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Received your vote. Hopefully things will be fixed soon.

hey, after my kraid's lair remix I thought about another metroid remix with themes: secret area & ridley's lair enjoy

Ah, don't mention it. In those short paragraphs, I exhausted the extent of my musical prowess. Still, hang around the forums and you'll pick up bits and pieces of advice that will help. Good luck, and keep composing.

I know this is a late response, but this has happened to me a few times and I notoriously forget to copy/paste. My memory sucks too. Lmao.

Whoa. Just, just whoa. Impressive work here. The long build up is full of musical anxiety, I couldn't decide where I thought the song would go from it. When it finally gets to the more dancy (that's a word now) part around 2:40 all that tension just washes away. Hope this makes it past the panel!

Cool to see a DnB remix of Metroid! I think that style fits it very well. Though like Souperion said, that drumline is way too repetitive. Change it up, especially around the mid way mark when you add in the theme. I know DnB repeats alot of the same drum lines, but they still change it up to match the song. Definitely still cool and atmospheric.

This is nice! I'm with Souperion on the balancing of channels. Your lead is definitely a bit too soft. The bass line drowns it just a tad. On your double kicks, try lowering the volume on the off hit. When both notes of the double kick are the same velocity, it tends to over power the beat. You have a cool track, fits the Sonic style very well.

Always good to hear mixes of Metroid! You've made some mean dubsteppin' here, and its cast as the centerpiece of the song. Impressive as that percussion/bassline is, it gets a little tedious alongside the simplistic melodies of the sources. 2;23-2:40 is one of the more interesting parts, when you elaborated on the item room's motif. Pump some more life into the leads, make 'em a little more equal to the work you put into the dub-step, and this will be even better. Nice work, keep it up!

Staff probably knows the gist of what I have to say already, but for the sake of discussion: There is too much white blank empty space. After every post, there's a bunch of white space, including an almost empty bar with Quote and Like features. And look at the quotes themselves. Large margins. Large, white (and gray), empty margins. And short posts. The profile picture expands the post's height, leading to more white empty space between posts. Even after long posts, the space from one person's text to that of another is huge. I could 160+ pixels. Minimum height for a post is 250 pixels with that profile pic, so I can have a conversation of 4 posts on screen at any one time, at most. So that's actually an argument FOR the removal of sigs. But if sigs are removed because there's to be a focus on content, why is the content so sparse? There's clean, and there's clinical. I don't mind minimalism when done well, but Invision's super-sparse look isn't. To accentuate that, I'm using double line breaks here. To be funny, and to help make a point. So I'm not as annoyed at the removal of sigs themselves, but by related issues. While sigs can be annoying, they can be turned off (or individual sig images adblocked away). I will miss the compo and album banners though. And occasional animated little stories about a wolf and a ball. But we could do vertical equivalents under the profile pic. It's a BIG DUMB WHITE SPACE. So we might as well use it for something. Selectively. Adaptive. For long enough posts. And since that probably requires screwing a bit with Invision's styles, maybe we can get a look that's more community and less fancy art gallery.

15+ year lurker here. This comes across as unnecessarily overbroad, even destructive. If this change must absolutely happen, why not have sigs disabled by default, but still remain a customizable message board feature instead, and allow any user to re-enable it on their own end/device, if their priorities don't align with this "streamlined" notion of "modern forum experience"?

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