving this music, especially when Bard ruptures all of space and time. I want to download it without all of the other sound effects on top of it, no matter how much I love the meeps. Any idea if/when this will be available as a stand-alone piece of music? If not, does anyone know how to remove the sound effects so it's just pure music. It's...yeah. Spine tingling.

(Also, the horn itself: it sounds like a tuba or bass trombone but it has too much of a woodwind feel early on. Then again, even the most amazing contrabassoon isn't going to get that sort of sound. I'm guessing it's a conglomerate?)

4 Comments

RiotScherzo3/27/2015, 6:13:48 PM3 votes

Thanks for your compliments! We'll try to get a score-only version uploaded to our Soundcloud page soon. (Edit) - here's the link:

You guessed right, the instrument sound at the end is indeed a mix of different elements. We combined some pitched-down recordings of a trombone in a parking garage with a bass clarinet, run through various saturation and distortion plugins. The clarinetist is actually using an unusual technique where he's playing long tones in such a way that the upper harmonics actually come through as loud, if not louder, than the fundamental tone he's playing. This gives the impression that he's producing more than one note at the same time, but with a much different sound than you'd get if you had two players using normal technique. Definitely not something we could have achieved just by pulling up a bass clarinet patch in our sequencing program!