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This has got to be some sort of record for me... 10 hours. This mix. It's pretty damn awesome. Submitted.

Alright, glad to see the extention. You'll see something from me. EDIT: btw, this source is fucking awesome. Just saying.

This can't be emphasized enough - my personal remix of this song didn't have the claps at first. It didn't sound right. I added the claps. It sound epic. Must have moar clapage.

Very nice stuff. As said earlier, you have an orchestra playing music you arranged. You are pretty damn lucky Nice arrangement, btw.

... is the word 'Friday' supposed to have three syllables?

I didn't think I'd be able to use this again, but after seeing a new remix of Laguna on NG and another one popping up here, I think it's warranted. (C'mon Vagrance, I could show you at least 9 remixes of that source on OCR... let alone on the rest of the internet ) What can I say, though, it's an awesome source that just warrants that sort of attention. Let's see what you brought to the mix, here. The mix of Chrono Trigger and Laguna is great. Definitely not the first thing I think to combine, but it's because it's unexpected that I like it. The instruments are a bit plain, here. I'm not feeling the synths, in this track. It might be because most of them tend to do the same thing throughout the track (like that texture that plays the Laguna rip, the square that plays the Chrono Trigger bass, etc.). In music variety is the spice of life - don't be afraid to change the function of the instruments around from time to time. The bass is sidechained, which is good. I think the sidechaining could be cleaner, though, by giving the bass drum more room when it hits. Maybe you could make the cutout on the compressor a higher ratio (1:inf wouldn't be a bad idea, even). Moar clap. The bells you use are really neat. The way they break up the rest of the track is excellent - we need at least a moment or two more that are like that in this track. The production sounds crowded in the mid area. Clean up the mids on some of the instruments - there's not enough room in the soundscape for that much mid. I like what you've got going here. I believe you could expand your arrangement and ideas further, though, and increase the production value quite a bit. It's alright, but I can see it becoming something better. Alright, all hail Laguna month!

Feel free to use anything I've got (not here YET, but there are VG tracks on both remix.thasauce.net and newgrounds.com on 'Gario' accounts). In fact, I'd be honored to see my stuff there, if it ever popped up

God bless Box.net. I do it all the time... It's even crossed my mind to just turn in a partial remix then finish it later so it goes through the process faster, but I tend to be a little unreliable when it comes to time of completion. Sometimes it's a single day track, sometimes it takes months, so I don't feel like risking it. Best of luck, bro.

Hahahaha... epic. Love this song, loved it since I found it on Youtube with the video. You have an amazing way with words (I needed a translation of course, but it works great), and the production is superb. Great track - everyone will need to download this.

Hmm... well, from what I see you're probably not in any immediate danger. However, at the very least for the sake of making things easier for your family it wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea to get out for a short time. I don't know any details past what you provided in that post (and whatever is on the news, of course) - there might be something with your wife's family that would make it better for you to stay in Japan, or you still have work that needs to be done out there, or something that would require you to stay, but I can't say. I'm just saying that all other things being equal it isn't a bad idea to leave Japan for a week to act more as a spectator than a participant of the events out there. I'm going to guess with all the things happening there right now that plane tickets will be expensive, though...

Nice sound you've got going, there. The production is clean and the instrumentation is interesting. The drums are also quite the sexy beast. I'd fix those strings and remove the auto swell that they have on them (if they're the 'swell strings' from General Midi or a variation of them, change them to 'strings') and I'd add a swell at the beginning via programming the volume. The swells that occur every time the note changes is distracting - it's not needed every time like that. When the snare comes in, periodically I hear it pump the volume. Bring the snare down a smidgen, to fix that, or perhaps just EQ the highs a little bit. I like the track so far. It's short, it's incomplete, but it's also awesome. Keep at it.

I'm with Willrock on this one. This track is one sexy beast. Personally, I'd sprinkle the master track with a hint of upper EQs, so help give it a little shimmer (nothing more than 0.5 decibels in that range), and I'd take a good, hard look at the mixing and just be sure that everything is where you want it to be (I think I hear some melodies that could possibly be brought out, but I'd need to tweak the track myself to be sure), but I think this is a pass worthy track even as it stands, bro. Very nice - glad we were able to help you with this one

Ack, I still owe you a track from that!

