DusK

If you're piano rolling the drums using the FPC, turn off "scale volume with velocity", select the "note" where your snares are on the piano roll, and randomize the velocities. There's something in the tools section of the piano roll window that lets you do that, but I can't remember what it's called.

Schecter C1+ with an EMG 81 in the bridge and an EMG 85 in the neck - $400 Ibanez Gio, not sure what model exactly, got it over half a decade ago new Squier P-Bass - $50 I used to have a Schecter Tempest Custom with an EMG 81/85 set, paid a grand total of $900 for that guitar after putting in those pickups. Shame it got stolen. That was my baby.

Yaaaaay crits. I wanted to see if anyone would be willing to take a look before I bothered the mods about it. Good idea. XD Not sure I follow here. I'm kind of a synth noob. Are you saying I should try a brighter "airy" synth for that part? I hear ya on that. I boosted the mid-highs a bit more on the lead tone. They stand out better now. I'm not sure if I'd like that, but I'll give it a try. You mean sound/production, or lack of filler/variation?

Steered clear of it?

Not a big fan of bumping, but I'm gonna. I could use the feedback, people; I really want this mix to pass.

Decoy Octopus is dead pretty much the whole game.

EDIT: Most recent version: Version 8 I subbed this over a year ago, and received 3 "No (resub)s" from the judges, and then pushed it to the backburner while I did a ton of other stuff. Here it is again, with me trying to follow their suggestions, applying what I've learned while working on my side project and Secret Bonus Point, and taking advantage of the new Mod Review system. The remix is a metalcore take on two tracks. Lots of breakdownage and shred. Remix: "The Broken Front" Suggestions? EDIT: Yeah, I spelled "music" wrong in the subject line. Typing in the dark without a backlit keyboard sucks. EDIT: Judges' decision of the prior version can be found here.

yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhh!!!!

Guilty as charged, tbh. When I'm learning how to play the source, I start by dividing the track and learning each section by ear, and playing it along with the original track itself. It subconsciously sends a message that I should do the remix like that as well, so it makes it harder to stray from the source a bit and give the piece some originality.

This gave me a good lol for some reason. But seriously, keep this thread flowing. I'm grabbing a lot from it and stuffing it into my teeny-tiny brain.

Joystick sensitivity for controllers, and mouse sensitivity settings for X/Y separately. And no 1-to-10 crap like Halo. REAL settings, like Valve's Source Engine games. Oh, and look inversion. I have to be able to play with look inversion. If it don't have it, I aint gonna play it.

But the kids love it. Honestly, I loved the first game, possibly on a level that borders the erotic, but I'm not all that excited about the remake. Like Kyle said, Halo is tired, and I'm tired of it.

Incoming! *ducks* I listen to both. Frequently. My favorite bands are metalcore, and in that genre, you usually average about 3-4 minutes for a song. I listen to a lot of punk bands that have a good minute-thirty before the end up in the next song. And then of course there's stuff like BTBAM, who can only fit a so many 15-minute songs on a single album.

I'm not even going to try and explain everything that makes this track so awesome. There's just too much there.

We all know that it boils down to personal preference. For me, it's FL Studio. For others, it's others.

I've been toying around with writing a hardcore metal mix of the main theme. I dunno if anyone else is planning to remix a track from the series.

A big problem I've had until recently is using the same tone for different parts of the music that are panned in the same location and not EQing it at all. An example can be heard , where I had four guitar tracks running other than the main lead, two panned right and two panned left, same tone, no EQ, and playing different parts. Hear how muddy that crap sounds?Also, the only monitoring I have currently is a $20 Logitech headset, so my production quality sounds muffled on many other setups as a result. Like Blue Magic said, that doesn't really cut it. Also, check my Red Zone remix for a great example of massive production issues including extremely mechanical-sounding drums and over-compression.

Change thread title to "Autotune Thread"? Cause, ya know, I'm still waiting for that one guy who's gonna come in and vouch for the current state of DLC. Yeah... any day now... Any day...

Call me a sucker, I guess. Must be the WoW player in me. I've purchased DLC for a few games. Always games I know I'll be playing long-term, though. Lately I've been passing up DLC I normally would have bought, though. Tough times and all that, not to mention more and more of my money going towards music gear instead. I get the whole "you're not getting the whole game on purchase" argument, because sadly, it's true a lot of the time, though normally not to the degree of the example you gave.

I've usually work on stuff for about 6 or so hours before I get it out, longer if it has vocals, and shorter if it's some cover I'm uploading to YouTube. And yeah, I've been noticing that I don't take enough time with my tracks to get everything perfect like I really should, so I'll probably be spending a lot more time on future tracks.

My girlfriend and I have been together close to 7 years. Might as well be married.

I lol'd. But yeah, I'm kicking that cost back a bit by selling my DSi. I'm sure plenty of other people will be doing the same.

I've actually heard more than one person say "that could have/should have been done". Not that I don't agree with you, though.

I do all my recording using FL Studio. Personal preference mostly.

DusK is a shortening of ItStartsAtDusK, a nickname I made a couple of years ago based on the fact that I did almost all of my gaming at night when I got off work. My side project, From The Forest Itself, is inspired by a Matisyahu lyric, which was taken from a line from a Midrash. "From the forest itself comes the handle for the axe."