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The overall sound is too hot and sizzly. Basically the same production criticisms from "Electric Sheep" hugely carry over here. The intro sounds were interesting otherwise, but when more elements came in at :29, everything sounded messy and cluttered. Luckily that dropped off at :44, introducing some pretty beefy beats. Texturally there wasn't much going on until 1:13. The changeup at 1:13 seemed half-decent, but the mixing/balance is decidedly off and it leaves the piece with not enough sense of direction for too long (until 1:43). The melodic part, with what I guess is basically a keyboard part or acoustic guitar synth (or whatever), is too soft. Meanwhile the chip elements and beats are WAY too loud in comparison. 2:44-2:53 was blistering. I couldn't tell what from Mega Man 5 or "Elec Man" (according to the sub letter) was used in here at all. All I recognized was Wily's stage from MM1 used as the foundation or backing part for :14.5-:44, 1:43-2:05, 2:13-2:44 and 2:53-3:24.5, which made the level of source usage above 50% of the time and thus OK for me. Someone cluing me in to what else is exactly going on here would be helpful, I'm just not making any connection beyond that one theme. Apparently I can't go YES (conditional) on production issues anymore, so tone down the sizzle, balance the production, and then send it on back for the win. NO (refine/resubmit)

Mega Man 6 - Plant Man Mega Man 1 - Dr. Wily Mega Man 1 - Ending It's a shame the brass is weak, especially exposed like that in the opening. When more elements came into play, however, the brass issues were mitigated. The basic snare pattern plodded briefly during the emptier sections, but it was nothing major, as the percussion generally drove this along nicely and added a great deal of energy. The 8-bit stuff sounded like it needed some high-end brightness, but was otherwise excellent. The soundscape was a little muddy, so I wouldn't mind a touch up there, but it was full and separated enough overall where things sounded pretty solid. But, like OA said, in the big picture, this is clearly on point. Awesome fusion of the themes and the brief 8-bit "Yakkety Sax" had me crack up. Fucking AWESOME! Great fusion of the two themes, with loads of readily apparent creative interpretation and personalization. Be careful, y'all, Beverly's becoming a more well-rounded musician with solid sequencing, creative backing instrumentation and strong execution like this. Totally not what I'm used to from her in terms of genres, but this is lots of fun. Her stuff's on the way to gettin' deadly, this is nice. YES

Pff. That ain't competition.

OR you don't have to be involved. You're listing 5 potential choices for a reason. Make sure you like ALL of your choices.

No. Canon/core series only: I, II, III, IV, Alpha.

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Co-signed with this except for one point: If the source material dominates the arrangement, the amount of original material shouldn't have any bearing on any decision. For example, if someone else made an 7 1/2 minute mix with 90 second original intro and outro, and the middle 4 1/2 minutes was all source arrangement, that's fine, IMO. As long as everything (source usage + original ideas) pieces together logically and thematically, artists should be free to do whatever else they want. One's personal mileage may vary, but I don't feel anyone should vote against tracks like that. I agreed with the criticisms about the soundscape being on the thin side, as well as the core repetition being issues, but they're just not dealbreaker issues for me in the big picture. While the structure is straightforward, I'm more with DS that the arrangement and soundscape were personalized from the start, and evolved more than adequately. The ending's a bit bland and cheesy (extended dropoff + cymbal crash finish!) out of context, but oh well. Solid stuff from Haroon. The soundscape could have used further fleshing out, and more melodic interpretation would have been nice as well, but what's here is enough to get over the line, IMO. Count it. YES

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Depending on what you need changed, I can make the edits. Sup? Feel free to PM me instead if you need.

There's no shaming that'll work. Posting is djp's gig, that doesn't affect anything with the torrent. I'm a busy man.

More like, it's done when I say it's done. It's gradually getting closer to done.

I think it's going to turn out this isn't eligible to be posted. Will look into it more, but the dates (Feb. 2, 1993 for the album vs. Feb. 11, 1994 for the game) aren't looking good.

Got the updated version from Cory, the ending is fixed and the production is strong enough. This is now good to go, and I'll throw on a quick vote to co-sign on this one. YES

All that's fine.

Doesn't matter either way to me. I'm also accepting WAVs if you don't feel like thinking about it. All the projects mixes you've done though, I already have WAVs of those.

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The key change of the intro took me a second to wrap my head around and initially just sounded pretty ugly and out of tune, but after one iteration to get used to the notes, it made sense. The chimes actually had a kind of Genesis throwback feel to me for some reason, so I didn't mind the rigid sound. It's a strange intro, to be sure, I just wasn't thrown off by it at the end of the day. The compression's definitely an issue worth pointing out, though not a huge deal. The groove DOES plod, but the melodic arrangement and personalization of the theme ended up carrying it at the end of the day. Not quite a borderline YES, but not too far above that given the autopilot beats pulling this down some. There have been more creative IceCap arrangements out there (BGC's "Eastern Ice Field" and Joshua Morse's "Ice Cold Retro come to mind). If the main beat hadn't been so repetitive and there had been some more development of the core beats, this could have been even better. But what's there gets the job done. Hopefully we can get a 192kbps copy that at least sounds a bit cleaner, but I wouldn't mind Anthony taking about pass at the mixing. That said, this was still pretty solid. YES

