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Whoa, I think CHIPP will flip out when he hears this, because it's damn awesome. I'm impressed with the way you were able to salvage such a good tone from the lead guitars. I still get some ear-fatigue, but nowhere near as bad as in the earlier version, so that's alright. If it were up to me, I'd say you guys are ready to submit

What version of FL are you using? The midi you posted works for me when I import it..

An unexpected take and arrangement of the original, I like it a lot, and I'm surprised that this mix has that few reviews. It's definitely interesting to hear how the piano-ostinato suddenly makes the melody completely latin-sounding. The percussion didn't jump out at me, but it does live up to the standard latin song-standard. The brass tends to get a bit on the blatty side, but we're talking 2001 here so who cares?

I still have to hear a synth guitar that could be confused with a real one, so basically the answer is " No, you can't get a realistic electric guitar sound from a synth" Usually the best solution for this is to PM someone who plays an axe and ask them if they can play the chugga-chugga for you; believe me when I say it will sound a million times better than anything you could hope to achieve with FL slayer. Now if you really want to use synth guitars because you think they'll fit better, try to get a lot of free sound fonts and samples, and layer them together, apply judicious distortion, etc. It won't sound as good as the real thing, but it will definitely get the job done. I think one of the main requirements is having at least an amp simulation (Guitar Rig 2/3, Amplitube 2) to run the sampled guitars through so they won't sound like total shit. Try to listen to some of Protricity's (Krool Intentions, Neighburgers, Assembly-Line Apparitions) stuff to get a feel for how you can make shitty samples sound great, it's all about the sequencing.

yeah I've found that theremins are best mimiced by some synth design: just take a sine wave with a decent amount of portamento, set the mod-wheel up so you control the LFO, which in turn controls the oscillators pitch. That way you can control the vibrato by using a keyboard's mod wheel or automating it in your sequencer.

Also, hiphop sucks because all they do is sample older songs and talk over it. No talent involved whatsoever.

Well that's not how you said it. What you basically did was say "Well if you want to learn to write good drum patterns you have to start playing drums", which is kind of obvious, thus redundant. =/

Don't start this here.

Very nice! I told ya those layered guitars can do wonders, the middle sounds much cleaner now and the guitars sound a lot meatier. The bass is a lot better audible too, but the kick still gets drowned out when the whole thing starts, which costs the whole mix a lot of energy. It's hard, but you have to try to make it sit next to the bass in the lower frequency spectrum. I also think the snare isn't really varied enough in terms of velocity so it becomes pretty annoying quickly, if you can't vary it enough by changing it's velocity, try to load up a few samples that sound similar and have them alternate, or if you even can't do that, load up the same snare and EQ it enough to make it different from the others.

I like the arrangement quite a bit, I was expecting a funky song because of that intro, but it quickly picked up pace and went into some synth rocking. Unfortunately, there are quite some production flaws you have to work out, but they should be pretty easily solved; First, layer your rhythm guitars (i.e. Record the rhythm part twice and pan both of them hard left and right), this should give the center a lot more breathing space, since you have a lot of instruments taking up the same frequencies there. Next, I barely hear any bass frequencies here, I think both your kick-drum and your bass could use a reasonable gain boost and some harsh eq'ing to solve this, just make sure they don't cancel each other out. I'm thinking a wide EQ-boost for the bass somewhere in 100-400 Hz, and a pretty steep boost for the kick at 60-80 Hz. You can then roll off either the kick or the bass (whichever you DON'T want in the sub-bass frequencies) at 50-60 Hz. There might be some other issues but these are the ones you have to tackle first I think Anyway, definitely keep on it, with some production love this can shape up to be great, I'm digging the arrangement

Very well, I stand corrected on Angela's vocals, and no, it doesn't make Arch Enemy any worse to me, that would be the same as saying they suck because they use distortion on their guitars to make them sound heavier, which would be pretty silly, ne? Also, I remembered a totally cheesy all-female poprockband from Estonia. Don't like the music, but the girls are pretty hot

I certainly hope it wasn't my resub that tipped the scales and urged you to write this, cuz I'm going to be resubbing sometime next week again if everything goes according to plan o_O

Whoa awesome.. I love the harmonization on the guitars and the modifications you made to the melody. If you need live bass, hit me up Also, put in Maybe I'm a Lion, you can probably extract some epic riffage from it

Unfortunately, not everybody (including me) has had a chance to start playing them since a whole drum kit tends to be quite "up there" in the price range (including cymbals and stuff), and if you can't spend the money to isolate your room properly you won't even be able to play them that much (if you're not an ass that is). So basically there's really no point in you telling this, you're not really helping at all.

Agreed, if you're a non-believer.Edit: Or am I stupid for thinking you can't process your vocals to such a degree live?

I actually have done this, in fact, I have the save-file, but wasn't there a difficulty beyond that? Expert I recall? Also, Events could have been expected, but Warioman? Awesome

Wah ok, rejected again, but I was pretty darn close. I need to get some more production tweaking done I guess, feedback is welcome http://www.tindeck.com/audio/my/kmsz/Roar--O--Mighty-Vampire-Killer- Figures that everyone says "BOOST THOSE MID-HIGHS ON THE GUITARS!" and then the judges say the guitars are too trebly

IMO If you considered Metroid Prime an FPS, you kind of missed the entire point of the game.

I'd like to add to this, that if you 'tap out' a rhythm, you automatically place accents on the parts where they should be (at least, that's the way it works out for me), so if you listen to yourself tap out a rhythm, you can generally tell how you should edit the velocities of the sequenced beat to make it sound natural.

http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11413 Fair Enough?

Very nice choice of chords, the lullaby theme has been incorporated very delicately. My suggestion is to actually make it a bit more than just chords you're playing though; vary up the sections with dynamics and different tempi, give us a little showmanship, you know the deal

In Before CHIPP! Arch Enemy is the band I recommend. Angela Gossow is a BEAST!

Okay, for whatever it's worth, I got a WIP, I posted it in the audition forum. You won't recognize the boss theme right away, but it's a hard piece to arrange (with all the fast chromaticism), especially in the cinematic orchestral style I wanted to do. It's just the intro, so the boss theme will probably be more prominent in the rest of the piece

I agree, this game is great, and the soundtrack is incredibly overlooked. I'd love to see a project of it, but it's probably not going to happen due to it's extremely limited exposure. Then again, Super Dodgeball got a project too, and I'm pretty sure not many people know that game either. =/

Is the Credits Theme still open for taking? I've been dying to trying out some orchestral stuff since I got some cool new samples and this song seems perfect for that, so I'd love to get on board and help you guys finish up. Some of My Stuff