The Hiryuu

That looks like every one of them but mine. You might want to narrow that down a bit.

Cool design. But my problem with bitcrushers in general is the weird off-key overtones that come with them. I know it's in the general nature of ring modulation, but I'd love it if someone could come up with a way of getting those sounds without the awkward overtones and just the fundamental, or at least keep the fundamental at a significantly higher volume. As far as they go in general, though, yours sounds good.

I feel a little less shitty for bailing on the competition seeing how many other people had life get in the way (My first missed mix was admittedly just lack of creative inspiration, but afterward I got hit with a massive sack of real world events.) I do look forward to catching up with the other rounds.

The Hiryuu Palace Of The Beast (Slash Beast in Sigma Palace [X8]) Subtle Haystack Tibulation (Frost Walrus in Sigma Palace [X8]) Straight Outta RAGE (Flame Stag in Sigma Palace X8) X-Square

I'm struggling something fierce with this material this week.

I think I made a mistake in waiting until this week. I have no idea how I'm going to work this and Blaze Heatnix.

Ivan, after my mix a couple of weeks ago nobody else has to apologize for rushed recording and sloppiness.

Australia seems to be a hotbed for prog metal and rock these days. Toehider is worth a look (Their catalog is incredibly varied, though, to warn you in advance), Voyager is pretty cool too.

The Hiryuu Release the Kraken (Volt Kraken in Final Weapon [X4]) N0v0r G0nn0 Dj0nt Y0u 0p (Crystal Snail in Final Weapon [X4]) Vector Point Engineering Sigma Fortress (Blizzard Buffalo in Final Weapon [X4]) X-Square

I haven't had a chance to listen to this week's batch yet. Busy week.

The Hiryuu - X-Square Caffeine Shoveling Hunter Turtloids (Rainy Turtloid in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2]) (Don't Wanna) Hurt You (Gravity Beetle in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2]) X's Demise (Spark Mandrill in X-Hunter Stage 1 [X2])

Shit, I thought I had more time to vote. I just got back from vacation, and for some reason I thought the deadline to vote for the last round was the same as the deadline to submit tracks for the current round.

I didn't submit 44.1k? Weird. I swore I did. Reaper must've changed my defaults on me. And yeah, I'm really disappointed in my production/mix job, but I had a half-hour to do it, and that was stretching it as it was. It was never my strong suit anyway, but I can do a LITTLE better than that when I actually have time to tweak.

Oh wow, congratulations! Perfectly valid excuse.

Good to see I'm in good company, at least.

Done. Sloppier than I'd like and essentially unmastered, but it's done. I have no more time to work on it.

Mine will cone down to the wire. I lost an hour unexpectedly, got called into work early. Hooray.

It'll take four times the clickiness to compete with death metal. It ain't clicky enough until you think it's popcorn popping.

The Hiryuu - X-Square MMMDop (Slash Beast in Doppler Stage 1 [X3]) Red Shifting Drift (Boomer Kawanger in Doppler Stage 1 [X3]) Is é mo aingeal imithe (Flame Stag in Doppler Stage 1 [X3])

The Hiryuu - X-Square MMMDop (Slash Beast in Doppler Stage 1 [X3]) Red Shifting Drift (Boomer Kawanger in Doppler Stage 1 [X3]) Is é mo aingeal imithe (Flame Stag in Doppler Stage 1 [X3])

Wait, how long is the competition?

I was kind of hoping it was that one. Should make things fairly easy for me. Of course now that I say that, I'll hit a wall with it, I'm sure.

Yeah, there's a reason this thing's done in teams.

Are you saying people are voting for their teammates? I'm personally taking the "first place" thing as incentive to vote properly.

The Hiryuu - X-Square Rolling (Frost Walrus in Palace Ground [X]) Firefly (Shining Hotarunicus in Palace Ground [X]) My Beerly Beerloved (Blizzard Buffalo in Palace Ground [X])