Question about background music

[DethStryke]

I checked out one of the sponsors a couple days ago that had atmosphere tracks on a CD for sale, but now the ad is out of rotation and I did not get it saved to my favorites! Doh! Anyone remember the name or at the link?!?

I've been trying to find it again/remember it for over 40 hours now.

 

[colonelthread]

http://www.palefacesound.com/store/environ.html

I'll probably pick it up myself before our next session.

Cheers,
ct

 

[Tuzenbach]

Dunno if this helps, as it's different from the exact one you're asking about, but it piqued my curiosity. If you go to Amazon.com and do a CD search for Dungeons & Dragons (or perhaps "and" as opposed to "&"?) there's an actual Dungeons & Dragons "official soundtrack" that comes up. I guess it's WoTC's official D&D ambiance album.

HOWEVER......

That's not the interesting part. If you then click on the links where it says "people who bought this product also bought the following items...." you'll run into 2 different artists with 3 and 6 (ish) CDs, respectively. I found these about three months ago and have since forgotten their names, but the gist of the thing seemed to be "ambiance that fits fantasy role-playing games". Again, I didn't but these or write down the artists' names, but it was enough to get me curious. It's worth a look.

 

[Tuzenbach]

Hey, my last post inspired me! I just looked these up. The artists in question are "Midnight Syndicate" and "Nox Arcana". Does anyone know if these are any good?

 

[Agamon]

I can vouch for Midnight Sindicate, very good fantasy music. I've never heard of Nox Arcana, however.

 

[DethStryke]

Hey, my last post inspired me! I just looked these up. The artists in question are "Midnight Syndicate" and "Nox Arcana". Does anyone know if these are any good?

Midnight Syndicate put out 4 albums before the "D&D Soundtrack" that WotC commisioned. It is gothic horror based. Excellent for dungeon crawls and anything Ravenloft, but not really utility for all situations, in my opinion. It is, however, used alot in haunted houses all across america. Their website has an entire section where you can list any haunted house you run in which you use their music.

I'm looking to run mixes of environment music and instrumental music for my games. The video games that I've played where they do this has really helped with immersion.

 

[DethStryke]

http://www.palefacesound.com/store/environ.html

I'll probably pick it up myself before our next session.

Cheers,
ct

Thank you!!!

 

[Warden]

That's not bad either, but the link seems to only provide sound effects that could be downloaded for free here.

The Eberron sourcebook Sharn: City of Towers comes with a background music CD and it's pretty good. We haven't heard all of the tracks yet, but I do believe there are some samples somewhere on the WotC site.

 

[DethStryke]

That's not bad either, but the link seems to only provide sound effects that could be downloaded for free here.

Not true. The sound effects that you posted are not loopable and are much shorter. Each of the tracks are 4 minutes long, which means alot when you have it on constant repeat in the background. Most people pick up something that is less than 1 minute worth of information in a loop. Longer than that is much harder and sounds more realistic. Of course one would want 10-30 minutes of a track minimum, in a prime situation. But 4 minutes each is not too shabby with a CD that I can look at just the names and know that I could easily find use for them all in most of my games.