WillRock
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Some of the remixers from previous competitions have shown up, these are the ones who I guess can still be contacted:
TheguitahHeroe, Starphoenix, Anti-Syne, Draconiator, Blackpanther, PrototypeRaptor, Dusk, Geoffio, fredrikd, chroxic, Main Finger, Geeky Stoner and AeroZ.
Also, someone please get Gecko Yamori on this. (oh and Txai too)
Just to add to this list: Fishy, Sixto Sounds and OA.
Def get Gecko, Txai and Zircon back in on this cause the having the last 2 people in each compo all competing here would be pretty awesome.
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Not picking random teammates.
If you're turning down rozo you'd better have a good person in his stead
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Writing-wise, Will definitely DOES rock here; say what you like about drum sample issues, but the way of writing with those definitely helped bring the track to life and showed emphasis that late 80s synth rock approach to it. Stevo's solo (which I'm guessing is around 1:30 in?) also added that much of a sugar-rush for the notation heavy.
Will, I suggest you keep living up to your name and keep working with this genre should the opportunity arise again; the details are there, but with it leaving the listener hanging for more, you've really got to up that ball game (no pun intended). I know you can do it
Hahaha all the guitars here were mine, minus that guitar solo at the end, which was stevo. Thats the solo I was refering to in the write up. He actually contributed the Drum Samples, some drum writing, and Mastering.
As for "living up to my name" I certainly intend to do it. Unfortunately, my guitar has a very nasty habit of buzzing whenever I try and record my guitars due to electrical equipment interfering with the guitar signal, which makes doing this style extremely difficult for me. I didn't have the issue when I was at uni, but i'm currently living at home and I haven't found a good place to record my guitar there...
So for now, doing rock music is hard. Once i've sorted out these issues tho, I'll be doing alot more rock style remixes... I am called WillRock for a reason 
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Can we wait to name our team until we know our robot masters for sure? It's kind of hard to make unique team names without any idea who we are in the first place.
Thank you! My team agrees with you entirely. I was a little concerned that because of not knowing what robot masters we would be, people would go for names relating to the series in general. Reason thats not a great thing is that it's surprisingly limiting... all the names I've seen so far, my group came up with variations of ourselves when trying to name our group.
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Team name needs to be megaman themed.
Ok... er...
We are thus called Block Rockmen Beats!
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Ok, I've got a team together!
Nutritious, halc, and myself.
Together, we are....
Halctritious Rock
Get exited!
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My Five Robot Master Picks.
Crash Man
Air Man
Magnet Man
Skull Man
Wood Man
Nearly got a group together, its only a matter of time
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Anyone interested in teaming up with me? Lets rock this Remix Gauntlet!
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It's not that I couldn't find one it's just that I have 2 years to do it if they allow me to remix it so I wasn't rushing just yet
Before we allow anyone to do a Game Boy game, I think its only fair that in the event of not knowing the games music, we hear the actual music from the game boy version first. Not that we don't trust your judgement or anything, just to be professional
I want this if I end up doing anything for this at all:TMNT2 - Bump Me
I'm tentative, its really a matter of time but since I doubt anyone else is going to take this track its safe to put my name on it
Ok you're on.
TMNT2 Claimed.
Do us proud.
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No love for Castlevania Legends and Adventure 1&2?
There is love for everything gameboy! EVERYTHING!
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About time Gunpei Yokoi's million-dollar-brick received some more luv around here.
I'm up to remix some Metal Gear: Ghost Babel or Gargoyle's Quest.
Looking forward to that project coming to fruition. Definitely a great idea.
ps: dunno if this has been suggested yet, but Seiken Densetsu - Final Fantasy Gaiden has awesome music.
Want me to mark down both of those for you? or just one?
I'm wondering whether to have a restriction on how many tracks you can claim at one time due to the one mix per series rule. That way, we won't have 5 series claims from one person and suddenly they are all dropped a year later.
Rexy, I've marked down your claim
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For the record, anything goes as long as its Game Boy/Game Boy Colour. We have got suggestions , many of which damned has failed to mention in his first post like Zelda, Kirby and Final Fantasy
(because a gameboy album without tetris for example is LUDICROUS) but its completely open to whatever you guys want series wise... with the exception of whats already taken... Better get on that!Also, Feel Free to take robocop. I'm only focusing on one for now - batman. If Robocop hasn't been taken by the time thats done i'll claim it.
Anybody who wants to join, contact me with a link to a remix you've done. I want to keep a certain amount of quality control here, but nothing too strict don't worry
You guys should know whats been claimed and who is on the project imo, so here is the google doc - I'll be updating it as appropriate (damned, put this in the first post plz) https://docs.google.com/document/d/142_MYnfJsx0xCm7QNgN1v3c-5NNsljDsP3-C8W78lH0/edit?hl=en_GB
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This was the rejected mix
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Well, I was basically brought up on music - classical music that is, beethoven, mozart, all that stuff. I started doing piano lessons when I was about 7, and learnt music theory.
In my core, I was a musician, but I also had a major interest in video games, something my parants tried to limit me from doing by only buying me a gameboy and limiting my time on it.
Back to music, it was around high school that I first heard Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer. Life changing moment for me, that signaled my change of interest from classical music and the 90's boy band mainstream faff I was subjected to. I started to look into all the classic rock bands similar to Bon Jovi - Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Van Halen etc. All this inspired me to pick up a guitar.
