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Welcome to the voting stage The mixing stage is over. This round has 2 songs and 2 bonus mixes, by TheVideoGamer and Brainstar The following people compete against each other: Wassup Thunder TheVodouQueen (3 point bonus) Note: use the Soundcloud link for the song by TheVodouQueen as the CompoThaSauce version is incomplete. To vote, do the following: Visit http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/PRC421 and listen to all the entries Scroll to the form at the bottom of the screen or click PM. Fill in the entries from first to third in the ThaSauce form or fill in your top 2. Do not vote for TheVideoGamer and Brainstar. State a reasoning for it. Participants are encouraged to vote and leave feedback. However, they may not vote for themselve so it doesn't matter for the results. They should vote for the song done by the other participant. Always look in this thread to find out who's the winner of the round after the voting stage instead of only looking at ThaSauce for the results. You have until Monday February 8th 2021 10:59 AM ThaSauce time (11:00 UTC, 12:00 GMT) to vote. If you vote by PM make sure that your top 3 is clear. I prefer something like this: (To) (Subject) PRC ### Vote (Message): 1: (remixer A ) 2: (remixer B ) 3: (remixer C ) (reasoning) I will post the feedback given in the PM’s and the votes in this thread. The winner may choose the source tune for PRC423. PRC422 is the Ruins theme from Undertale and starts when the thread is there (in a couple of minutes).

The People's Remix Competition 422 PRCv18-03 Hello everyone and Welcome to the People's Remix Competition! Wassup Thunder was the winner of the opening round from PRC Season 18. The source is picked, and it's not Megalovania but it is Undertale. Source: Undertale (PC) - Ruins http://compo.thasauce.net/files/materials/PRC422_05_-_Ruins.mid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undertale http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/PRC422 The deadline is Wednesday February 24th 2021 at 10:59 am ThaSauce time (18:00 UTC, 19:00 GMT), check the link http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/PRC422 for the exact time left. Make sure that the song is uploaded to ThaSauce or that there’s a download link posted in this thread. You may enter as many mixes as you like and work with as many people as you like on each mix. You are free to create a second ThaSauce account for that if you use ThaSauce, it's needed to be able to upload a second remix if you use ThaSauce. Of course you can also upload it somewhere else and put a download link in this thread. Do not make qualitative comments on an entry until the results of the vote have been posted in this thread. Mixers cannot vote for themselves but if they vote they receive a free first place vote added onto their score. The winner of this round may select the source for PRC424. The winner of PRC420, Wassup Thunder, who picked this source, can only participate by submitting a Bonus Mix. His vote is doubled in the voting stage. You can find the full rules list at this page as well. GOOD LUCK! PRC Home Page

Full-Length Song: Rave Racer + Lufia 2 - "Tekno-Saviour ~ The One Who Will Fight to the Last Duel"

At 1:30 instead of just staccato flutes playing the ostinato you could double them with oboes, and then clarinets and bassoons doubled down the octave. If you're brave enough you can try some other intervals here (3rds and 6ths). One thing I like to do is double winds with light harp plucks for added definition and color. Might be an option here. The horn here (or is it a trombone) is kind of lonely. You could double it down the octave with tuba. The timpani hits could be doubled with cellos and basses playing staccatos in octaves (I often use spiccato patches for this.) You might start to notice a pattern in my suggestions. While the structure and composition are good, the main focus of orchestration should be on color, in which case unison/octave doublings are your friend. At 1:50 you will want more of a build to the next part. You could do a brassy swell here in C minor. At 1:53 the violins are too light. You'll want a marcato patch with a strong attack here. Here you can also thicken the brass harmonies with some 3rds. Think of these as Bach-like organ chords. At 2:05 you will likely want this quick melody to be doubled across all the strings and winds, and piccolo as high as it can go. At 2:25 the doubling here is good, again piccolo should be doubling at the high extreme. If you have bass trombone it could double at the bottom. For definition you can add xylophone strikes. Another possibility is brassier trumpet "stabs" if you have the samples. At 2:40 the violins should be doubled down the octave in the 2nd violins and violas, maybe even cellos. They can be additionally doubled by winds and/or horns. The trombone at 2:44 sounds like a solo patch. Do you have ensemble patches? If not I would recommend octave doublings. An instrument often overlooked in orchestration is the piano. Low piano octaves can really enhance your bass instruments for pretty much the entire piece. They double low strings, low brass, and sound great doubling timpani hits. Another color you could add is the harp glissando. They work especially well to fill in gaps. For example, at 2:25 you could have A minor glissandos filling in the spaces between the rhythms. Let me know if you would like more suggestions.