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Damn, he has an awesome beard as well.

So yeah, just a heads-up guys, render a version of your mix without any limiting or clipping on it. If you mixed through a bus compressor, it's ok to keep that since that affected all your mix decisions. But if you put a compressor on at the end I would say take that off as well.

You can sing on some tracks for me. I'm always looking to work with vocalists.

Just want to update you about my MIA status. I'm working my Wind Waker album track, and the SM64 album track. After that, this project will get my full and undivided attention.

Ok, so you guys are going to do Slider and send a nice WIP to Nutritious. That way I don't have the pressure of being the only person holding up this album.

I always thought piranha plant lullaby would make a nice orchestral waltz. thought about trying it in addition to my other track. Then I removed my head from my ass.

It reminds me of that 70s show episode where Eric can't decide what to do with the concert ticket.

Aw yeah, Phendrana. I want to mix this source myself. From a sonic standpoint I think you're right on the money. Not sure about the bird chirps though. A lot of the track hews fairly close to the source. More so in the front end. Maybe change up the melody or give it some little flourishes? I dunno. I feel weird giving any kind of critiques to a judge.

Imma be honest, you are one of the more indecisive persons I've met in my life.

Well there is CPU overhead for every instance of Kontakt.

Congrats, you're old enough to buy cigarettes.

hey man I'm glad you found that helpful. That used to frustrate me to no end until I learned to change my mental approach.

If you guys have the discipline to work on various songs at once, I have the utmost respect for you. Would that I had that ability.

Mixing the low end is hard for me as well. I have to listen on minimum of three systems - speakers, headphones, and car. And even then it's a matter of repeated tweaking.

If you wanna drop $50 on something good, get Valhalla Room or Valhalla Vintage Verb, and you'll have a stunning reverb in your arsenal.

This is a running joke on KVR. It's always been that price and has never been $1600. Also, a lot of people have had problems with this company, as in not getting their product. I would definitely stay away from Crysonic.

For me, the hardest part used to be getting anything done. Nowadays I'd say my biggest challenge is recording parts. I hate it, honestly, even though it's a necessity sometimes. Having to balance musician and recording engineer at the same time is profoundly annoying to me.

Finish a song before you start the next one. No matter how many great ideas for other tracks are bouncing around in your head. For years I created dozens of WIPs that never went anywhere. Because it's always more fun to start a new project with limitless potential, than apply some elbow grease to an existing one. Once a year I would clear out a huge mass of doomed projects and start fresh. Once I changed my attitude in this regard, I saw a massive improvement in my rate of finished songs.

The process of writing and producing music, obviously. You can be as general or specific as you want. Has your stumbling block changed over the years?

I don't even know what "contemporary Christian" means. Contemporary Christian death metal?

Honestly, I have kinda bad memories of LucasArts. I remember our first computer, this would have been the early-mid nineties, the LucasArts games we bought always crashed all the time. Granted, these were the days of the PC being Crashy McCrashenstein, but the LA games always outperformed in that regard.

Honestly, it feels too clinical, too detached from the rest of the mix. I'm not buying its authenticity. It sounds too thin to me, maybe back off the highpass filter to add some more meat to the sound. Or try a different amp model. Other than that, I don't know what to say.

Listen to some of the fine unbalanced and ruined songs in the meantime.

I'm digging the arrangement, it's the synth sounds that aren't really doing it for me. They're plain jane vanilla.

Things sound a bit clogged and congested in the midrange. Whether you can fix it with EQ or rethink the arrangement is up to you. I'm not a fan of the drum sounds, they sound like stock samples, and they've not been processed in an interesting way. The drum pattern's a bit spastic. You might try thinning it out and creating a more downtempo groove.