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Dude this has improved quite a bit. Good Going! Love all the little details and flourishes. The bassline is a touch repetitive,maybe some small changes every once in a while to break up the DRIVING SYNTHWAVE ENERGY ever so slightly. The mix sounds like it could do with a bit more top end to me, but thats subjective. As it is, i'd happily play it alongside the original

Hey there! I love the glassy, breathy texture in the intro, I would have liked a slightly cleaner fade-in so it's not starting so abruptly, but that's not a big deal. There's some great synth sounds in here that work great with the Forest Interlude melody. I liked the drum break at 3:03, that was a great transition that hooked my attention! There's a few areas of concern I wanted to point out that would help improve this and get it up to OCR standards: The mix could definitely use some sidechain compression to clear some of the space and give more of an implicit sense of rhythm to your track. I'm not sure what DAW you're using, but this is a good resource to understand the concept of sidechaining regardless of what program you're in if you're not familiar with it already: Basically, you set up your mix so that your kick drum (or any other element, really) will proportionally "duck down" other parts of your mix so that your kick hits harder. One good place to start with this would be sidechaining your kick to your bassline - right now, as others have pointed out, the bassline sounds repetitive and doesn't have enough dynamics to sound interesting. This will not only help your beats cut through the mix better, but more importantly, it will give your bassline some extra movement. It sounds like you've attempted this effect by changing the velocity of the bass notes (apologies if I'm wrong here!) but this would be a more precise, organic way of doing that. I would also consider doing a more subtle version of this effect on other instruments like your strings and pads to clear out space in your mix. The drums still sound a bit flat to me overall, mainly from a sample perspective. The kick drum sounds fine to me, but the snare gets repetitive. One thing I like to do in my own mixes is include multiple snare samples and have a different snare drum hit on the 2 beat and the 4 beat, or layer them differently throughout the song. The tambourine also doesn't really work for me, it just seems like a weak sample and isn't dominant enough to carry the 1/16th note rhythm. Some accents would be fine, but I think you need a sharper, better-quality sample for your hi-hat rhythm. The transition at 2:54 is weak - some sort of sweep effect, cymbal crash, or anything else along those lines would help that chord change have more impact. Some sort of transition effect is definitely essential there to go along with the writing. I thought you ended the remix at a strange point - it cuts off right in the middle of a melody and doesn't offer any sort of resolution. Maybe try playing around with something similar to your introduction, but gradually break the track down to its simplest elements, or even add some original writing of your own, which leads me to my final point... Although you did a lot to change the sound design of the original into a more synth-heavy direction, all of the writing is still more or less direct from the source material. If you're just looking to make a cover of the original with no intention of submitting to OCR, that's totally fine and you can ignore this critique, but if you were to submit to the site, this would definitely be brought up on the judges panel that the remix is too close, melodically, to the original Forest Interlude song, and you would need some additional changes to the structure or the melody of the song. Take this feedback for what it's worth, depending on what you intend to do with this track. I hope you don't find this feedback discouraging or unwanted - I enjoyed the foundation of your remix very much, but I still think there's a lot of room for improvement if you're willing to pursue it, especially if you planned on submitting to the site. Good luck, let me know if I can clarify any of this or provide additional feedback

Results time TheVideoGamer and Evktalo both submitted a bonus song. HoboKa got 13 points and gets the last place wooden spoon. AxLR gathered 16 points, bringing him the second place. And the winner of PRC411 is Dex with 19 points!!. Dex, you are the winner and may pick a source for PRC413. Send the source to me (with a MID/MP3 file, otherwise send a second source with a MID file) by PM, other options are PM me @ ThaSauce or by e-mailing to bambombim@gmail.com (I prefer a PM @Ocremix). Send your sources as fast as you can, but before next Wednesday (5 August 2020), 11:00 AM ThaSauce time (18:00 UTC, 19:00 GMT). You may select any source from any game, but not a source with an OverClocked remix or a source which has been used in PRC before. An overview of the past PRC's can be found in the following links (I recently updated this site): http://sites.google.com/site/bambombim/prc http://bambombim.googlepages.com/PRCRemixList.doc (also downloadable via the link above). http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/prc411 for the votes and comments. I also uploaded the song by Evktalo to ThaSauce

Nice work with slicing up the loops and I agree with Dex, it is a darker take. Kinda boss theme material. =p

Nice bonus, evktalo! That piano sounds sinister in a cool way when it's downtuned like that.

Thanks @Mr. Hu! Thats really high praise! Also. The Spygirls put together a music video for this track!