Nabeel Ansari

I was really glad they added Open World Combat and Story Quests in Sandstorm Phase 2, because without those two things this game seemed pretty flat with no underlying reason to keep playing other than getting points for PvP battles. Also it's a little lacking in terms of weapons and armor. But I think with this Sandstorm expansion, it's safe to say all the reviews for this game are pretty much outdated. I really enjoy the story quests, especially when you're with a team out in the Sonoran Desert. If there's ever enough people for an OCRemix Agency, we should definitely participate in AvA. (For those who don't know, it's like guild vs. guild for territory in real time)

OMFG I cannot believe this made it on OCRemix. I've listened to it hundreds of times on YouTube. Hopefully more of his remixes get posted, because they sure deserve to. Excellent vocals.

Is there a required skill level for this?

Love this kind of music. I can definitely hear the deadmau5 influence.

Well I went ahead and finished this thing. It's 5 minutes and ten second long.

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There's absolutely no reason you should have that small of a hard drive as your main. >.< With Windows 7 installation that leaves you 10-12 GB for music production. Not ideal at all. You need to get a nice big hard disk drive (cheaper) and use the SSD as a secondary. I'll post mix review in a bit. REVIEW: The strings in the beginning (:23) still sound pretty fake, make sure the chords have continuity instead of new notes playing every beat. (If notes from one chord are in the next, extend the notes into the next chord rather than have them repeat). Also, this still suffers from Slayer guitar and bad violin sample. (but you're working on that) Also, the choir (the low male voice choir) sounds really fake. Try adding wet reverb. The reverb should be focused less on the leads and more on the strings, the choir, etc.

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If only it were that simple... This was merely a sketch I did in about half an hour or so, if I put some extensive effort this would be well over 3 minutes with some good original content. I'm actually planning to expand the arrangement more, but as for the pad, I actually turned the attack up because it was requested by some as it would sound better, so now it has more attack than the version I have up here. EDIT: UPDATE IN FIRST POST

Teenagers. Just fix up the production, and we'll see from there. Of course it's not up to us either, it ultimately comes down to the big guys themselves, but Emunator, Nutritious, and Halc are the WiP moderators, so they're the guys certified to tell you what kind of chance you have against the judges. Of course, they're not always right, but waiting for their okay sure beats having to sub over and over cloggin up the judge queue.

Actually thanks for the offer, but I think I'll stick to doing this remix myself. Sorry But I do plan on making some rock remixes in the future, I'll definitely let you know when I need guitar.

Is this for pro's only? I mean it seems like it because it's a competition, but still.

Trust me listen to enough people whine about Slayer and compare it to enough real guitar leads and you start to understand what I'm talking about when I say don't use it. As for the piano, try replacing it. In my opinion it would do better with a more grand piano sound. Something brighter, less soft, and more plucky.

Hmm, I wasn't planning on using GUITAR in this remix, but when you have an idea, be sure to show me! I'm interested to see what you have in mind.

Just stick to not attacking the critics and you'll be fine. FEEDBACK: :10 That piano/synth/whatever is a little too loud and is crackley. I'd replace it or lower it down. :23 Those strings are way too high and sound like they are from the SNES. Try lowering them an octave or two and replace the sample (Squidfont Orchestral Soundfont is good, you can find it online) :35 The drums are really generic, I can tell exactly what directory of the FL Studio default samples you got them from. You can try using an acoustic drum kit sampled (the "Sky Kit" in the free Kore 2 Player you can find online is really nice) :46 Violin sounds really stiff and bad quality. Violins are hard to recreate on the computer, so I'd suggest finding someone to play it for you (there are lots of really nice people on this website, just post a thread in the recruitment forum and wait a few days.) 1:00 Things get a little busy, sounds like it's building up to something grand. 1:48 NEVER repeat cymbals every bit like for a regular chorus unless you're building a crescendo or something. I'd just have the one at the beginning and then other every two measures or something like that. Overall at this point you have a lot of things going on, it sounds really crowded. And in my opinion, the maniacal laughter in the background is not needed and really takes away from the feeling. 2:25 There it is, to complete the package. Never, and i mean NEVER, use FL Slayer for electric guitar sounds. You need to ask someone because they're also hard to replicate. Other than replacing the really low quality sounds you have, the arrangement is pretty nice. It's just from 1:48 on, I feel as though you made that part too long, see what else you can do to make it more interesting after half of it passes. Other than that, I really like the feel, the mood, and the arrangement! I'd say all in all this just needs a big production upgrade.

Depends what you have in mind. I actually didn't mean a 1-1 collab, i meant like people who like this throw some of their own ideas in and maybe I use one of them, but if you have something in mind, I'm willing to hear you out.

If I actually get to memorizing the next parts of the song (I know the arp but the lead melody i don't remember much) I'll probably get back to this.

Remix One Winged Angel.

But you all have to wait until it reaches the front page to hear it.

Bye. Good luck and I that wherever you end up you're as happy as you can be, and if you're not happy you remember us and then you'll be happy.

Really? Because later in the thread Clay stated he reproduced the tracks with perfect humanization, which is a claim I certainly think we can attack but we won't because I failed to realize he was intending what you are suggesting. It's confusing me because on the soundcloud page he almost sounded like he was TRYING to make it sound higher quality. (Yes, I'm being sarcastic, Rozo, because he's openly stated several times he's attempting to make it sound higher quality and humanized) WiP feedback: Lacks humanization. They can be as close as they want to the source, but the source tracks are just repetitive, you really didn't need to render long mp3's to cover what's there. It sounds to me like you're prescribing your own MIDI and then channeling them through Composer's Collection. Nothing much else to comment on, because instruments/samples are really the only thing to pay attention to with covers.

Clay, word of advice. If rozovian tells you your samples are crappy, they are crappy. You don't need to show him they are humanized, because he doesn't think they sound humanized. You can ignore him or you can listen to him, but you do not treat him like he has no idea what he's talking about (because in my experience Rozovian is one of the most valuable critics I've ever had and he's mostly right when it comes to this) And get that stupid ego under control. EDIT: Get your HORRIBLE ego under control. 10 years of music production experience doesn't mean much, and it certainly doesn't show in this stuff you posted up. In my opinion you have ten years of something, and that's age. You pretty much sound like a little kid who's getting offended. Kudos to you for not actually using curse words. We get the point of these songs were to be covers, but they sound just as MIDI-ized and low quality as the original. Humanization goes a long way, you may have tried but what you fail to realize is that you're not even close. And I'm being an asshole in this review because what goes around comes around. :/ ANOTHER THING: 1. This is a review thread, n00b. 2. From the reviews I've read, it seems the people here don't think you've done a good job. 3. If you don't like the feedback, you shouldn't have posted here in the first place. 4. You are not the greatest musician in the world, nor do you claim to be, but you seem to think that you can do anything and it will sound good. It doesn't, it didn't, and it won't until you're willing to learn rather than defend your work against any and all criticism. Criticism is never going to be 100% positive, and if you keep attacking the critics, your work will just deteriorate into mindless mp3 garbage going circles because you won't realize how bad at music you're becoming because, basically, you're shutting off the outside world.

Are you serious? Peak controlling is not even side chaining! The FL Limiter is an actual compressor that does what side chaining is supposed to do. It also sounds a lot more professional and "elegant" as I recall Zircon saying in his FL Studio Sidechain tutorial. Also, I find the peak controller harder, I would much rather just route the mixer track into another and put a limiter on that and set up the sidechain from there. There's also more control (actual compression controls like threshold and ratio)

Happy Birthday!