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And suddenly, without warning, all the songs just disappeared! THIS WAS ALL A RUSE THE ENTIRE TIME! THERE IS NO PROJECT! Still looking forward to this. Umm, Wes, you know the drill concerning a listening party. I will talk to you in private. I will come for you.

Harpy brothday, manypeoples! Now who are you both again? Something about music and judging? Sounds like daytime television mixed with primetime television. Oh, OH! You're both musicians and ex-judges! NOW I GET IT!

Just in case people haven't seen it, we have a facebook fan page. Y'all should be our fans because we all know that, once it's on facebook, it's 100% official according to the internet bylaws of today's society. http://www.facebook.com/pages/OverClocked-After-Dark/254114198721 DO IT!

Episode 15 is out! Episode 15

That's honestly some of the best praise this album can receive.

Been a long enough time between me getting this and me posting about it. This is a good improvement over his last release, however the problems with previous releases are still there, just lessened. There needs to be a bit more humanization in your work, as many of the tracks feel quite stiff. The plus side is that your style reminds me of work that eventually could be kind of like the World of Goo soundtrack. What's holding you back is more refined production and samples! You can still do more with what you have, but only so much. Definitely chill stuff and easy listening, could easily be backing music for stuff. Your mixing levels need a little work, some instruments tend to stand out way more than they probably intend to. Just keep at it, you're making progress. Good album, but it's a testament to growth, both what you've done and what you need to do What Lurks Beneath is definitely my favorite track.

Ahhhh I knew there was a reason you are the bass player for The OverClocked Plaid Muffins! This showcases a lot more of your skills than you presented previously, and I'm frankly very impressed. The lyrics would be angsty if your screams weren't great...which they are. The whole things is very driving, from the first hit to the last. My biggest complaint would be that it's too short, but it's nice and repeatable (it doesn't outstay it's welcome). The guitars aren't my favorite kind of distortion and there's a bit missing from the low-mid range frequency-wise (at least on my headphones and creative soundcard), however besides that production is spot-on. Crisp, cutting, and invigorating. Kickass way to get posted, dude.

What do you mean "once you shave off that beard"? I'm keeping this thing for a while. Even if I tried to shave it, it'd be back within a week. Ever seen the movie The Santa Clause? That scene where his beard grows back nearly immediately is a dramatization of my facial hair. Except my hair isn't white. And I'm not a fat Tim Allen. Lunch soon? Who the hell are you?

Tweaks applied: FINAL FOR SERIOUS I THINK

I've decided to update this a little, time-permitting, with a number of the notes y'all have given me. I did want to point out a few things that may in-fact be tricking your ears: Gario: I checked and both the bends AND the landings are slightly off on the lead guitar for that first melody runthrough. However, funny thing, is that same run is copy/pasted for the second and third time later in the song. Funny how you said that the second sounded on because of the accompaniment. I am curious as to if the accompaniment's notes make it seem more on-point. The synth-tar lead for the 1:16 section is the same volume throughout, but what might be throwing you off is something that's not as apparent: there's two synths playing the same thing. The more apparent one is a single lead with a bit of distortion and warble. The BACKING of it is a phased and delayed lead with some really cool latency (you can hear part of the effect right after all the instruments cut out after that section, listen in your right ear and you'll hear the delay being phased and faded out and then slightly faded back in). It's a dynamic phase so each time it's exported it is usually rendered differently. That track is frozen, though, so I can try to automate the volume on the first part to be slightly lower than during the second part, where you said it sounded better. Shade: That off-beat snare hits might be exhibiting that because they're not quantized. I don't think the volume of the hits will make much of a difference, but I'll try it out. That particular beat was from a Groove Monkee midi pak, which they ship unquantized to have it seem more human. I'll see what kind of tweaking is needed to stop the jerky-syndrome you're experiencing. and just in-general stuff: The parallel 5ths stay. I'll do my best to clean up the production where I can. I'd say this is 97% done to my satisfaction with production, and usually whenever I'm mixing, I will settle for things above 90% in my weaker areas such as production and drums (this is to combat my perfectionist tendencies and have it so that I do FINISH mixed instead of infinitely trying to improve them). So if nothing else can be done to improve it on my end, I'll keep it as-is. BUT, like I said, I will try. I'm going to try recalling my sub and sending in this one ASAP, so it might be updated before you know it.