During the "nah-nah, nah-nah-nah" section (:51-1:16), the sampled trumpet stabs sounded completely off-key. What happened there? Just take them out, they sound silly and merely detract from the piece. Over time, the drums during the verses were veering toward being plodding and borderline metronome-ish. It's a little weak that the oooh-wahhs were too obviously copy-pasta'ed in the second half; perhaps try to produce them in a way that sounds a little bit different than the opening, so that it sounds more like a spontaneous live performance. All I really have to add is that I co-signed enough with DA & OA's POVs enough to copy-pasta them. If you get the mixing sound more cohesive, and iron out some of the other kinks, this could make it. Right now, it's still in the WIP stage, albeit pretty far along. Definitely touch this up, Brad, you generally know how to bring it. NO

If this made it, I'd have to count up seconds and figure out the game to assign it. It looks like Mighty Final Fight, but it could be Captain Tsubasa 2, because Mansoor's timestamps weren't totally precise, from what I can see. Moving onto the vote... I agreed with much of Emu's vote, except I'm not going YES. I agree that, IMO, the medley's cohesive enough and the source tunes flow together. The treatment of the themes was pretty straightforward, but personalized, and the transitions were fine on the whole, which was critical. I agreed with those who felt that if you didn't know where the themes came from, you could reasonably assume they were all from one game. Maybe Mega Man 2 stands out a lot more, but that's bound to happen. The flow IS a step down from the Sunset Riders piece, but not enough to be a dealbreaker for me. That said, the arrangement having pretty flat dynamics and an overall simplistic, plodding groove ultimately dragged this down by the end of the 4 minutes. Even within a flatter dynamic curve, you need to have more significant development and evolution of this soundscape. That was the core issue that made this a NO to me. Also, halc mentioned the soundscape feeling sparse, and I thought that spareness exacerbated unrealistic sounding parts like the exposed mechanical piano at 2:12 (worst from 2:27-2:57 for the Tecmo Bowl section). Pick something to improve, and improve it significantly, and you'd probably flip some votes here. NO (resubmit)

Larry. Send! WAVs/FLACs fine too for any and all mixes. There cannot be production changes, it has to be the exact same version as what's posted on OC ReMix if it's already posted.

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It's debatable how far solid state drives will advance in 5 years, though my speculation is there will be some pretty substantial improvements. That said, I don't mind being forward thinking and asking for WAVs or FLACs when available, but we're still going to keep MP3 as the primary format for the forseeable future. It's the 1 universally accepted standard for compressed audio. I have WAVs of only 294 mixes out of 2246 so far (mostly album project mixes). There will always be big gaps as far as what's available for lossless files, when the day comes where sharing lossless files en masse is feasible without killing our bandwidth, but MP3 is still the universal standard.

MP3 is the de facto standard for audio files and is supported by every major player and app. So any writeup about why OGG/AAC/M4A/etc is irrelevant to the average user who doesn't think twice about what format they're listening to and doesn't have ears of gold. People just wanna get the files quick and not think about the format. Unless the de facto standard was in a clear shift towards something other than MP3 as THE most widely accepted format, our standards there wouldn't change.

Oof. Disliked the lead at :01 immediately. It was such a generic sounding saw, and was just unpleasant to listen to. I can't stress enough that this isn't a personal affront, but this was horrible, imbalanced mixing here. This was a cluttered mess that completely undermined the energy laid out in the arrangement. There were too many generic, untreated electrosynths, a super-fake FL Slayer guitar cameo at 1:53, off-key melodies, and generally indistinct instrumentation. Mixing-wise, the saw lead (didn't like it) and rhythm guitars (good power and energy there though) were simply buried, and the only reason the background was filled out was because the cymbal crashes were steamrolling over everything else in back. None of the parts were properly EQed to separate anything, so all of the instruments were just bleeding into each other and sound muddy and lossy. The overall levels were too low as well. I hate to be so negative, but this was a cluttered, messy production nightmare. One of the few things that sounded pleasant were the belltones, but they're supposed to just be an accent, yet they're the loudest thing in the track by far. Other parts that were too loud compared to everything else were the Emerald Hill lead at 1:28, and the screechy synth brought in at :56 & 2:20, which was just abrasive and annoying. You have some positive comments on YouTube that don't have an ear for polished work. Don't let those people with no critical ear hype you up and make you think you don't have anything left to learn. Park yourself HERE and HERE, ask a LOT of questions and get better at choosing cohesive sounds and giving your instruments an appropriate sense of space. This place isn't the be-all-end-all for creating music, but if you stick around here, you'll become a better hobbyist musician in time. You have decent ideas for this arrangement, Mark, and it's clear you're attempting to create your own approach to these themes. Although the usage of the Green Hill and Emerald Hill themes was pretty cover-ish and could use some more melodic interpretation, you definitely added that Generations-style rock flavor to it and tried to personalize the approach through the overall energy, the instrumentation choices and cohesively-written original sections. But none of that potential matters when the mixing is jacked up. That said, according to WillRock, you could be the next OCR all-star. That's nice coming from an all-star like Will, who ALSO used to not be able to make cohesive music, despite getting lots of praise on YouTube. So be like Will, channel this criticism towards improvement and keep at it! NO

Pretty much this. The source was very repetitive, and this did a great job of putting your own spin on it with evolving variations that, while somewhat repetitive, were unique and clearly substantive and interpretive enough to get by. I wasn't put off at all by that one synth Vinnie mentioned. The main thing I was put off by was the overly lossy-sounding mixing. I thought the 160kbps encoding hurt this some. This sounded too lossy and lacked high-end. Normally this kind of lossy sound would be too jacked for me to pass, but this was carried by the arrangement, IMO. All things considered, good enough to get the nod. Good stuff, Joshua, and looking forward to the next sub! YES (borderline)