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    Mega Man: The Wily Castle Remix Gauntlet 2013

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    Posted

    Lyrics for round 8:

    Intro

    Chaos envelopes the whole world,

    Carnage, metallically unfurled

    Robots, mindless slaves to a lie

    Shackled, to a fiend that must die

    (Quickman's theme part 1)

    Here we are

    Through all the fighting come at last

    When we find you

    Your judgement will be fast

    When we come

    we will drag you from your shell

    And next time I'll see you

    will be in hell

    (Wiley's theme)

    Here we stand together

    It's time to do finish this

    For now and ever

    Wily, now your time has come

    there's nowhere to hide for you

    there's nowhere to run

    (Chorus build up)

    Concrete Men

    are coming after you

    There's nowhere else to go

    There's nothing left to do

    And we

    will finish this tonight

    cause no matter how you try

    You will not win this fight

    Breakdown:

    We have got to try

    because Wily's got to die

    We had better try

    because Wily's gonna die

    Verse 2:

    We will massacre

    With our attacks so skilled and deft

    And the evil doctor

    is the only one that's left

    With my lightning speed

    and protoman's brutal plasma cannon

    Get down on your knees

    If you want to die less painfully

    (Wily's theme)

    Now we stand together

    We're here to do finish this

    For now and ever

    Wily, now your time has come

    there's nowhere to hide for you

    there's nowhere to run

    CHORUS X 2

    I can't wait to hear everybody's mix. I hope you enjoy what I have in store for this week. (*rubs hands together) mwahahaha!

    :twisted:

    Mega Man: The Wily Castle Remix Gauntlet 2013

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    Posted

    After an exhausting fight, Quickman and Ballade agree to put aside their differences and perform a song together. I authorized Jason Covenant to write the rest of the back story on the song.

    Lyrics:

    (verse)

    Deep in my lonely heart

    You and I are worlds apart

    Without anyone this lonely place

    Withdrawn from reality

    making my home this fantasy

    Memories that will never be erased

    Wondering where I am, where I hide

    Somehow I'll find

    keep pushing on, living this life

    (Chorus)

    If this emptiness

    ever ends

    That will be the day

    Just to find someone

    anyone

    I won't be the same

    But if I look inside of myself

    I don't need anybody else

    and I can say goodbye

    say farewell to loneliness

    (verse)

    All that I've left behind

    Though I can never turn back time

    Searching my feelings day and night

    Then somewhere from deep inside

    Suddenly I feel alive

    I thought that never again I'd feel this way

    Now, now that I'm here, so brand new

    I can go find something more to do

    no longer alone, feel so at home

    (Chorus)

    Would this emptiness

    never end

    That would be a shame

    I could find someone

    else like you, but

    it won't be the same

    But when I look inside of myself

    I don't need anybody else

    and I can say goodbye

    say farewell to loneliness

    Mega Man: The Wily Castle Remix Gauntlet 2013

    in Competitions

    Posted

    Wanna expand on the harmonic excitation? I've fiddled with the one I have in Ozone some and I know it's basically just a multiband distortion unit used to saturate frequency bands, but I'm not sure how best to apply it in mastering situations. EDUCATE ECTO.

    His name is Robert Paulson!

    Jason is really the expert on harmonic excitation and Ozone (he uses the professional edition). I basically just throw FL blood overdrive onto things (it basically works on everything, in moderation), and then I cut the unwanted frequencies with EQ.

    Another way to apply harmonic excitation is by looking at a sound in a spectrometer (FL Parametric EQ 2 has this built into it), and cutting the frequencies that are the most dominant. This will naturally boost all the harmonics and subharmonics.

    I have been using less and less amounts of compression on my masters for a while, and it has been for the better, to the point where my master compressor rarely reaches more than 2db gain reduction. usually sits below 1. My masering process is very minimal nowadays, and it's more about adjusting very small values to tighten the mix up.

    Do most of the work on your mix instead of your master and stuff will sound 100 times better.

