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Nice sounding piece, but I pretty much agree with everyone else. The timing sounds a little awkward, I mean you are essentially taking a waltz-like piece in what I believe is 6/4 time and trying to turn that into a jazzy piece with a swing beat which can definitely be tough. Also, this would definitely have to be re-recorded. It is too roomy currently. If you want the room tone to come in, then you need to set up a matched pair of mics close to the piano. I've heard some good results using mics with a bi-polar pattern and using what's called a blumlein pair where essentially the patterns criss cross. One mic pointed towards the low end of the piano, the other towards the highs. Or just a simple spaced pair, X-Y pair, whatever seems to work for you. If you need to, just google up those various mic techniques. Then, using another spaced pair of mics, further out in the room if you want some reverb, but you DEFINITELY need to get some close mic placement on that beotch.

mmmm, gonna have to disagree...a lot beats the simplicity of throwing something together with garageband actually. Reason 4, sonar, cubase, spectrasonics stylus RMX, and omnisphere....all of those combined, albeit far from simple, will outshine a garageband anyday, but this is just my opinion. Not saying I haven't heard impressive stuff from garageband, but there's no way that "nothing can beat" simply throwing something together in that program. Piano is not bad, slowing it down might help that one like you said. Tone isn't really bad, maybe play around with some reverb if you want to have it be a solo piano piece. Seems like I hear a little bit on it, but I can't tell if that's reverb you've added or if it's just the natural sample. Also, there's not really any dynamics to it. If your keyboard your using doesn't have velocity control, or if you're just mapping out the keys then you should really play with the velocity and give it more life with dynamics. Being that it's a piano, you don't really have to compress it all that much and like I said, I don't think your tone is really bad per se. I could definitely hear a nice beat coming in under that piano though. As for "Thats the way I like it", yeah, cleaning up the guitar should definitely be on your priority list as well as putting in a real bass if you have that ability which it seems like you're aluding to that you do. But yeah, the guitar just sounds too sloppy, slightly out of tune, and just kind of "meh" at the moment. Good luck

Very Justice-like with the whole swelling leads and bass and whatnot. Kind of sounds like you sidechained the some of the stuff to compress hard when the bass hits and then it swells back in. Sounds good thus far, nice jammin song ya got going for sure. Sorry, I just woke up so I don't have any real fine tuning criticism yet lol, but it does rock pretty good.

I know you've already re-recorded so it doesn't matter at this point, but IMO, an acoustic guitar that's been recorded with a nice stereo pair of mics, (And recorded right via this means) sounds simply amazing, but that would be for more of the single guitar just wanting to be really full in the picture. Considering you have 3 guitars essentially with the center and 2 more going as doublers on the left and right, stereo-pairing the center guitar probably woulda been too much. Your mix sounds good man. I like the sound you got, nice clean sounding acoustic and you play pretty well. Like you say, there's a couple little blurbs in there but they are hardly noticeable and is something that doesn't really detract from the song. Overall, very nice. Good luck with the submission.

I like the sound of it just as a song itself, but I can't tell that it's MM3 at all.

Ok? How are you being any more trustworthy than any of the other hundreds of people who upload their entire songs? That's the only way for people to listen to it dont ya think? Also, if you ever have a question regarding how a site does things, it's always helpful to go to the site guidelines. http://ocremix.org/info/Submission_Standards_and_Instructions There's the rules of submission. As for the song....like the guy below me already said. It's way too repetitive, it sounds like you created maybe 8 bars and just copied and pasted it. The drum beat does the same thing throughout the entire song. Of course, everyone has to start somewhere when making music. No one is a pro starting off...I shudder at some of the first pieces of music I made, but hey they were great back then. You have a long way to go, and I don't mean that in a "you need to stop way", I'm just telling you, realistically, the standards for songs around here are pretty high. I'll admit, there are a few songs I've heard on here that I'm amazed passed judging, but there are also some incredibly brilliant ones that sound like they'd be on the official sound track. You should really listen to some of the other songs to get ideas and inspiration and just get an idea of the quality you need to strive for. Good luck

Same thing I thought when I first heard the piece....excellent song, everythings great....only one problem.....the auto-tune thats straining like hell to keep some of those vox in line sound awful. I know you've already said "It'll be too much work" but seriously, if you've already put that much work in it..then you need to either loosen up the automatic settings on auto-tune or just go through and manually do it as it's just complete crap when you hear it bending like it does, which sucks because your voice goes nice in this song besides that. Oh well, good luck if you ever submit this.