Around this time I started to realise that I had compositional skill (I kept imagining in my head differences to the songs I was hearing, and hearing them as I wanted them to be) and got interested in composing. I got a computer and brought cubase SE, which was to help with my music classes at school and started composing rock tracks. It was basically midi quality but I didn't care.
Move forward a few years to college, and I found Reason, through which I was subjected to much higher quality sounds to make my music with. I also learnt the basics of production at this point, putting effects on my instruments etc. I still made rock tracks with bad guitar samples tho
I formed a college band called No Idea in which I played guitar, and recorded an album of music at college. Then, when I left, I went back to gaming more while waiting for Uni to start. One day, I was playing links awakening found myself wondering what tal tal heights music would sound like if it wasn't limited by the hardware. Thats when it hit me to do remixes. I'd been doing seqeunced rock tracks up to this point but thought that if people heard my music, they'd think it was naff, so I switched to synths for the time being. I made a remix of tal tal heights, and made a youtube account to upload it, which is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/WillRock07?feature=mhee.
I found myself being subjected to requests and ended up fulfilling a few, all links awakening tracks, and my ever growing fanbase kept suggesting I submit to OCR. Not knowing what OCR was, I looked it up, and found myself listening to remixes from bLiNd, Zircon and Mcvaffe and immediately found myself feeling outclassed. Still, I submitted a track, it got rejected, and I tried to up my game by posting tracks on the WIP forums for feedback, and experimenting with aspects of reason I hadn't before. All this experimenting helped me to make Snowboardin Sonic. It got rejected, but I felt it was a huge step in the right direction, and redid tal tal heights, which ended up as my first OCRemix. I resubbed Snowboardin Sonic, and then things started to click for me. I later brought Pro Tools, and could finally add guitars into my music, and thus... all these experiences helped me become the musician I am today.
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You have a pretty sweet arrangement here, but the production needs a bit of work getting over the bar imo.
For example, alot of this sounds very dry and vanilla, try adding some more reverb to the piano to give it more character. Don't overdo it tho
Those drums don't quite suit the style either, they are too punchy for the style you're going for, I'd opt for a more mellow sounding drum kit, what you've got is too punchy right now. There are a few weird sounds that don't seem to fit stylistically for me - such as that weird organ sound and the midish lead at 1:03.
You have some pretty neat arrangement skills, and I'm enjoying the creativity shown here. As this stands tho, the production is holding this back from OCR's bar imo.
Keep on working at it and you'll get there tho
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One little thing changes behind the scenes and I come back to you guys all reciting bad poetry.
OCR IS BREAKING.
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Ok, so I just listened to the top ten, and honestly, I think that while Jill did very very well to get the most votes, I do think that the competition was exceptional and shouldn't have been underestimated. I do think that Laura Intravias (2) and Rudigers (5) were particularly enjoyable as well, out of those not mentioned so far. As for the winner, I think that its well deserved, she should have placed higher in the voting than 10, at least top 5 if not top 3 imo. While Jill is just as good and would have been a just a worthy choice imo, I don't blame the judges for picking madeline.
That said, I do think that the fact that Jill got the "peoples vote" certainly tells you something. I'm not 100% sure exactly how well OCR Promoted her in this compo, but getting the top spot can't have been OCRs work alone right?
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Would have liked it more without the teeny bit of reverb you had on it.
Of course if you wanted some legit reverb you would have the lead track going, and have a second track at much lower volume going at like, 1/16th beat after the lead track, which produces a really awesome effect with 8bit chiptunes.
But that's my quibble.
All in all not bad and highly listenable.
I actually tried that, but found it didn't have the sound I wanted. Sometimes I "break the rules" to help get a specific sound, In this case helping to get a sound similar to the original. In this case reverb.
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Probably a bit mental of me to do this but after that Cliffs of Dover remix I did, I felt I was in the mood for it
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Just so there isn't any confusion, when I listened to the track, the intro did hurt my ears, so it wasn't just a matter of abrupt starting imo. It was really painful for me up to the point the drums kicked in and I personally feel the piercing warrants fixing.
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Emunator, Level 99 and I have all got together and listened to the source, this was the general consensus:
Pretty cool arrangement. There was some pretty sweet synth sounds and writing as well, props there. The source seems to be prominent altho it seems slightly repetitive to the others I dunno
The production tho, we all agree needs some tweaking. The intro is really loud and piercing, you need to work on your EQing so its less painful on the ears. There are balancing issues, particularly, there was a very strong automated panned arp which threw off the balance. Cool idea but the execution was a little off. The samples seemed over processed generally. The drums felt static and over compressed.
To sum it all up, this needs some work in the production, mixing, and don't be afraid to throw in some more variation here and there!
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Emunator, Level 99 and I have all taken a listen to your track. This is the general consensus:
Pretty interesting take on the mix. The arrangement is pretty cool and the source checks out but there are various mixing issues. The Rhythm guitars are too quiet - they need to be louder or Pumped in the mids. The drums don't quite fit in the soundscape, The kick and the snare samples need some layering to make them more punchy, and there issues with timing on the guitar leads. The piano and marimba samples and sequencing aren't the best either but I feel the sequencing is more of an issue personally.
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Any critique or thoughts are welcome
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You have my vote. Good luck!
Mega Man: The Wily Castle Remix Gauntlet 2011
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If you wanna be on a team go and put a team together or ask if you can join a team, rather than expecting people to ask you to join theirs. Your chances of getting on a team are much much higher that way.