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Gimgak

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  1. Just wanted to say I enjoyed this! Nice arrangement dude!

    As for the drum-mixing, I feel like they're being lost under all the guitars at some points in the song. It is kind of hard to bring midi drums out and make them sound good, but you could probably fiddle with the EQ and levels a bit.

  2. Good news! The guy I was competing with messaged me and said he didn't mean to win the way he did, and that he would message the car dealership and tell them I deserve the victory. Much respect to him for doing so.

    This won't guarantee me the grand prize of $2500, because the car dealership gets two votes towards the grand prize along with my vote, but I'll have a really good chance of winning it.

    Either way, I'll probably at least buy myself a new t-shirt or hoodie to rep OCR with, in thanks for the support.

  3. You have to compete with Likes? Ugh, I don't like the sound of that.

    I put a like in for you. :) I hope more on here can because it's a simple 5-seconds-of-your-time request.

    If you're looking to continue posting elsewhere, and you should, you should rethink your request headline. "Help me win $2,500!" comes off like "Take your time to help me win money you could really use but won't see a shiny red penny of or probably even get a thank you for!" Instead, try something like "Need help with jingle contest - only need 5 seconds of your time." That's not the best one I could come up with, but something more humble that doesn't mention how much money in the headline.

    If you wanted to take it a step further - offer to donate a portion of that $2,500 back to the website/community you're on. For example, offering $200 here to OCR if you win I think would definitely help endear more people to your cause.

    Just some thoughts to help you win. Good luck!

    First of all, thanks for the vote!

    I also thought about your suggestion to give some money back to OCR, and have decided that I'd totally be willing to donate $200 to OCR if I win! OCR is kind of responsible for me being the musician I am today, since it was through this community that I discovered FL Studio and met a lot of people that inspired me to learn more about writing and producing music. I think $200 is the least I can do, considering the fact that I might not have ever made this jingle if it were not for this website.

  4. Sup y'all. So I entered a jingle contest for a car dealership in my hometown and my entry made it to the finals! The winner gets their jingle on the radio and $2500! They are doing voting via "Like"s on Facebook, so if you could like this video I would really appreciate it:

    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10100465128515680&set=vb.129054267587&type=2&theater

    Also, if I win, I plan on donating $200 of the prize money to OCR! I feel it's the least I can do considering that this website has played a large role in making me the musician I am today.

    I'm currently neck and neck with one other entry for the lead, so every vote helps.

    Thanks guys!

  5. OCR was my gateway into the musical world!

    I got into the community by listening to VGDJ and browsing the forums and eventually decided that I had to try and make a remix. So I picked up some crappy music software on clearance at Target and came up with this little number:

    http://soundcloud.com/greyskysymphony/crash-down-by-sun-down-kirby

    Six years later, and now I'm majoring in Sound Recording Technology at Texas State University and making music more like this:

  6. Nice, I like this. Especially when the heavier, distorted beat comes in.

    Flute samples are super fun to play around with. You might wanna try throwing a little bit of reverb onto the flute for a cool sound.

    The only problem I can find is that the synth that comes in at 0:11 gets a little over-powering sometimes.

  7. Lol, the beginning of this really does sound like something out of FF7. I really like the beat in this. It seems retro, but it has a bit of a modern vibe to it. Nice groove and drum glitch effects when everything comes together.

    Is it really almost done? Cause it kind of ends just as I'm really getting into it.

  8. So this is my first attempt at producing a song with only live instruments. Originally, I was gonna record this with my band, but we never got around to doing it before we parted ways for college, so I figured I'd go ahead and do it on my own to practice production and what not. My drummer-friend helped me out with the drums and I did everything else.

    Let me know what you think! My main focus here was production so any tips would be much appreciated.

    It's "The Storm":

    http://www.myspace.com/dillonhutyra

  9. I've recently become obsessed with expanding my knowledge of all things audio, and have been consuming any information I can get my hands on.

    This site has some pretty good info:

    http://www.tweakheadz.com/guide.htm

    And I've also gotten a lot of information from the magazine Electronic Musician. They have all sorts of articles from interviews with professionals, guides on recording and mastering, and gear reviews.

    http://emusician.com/

  10. Whoa, this does sound a lot fuller than the first version.

    The very beginning sounds expecially tight, but as more parts come in I feel as if the bass part does not fit in as well. Everything seems to lock in again once the main chord progression begins.

    The volume/ placement in the mix of the synth that enters in the first break makes the song sound a little noisy. Might want to turn it down just a little.

    The lead bell-ish synth that comes in sounds kind of off, like it's playing some notes that don't fit with the chord progression.

    I like the synth break down towards the end. That's a really cool riff.

  11. I love the lead riff at the beginning. It sounds really attitudinal even though it's just a chiptune. Can't say too much more since I don't have that much experience with chiptunes, but if this was actually in a game, I would definitely want to be playing that game right now.

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