Well if he subbed it on 7/23 it's not even anywhere close to the judges queue yet. I submitted a song on May 29th and they're just now up to May 27th submissions. 10 days without an update in the judges decisions and it's 3 days away from mine in the queue, now THATs killing me!

even experimenting with reverb and delay could help this out a lot. It's completely dry from what I can hear. There's a little reverb on the guitar parts, but I'm assuming that's probably just the sample itself. Definitely need some spacial tonality in that regards. I'd say a big part of why it really sounds like a "step up from midi" is because of it just sounding dry and in your face. I'm not saying that "oh, to make a good song you gotta have reverb and delay!" but, on that same note, you're not going to hear a song today that doesn't have some sort of sense of "space" to it given by reverb and delay. The only reason I'm kind of stressing the importance of that is because of the fact that what you have is what you got in terms of "hey, I only got this software, what else can I do?" type thing. The piano parts, put some nice reverb on em, add in some other accompanying elements, just enough reverb so that you can't even necessarily distinctly hear it drowning out, but that it gives it the illusion these are all seperate instruments sharing the same space instead of feeling like completely seperate entities coming out of nowhere. That's just me though. As others have said, your composition and arrangement are good. Musically you got something good here for sure. Also, might I suggest the use of tindeck for hosting. I really hate downloading a file and generally skip over peoples that make you download something instead of streaming, but that's just me being nitpicky =P

One quick thing first, might I suggest using something like www.tindeck.com to host your files? I don't know about anyone else, but I freakin hate mediafire because I can't stream the song (unless I'm missing it?) I personally don't like downloading the file to listen to it, but hey, maybe that's just me. As for your staying in certain scales and transposing, yeah you should really explore other scales just for the simple fact of opening up your musical knowledge and allowing yourself to experiment with other things. I totally understand though because I tend to jump right to C minor when playing piano and E minor when playing guitar. I too sometimes have to force myself to play other keys and just find what else sounds ok. As for syncopated rhythms, I wouldn't beat yourself up too much about that. Your song sounds pretty good and I'm digging the keyboard lead you have going on it in parts. Anywho, the song seems like it's basically following the original completely. You're of course using different sounds and the drum pattern you put in and whatnot, but I think most will agree that you'll need a little more original material based off the music fit in there. All in all though man, you're doing just fine.

The spit sounds he's referring to are really apparent on your third and fourth note harmonies in the opening. It sounds like you smack your lips open and produce the note. I'd just redo the recording, cutting it out would probably make the sound of the note too abrupt and unnatural. Yeesh, who knew people were so adamant what is or is not a barbershop, but I suppose I can see where you're coming from. The beginning harmonies sound like barbershop-ish, but without any words and just humming, I guess you could be right.What about the dudes from carmen san diego back in the day? They were called acapella, but they seemed to be rather barbershopish too. EDIT - Actually....after mentioning and then youtubing "rockapella" lol, I guess, barbershop seems that ALL the guys will sing lyrics and harmonize them, where as the acapella seems to have one maybe 2 guys singing with the others being accompanying instruments... AHH WELL...bleh, sorry for going onto something completely useless =P

Piano still loud comparatively when it comes in. Also, the drum hits combined with the piano at :28 - :29 are distorting and general clipping is occurring here and there throughout the first minute or so of the piano. The snare that you have going in this is kind of weak. I don't mean volume, I just mean the overall tone of the thing. Also, at the 2:13 mark it seems like everything should get a little more intense so if you're going to keep that snare going at that time, you should really have the snare do something else besides the same beat you started with. Been a while since I listened to the original and all, what program did you say you were using to make this again? I know reason has a "flam" feature on the snare. If you're not familiar with a flam just look it up. Basically, add a little "seasoning" if you will on that snare beat just to try and make the whole thing a little more interesting when the song is implying it's getting a little more intense since you're using timpani rolls and such. Last but not least, like I believe someone said earlier in the thread....the song really does stick too close to the source. Don't know if it'll be considered really remixed at this point, but hey man, you're learning. Good luck

