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How to make a music fade sound natural?

hbenthow

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I've been working on a new prologue for my fanedit of "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992), using a combination of the DVD and tracks from the score CD. The problem that's been giving me a big headache is the final fade-out at the end of the new opening titles. It's loud, bombastic music (it's the music from the scene where Dracula is going around impaling soldiers), and I have to get it to fade to silence. It fades, but it sounds "fake". It sounds "edited" and unnatural. Sometimes, it sounds like an artificial fade, other times it's just too abrupt and jarring, as if a chandelier fell on the conductor. Does anyone know of a way to make loud orchestral music fade out to silence in a natural-sounding way?
 
Sounds like you need to edit in the conclusion of that song so it ends when your credits end, if the song you are using doesnt have the right "end" cue, then you can use another piece from another track.

Know what i mean?
 
And if everything else fails, you can always replace that piece of music with a different one.

Still, it's hard to give a proper answer without seeing and hearing it. If you could either post the clip or upload it and PM me the link, it would be easier to tell.
 
Or just use a longer fade so it gets quieter more gradually.

Alternatively it might just be your brain messing with you, because you know how the scene is supposed to play out the edits stand out a mile but to someone who's not familiar they'd never notice.

Get a fresh pair of ears on it and see what they think.





 
Rogue-theX said:
Sounds like you need to edit in the conclusion of that song so it ends when your credits end, if the song you are using doesnt have the right "end" cue, then you can use another piece from another track.

Know what i mean?
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Well, unfortunately it doesn't have a real "conclusion" that matches with the visual. That's where the problems lies. There is no other track that I know of that could work for the scene. I'm transitioning seamlessly from the battle scene to the credits, so the music needs to flow seamlessly.
 
Dwight Fry said:
And if everything else fails, you can always replace that piece of music with a different one.

Still, it's hard to give a proper answer without seeing and hearing it. If you could either post the clip or upload it and PM me the link, it would be easier to tell.
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I sent you a PM.

EDIT: I accidentally sent the PM twice, so you got two identical messages.
 
hbenthow said:
I sent you a PM.

EDIT: I accidentally sent the PM twice, so you got two identical messages.
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No problem. As I replied to you via PM, one of your versions seems to sound quite good already.
 
I sent you another PM, with a longer clip. This time, I included a little more at the beginning and end. It should give you an idea of the overall context of the scene and the way the audio fade works (or doesn't work) for the scene.
 
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