Nashville Music Scoring Orchestra / Contractor & Concertmaster: Alan Umstead
Lead Engineer: Nick Spezia
Protools Operator: Russell Scarborough
Conductor: Brian Eads
Copyist: Sammy Sanfilippo
Translator: Kazuri Arai
Studio: Ocean Way Nashville
Violin: Alan Umstead, Catherine Umstead, Mary Kathryn VanOsdale, Kameron Myers, Janet Darnall, Karen Winkelmann, Stefan Petrescu, Carolyn Bailey, Bruce Wethey, Rachel Englander, Jenny Bifano, Gerald Greer, Erin Hall, Kimberly Yokoyama
Viola: Carl Larson, Simona Rusu, Razvan Berindean, Michael Holub
Violoncello: Kevin Bate, Sarighani Reist, Emily Rogers, Andrew Dunn
Bass: Craig Nelson, Timothy Pearson, Quentin Flowers
Flute: Kristen Holritz, Molly Barth
Oboe: Luke Simonson, Diana Dunn
Clarinet: Spencer Prewitt, Mariam Adam
Bassoon: Peter Kolkay, Thomas Crespo
Trumpet: Jeff Bailey, Steve Patrick, Preston Bailey
Tenor Bone: Barry Green, Prentiss Hobbs
Bass Bone: Matt Jefferson
Tuba: Neil Konouchi
Horn: Leslie Norton, Patrick Walle, Radu Russu, Jennifer Kummer
Orchestra Coordinator: Hiromitsu Iijima (IRMA LA DOUCE)
Underwhelming to say the least. I prefer the first games' soundtrack for sure. This one feels uninspired. Struggling to find one song that is amazing. Mostly 7's or below. Strange choice of lead instruments on certain songs make them hard to continue listening to.
Sadly this sort of practice seems somewhat common.
Fortunately, the soundtrack from the first Octopath Traveler is, while still dynamically compressed, much less compressed. The crescendos build to satisfyingly explosive drum hits, and the instruments for the most part have nice separation and the quiet parts are actually quiet.
For some better dynamic range than that, try the Eorzean Symphony: Final Fantasy XIV albums, of which there are three volumes. They each consist of both a highly produced version of their respective concerts, and a slightly less produced "in the concert hall" version.
The first volume has the best dynamic range on the more produced version. The second's is still good but not as good. The third you have to just switch to the concert hall disc, because the produced version is so heavily produced that it's like someone's got a 25hz sinewave blasting in your ear: you get fatigued quickly, and none of the hits have impact.
On part with that is the Legend of Zelda 30th Anniversary Concert, also on CD. Some great orchestral renditions of old favorites!
Even better than that is any of the "Symphonic Suite - Dragon Quest" CDs, I-VIII. These are the ones played by the Philharmonic Orchestra, I can't vouch for the other collection.
If you want me to recommend anything else, just let me know!
Phenomenal soundtrack, but it's been dynamically crushed so hard that it's just not as fun as I'd want it to be. Too bad. Maybe there's another album of an orchestra who played tracks from it that hasn't been dynamically ruined.
Sadly this sort of practice seems somewhat common.
Phenomenal soundtrack, but it's been dynamically crushed so hard that it's just not as fun as I'd want it to be. Too bad. Maybe there's another album of an orchestra who played tracks from it that hasn't been dynamically ruined.
Is this excessive file size really necessary? So much extra storage taken up for an inaudible difference in audio quality compared to standard CD quality.
Thank you so much!
I really looked liked twice a week if the soundtrack got finally uploaded here ever since the game came out.
Now it's finally the time ^^*
I loved Primrose the Dancer a lot in OT 1 and Agnea the Dancer is just as good now!
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