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Hello OverClocked ReMix users, arrangers, musicians, fans, and everyone else reading this, I'm a little new to the site, but not new to the community. I've worked with Materia Collective on numerous cover albums, and I'm a violinist and composer by profession. As I'm listening to more and more covers, I realize how much demand there is for live performers on these tracks. However, let's be honest, none of us have the money to hire live performers for all of our parts, and having mock-ups is acceptable here. That's where I was thinking: I'm a violinist, I could knock out about 10-15 of these recordings/day if they're written in a way where the arranger or composer knows exactly what they want from me. Because I can do so many, I can also charge less per recording, to make the same amount of money/day as someone doing 1-2 recordings per day. I usually do professional musicianship at $80-$150 per hour, but because of the volume and excellent cause of this program, I'd be able to charge about $3-$9 per recording of violin part. I think that's really really doable for a lot of our arrangers. I'm wondering if we can start a community of rough, for-hire musicians to improve the production quality of OverClocked ReMix remixes etc.? Who would be interested in organizing something like this? I can advertise this idea to my colleagues at Material Collective, and I'm sure some of us would love to have a steady working gig of recording for an hour or two a day and getting paid something for it. Is anyone interested in a service like this? Discuss here, and feel free to email me at kirpol@gmail.com or find me on Facebook. Kirill Polyanskiy

I've commissioned some vocalists before, for Terranigma and Soul Blazer... So I get where you're coming from Kirill4249 Also, contrary to what other people say, it's kind of a good idea to offer $$$, as it's the best way to ensure that a project comes through, unless the collaborator in question has a skewed moral compass. I don't see any harm in hosting a thread here, but an additional website is an interesting idea. Off the beaten path a bit, but I have a secondary proposition.... Allow me to preface this by sayin', there's a lot of remixers *ahem* like me who don't have a talent for scribing notation from ear to paper (or ear to MIDI data, for that matter). Additionally, I and several others have noted frustration in VGmusic's lack of MIDI data in many games, so there's at least a *small* market for that. So offering that as a secondary service may be another arm of pursuit to get the ball rollin' - anyone else have thoughts on that?

Alright, thanks for the awesome input! I'm going to try and coordinate a start of the kind of community I'm envisioning. Not through this platform, because that doesn't really make sense, but perhaps through a new website or something. I'll figure out details and other things and I'll post on this forum post where to find me/us when it's up and running. Thank you guys so much for the valuable feedback!

I like the idea, not sure that this would fly with OCR though??? I couldn't tell ya.

Think about it this way: This allows for an arranger to have a string quartet of live-recorded parts to their specifications for $20 or so.. $5 per player. It would be up to the arranger to write out the parts neatly enough and articulately and as unambiguously as possible in order for the musicians to play it. Maybe start-up a forum of submissions to be checked to be ready to record or not. These "cheap" musicians would be in demand, so they wouldn't have a ton of time to look over parts to start out with, so having a couple of string players on-staff to make sure the parts are readable would be pretty cool too.

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Hmm, I thought I read the deadline being 1d 10 hours when I checked on Sunday. Either it was reading wrong, or quite possibly I failed to comprehend it.. Yes.. I think I failed to comprehend it.. Here's my late - I suppose bonus - entry: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0ovr1gktk4dqgzd/eino_keskitalo-concept-crash.mp3?dl=0 ping @HoboKa