[djpretzel]

What did you think? Post your opinion of this ReMix.

[Xelebes]

It was lacking brightness, having the sense that it was muffled to the point that I was listening to a speaker with a pillow overtop of it. It was distracting and disheartening. For me, the piece was a bit a superfluous in its phrases (I too have yet to overcome this problem when I write my music.) What I mean, is that the syn brass you use is too relentless, you have to break down the melody into it's phrases. Melodies these long are composed of phrases so that one can follow the song more easily. The backup was okay, the start was a little slow... kinda wanting me to say a little bit of "hurry up, come on/"

The thunder and the rain sound a bit gimmicky, just like the crowd applause you hear in hard house tracks which most of the djs never forget to put it in. (The hardest part of making hard house is actually applying the crowd cheering and applause in the track, believe it or not.)

-Edit:

The syn-brass is not too annoying or superfluous, it just appeared that way when I first listened to the song. Though, there is something bugging me about it. I know it is bugging me.

[weggy]

I like it!

Its good to see another Tales of Phantasia mix, because IMO, its the finest RPG ever made. I really like the song selected, "Be Absentminded", because it occurs at a very sad and touching moment in the game. Though im still waiting for someone to make an Aviators mix

What really caught my eye... err, ear about this one is how it starts as a soft, sad song, but then really picks up later into a techno-type mix. It may not be anything revolutionary, but I really enjoyed it. I'd recommend downloading it.

[sgx]

6.2 mb? :( Wish I could have let my ICO mix go over the filesize limit...had to lower the bitrate. Wah wah!

anyways

Pretty kewl stuff here.

Like Xelebes said, I'm not so hot on the rain samples. Not a big deal, but a little cheesey in my opinion.

The volume needs to be turned up. This is a pretty quiet file. I little more high-end would be welcome too, I think.

I like that square wave lead near the beginning of the trance section. Would have liked to hear that more during the rest of the song.

The trance beat is pretty good, though I usually don't like claps. I'm more of a snare 2 and 4 beat man :).

The synths are pretty good, but it seems like there is a whole lot of saw wave stuff going on in here. Not bad, but the lead lacks a bit of clarity as it blends a bit with the rest of the sounds.

The intro and ending are very nice. You've got some good strings samples and you use them pretty well.

Good stuff! You chose a good song, and you put together a quite good remix of it! Yaaaay

[OmegaPhoenix128]

This is some pretty good stuff. I like the nature of it. Though it, for some reason, gives me the hankering to go play Chrono Trigger.
*Goes off and plays CT*

[esden9]

Intro is long but pretty nice. Storm/rain loop reminds me of Nine's Dying Occlo. I really like how it leads into the goods.

Dig the trancey part. I'm big on the long phrases used here.

I like the (fm'ish?) saw synth alot, but like other reviews have said, there seems a lot of high end missing from the mix. The synth used in GLL's Create Your Fantasy mix was alot brighter...although if the percussion was brighter I think it would be ok.

Overall a good remix that needs some work getting the frequency spectrum filled out, but is definitely staying in my playlist.

[The Orichalcon]

The trancey-technoey section is good. It's an interesting mix of genres which I think works.

The introduction could have used more work. The soundfonts used there sounded a bit crappy to me. I love the rain effect though. It needed more effects and compressions over the piano and flute though. The strings needed a bit more reverb so the notes melded into each other rather than sounding so jumpy.

The composition is good, the soundfonts are really what's letting this down for me.

[JTD121]

I haven't heard the mix yet, but I have a question. What happened to the 6MB limit on mixes? Have you raised it? Or is this one exception?

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

[Wombatforhire]

I'm neither an expert on samples, clipping, high range low range, etc etc etc.

But I do know what I like.

Just wanted to drop a note here to say that I really enjoyed this one. Thank you very much for the music, I'm sure a lot of work went into it.

[VirtualPlay]

In response to anyone who thinks this remix is too quiet: do you expect all music to be blaring your speakers or something? Sometimes quiet music is a good thing, especially on a song like this, where it's based on a sad song from the actual game.

Now that I've said that, let me add my own comments.

I think the only thing I really didn't like from this remix is the first second or two where the thunder is a tad bit too flat. Everything else fits nicely, starting soft and gradually crecendo-ing to a more-heavily rhythmed techno. And no, the tempo does NOT increase, before anyone says so. The added counter melody fits nicely, almost indistinguishable from the original song's parts, although there was one dissonating note in it that might have sounded better a half step up (because it was the flat of the bass line note) but I guess it was fine.

The feature I liked most about this ReMix is the way GLL transitioned from the light instrumental section to the heavier techno. It wasn't a sudden, 1 measure change like I've heard in the past, but spanned a full theme length.

Good job on this ReMix. :)

(On a side note, this is the first ReMix I've posted in the forums about — and I've been downloading ReMixes for quite a while now.)