[Disco Dan]

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 'Sonik Azure'

Interesting guitar panning here. Guitar's a bit out of tune, but the rest of the stuff sounds good. High quality samples, sequencing is solid. Nice effects on the Rez/Cut. Hmm... this song kind of makes me happy. Yum.

Edit: I finished writing this before finishing the song. I really like the ending. It's clever and cute and splicing vinyl noise into a song is almost never a bad thing. Also you gotta love the happy hip-hop feel the whole song has. Nice work.

DC

[DarkeSword]

FIRST IRONMIX EVER POSTED TO OCR!!!

GO ANALOQ!!!

Yeah well, anyway, you already know how I feel about this song. The Guitar work is top-notch, and the piano ending is sweet.

Excellent work dude. ^_^

[Mae]

I love the guitar that holds it together throughout, and how it builds up until 2:45, where it dies only to come back with the piano solo at 2:50 until the end.

[neostormx]

I love the old time piano ending at the end. I was gunna do something like that, but i guess you analog beat me to it :). very well executed.

I have no complaints for this remix, i suggest any ocr's to download this puppy.

[AnotherOneBitesTheDust]

Great guitar work, doesn't sound annoying at all. I was waiting for an ironmix to be posted (I never really participated in them or even downloaded anything) so it would force me to start participating in listening and reviewing or whatever goes on in there. This kinda sounds like this one song...nothing to do with VG mixes...seems like a lot of people would have heard it...just don't know what the title is. doo do do do dooooooooo, doo do do do doooooo do-do-do

Definitely one of the better Sonic mixes. I never really go out of my way to listen to a lot of the Sonic mixes for some reason.

[analoq]

I remember a while back djp saying he'd like more ReMixers to use the review board on their own work. So to thank djp for posting this, I will do just that :)

Like DarkeSword already mentioned, I wrote this for TimerWolf's IronMix3 competition, and it was unanimously declared the winner by the judges. You can read their reviews here and listen to the other entries over here. For those interested, you can download this track in Ogg Vorbis from my website.

Here's a rundown of the sounds, in order of appearance:

The guitar parts are played by me. I recorded my Fender Strat direct, using a dbx386 to get it to line-level. I used the excellent Amplitube VST plug-in for the guitar parts, I do own a vintage Gibson amp but I really did not feel like dragging that thing out.

The bassline patch I made on an Access Virus C synth, it was just a square osc and a saw osc an octave apart going through a LPF. Add a nice phat bass boost in the EQ.

The whiney sawtooth sound was a simple saw osc on the Virus with lots of portamento. From there it goes into my Sherman Filterbank 2, for that analogue filter envelope sound, mixed in with the unfiltered signal. Add lots of delay.

The drums are made from a hiphop kit I downloaded off some website. As one can probably tell, they go through a LPF plugin that has the cutoff and resonance automated.

There's a subtle string patch from my Waldorf Micro-Q, I think the only thing I added was reverb.

There's an interesting guitar-riff sounds after the lead guitar, I took a patch on my Roland JV-1010 and buried it in a flange and delay plugin. Being able to sync flangers to the song tempo is very cool.

Finally the piano ending, it's a patch on the JV-1010, added reverb, and then through a DirectShow plugin called Isotope Vinyl, it's free, search for it.

The ending itself was almost a cop-out. I was going to use that theme for a big wall-of-guitar section at the end but to be honest, I just got lazy. Guitar parts are rather time consuming for me while piano parts tend to write themselves. I decided "less is more" and just went with a vintage sounding piano solo to end the track, but it worked pretty well.


Overall, I'm pleased with how this turned out. seeya.

[djcubez]

sweet Guitar man. Godly beats. You're my hero :D

[sgx]

First off, don't like the full guitar panning and I think it's a bit out of tune. Other than that, I'm loving this stuff! Sweet synth, sweet bassline, sweet beats. This is done really well and is very very enjoyable. Keep it up!

[mechanicaldeathegg]

First off, don't like the full guitar panning and I think it's a bit out of tune.

I dont see how this is out of tune like that guy above said
not every damn thing has to be perfect towards your aspects

The song is done just perfect
everything is nice and it flows perfectly, but some how i cant get myself to hum to it along with the original Azure lake

[Zeo]

I've LOVED this since it was in IMC. Now I can say it's one of the five BEST OC ReMixes. This is an incredible mix. You should mix more Sonic 3 and rival Jivemaster's mixes. ;)