Meh, just means that more random banter is needed to keep this near the top. Which is absolutely fine, as thread derailment in this thread is basically a staple due to the nature of our podcast. In fact, if things were to remain focused, I'd feel as if we had gotten off-topic. Tonight we record with the Nerdy Show boys, or at least hex, as far as I know. Saturday we record with amazing Maze...dude. We got some treats in-store as well as the inside scoop on why pie crusts are so crunchy. All this and more at News at 11. Also, Mazedude is dangerously close to having reached the coveted 50+ mixes bar. We have some stuff from him to play on Saturday that will, at least in spirit, push him to that number. I mean, it will in OCAD's books, not in OCR's....yet.

I agree. Too bad you're not a girl.

Well, it was a mediafire link, and those links are dynamic for each file that's uploaded, but I might just come crying to them saying I CHANGED IT A WEEK LATER PLEASE FOR TO ACCEPT NEW MASTERED VERSION PLEASE! Gario, you give the WIP forums great loving.

Haha well, I did consider this finished. I've had a few other people give very small crits, and I did already sub it. I might make a few changes just for sake of my own portfolio of music, but I dunno if those changes will make it into the sub. Despite that, thanks to all of you for the feedback! That synth sound that Gario is mistaking for a heavily-fx'd guitar is actually a synth. I'll let you all know when/if I get the chance to apply any of the feedback, but as of the moment I'm back to being a remix project whore Glad for those that enjoyed the mix!

Aww...BOOOOO!!!! While we'll definitely keep it active, is there a particular reason you unstickied this?

As we draw ever closer to Mix #2000 (Dave just posted 1992, which was also a great year for video games considering Street Fighter II was released on SNES that year), I have some gut feelings on what will be chosen for that immortal number: * I have a strong feeling that Dave will post one of his own, breaking a long-standing period of time where djpretzel's own songs have be absent from posting. Were this to be the case, it is definitely understandable, and considering all he does, he deserves it. * He might be considering posting the biggest reversal of composer-to-ReMixer yet. I am, of course, referring to the Dave Wise/Robin Beanland/Grant Kirkhope track from DKC2, meaning Mix #2000 is included in the DKC2 postflood. A distinct possibility, as it is a milestone in OCR history. * Lesser chance of this but still wouldn't surprise me: a post of a long-gone OCR vet. Who it could be I have no idea, but it wouldn't be out-of-place with the 10-year anniversary this year as well. It's getting close now, I can feel the power. I. FEEL. THE. POWER! The power of me repeating tons of stuff other people have already said but I still felt like saying it anyway.

Well, I don't know what "crap" you're talking about, but if you're talking about the off-tune bends, that was intentional. And next time, remember that the word "crap" is opinion and really isn't specific enough criticism. If you don't know the musical terms, google it or describe it more elaborately. In terms of heavier, I'll agree there's less bass than one would expect, but that was also intentional for this mix. Lastly, saying it "need something else i dont know what" is also not constructive criticism.

This can probably be arranged.

Well, I plastered this all over the web and totally didn't post about it here. I've already submitted this song to OCR and will be submitting it shortly to thasauce, but I didn't want the workshop thread to think I didn't love it anymore. Consider this me coming back on Valentines day with a Box-of-ReMix-Chocolates in-hand. (Except Valentines day was last week...so yeah, you get the idea). http://www.tindeck.com/listen/wuau I still believe that the Xenogears project track I worked on, Quickening, was the fastest I've ever done a ReMix (done in less than 24 hours with Avaris). Not that I'm doing it with the mentality of a speedrun, sometimes a song or idea just grabs hold of you and won't let you sleep until you get it out. This is definitely one of those tracks, and it was done between two and three days last week. Despite having such a huge list of things on my to-do and to-ReMix list, I couldn't go on with other tracks really until I got this one out. Cool story, fro'. But yeah, that's about it. Enjoy! It's definitely a lot of fun to drive really fast to.