Hey guys a friend of mine just referred me to this forum so I thought I'd check it out. It looks like a great community so I'm excited to virtually hang with everyone.

Nsmadsen, I listened to the demo stuff you have on your website and it sounds pretty incredible! Glad to have you here moderating.

I graduated Cal State Northridge about 2 weeks ago with a degree that's more or less film scoring. Commercial and Media Writing to be specific. Right now I'm running Cubase 8.5 and mostly EastWest stuff (Hollywood Strings, Brass and Woodwinds; Stormdrum II; and QL Spaces). I saw some great responses to other feedback posts so I thought I'd throw my stuff out there too. My biggest areas of focus right now are mixing and getting a more realistic sound out of my VSTs so if you guys have suggestions about certain plugins or sample packs you use please let me know.

Epic sample:

https://soundcloud.com/tyler-estabrook/epic-classical-sample

Action sample:

https://soundcloud.com/tyler-estabrook/action-classical-sample

Video game battle:

https://soundcloud.com/tyler-estabrook/video-game-action-epic

Thanks!

Tyler

Hey Tyler, your stuff sounds awesome! I've got some very minor feedback.

A thought that stuck in my head but disappeared as I listened to all of your tracks was that your panning could be wider? I think it's just your first track the Epic sample, it sounds a little mono to me.

For plugins if you haven't heard of Valhalla room you should go and check it out here: https://valhalladsp.com/shop/reverb/valhalla-room/

It's fairly reasonably priced for how cool it is and I know a lot of people use it as there go-to reverb plugin. Could be something you'd be interested in with the style you compose in.

Other than that I'm fully jealous of your skills! Keep up the good work!

Edit: Also I would highly recommend the Composer Quest challenge from Video Game Music Academy, it gets you to compose pieces within a set brief, some are video game related such as writing for an up-beat snow level, while some are just interesting composition exercises like only using 3 unique pitches within an octave as your melody line. Super fun!

Thanks for the tips. I'll take a look at Valhalla for sure.

The Composer Quest is on this forum? I just visited the site for the first time today so I haven't been poking around much yet.

You can find the composer quest on this site: http://www.videogamemusicacademy.com/

I think you have to sign up to the newsletter but it's well worth it, everything they send you is related to game audio.