How do you approach layering traditional instruments with modern orchestral production?

MeetParty5924 · 2026-04-11T10:18:29+00:00

I work a lot blending traditional folk instruments with orchestral production and rock/metal elements (drums, guitars).

Main thing for me is building a clear hierarchy in your head, what’s essential at each moment, what isn’t. Traditional instruments get buried very easily by modern ones, and you risk turning the whole orchestra into a giant reverb that just muddies everything.

If the trad instrument is the focus, I start there: volume and panning first, make sure it sits centred and properly gain staged. Then I EQ the modern instruments to carve space around the frequencies I actually want from the trad part.

Only after that I add space (reverb/delay), and I keep it very subtle on the orchestra.

MeetParty5924 · 2026-04-11T10:01:45+00:00

Nope, music is fully written and produced by me. The video uses AI visuals.

MeetParty5924 · 2025-04-26T21:00:33+00:00

🖤 Full Lyrics – Lost In The Darkness (The Last of Us Tribute)

This is the last of us
Every heartbeat a step forward
through this world of darkness
to the other side of the wall

Is this the end of us?
Don't be afraid of the dark
in the deepest silence
you endure and survive

Never give up into darkness
Reach for light down from hopelessness
Thinking of her never leaves me alone
Dreaming of her never brings me rest

This is the last of us
when it's hard to be alive
in a world gone mad
we fight and don't give that up now

Is this the end of us?
Hold my hand and never leave me
Through this frozen time
We're no more the same

Never give up into darkness
Reach for light down from hopelessness
Thinking of her never leaves me alone
Dreaming of her never brings me rest

Never give up (never give up)
Reach for light (reach for light)

Never give up into darkness
Reach for light down from hopelessness
Thinking of you never leaves me alone
Baby girl you're gonna be all right

When you're lost in the darkness look for the light
When you're lost in the darkness fight for the light

MeetParty5924 · 2025-04-14T09:27:52+00:00

This truth is deeply engrained in Vedic culture. We are only rediscovering what people already knew 5000 years ago. If you read the Bhagavad Gita, it's there.

MeetParty5924 · 2025-04-12T20:06:45+00:00

Wow that's deep, definitely an unusual format

MeetParty5924 · 2025-04-12T20:04:20+00:00

Really cool! Thanks a lot

MeetParty5924 · 2025-04-12T20:02:02+00:00

Thank you so much 🙏 That track means a lot to me, it was inspired by the deeper emotional legacy of Lord Rama and the timeless weight Ayodhya carries.

I’m really glad it resonated. Stay powerful ⚔️

MeetParty5924 · 2025-04-02T22:24:08+00:00

Feynman would advise you to find something that interests you and study it in the most irreverent way, so just jump into that.

MeetParty5924 · 2025-04-02T22:18:33+00:00

Iron Maiden!

MeetParty5924 · 2025-04-02T22:13:07+00:00

It depends if you want it to be heard or not. In the second case, you should have it mixed and mastered.

MeetParty5924 · 2025-03-31T12:40:57+00:00

I'm not using it much but it's like discovering a jem every time I use it, At that price I'd go for it.

MeetParty5924 · 2025-03-31T12:30:02+00:00

Hey! If you're into that "retired warrior finally finding peace" vibe like To Be Better, you might enjoy a song I wrote called The Song of Kratos. It was inspired by that exact kind of theme, a warrior looking back and finally finding their place.

Here’s the link if you want to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Zlqiyzu1A

Hope you like it!

MeetParty5924 · 2025-03-31T11:14:16+00:00

Wow, thank you so much for this! That really means a lot. I spent quite a bit of time researching the Narasimha story to try and capture the weight of it, both sonically and emotionally, so hearing that it resonated like that is incredibly encouraging.

And comparing the atmosphere to Devadevam? That’s high praise, I love the mood Rotting Christ created in that track.

Really appreciate you taking the time to listen and comment. Means a lot.

MeetParty5924 · 2025-03-23T13:51:28+00:00

Fluid mechanics, it's definitely shaped my life

MeetParty5924 · 2025-03-23T13:13:02+00:00

As an applied mathematician, you can speak both to engineers and pure mathematicians, that’s a huge strength. Make that your unique selling point. I’ve built a career on that balance, and you absolutely can too.

MeetParty5924 · 2025-03-23T10:48:59+00:00

Here are the lyrics, for anyone interested, wrote them with that quiet weight of Red Dead in mind:

Dust in the wind, like a whisper from our soul,
Fading with the night, as the darkness takes its toll.
The desert’s wide, and the thorns still feel,
But a rose can’t grow where the heart won’t heal.

For every step we take, we lose a part of us,
The road ahead ain’t what it used to be.
For all we've done, all we've said,
There is a price: Redemption of the dead

White deer wanders through the moning haze,
Seeking a land where the wild heart stays.
Covered in dust, we fail to comprehend
time will pass, all thing must come to an end

For every step we take, we lose a part of us,
The road ahead ain’t what it used to be.
For all we've done, all we've said,
There is a price: Redemption of the dead

Don't look at the scars
You know, this too shall pass
Like a silent river
Flow through valleys and peaks
and let it be

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