Liontamer   Judges ⚖️

Yeah, I basically took care of this, so I'm gonna repost my link, only obnoxiously judge-sized huge: Larry Oji presents: Video game musicians on Twitter I'll pester Dave about adding Twitter IDs to forum profiles.

The soundtrack to Final Fantasy X is very beautiful. I always find it to be very atmospheric and the mood of each area is generally communicated very well in each track. But the only problem I had with it was that it felt very electronic. I was glad when any piano or orchestrated collections were released. I thought I'd do my own version of one of the tracks, sort of as a re-imagined arrangement that resembles a real orchestra more closely (building up and creating a little more of a dynamic and heroic feel). Cheers -- -Marc J. http://checkerpop.com http://junker.ca -------------------------------------------- http://tzone.org/~llin/psf/packs2/FFX_psf2.rar - 319 "Time of Judgement" & 120 "Song of Prayer" Opening mimicked the original, but then switched gears at :23. Awkward string articulation at :43. Orchestration seemed like it was distorting a bit, so hopefully someone else can verify that or not. Cool "Hymn of the Faith" usage from 1:39-1:59. Pretty solid dynamics, good interpretation despite remaining in the same genre. Title's not creative at all, but whatchagonnado? Good work, Marc. YES (conditional)

Recognized some parts here and there; need some help for a breakdown; sounds liberal - LT Remixer: Sixto Sounds Game Remixed: Animal Crossing Track Remixed: K.K. Rock ***Project Track!!!*** This is one of four tracks I did for Joe Cam's Animal Crossing project. I wanted a very driven rock style down to its purest form; loud guitars, pumping bass, and pounding drums. I think I achieved that pretty well. This is also the first time I ever tried using a slide. It's hard. Much harder than it looks. Anyway, rock out accordingly. ------------------------------------------------------------- The judges below basically confirmed everything I thought about this mix, i.e. way too liberal. Fun track, but outside of OCR's arrangement standards. No hate, but that's 1 Animal Crossing mix that was too conservative, and now one too liberal. I'd love a AC mix from you on the site, Juan, but we need a happy medium. NO

Hi Dj.Pretzel, I hope all is well and you had a nice Christmas vacation. I recently did a new game remix, this time from the NES game Blaster Master and I would like to submit it to the OCremix. Contact Information · Mattias Holmgren · Mattias Holmgren · info@morningdewmedia.com · www.morningdewmedia.com Submission Information · Blaster Master · Battlefield (I think, it’s a little bit drifting around some of the melodies in the first few tracks) · NES · The remix was made in Cubase 4 with Kontakt 3 as main sampler, various commercial drum samples and custom made samples. The track contains some real flute and of course an acoustic guitar solo, loads of z3ta+ patches, Albino 3 presets etc. Did you include my last Zelda remix (Zelda Heineken?) Hope to hear from you soon. Kind regards, Mattias Holmgren www.morningdewmedia.com

Original Decision: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14885 1st RESUB: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16616 2nd RESUB: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18913 Fourth time's the charm? I took the judges' advice and posted my newest version on the forum and the only advice I'd gotten was just to submit it again. So I am. The things I've changed since the last submit: 1) Mixed and EQed the vocals very differently to emphasise the higher end 2) Mixed and EQed the piano to be brighter and more present 3) Re-recorded the tubular bells 4) And various other tiny tweeks (acoustic guitar/bass EQed differently, etc) * Bastian * http://myspace.com/bastian Submission Information * Legend of Zelda and Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past * Overworld, Princess Zelda's Theme * Composer: Koji Kondo ------------------------------------------- http://www.zophar.net/nsf/zelda.zip - Track 1 ("Title") http://snesmusic.org/v2/download.php?spcNow=loz3 - "Princess Zelda's Rescue" (loz3-22.spc) Hahaha! 320kbps/48kHz, the encoding's completely overdoing it. And to be honest, the mixing job here doesn't merit the bitrate. S'alright, let's see what's there. The soundscape still was a bit murky, and some of the vocals needed to be de-essed pretty badly. I'd argue the panning was too drastic as well. Do vocal parts really need to panned hard left and hard right as opposed to mostly left and mostly right? I also think you emphasized the high-end too much. Along with exacerbating the ess-ing of the vocals, the instrument brought in at 2:26 with quarter notes sounded too loud & grating. The piano still doesn't sound very realistic. Still, it was pretty buried. Not sure why this was never significantly improved across all these versions. I'm gonna be generous. I think the mixing/balance is still pretty bad and the piano also sounds bad. But I like the arrangement enough. The pacing is very deliberate, but I think it's OK. Rather than go NO again, I'm gonna use my discretion and give a conditional YES. But you're gonna have to find someone who can do the post-production on this and get it sounding right. Right now, and this is NOT a knock on your abilities, but it hasn't clicked yet when you've taken your shots at it. Whoever helps you can also give you some pointers you can apply to your future work, so I think that'll be the right move for you to get the piece where it needs to be and also improve your game. I'm being generous here, so good luck with the rest of the vote. EDIT (6/25): Vote revised to NO; see below.

