Nabeel Ansari

Sure it does!!! ... every link is a descendant of some other link from some other game!!! ...Okay, never mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szP9V3JQYCY&feature=related Best title theme ever done in 3/4 (or 6/8 I can't distinguish)

Try lowering the volume of the voice and create a beat that matches the tempo.

http://www.darkesword.com/read/essays/fourmancombo.txt For creating full sounding music (filling out the sound spectrum? Is that what you meant?) that's a good guide by Darkesword. I personally think you're lacking in terms of chords and the "pianist" (explained in the guide) part. The pianist doesn't have to be just a PIANO, it could be synth pads, or any other instrument that can play chords. Be creative xD

If the site was four years older it would already have happened.

What this person said, except with more of those little things.

Most of the arrangement IS QUITE LIBERAL, dude. You use the original melody, sure, and it's short, but you don't use it in a way that's dominant (for 2/3 of the mix you use it as background). You do include other Mario themes, but I think the project judge was looking for a decent amount of Metal Mario dominance. In judging, it's roughly a 50-50 ratio of source - liberal. In this project, it was probably roughly a 50-50 ratio of metal mario - everything else. For submitting to the site, I think some use of reverb and delay (and some other cool effects) would polish this nicely and then I say you should submit.

The beat doesn't really match, and a lot of the orchestration is drowned out by the rapping.

What about that purple glowing crystal in Axl's helmet after Lumine attacked him and died? I'm pretty sure Capcom did that to Axl so they could explain it later.

Make sure you're not running any other programs that can play sound open. (Like if you're playing a video or listening to music on your computer.)

Metroid Prime uses music from older Metroid games, which already have remixes (under Super Metroid/Metroid 1/Metroid 2), correct? I wouldn't say there's a shortage... it's just that the songs especially composed for the Prime soundtrack need to be mixed. P.S. That also means Shariq has technically 4 metroid prime remixes, because the source "Magmoor Caverns" is the same as the source for Heat Vision.

I'm not sure if I read you right, so I think it's a little too obvious: You didn't learn it because you died. I'm pretty sure you have to win a battle to get stuff out of it.

Actually it's kinda illegal to not talk about the remix so long as we're in Workshop forum... ...unless, of course, you want the great moderator to come and tell us all to get back on topic. xD But unless you make updates, there's pretty much not much more to say about your mix. What's been said by Rozo, the others and I pretty much nails the main, er, "setbacks" of your song.

I agree with Dafydd. I suggest playing this live for better production, or ask a good piano player on OCR to do it for you if you are unable for some reason.

Haha that's why all of my pieces are "lessons". (a previous mix I was bad at production) In my Serenade of Water remix, I learned to be better at production. (the previous mix I was bad at rhythm and melodic statements) In my Metroid Prime remix, I learned to be better at rhythm and "melodic statements". These two were failures, but I took the musical ideas from them to make my other songs that are not failures (yet?). These are not failures (yet?). In my Galaxy Man remix, I learned to take ideas from other styles and put them in my music. In my Ice Cap Zone remix, I learned how to make a damn good solo without having to use anything smaller than a 16 note. (and then I went back and made a solo for the previous mix) In my -message deleted by Neblix for secrecy- remix, I learned how to keep the energy of the song varied and I pretty much overall summed up everything I learned in this one. I also improved my arrangement here. So if you wanted, you could say that you're like me. Starting a new project helps you learn more about how you can write good music. So what if your music is good? Make it great! So what if it's great? Make it fantastic! If it's already fantastic, there's still always room for improvement. Yes, that makes sense. Thanks for the breakdown, and now that this little dance is over, I dare to ask: Are we gonna talk about the remix again?

