Fishy

Christ's fat cock that's a lot of sources. Thanks for including the breakdown, much appreciated. For a song where you were literally just 'smashing' as many songs into a chord progression to make your little brother laugh, this flows surprisingly well. Performance is dynamic and spacious, samples are nicely treated by Rozo. Not too shabby at all. YES

Hrm. Yeah I think the connections are tenuous for me. As much as I love the sound of that intro it went on far too long for just two chords which could be anything. There are plenty of sections based on the groove but it's just not obvious enough to me without that strong melody in there. This is going on the project anyway, so people will hear it regardless of the vote but yeah, pretty sure people would like to hear more of the original in there. NO

Extremely promising start, but I must agree with my nay-saying comrades; the production here is lacking somewhat. I feel that with some punchier drums and more aggressive mixing this could go from aight to awesome. I guess it works as it is, but to me it sounds like you could make take this up a few levels and not doing so would be a darn shame. The main offenders are that string break after a minute and the drums in general. Flimsy thin kick, needs a phat ass thumper to keep this going. Layer in some more layers of percussion over the top of it. You can be a lot bolder with this mix, and I think it will pay off. It could be brighter and it's needs more bass like the one during the intro. Also you can totally do better then ending. I'd really want to hear this when it's taken up a notch. NO, but plz resub

Just echoing the above really. Good chippy fun. Some iffy sounds but that's kinda the point. Pretty inventive and expansive arrangement with some great rhythmic displacement and glitchy fills and texture. You properly drowned that sucka at the end. Brutal. YES

Oh that's strange. I thought it was about 6pm but it appears to be prog'o'clock. I must fix my watch. Excellent sources. I have an extremely old wip I made with the same approach of source weaving. It's tricky stuff and you've handled it well, the arrangement is pretty sweet. Snapple and Norg on guitars is always a good thing. Performances are rockin'. Nice chapman stick solo in the middle there. I am little torn on the production. Everything is audible and fairly edgy, but so many of the elements sound dry to me. The orchestral elements and snare especially. Even the lead guitars could possible benefit from some more audible delay or reverb or something. I don't think it's a deal breaker or anything, as it's arguably a taste thing but I'll let you know anyway in case you agree in retrospect. YES EDIT: Just had a word with him. Someone helped him with the mix and then dissapeared, and it might not be possible to change anything, just fyi.

Very nice jazzy arrangement. I agree with the production crits above though, but I disagree with zirc that the fixes aren't quick enough for a YES-c. 1. Some reverb plz, even just something subtle. 2. Normalize the volume. You have oodles of headroom here. Put a limiter on the master bus and push your volume up until the louder sections are putting it to use, not too much. 3. A subtle bass boost wouldn't hurt. That really shouldn't take you more then an hour. EDIT: I'm all good with this now. Much better volume, much less dry. YES

Arrangement is fine. Got a fair bit of mud happening here. This is probably in need a of not trivial touch-up, giggity. I think everything has been hit on already and I agree, but I'm struggling between a conditional vote and a resub as I think the production issues are quite hindering to my enjoyment of the arrangement indeed. I guess given the 2 already conditional votes I can also go conditional but making it clear that it needs a a fair bit of cleaning up. I suggest trying out some EQ and maybe using a less mid-focused reverb? Try a few things out. Could be brighter also. And maybe even a bit louder too. Just looking at the waveform, a tiny bit of compression could make normalizing this a fair few dB louder. Just that one annoying peak keeping the whole thing 3dBs down. YES, conditional on mixing, optional volume bump

Yeah there are quite a lot of layers here, but some of them are quite hard to hear first time around like the other dudes are saying. Agreed on the 'deceptively conservative sounding' point. Lot's of continually changing textures and harmony. Production is generally pretty strong, not very adventurous but definitely functional. The prelude is something that's been done so many times you need some kind of original approach to get away with it these days. You've got some original sections and progressions that fit well; it almost reminds me of the FFX version in places. I think the biggest weak point is that you didn't transition properly into the later section and just left a gap. I suppose there's nothing wrong with that, but arguably comes off a bit lazy. On balance though I'm happy to pass this. I'm sure you'll be progressing with your style and sound quickly, keep putting the work in. YES

Yeah, it sounds like you think spending money will make you a better mixer. It won't.

Working on it. It shall be done.

Pro Tools is only good for mixing if you buy a HD system with all the super plug-ins, and it's more aimed at totally live recordings with 100 tracks. I also couldn't be more different from ableton. Logic is just as functional for surround mixing imo, and doesn't cost thousands of dolla. Far more bang for the buck mixing wise.

Bumpety bump: Finished and submitted. My no-guitar experiment comes to a close. Nothing special but I hope you enjoy it anyway:

McFishy Game: FF8 Source: Silence and Motion ReMix name: Estharian Airs I sense that a small pigeon-hole has formed around me what with all this guitar flying about. I hope to close it one day... unless of course this is rejected, in which case that hole will be immediately filled with an impervious and eternal pigeon. So Silence and Motion is one of the weirdest but most awesome FF tunes in my opinion. On first listen this may sound a lot more conservative then it is as I didn't play with the structure at all really. I did play around with substitution chords, harmony and general orchestration a lot though. There's also a bunch of reverse stuff around 'cause I barely know any tricks that aren't whammy bar related. I played the majority of the keys in live, which is why they are out of time and heavy handed - but it's on purpose so it's totally cool.

I voet :3.

I feel like I'm hearing two snares. Maybe one real recording and one badly aligned sample? Might explain the flammy sound. Is it just me?

Now this right here is the shizzle. Listen and learn rap industry.

I'd like to welcome AeroZ to the project on Eternal Harvest. I am very much looking forward to this one .

That's some pretty pedantic pedantry . You could argue anything that produces anything more harmonic then a sine wave has the potential to be considered a subtractive synth with that logic. Also the Maelstrom is mostly used to combine two wavetables. If anything it's more additive then subtractive. Maelstrom is primarily designed to operate as a dual oscillator wavetable synth. Better?

Hold up, some misinformation being thrown about here. The N64 sound file format does not have it's own 'sound'. There are no generators or synthesizers built into the sound chip like older consoles. The USF (Ultra64 Sound Format) only consists of a number of samples (which can be recordings of any synth or whatever you like), and some sequence data to play them back. All they do is take very small low-quality (so they could fit on the cartridge) samples and sequence them. The only reason you might feel the console has it's own sound is beacuse many games had the same composers and probably used the same samples. Also, the Maelstrom synth is a wavetable synth, not subtractive. Reason does have the pretty sweet 'Subtractor' synth which is pretty much what it's called. You can probably find free subtractive synths if you look around though.

Hahahah, fail. Never ever show me the original solo, it will probably make me cry. Also; Sexamaphone was not a typo. As usual with Brad, the sax is hawt. There was even a three way towards the end.

I'm really not. I remember asking to re-do that before this came out, must have forgotten about it.

Oh god... Yeah you probably should've kept Prizm's solo...

NO, problem? (j/k)

HAH. Advent children versions of OWA and battle theme. That's a pretty bold friggin' claim.