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Mechanical man, we meet again, eh? One of my favorite sources from the C&C soundtrack, and one of yours too, considering this is the second time I've seen you make an attempt at it. Alright, the saw wave can work well for what it is, but you're going to need a deeper bass to cover that spectrum better. Either that or increase the bass in the current instrument, but I'm speaking from experience when I say that's really, really hard to do while keeping that distinct timbre and/or avoid the mids/highs from clipping to high hell. My personal suggestion (and take this as what it is - a suggestion) would be to decrease (or even cut) the low end of the saw spectrum and add a deep (yet easy to manage) bass to the track. That gives you the best of both worlds - the very fitting saw and a deep, resonating bass that covers the low end well. The beginning sounds like you're having a lot of fun toying with different timbre combinations. While all of them are fun, at 1:10 it feels that the track losses balance of where it should be. For the sake of track pacing you should change the section up about here - you can use the following ideas later in the track if/when you recapitulate the earlier material, so it doesn't sound repetitive. No need to waste the work you've already done - just use it a bit later. Overall, I think some of your instruments (preferably the melodic ones) could use a little more attention to the high end of the spectrum. This will both make the overall sound more complete and make the themes easier to hear. This is a great start to the track. I hope my suggestions come in handy for ya, since I really like the source.

Hey, he's a musician and producer, as well. If he's like to stay because there's a community of like-minded people here then he's free to do so.

Thanks for whomever sent in a WIP today or earlier - this was the due date. For everyone else, I understand there are cool things like the compos, Christmas, other albums and MAGfest coming up that can be distracting. However, I'd really appreciate something of an update in the next few days. If you don't get this message I'll be sure to pass it along to most of you in the next day or so - I know there's going to be trouble getting WIPs through January, so I'd like to see some progress happen before that time.

With 36 remixers? I don't see any feasible way unless you eliminate mixers per round, which this compo doesn't do (and tbh is one of the more interesting aspects of it).

Basically, you're sellin' milk to cows, if you're asking for paid work as an arranger on this forum. You won't have too much luck finding work around here, save for the occasional post by someone requesting a soundtrack to be written for them (it happens periodically - you just need to be vigilant on the forums), since we're almost all arrangers ourselves. Your stuff isn't bad, though - I wish you luck in your job hunt. We're just being brutally honest when we say you won't find much job opportunity here.

I think the vocals are alright, now, intonation-wise. Toward the end especially, though, there's a little clutter in the mixing, so turning down the chatter clip might help clean up the clutter. Overall the voice is a TOUCH hard to hear - maybe turn the track down a hair so the voice can be heard over it better. Other than that, I like. It's pretty close to resub, imo - let's see what the mods think of it.

Hyper Sonic Hype from the FBRC2k9 might tickle your fancy a little bit. Otherwise, the SK3 album has a kickass remix of the track, too, though I'm sure you've heard it before.

First ORC, then PRC... It'd be really sad to see this one go. I'd love to participate in this one more often, but... I'm not figuring out any good excuses atm. I might get something interesting going for this one. I love DS' compos and all, but I suspect they're taking remixers away from these little gems, which is sad.

This is very, very awesome. The light arrangement style is so fitting to this track. Seriously, I don't have complaints about this, at all.

Are you kidding? Mega Man gets the one up on the Dr. all the damn time.

oh snap international trolling by Darkesword eat that suckas

I rushed to get the free music for as long as it was available... then I found out that 'One Day' was actually the title of the mix. No joke. Still sweet, nonetheless. EDIT: And yes, that's motherfuckin' Mark Hamill. Chiptunes + Hamill = balls awesome.

Silly Jade. There are no girls on the internet.

This might be able to help you, if you want any ideas on the theory front of it...

Sheeaaat. Another year, another anniversary. Hoping for many more in the years to come. And yeah, I'm stoked as hell for the MAGfest shizznat. Gonna be awesome.

I really like this. If you're doing this every MWF, I'm going to be looking forward to them. The reharmonizations are very interesting and generally quite tasteful (some are rougher than others,as mentioned before, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, with such a familiar tune). I think I also heard some Zelda Flute motifs in there on the organ, too. Very subtle. Very nice.

Man, jazz isn't a real genre.

That's three mixes per participant. I was hoping to be able to make at least one more mix for this, actually.

Oh my God, PrototypeRaptor's 'Badazz' is on this album?! Fuck fuck fuck fuck... Alright, because of that alone this will be a kickazz album. I always wondered where that remix went... I'm stoked about this thing, now!

Sorry bro, I don't swing that way.

This might make you happy. It even has a teaser. Keep an eye out for this one late 2012 - mid 2013. In the meantime, though... yeah, I'd like to see more Lufia love on here (Especially Lufia 1, since it's not specifically covered by the album).

The tonation is much better overall. When you say 'Wake up!' there is still a tendancy to hit the note sharp to the point of being a different note, though (hitting a high note from the bottom like that is really tricky, actually), as well as having the tendency to dive a bit low when you get to the lowest ranges. It's much, much bettter, though - trust me, the mods won't mind giving this a listen if you put into mod review. This is close enough to OCR standard for a mod review. Sorry if I don't have any specific singing techniques that could help you out - I think I'll ask one of the singers here to see if they have anything specific to say about it.

Oh my God, Phonetic Hero, you stole my second. You bastard. Yeah, I put in the melody in it's normal Major key, yet set the harmonies in minor (at least for the very first few bars - the melody is adjusted afterwards). I thought the effect was cool, and judging by your vote, you did too.

Organization is very important to good workflow - putting a FL template for people to use is an awesome idea. Even though I can't open it, it sounds pretty nifty. If ever I convert from the dark side of DAWs (heaven forbid) I'll be sure to check it out myself.

Well, it certainly had to be because of the competition - this mix is actually pretty sexy. In a compo where that many people compete at once, it's very, very hard to pull votes in, since the whole gamut of remixers is always on the table (unlike a heads-up compo, in which this probably would have won out over plenty of people). Personally, I like the mixing in the alternate version better than the original - it sounds deeper and more sonorous. Overall, the biggest complaints that I'd have are that the arrangement sounds like it's meandering a bit too much, and the soundscape is far too static. I like this song, I like the style, the production is pretty spot on, but there seems to be little actual direction of the track. It just seems to move from one place to another without much reason to it. As for the static soundscapes, I will first say that what you have is indeed sexy and enjoyable. However, since you use most of the same textures and instruments in the same fashion this cool atmosphere gets stale and stagnant quickly. Be sure to give more variety in your mix, and it'll make your chill soundscape sound that much better. One final complaint: you should certainly make your signature represent this thread rather than the old Dive Man remix. Dive man was cool, at the time, but man... 2009?