    You sir, have hit the nail on the head

    Mega Man: The Wily Castle Remix Gauntlet 2013

    in Competitions

    Posted · Edited by Ghetto Lee Lewis

    That's not to say you can't make amazing music with free sounds -- just look at Phonetic Hero, Theory of N, Hylian Lemon, Ben Briggs, etc. -- but for a hypothetical compo FOCUSING on sound quality, it's sort of a bum deal for free-sound types.

    If you were involved in FLRG (Fl Studio Remix Gauntlet), you'd understand that a very skilled engineer can make something amazing with limited tools, like the examples you gave.

    And as an aside, I know my track isn't as loud as a lot of others, but that was intentional to preserve the dynamics of the muted trumpet solo. Didn't wanna compress my track too much and poop all over that automation and velocity business I spent so much time on ;o

    I guess I could have bused everything else but the trumpet and compressed it a bit, but meh, dunno if that'd sound very good. Just turn up the volume a bit on my track and enjoy the beauty of unsquashed transients :D

    Using tons of compression is neither the best nor most effective way to maximize volume. The main trick is getting things to sound big with proper EQ, harmonic excitation, etc. Of course there are techniques to using compressors properly while still preserving the dynamics and character of an instrument.

    Unfortunately some of these techniques are very advanced and typically require years of training and experience, along with meticulous monitoring(through spectrometer analysis and very careful listening) and tweaking.

    And on another note, the genre I was going for this week is typically very loud, and so you can get away with a lot more brutal mixing techniques than you could mixing a jazz or orchestral piece, for example.

    Mega Man: The Wily Castle Remix Gauntlet 2013

    in Competitions

    Posted

    Slap on a bunch of top-quality samples and synth patches, and it won't be much of a contest D:

    But there are mastering and mixing contests out there fairly similar to what you're talking about where you're given poorly mixed music, and you have to fix it.

    There's a lot more to mixing and mastering than simply using good samples. Listen to how much louder my song is this week than everybody else's (and yet still clean sounding, as far as separation goes; yes I know I have some filthy sounds in that mix). That's 8 hours of work just on final mix down and mastering between Jason and me.

    Having said that, this was an amazing week for quality entries; and I was quite surprised to find my song had one of the weaker arrangements for this round, unfortunately. I still think some of the things I did were rather clever, however. I mainly wanted to try a style that I've never done before, and I'm quite satisfied with the end result.

    Mega Man: The Wily Castle Remix Gauntlet 2013

    in Competitions

    Posted

    You make good points. What does everyone else think?

    EDIT: You know what? I DON'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT YOU GUYS THINK. I'M JUST GONNA MAKE A DECISION ON MY OWN!!!!! :-x :-x :-x

    I'm going to adjust the rules for this competition and say that session musicians/performers are allowed. If you have the resources to make that kind of thing happen, then you should be able to utilize those resources.

    Please keep in mind that musicians and performers should not be involved in the arrangement of your track. As always, I obviously have no way of enforcing this, so I'm asking you to be on your honor.

    I agree with this. For the record, do NOT ask me to perform piano solos for the purpose of these competitions, because I compose music when I play the piano, even if I'm playing the melody that was intended. I'd say the same goes for a rhythm guitar section; if you're simply giving the guitarist a chord chart, the guitarist is writing the music, NOT the arranger.

    Mega Man: The Wily Castle Remix Gauntlet 2013

    in Competitions

    Posted · Edited by Ghetto Lee Lewis

    I'ma shoot for jumping to 3rd place at least. Listen to my entry on the best headphones or speakers you have. Wear loose pants. :D

    Wear no pants when you hear mine - just like when I made it.

    I kinda like that homeless guy on Aqua Teen Hunger force that just mumbles all the time and pisses on himself.

    I should warn, this is one of the side effects of hearing my mix. Don't worry, you'll recover after a few days.

    Mega Man: The Wily Castle Remix Gauntlet 2013

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    Posted

    True dat KT. The frequency struggle is a heartless biatch.

    Come to think of it the other thing I noticed distrinctly lacking in people's mixes were vocals. I want to hear those pipes peeps!

    Don't you dare make us do a rap battle for the final round. All that Strader can do is growl apparently, so if I can't understand what he says how do I even have a chance in a face-off against him?

    Challenge accepted. If a rap battle is what you want, I'll give you one you'll never forget.

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