OceansAndrew Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Brandon Strader 3123 www.bstrader.net Game: Halo 3 Songs: Never Forget, Finish The Fight, Halo Sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDZscyf8lU (Never Forget) (Finish The Fight at 1'18 usage) (I assume this one is called Halo, dunno.)Title: In Memoriam Music video: Another DoD entry. Got 2nd place in October free month. I enjoy subbing dodtunes to OCR. OCR needs more DoD'ers to doddle over here and sub their tunes. I had planned to make a Halo 3 remix for months. I think as far back as mid-June 2011. At the time, I asked on facebook whether I should make it acoustic (like Ethnic Rush style) or metal. David Puga aka The Joker came on and said "metal!" so that was that. You can imagine this same arrangement with acoustic guitar and ethnic drums, it probably would have worked out pretty great either way I think. So this was another arrangement I was playing the parts of and arranging in my head months before I recorded it, the actual recording probably only took a couple days as usual.. I really like how the "Halo" choir theme sounds totally Opeth-ian at 1:55 of the remix. "Never Forget" was the source I really wanted to arrange, the others are just the icing on the cake. The climax at 2:59 came out better than I ever could have expected. It's so darn epic. I really like it and I hope y'all do too. There were comments made between Dod and Workshop that the strings + slide guitar were "stiff" or mechanical. I tried to fix that as well as possible on the strings, I didn't touch the steel slide guitar. It was played as intended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonAvenger Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Plenty of good stuff going on here. The arrangement is solid, and you picked some fantastic sources to work with anyways. I'd say your strings are still feeling stiff, and the same applies to the guitar (especially the ascending runs at the beginning where it is super noticeable). I don't think either issue is enough to warrant a no in any aspect, but I'd love to hear you finesse more humanization out of your parts in the future. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceansAndrew Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 The string samples sound good, but yeah, they are pretty stiff, otherwise it felt pretty good overall, with good transitions and pretty decent balance. Nothing really blew me away here, but it was a solid entry and it passes the bar. Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halc Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 indeed, nice work. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishy Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 String intro is a bit awkward and dry as mentioned but the samples are nice. Otherwise it's a solid pass. Not mindblowing, I know you can do better but I'll put that down to the DoD time limit, I can never finish something good enough for DoD in time . YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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