sweet to see some majoras mask remixes get on here. I did a remix of this song and the stone tower song. Still waiting for it to hit judges mix, they are at May 7th and I submitted May 29th so I got a little bit of a way to go. Good song to remix for sure. I like your remix, very epic sounding like Jabond said and completely different from the approach I took so that makes it really enjoyable too that we can both take the same song and take it to completely different realms of music. I don't know if I like the fade out you have at 1:10 before it starts into the choir at 1:20 or so....seems like there should just be something in there, or it fade out quicker and have the choir start sooner, or something like that. Overall, I like your work man. nice epic song, production is good IMO and keeps you pretty entertained throughout. It's kind of a simple song to begin with so it's definitely hard to stretch out.

The first half is just too busy for me. Sounds all over the place, very muddy (and yes I realize a lot of this is mainly because it hasn't been properly mixed and mastered and whatnot) but I'm just not feeling it at all. The sound quality of the sax isn't very good in the beginning, and by that I'm specifically referring to the tone. Personally I think it should sound a little brighter. The second half is better, when the pace picks up and it seems like everything is fitting together a little bit better, but then later on, when you do things like say...the guitar solo, you can barely hear it. There is good musical skill here, I will tell you right now I can't play what you're playing, but at the same time, it still sounds very amateurish to me. As far as Meteor saying "You could be a LEGEND around here!" ehhh, I say that is quite that overstatement. It needs serious production work, some instruments sound like some notes are just out of tune from time to time, and overall it just sounds too much like someone is using a field recorder in a garage and recording the whole thing. So if there is anyway for you to go back, and re-record these tracks better instead of trying to take a left right mix out of an entire band, that'd be your best bet. What Rozovian advised and showed you with his quick mix is definitely a good idea. Just a few little tweaks can make quite the difference. That was a pretty good thing to show him Rozo. Sounds much better.

The kick definitely needs to be brought up a little more with more "oomph" behind it. Like Rig said, EQ'ing can fix most of your issues here. That lead sine wave sounding synth you got throughout the whole thing is too forward in the mix and should be brought back. I just think it sticks out WAY too much. I keep wanting to turn up my speakers to hear more bass from the kick and bassline, but wind up not turning it up because that lead just rings out and hurts my ears too much. The verb on the chorus probably could come down just a little bit. It does start to melt into everything and sound a little sloppy at points. The snare/clap is just really thin sounding. If you're going to use a clap, it just needs to have more SMACK behind it, if you're using a snare, (and I know this sounds weird) some of the low end in the snare is needed for that effective punch to bring it through the mix...by low end I'm referring in the 250Hz range. Putting a compressor on a snare with a fast attack, fast release, and a fairly low ratio (IE 1.5:1) can help bring the piercing attack back and smooth the whole thing out and give you a nice punchy snare. All in all: Bring kick up in volume, the kick itself sounds like it's pretty good, just needs to be louder... Snare/Clap should also be brought up a little and overall made a little more prominent with a little more punch to it as well. Lead sine wave synth brought DOWN. Choir vox verb down a little Other than a few production issues, I think it is a really nice song. Hell, I'm still waiting for my song to (hopefully) get passed, so we'll see if I'm even worthy enough myself! Good luck man

I thought the same thing....I'm still waiting for mine to be judged =P I submitted on May 29th for a remix of Call of the 4 giants (Oath to order) and Stone Tower. They are only up to April 21st in the judging though currently, so I still got some waiting =/ Sounds good though man, very clean and elegant, production is excellent like everyone else has said. Can't wait for you to kick it up and get intense with the "scary" part. I know everytime I was playing that game and that last day mode kicked in I'd always feel like I was in a rush and pressed for time.....I should be able to mute the soundtrack, play the game, listen to yours on the last day and feel the same way! (no pressure!) Good luck

Late 2010? I don't know about that. I submitted a song on May 29th, and they're up to April 5th submissions on judging. You're basically saying it's going to take 12 months before it gets judged. Their box is certainly full but I don't think it'd take until 2011 before it got up, assuming it was posted today.......whiiich it won't be so oh well =P I thought this song was done and had already been submitted to be honest lol