My my my, PRC is getting one hell of a dry spell, eh? Due Friday? Cool source? No one else seems to be paying attention to the compo when they should? I'll see what I can do. EDIT: Oh shit, it's 12:00 noon? I don't think I can get something by then. I'll get something by that night, though :\

Got something coming this way, for sure - this is one of the rare moments that I didn't write the track 2-3 hours in advance, so it'll be pretty sweet. However, I think we need moar competition. Five days left, certainly enough for someone to provide another awesome remix. Let's see something happen

As long as you know the orchestra that you're working with, there shouldn't be a problem. Just things that you need to be aware of, is all, and it looks like you are. Best of luck with it - and good luck finding the money sum for the track. With that price, though, make absolute sure there's no mistakes in the score you'd regret later...

Before you try to get donations for an orchestra to perform your rewrites for Sonic music, realize that they probably won't touch copyrighted music without expressed permission from the copyright holders, so the best you could do is get someone with good equipment to sequence it so it sounds realistic (and people nowadays can do a really good job at that, btw). It's well over 95% cheaper (if you asked someone to get your orchestral rendition run through their system for 400$ or even less I'm sure people would jump at the opportunity - I mean, make that offer to Nutritious or Vampire Hunter Dan and see what happens ) and there won't be nearly as much legal struggle, since people do this sort of thing all the time (for free most of the time, no less). Aside from that, if you were to get a real orchestra to do anything you need to pay attention to what it physically possible. I can't say for sure, but I suspect horns would have a difficult time getting those quick runs performed cleanly. Horns tend to do a lot of lip work to make their instrument sound correct, so it would be very tough, at best, to get that effect. Trumpets that focus quite a bit on their valve work would probably be a better choice for that. You need to be aware of things like that if you want to write true orchestral music - otherwise money will be wasted on excessively difficult performances that don't come out as clean as you'd like. I can hear the variations, and they work well. There are a few notes in there that don't ring well with me (like that run at 0:44-0:45), but those can easily be fixed with a couple of listens and comparisons with the source. Best of luck finding someone to help you with this.

It's a very sweet track, no doubt (although it doesn't ever seem to know what it wants to do - I assume the frantic genre swapping is on purpose?). Like you said, though, it's incredibly liberal with the source tune. I'm suspecting it's too liberal for OCR's front page, in fact. If you want to submit this, here are a few suggestions. Make the melodies much more prominent. It's there, from time to time, but for the most part you focus on the arpeggios. The arpeggios alone don't pin it to Jenova, since many songs have those arpeggios. There's a lot of empty space where reinterpretations of the main melodies could be playing over the textures, so there's still room to get that theme prominent in your track. tbh, there just doesn't seem to be enough bass in the track, overall. The mids and highs are clean and awesome, but the bass range is lacking, especially for a dance-style track. It doesn't need to be hardcore bass or anything, but it does need to be able to hold the track up at least a little. Love the Philip Glass vocal choir, chiptune-ish synths, 80's drums and overall feel of the track, though. I'd like to see this pass, so try to get some more Jenova into the track and a bit more power in the bass.

Funny, the tracks that I have little intention to send to OCR seem to be my better tracks I wasn't able to tell what portions were noticeable clipping-wise due to the crunchy texture I already had going, so I needed some feedback on that in particular. I can fix most of it pretty easily - I know the spots that are problematic. Same thing goes for some of the transitions + ending. I might keep the cutoff ending, though... I dunno, I think the very fact that people expect something else is precisely why I did cut it off like that. The consensus for the middle cutoff shows that no one likes it . I guess I better do something else with it, then - I always have my NG post to preserve all the sudden cutoffs that I like Thanks for the replies.

Just on the top of that list... Pffft ahahahaha... I guess Hitler really had nothing to do with it.

At first glance I thought this was going to be a 'Charlie Sheen on Gaming' thread.

Even God knows not to fuck up Nintendo. Too many unhappy souls if that were to happen...

I don't think there's a 'limit', and if there is you certainly haven't hit it yet (I've seen people post more than two or three threads in Community before - it's not a problem). Making a general 'This is what I'm doing right now' thread is looked down upon, though - more likely than not Darkesword wouldn't like to see a thread become a sort of blog of what your currently up to. Separating the threads will give each one a focus, which would be better than having a single thread that encompasses a variety of plans and ideas. You could always bring it to a mod's attention when the time comes if you're in doubt (again, Darkesword is a good guy to contact about it).