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Earth Eternal Theme (A Cappella Cover) by chama

Earth Eternal Theme (A Cappella Cover)

chama

This was quite fun to do. The original theme is quite simplistic in nature though it layers a lot of instruments and uses reverb to sound "big", resulting in a messy sound. Thus, I may have missed some of the small notes when transcribing it by ear, but I trust I have kept the general spirit of the piece.

So far, there have been two instruments that posed problems - the flute and the harp. The flute, I solved X-files style. I'd say whistling counts as a cappella. I'm sure you all can attest to that I'm a better singer than a whistler. :) whistles innocently off key

The harp, I finally managed to solve by doing a glottal M. and attenuate quickly. The attack I later fixed with Equalization and the decay with excessive reverb. Post-processing is allowed, right? :)

This mix sounds a bit less impressive than the samplers used in the orchestral original, mostly because I need to voice-act and mix better, but also because you can't get mostly-unison choir lines to sound "big" in the same way as with an orchestra (listen to piano renditions of Hans Zimmer's work. It's not very impressive.) For a final version, I'd likely arrange it more choir-style instead of faithfully following the original.

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    I actually enjoyed Earth Eternal for how briefly it existed... before being bought out by a Chinese company as they made the characters' faces more... awkwardly cute.

    I had hoped a soundtrack existed to download, if at least for nostalgia's sake

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      If there is one, this version would certainly not be on it! :) But yes, the game was promising in the beginning.