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    *NO* Sonic & Knuckles 'Super Sonic Fireballz'

    in Judges Decisions

    Posted

    Hey Magellanic, good to see you submitting!

    I like the style adaption, and the arrangement. Good stuff there. The production has some notable problems however. The biggest issue is a distinct lack of bass presence in your mix. As a result, your frequency spectrum isn't wide enough, and most of the instrumentation is taking up the same space, muddying up your mix. If you just brought out the bass more in your mix, it would make your mixing much much easier and you wouldn't have everything fighting for the same frequency range.

    Basically, bring out the bass presence in your track, and sort out EQ on your Rhythms and leads so they aren't clashing with each other in the frequency spectrum. Atm, its quite a large dealbreaker and I know that you have the potential to get the production passed the panel! Again, nice work with the arrangement (and awesome source tune :)) but I can't pass this as it is. Keep on working at this one and send it back bro!

    NO (resub)

    OCR02676 - *YES* Mega Man Zero 2 'Never Stop' *RESUB*

    in Judges Decisions

    Posted

    I think this is good personally. I like the arrangement, and the guitar performance seems fine to me. The vocals get slightly off tune with each other during the chorus harmonies, but this is pretty solid otherwise. There are some moments of muddiness, the vocals and rhythm guitars take up most of the soundscape (unlike palp, I felt the vocals were at a good level personally) Overall it could have been a bit cleaner, the bass could have been a bit more exposed and those rhythm guitar arps get buried under the main rhythm playing. Even so, I'm cool with it where its at. Its not perfect, but its a strong track and damn enjoyable, particularly if you're a fan of heavy metal. I dig!

    YES

    RWS 1-2 - ReMixing With the Stars: Season 1 Episode 2: Origins of Home Gaming

    in Competitions

    Posted

    Any of the NES launch titles qualify: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_console_launch_games

    There are also a number of Atari and Colecovision games with solid (if limited) soundtracks, and a substantial number of PC games. Moon Patrol is one such that does in fact have an OCR entry already. If I were participating, I'd probably pick Pitfall 2.

    Or, there's always option 2.

    Oh, I see the confusion. Not only arcade (I thought that was clear when we mentioned SMB). The reason is that games like Dragon's Lair showed that arcade games had no real limitations as far as what they could produce. Anything that had both an arcade and a console release counts, as long as the track in question appears in the console version. Ice Climbers is fine, and a great choice.

    Ah great. Thanks for clarifying! :D

    RWS 1-2 - ReMixing With the Stars: Season 1 Episode 2: Origins of Home Gaming

    in Competitions

    Posted

    I have a question about the criteria, since trism came to me with concerns, and i've seem to come up with a bit of a hole in the criteria requirements which makes it VERY hard to pick a source.

    Be based on a source or sources from a console or PC game (not arcade game) released on or before October 18, 1985 (the launch day for the NES in the U.S.

    Why aren't arcade games allowed? I've noticed that basically all the notable games released before the date in question were in fact released on arcades (donkey kong, ice climbers, mario bros etc) and they are very important parts of video game music history. As a result, if people who don't do chiptune style music, and don't have a vast in depth knowedge of games before this date, (which is most people) they've got to look into alot of obscure titles, from consoles they probably don't own (like C64 or famicom), only to find out that the games that are familiar to them were either released after the date you've picked or were in the arcades. Yes, you can still remix SMB, which is what I reckon all these people will end up doing, so you'll probably end up with at least 3 SMB overworld theme remixes, since its by far the most obvious choice and no one is going to be bothered enough to do the trivial research required to look into anything else :P

    I understand the release date rule, but the arcade rule just seems to make things harder for everyone involved and rules out some important and historical games for no reason.

    Sorry if i'm being awkward, but your criteria seems very hard to hit for some people depending on their skills and personal styles. I'd suggest criteria thats a little less "specialist" next time :)

    EDIT: Bahamut actually beat me to the post, I was just asking some people to see if my concerns were valid.

    OCR02704 - *YES* Sonic Colors 'Will-o'-the-Wisp'

    in Judges Decisions

    Posted

    This is a pretty cool track, the arrangement is pretty damn awesome. Some sweet soloing, some good personalisation and melding of the sources, and I felt it all clicked instrumentally.

    However, I do have some nitpicks. This track is REALLY busy, to the extent that there is alot of details that get lost in the mix, and overall it makes this feel really overblown. I'm not so sure mixing is the issue, it could have been general overcompression, but the mixing could have been improved to give everything a little bit more clarity I feel. Like OA, I also noticed the guitar imperfections during those speedy guitar solos - as someone who also does this, my advice is don't be afraid to slow down the pace with your guitar playing if its a little too fast for you to play cleanly! It was a reasonable job overall tho, and that organ solo was awesome.

    Its got a few niggling flaws, but the strength of the arrangement sees this one over the bar. Nice work bro!

    YES

    *NO* Seiken Densetsu 3 'The Dragon Emperor's Calling'

    in Judges Decisions

    Posted

    Arrangement is awesome, I'm really liking the variation throughout. I didn't look at the cameo tracks, since the source usage added up without them imo.

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    At first, I thought that the reverb sound would suit the piece, but as soon as it got more uptempo, the reverb only really served to muddy up the soundscape. I find the performance issues slightly troublesome. Its just enough for me to consider this not quite ready. Some sections are performed very well, but I can tell you've had alot more trouble on some sections of the source, I'm on the fence here, but I think this needs a performance clean up before I accept this. Its a nice song, and I hope you resub this one should it not pass the panel!

    NO (resub)

    FREE ALBUM RELEASE - 9-bit Blitzkrieg

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I honestly feel pretty honored to have been included on this album alongside some people that had a big influence on my music, such as PROTODOME and TheGuitahHeroe. Thanks for the opportunity to get my stuff out there, Will, and thanks to the other contributing artists for making a great album.

    I like Crystalline Seashores and SolarMaxima the best.

    Crystalline Seashores has an intro that reminds me of Dire Dire Docks, and it has that great Sega feel to it.

    SolarMaxima is pure chiptune, and therefore pure awesome.

    I'm glad you enjoyed the album bro! Who knows, there may be a sequel in the works at some point in the future if you (or anyone else) would be interested! Not going to promise anything tho.

    FREE ALBUM RELEASE - 9-bit Blitzkrieg

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    This is a really good album. Even though there are a lot of artists on show here, the album feels pretty unified with a unique sound, so congrats on that. I'm curious how everyone came together to make it - was it just a word of mouth thing? Was there a thread I missed or something? Either way - nice work+grats to everyone involved!

    No Thread, I did it in secret, via Emails, PMs and Facebook Messages. No threads or anything like that. I wanted this to be a surprise for everyone :D

    Glad you enjoyed it! :D

    Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion - Star Wars: Ep. 7 for 2015

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    This is as if halo was sold to nintendo.

    Don't get me wrong, disney do well enough. Pirates of the Caribbean had a good thing going for about 2 films, then it just milked everything to shit. I predict that 1 great movie will come out of this. Then 2 more shitty ones, and everyone will cry, and want to slaughter disney for "ruining" star wars. I mean, the star wars fandom is some of the pickiest i've seen. Granted, George Lucas has made some rather shitty decisions but the star wars fandom feels SO STRONGLY about the NOOOOOs and the Greedo shot first's and the JAR JAR IN RotJ etc that I feel anything Disney do will be seen as traitorous to the star wars legacy, PARTICULARLY since they'll be fucking around with the main film series.

    This can only end badly.

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