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KingTiger

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  1. The big thing I struggled with for a long time was mud, which is frequencies that detract from the clarity of your mix in the mid-lows. Mud typically exists between 200-500 Hz. To get rid of it, on each track of my mix, I use a parametric EQ with a narrow Q (usually I set the Q around 7 oct/db) and sweep across those frequencies with it boosted until I hear something that doesn't sound too good, and then cut that frequency. I often have to broaden the Q a bit for the cut to make it work. I do that 2-3 times on each track to clear up mud. Just don't get super aggressive with it and it will help a lot.

     

    I also do a low cut up to 175-200 Hz on pretty much every track except for the bass and the kick, and that gives a ton of breathing room for the kick and bass. 

     

    Drums is another tough one, you want them to sound "phat" (which is a whole other walkthrough itself) and it helps too to understand what frequencies each drum (snare, kick, toms, etc) needs in order to sound the way it's supposed to. This guide helped me a ton: http://www.benvesco.com/blog/mixing/2008/mix-recipes-tom-eq-and-compression/ It's for toms but there's links in the first paragraph for kick and snare too.

     

     

     

    EDIT: I know we've all posted a ton of info, but honestly, it would probably best help us figure out how to help you if you could post an example of something of yours that you're not satisfied with.

  2. Back on topic, folks.

    Sorry, Shariq.

     

    I'm kind of curious about the custom avatar thing. I thought the reason we couldn't do that before was because it was hard to moderate, not because of software capability?

     

    And I know someone else mentioned this, but what happened to the "remixer" tag/remixer profile link?

  3. It just said that on your mixes, man. Do you really have to ask why?

     

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    ;-)

    For the IT folk out there who are morbidly curious, it turns out we had PHP safe mode enabled and IPB got confuddled.

     

    I dunno, poop doesn't seem very safe 

  4. I know it's not on the list, but I can I do this?

    It's gentle, it's one of my favorite VG tunes, and I'm actually familiar with it, unlike the other VG songs on the list.

     

    I'm sure I could think of some other VG songs from a more diverse selection of games, if you wanted, unless you're intentionally trying to keep it limited to FF games.

  5. What is this crap.

    I mean, seriously. This whole thing is such an obvious affront to anyone who actually understands and appreciates music and VGM arrangements as an art form.

    The main problem with this supposedly "well-thought-out-and-tested" genre system is that everyone knows OCR only ever posts techno.

    EDIT: and don't even get me started on those damn judges who won't pass anything that's not techno-y enough...

  6. Yaaaay Bev!! This ReMix is one of TD's highlights for me. I frankly love it when you foray into the jazzy side of things (see: Go Into the Light), kand this is no exception. Great piano work, as usual, just like with your little cameos tucked in and there. I suppose the production has a couple ragged edges, but nothing major, IMO - definitely up to par in my book, especially with the balance of frequencies and the EQ. As for the drum compression, I took it as a stylistic thing, and rather like it in the context.

    My favorite part of this song is how your use of the chord progressions keeps the whole thing building and building :-)

  7. Does that mean claiming is open, or still invite only?

    Still invite only. We've got enough interested artist that we have enough claimed tracks to fill the album, along with a couple extras (and more coming, possibly) that will end up as either bonus tracks or drop-ins for dropped claims/tracks that don't finish in time.

  8. Having listened to some Venetian Snares, their style seemed perfectly fine for the site. Given what I heard from their Rossz Csillag Alatt Született album, it'd be more a question of using VGM melodies extensively while having a melodic theme click with the style of breakcore's beats.

    But I don't see it being "unlikely" as far as the feasibility of fitting the standards, just less likely given that we don't have any breakcore musicians around these parts for the time being.

    I didn't mean stylistically, I meant more along the lines of the fact that it's probably hard to produce breakcore well in the first place. I could be talking out my ass, though, since I've never tried making any :-P

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