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Street Fighter 2 - Ryu's Theme Orchestral Imagined By Peshtiwar Botani https://youtu.be/xhliI8e_i8Y Original composer: Yoko Shimomura Track: Street Fighter 2 - Ryu's Theme Orchestral Imagined: Peshtiwar Botani Here is my imagination of how Ryu's Theme could sound like in an orchestral setting. Everything is done by ear, I added some of my own stuff too. If you ask me I'm improving again, I did mess up a little and the volume balancing could be better but this is a huge step in the right direction. Take this for a spin!

FINAL FANTASY VI - Battle Themes Remix  

Celeste really translates so well to metal in a way you'd never expect by listening to the original source. The way you translated the rapidfire ostinatos (I especially loved the sweeps at :35) to guitar shows that you definitely know your way around your instrument, so the bones of this arrangement are really solid. You've added more than enough personalization through unique writing and expressive performances to clear our bar, but I agree with the gentlemen above that the mixing is not helping this live up to its full potential. Starting with the drums, those are easily the biggest area you should focus on when (hopefully not if) you choose to polish and resubmit this track. The programming feels too locked to the grid and sterile, and it's accentuated by the way that the drums are mixed. The kick comes through with way too much high-end click and not enough low-end oomph, so it feels pasted on top of the track rather than giving it a rhythmic pulse, and really draws attention to how rigid those double-bass kick drum patterns are programmed. Those need some velocity and very subtle timing adjustments to really feel like there's a human being behind the kit. On a similar note, the drum programming issue is compounded during moments like 3:25, where everything is highly rigid in its syncopation. Great work on getting your guitar performance so lined up, but instead of feeling punchy and climactic, it comes across as robotic, so I don't think that hit the mark. Once you've cleaned up the drums, my next area of focus would be on the frequency balance between your individual components. Make sure you're applying a low-cut filter on anything that doesn't need it. Your bass and kick should live in that low region, as well as some of your heavier rhythm guitars, but anything else is probably just contributing mud and reducing clarity in the parts where you really want the low frequencies to hit hard. Hemo also suggested some bus compression and overall glue to the mastering to tie all of the elements together, which is a great suggestion to get this sounding fuller-bodied. Also gotta double up on the critique of the ending - that fadeout didn't need to happen and took the wind out of your sails just as you were reaching the summit of your arrangement! Full send it all the way to the end :) Love this arrangement, you did justice to the source but the mixing needs some work. I highly recommend you take this to our Workshop Office Hours, since @paradiddlesjosh and @pixelseph will absolutely have some guitar/drum-specific techniques that can help you reach the top! NO resubmit (you can do this!)

I think I wanna be done now 😅 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v4k1kk3qgbn9hw6k2qcrf/eino_keskitalo_-_ninjan_graali-20250108-rc.mp3?rlkey=9z7vmrdurm3o1u752bh57gtka&st=50rct5h0&dl=0   submitted!