HUH??? That's the one thing I don't like about OCR. Everyone's an adult, and I'm 14. I don't understand all these hidden messages. BAHAHAHAHA, well, anyways Gwil just don't overreact too much to feedback in this forum. I mean, think about it, if you didn't want to make changes that you wouldn't expect you'd want to make you never should've posted it here anyways. No one ever usually hears the key faults of their music until they become super 1337 after years of experience, so you never really expect what you get when you ask for feedback. What do I say? Expect the unexpected, and keep an open mind. But if you did expect what you got, that's even more reason to not to be reactive. :/ Actually, that's a reason to not even render the mp3! You should do what you can before you ask for feedback. If something feels impossible and you did all you could, take a break from the mix (maybe get super depressed that you can't make good music and delete all your projects like I did when I was 11 or 12and then learn from the whole thing as a life lesson), start a new project, and come back to it if you think your newly gained experience is good enough.

Really? Jeez, that looks like a pretty ugly Ocarina to me. xD You should get one of those Dragon Teeth Ocarinas. And the Ocarina of Time one is actually an inaccurate replica, the band on the Ocarina of Time is silver, not gold.

Uh.... what? What did you just quote me from? I never said "being right"... Like, I literally did not type those exact words. Seriously, what did you just quote me from?!

If I can't hear certain things in your music, I can't help but think that you don't know how to do certain things. In this situation: If I don't hear realistic instruments, I can't help but think you don't know how to make instruments sound realistic. It's very confusing when you say things are "not worth the effort", because I don't understand "why not". I don't think your instruments are realistic so I'm explaining to you how to make them realistic. I can't read minds, I can't tell what you can do, but I know what I can do and I explain the way I do things regardless of if you do it differently because I'm not sure if you do it at all. I can't give you credit for things I don't hear. How about you just decide whether or not you listen to me...? I told you what I thought you should do and no one says you have to listen to me. I was suggesting to you, not commanding you. No one says you HAVE to make them sound realistic, it's just that I think they are unrealistic and if you wanna make them realistic you should actually TRY rather than say "I'm trying too much and I'm tired of it." If you don't know how, then you listen to the specifics of what we say. You do things based on what you agree and disagree with. And if you don't want them to sound realistic, then just ignore what we say rather than being all assertive about it.

It's actually not that hard, if you were "arsed" enough to explore FL Studio a little more. I use all soundfonts and minimal samples... that doesn't stop me from understanding that all the notes at the same velocity on a piano makes it sound fake. If you really wanted to be lazy, go into piano roll and press alt+R. It randomizes note velocities so it sounds more realistic. As for electric guitars, there are plenty of (bored) people on OCR that wouldn't hesitate to play some electric guitar stuff for you... it's not as expensive, difficult, and/or complicated as it seems. I don't strive for realism... I just learn how, and it becomes a second nature to change note velocities so they're not all the same... You say "not worth the effort", I say "not enough effort".

Wow you sound a lot like me when I was not so used to the WIP forums, and I sounded pretty bad. Calm down, he's not crushing your mix, he's offering his own opinion. He's allowed to because you posted this here on the WIP forum. Anyways, it's good if you like your own music... but don't get defensive if others don't like it, because you asked for opinions.

I also like the title.

Yeah well you might get tired of hearing imperfect stuff at one point... If you never try to make your stuff perfect. Slayer's crap. I haven't tried Slayer 2, but I bet it's crap as well. The only realistic sounding electric guitar is a real one (unless you're using super hi-quality samples and lots of the different effects, I know some people who are able to sequence electric guitars realistically.) A new day, some new edits. Try fixing all that stuff now that you've got some sleep.

Oh, that's great. Googlepages migrated to Googlesites and now ALL of my hosted files are GONE. Hey K-wix, can you give me some time to find a new place to upload stuff? I wanna show you my Flash In The Dark track because it's... well... pretty much done. I'll PM you later.

What's this a remix of? It sounds pretty cool (but the electric guitars sound fake) In the first half of the song there is a cymbal that's panned to the right. It's panned WAY too much, and there's not much reverb as well, there's lots of stuff that's up and in your face and there's no sense of space. It's as if it was a live performance in a small apartment room with walls lined with foam pads. Use some reverb, even if it's just a little.