Right on, another Majoras remix. I think there's only 1 which is why I was inspired to do one myself....only another....ehhh, 2 months now until I hear whether or not it gets accepted lol. Anywho, nice remix you got here. Still sounds like it could fit in the video game itself (meaning it retains a very video game essence feel to it) but is still nice and remixed with your own touch on it. Too short currently, but yeah, you definitely should expand on that. A song that sounds like that that's another 2 mins in length would surely fit on here.

well, I'm not going to really say much because you have more than enough comments to get you to where you needed to go. Just wanted to say, that I like how this song sounds. Nice jam, good beat, good feel to it and everything and overall is pretty pleasant to listen to. Sounds like you've improved quite a bit just in the short time since I heard your Megaman 3 remix. Good job dude.

Don't know, there's a couple remixes I have planned that I have still yet to even begin on, so it'll probably help for that. I'm really excited to work with my omnisphere synths because a lot of their sounds vary GREATLY with the modwheel and velocity. Some of theirs are two samples that blend together with use of the modwheel so that'll help a lot. I know you what you mean about neglecting instruments for another though....my guitars have been neglected for a while for lots of keyboard and MIDI composition lol. But...as you say except in reverse....that's probably OK, cause I'm better at keyboard than guitar =P

So I guess a little inspired by IAMX's song "President", I wanted to just play around and do something a little different. A friend of mine is letting me borrow his keyboard which actually has pitch bend, mod wheel, and velocity sensitive notes, whereas my keyboard before did not. I know I know, such a small thing to get excited about! Anywho, so in my time trying the new keyboard I made this short little diddy. Please take a listen and tell me what you think. I didn't put a whole lot of time into it, and it's not really meant to be something super awesome, perfect, and serious, but all comments welcome. DJ Bubble Face - Waltz of the Magic Kingdom

you should post the source too. Don't know about anyone else, but I certainly don't know the pokemon music. Your piece sounds quite good. Very good production quality and sounds like it could probably be right in there with the game. I definitely have an appreciation for music like that, because honestly I don't think I could make it myself and what you have here is put together really well.

good song man, very nice chill beat. The first listen through I just turned it up and kind of walked around my house getting dressed for the day, and the fact that nothing made me stop and think "Wtf!?" is a good sign that it's a solid song you got goin on. Yeah, lowering the volume a little on that would probably help because the high-end of that particular effect starts grinding on my ear drums for sure.Once it really kicks in at 1:01, it's just too much, and it doesn't really give me a feeling of a build up. Just sounds louder and more intrusive. overall, I dig it. Keep it up

That's what I mean, it's not the usage of falsetto, it's just in this case, (to my ears) it just doesn't sound right in this song. I think it's just because you have such a deep voice, the falsetto seems way too far out of your range for it to seem legitimate or something like that. Grrr, I wish I was better at articulating what I mean. But basically, it has nothing to do with you or your skill. It's like picking a synth lead in a song, listening to it, and deciding you dont like how the lead sounds...that's what the falsetto is to me. Honestly, I don't really think it's a matter of practice. You're clearly hitting the note you want to hit, but your falsetto is just going to have a certain sound to it based on the timbre of your voice that isn't pleasant to me. Overall though, I think I'm the only one who has really said they disliked it and hell I don't even have a remix here yet like yourself, so what the hell do I know =P

I think detachment comes from having to work on an 8 minute song in the genre of "Ambient" which means just overly spacey and hardly any real movement to me. While the song "perchance to dream" sounds good for it's genre, I could totally understand why you'd get detached from that. Unless you're just really into ambient and ambient only, most people go for that "THUMP THUMP THUMP" in a beat that keeps you hooked.....without that, who wouldn't get detached. Also, you're probably just fatigued. I did this 40 something track project for this folk band that I spent god knows how many hours on, and listening to it now (almost 2 years later), it sounds really good, but at the time it got to a point where I couldnt even tell if it sounded good anymore....happens to everyone. just gotta step back from it for a little...."sometimes those in the crowd can see the game better than the players" or something like that =P