Heh. I dropped 'em a line; maybe we can do an interview and put the logo in some context. Like I said over there, our logo IS cool, so I've seen people just use it. Nice find, posu. They should have had Tim Follin on their list. [/complete bias] Just knock that Mortal Kombat theme off.

http://vgmdb.net/album/12788

I have retweeted you! http://twitter.com/ocremix/status/1422449343 Very badass!

http://www.ocremix.org/artist/4459/a-scholar-and-a-physician

I weathered the hovering threat of B-Unit! I win!

http://twitter.com/ocremix/status/1415999574

Kick both of you. This is excellent all around. I keel u. I haven't got a thing against orchestration, but this is easily the most unique and creative approach to a Halo arrangement in existence so far.

They work. AFAIK in Winamp, when you open up a zipped SPC set (i.e. an RSN), it plays the first track and adds the remainder of the tracks in the set at the bottom of the playlist. If you have a huge playlist, you need to scroll to the bottom of it to see the other tracks in the set. If you want, you can take any RSN, rename the extension to RAR, the unzip the RAR. You'll then have a folder with the individual SPC files.

Ha! You ever hear the footage of that?

Sub another great mix. I'm sure you have some awesome arrangement ideas left in the tank.

Well honestly, it's not really anyone's business why something's not posted yet. I'm just planning to separate out the conditional YESs from the ones that are ready to go.

That's very Compyfox of you.

Turn in your gamer membership please.

Not a bad idea, Ad. I'll see what I can do.

PIMP! http://twitter.com/ocremix/status/1402477041

Castlevania's evil, and I'm feeling the evil here. Solid stuff and a unique take on "Demon Seed", which is one of my favorites from the best Castlevania soundtrack of all time.

He hasn't fallen off the face of the earth, just heavily into the nerdcore scene. http://www.myspace.com/myf1 http://www.myspace.com/mythrilnazgul

Awesome; wish I was a fly on the wall! Thanks for lining that up, Susie! Hell if anyone at Google has requests, I'm pretty sure folks here would hop to it. Gimme some more backstory on how you got us in there when you have a chance; I'm always interested. I gave you some Twitter pimpage: http://twitter.com/ocremix/status/1398497237!

Source - Original - Resub - * BlackPanther * Rashad Hill * rashad_hill@yahoo.com * http://www.myspace.com/dablackpantha * 17238 * Goldeneye 64 * Disused Military Depot * ? * ? * I took it kinda hard when I was told to resub this and I almost didn't do it. But I had a few people that I should and then I realized that I'm not that good and that the judges are here to help and not to down anyone lol. So here I am with the resubbed version and I hope all of you guys enjoy. -------------------------------------------------------------- Hahaha! Don't take it hard to be asked to resub. Most submissions don't even get that. Man up and continue to improve. http://www.zophar.net/download_file/12212 - 113 "Depot" Opening strings sounded a bit too distant, but the sample quality sounded pretty decent. Actually once things picked up at :49, there's still not much high-end. Synth lead at 1:31 is still a poor fit, IMO. It's too upfront and too grating. Pull it back and make it less abrasive. Treble on the cymbals was still too much, even though it was adjusted. That needs to be pulled back, yet the rest of the soundscape could have used more high-end to lend a little more clarity. The soundscape also still felt like it was missing one more element to glue everything together from 2:00-2:23 & 2:29-2:41; it was still fairly empty. The brass at 2:41 worked a lot better in filling out the soundfield a bit more. An improvement, but it still needs a couple of production tweaks to get this sounding fully balanced & cohesive. The arrangement ideas were interesting. Hopefully the other Js can really dissect the mixing issues so you can get this sounding it's best. I'd say it's about 80% of the way there, but you're not there yet in terms of making sure the fine details are in place. Don't get thin-skinned & wuss out. We've told you and we're continuing to tell you that your stuff shows good promise. Don't be discouraged, and keep working toward improvement so that your production skills become second nature. NO (resubmit)

I also remember Shariq, Dave & I talking in #judges later about it while attempting to hash out details and then quickly realizing how much we still hated the idea for the specific reasons in the FAQ. Worth noting that genre or taxonomic labels might encourage people to check out ReMixes from games they're not interested in. Feel free to debate where the effect of labels is greater, i.e. encouraging or discouraging listening to more ReMixes.