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What a great vibe! Cozy and warm feeling. Great accordion playing and appreciate the flute in the background to add the extra warmth of the piece.

Such a fun piece to listen to. With the accordion and background music makes me feel that I am in a actual pub. Well done!

Yffish does not disappoint! Same energy as their "Rum Barrel" remix. Makes me feel "Argh, matey"!

When this song release I was instantly hooked! I have never played the game but by listening to this remix I would love to play this game. The tune is catchy, fun, and makes you feel that you are a pirate. Arr!

Still a good song to this day from start to finish. I love the ending when the tempo speeds up reminding you that the time is almost up. Timeless mix!

Such a fun song! This captures the zaniness when you play EarthBound. The remix plays tricks with your ears which is exactly Mr. Saturn's intentions when you see him and his village. 😄

Where'd the onions come from? 😭Beautifully remixed and the singing in the end spoke to me. Bravo!

Thank you for this lovely remix! 😀

I feel that I'm back watching my husband as he grinds through the game. Such a nostalgia piece!

Beautifully done remix. Has the same soothing vibe of the original with a nice guitar riff.

Yeah, things got quieter for djp on the site because…*checks notes*…some guy who posted on PPR a lot decided to leave. Sure. The ego you have to have to come back to OCR, comment on a year-and-a-half old goodbye thread from our site’s founder, and somehow make it about yourself and your dumb grievances is astounding.

Such an organic vibe. Makes me feel like I'm watching a Pixar-Ghibli-esc movie. The guitar playing is very crisp and clear. Bravo!

This arrangement is cute and charming. It starts with a subtraction on the A section, only focusing on the piano and occasionally some strings - then at 0:33 the drums and bass join, and the strings become more lively. From there, the structure is A into a variation on A and then B, and the second set at 1:31 also differs. The A section allowed the whole band to play the source straight, the variation added a square synth and some double-time chord use, then the B section went into four-on-the-floor drums, fast-moving piano climbs, and the eventual writer-stated anime cameo that I can not pinpoint. And then it ends with adapting the A section into a sudden minor key finish, with hardly any fanfare. As things stand, you've understood how to interpret the source to make it feel like yourself, and yet it still echoes a lot of the original's bounce and playfulness, which is a good thing. Looking at the prior critique of the "silence" at 1:05, I see that you're trying to go for a fun reverse effect, though it sounded like it didn't start properly until the end of that measure and sharply rose for the end of the following one. Try experimenting with an earlier start for the reverse fade to fill in more audio space. It's not essential, but it's nice to have as a change, so go with what you feel sounds right. As for the production side, the soundscape is drier than Lake Valor during the Team Galactic takeover. Combined with the choice of more techno-sounding percussion and mechanical piano writing, the overall presentation of the track feels cheap and inorganic. I'm in favor of experimenting with different types of reverb to shape up the stage, particularly on anything that isn't a kick drum or bass, and looking into the velocity shaping on the keys to give them a more convincing performance. The nature of the source and the overall adaptation mean I don't have problems with the strict timings of your notation. But any other type of humanization, whether changing velocities, note lengths, or anything else, can go a long way. This track is one of those that I'd like to see resubmitted with more focus on humanization and some reverb sound shaping. I see potential here, and if this does become a debut posted work with revision, that would be a great first impression. Keep at it. NO (resubmit)

It got quieter at that moment because I left. No, actually I left because it got way too toxic. At that point I finally discovered that my self worth isn't based on if I can get the unpleasent individuals on OCR to like me so I up and left. No regrets.

Yeah it does! Thanks for the update. Gonna get working at some point this summer

Excellent! Well, feel free to work on it some more if you feel like (you have until the due date, which isn't until late October, to turn it in!) Otherwise, I just need it rendered to the specifics above, and a unique name for your remix. :) Can send it to me via Discord or by private message in the OCR forums > my profile page. :D It can be something that was published previously! :) One of mine I plan on doing is actually a 2-3 year old piece I first made for a NewGrounds Halloween contest, and I think that was back in 2022?? I'm revamping the thing from scratch, adding onto the melody and harmony and putting a new spice / hook to the piece, but it has been published before on NG. So I figure as long as the submitted tracks haven't been mixposted by OCR before, it's cool. :D But you can, however, submit it to the OCR Judges' Panel after subbing it for this album, or anywhere else! ♥ If it's a video game remix, I encourage it. But this album isn't restricted TO JUST VGM remixes. You can remix other sources from other media, and / or make your own original track. Hope that helps. :3

Question: Do the submitted tracks have to be entirely new works or can it be something that was published previously (not on OCR, but elsewhere)?

Those drops are waaaaay too loud, coming in with zero signaling, suddenly nine decibels louder than what came before. That right there is enough of a dealbreaker to sink this mix. I loves me a good loud kick, but holy heckballs this is absolutely ridiculoud. The arrangement should have soft sections followed by buildups, hinting at what is to come, you don't want your listener to leap out of his chair hearing these drops. There are no builds here, just the soft sections and then WHAM my ears are raped. The sections are repetitive within themselves, with nothing too interesting happening once the patterns are established. I think there great ideas here though! I'd love to hear more melodic development, I don't actually hear the source motif anywhere, I think adding that motif plus some variations over the repetitive sections would greatly add interest to the arrangement. As prophetik mentioned, the arpeggio that appears here and there in this arrangement does not really match with the melodies and harmonies you have going in the other instruments. It certainly does not hold water trying to act as a lead. In that final section, the faux-hardstyle, that vocal bit is amazingly too loud also. So this entire mix needs a volume balance as a starting point. But yeah, resist the urge to try to win the loudness war here! There is no need for that, and it's much more jarring than it needs to be. NO

FINAL FANTASY IX - The Final Battle Remix

Ok. I think my prog rock version of Super Castlevania IV - Dracula's Theme would be nice for this album.

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there's still room in the lowend for more sauce. generally it is good to think of the entire EQ spectrum as a a series of curves with the bell curve being the principle curve used to define which frequencies will be cut and which will be boosted in the mix. the end goal is to create a "flat" frequency response that sounds "good" on all devices... of course, you can also ignore this approach entirely and create a sonic weapon with the right approach too, lol https://www.edmprod.com/eq-guide/