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Spakku

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  1. As long as it sounds like the recording itself is of something high quality they'll probably be cool with intentional distortion. When they're playing the actual nocturne there should be more variation in styles than just instrument and key, maybe make changes to the melody or timing. Either that or use it less often.
  2. How often does that happen? This is the first time somebody's ever moved in with me with such little notice.
  3. Guys, I feel terrible about this, but it turns out I totally overestimated my vocal range. I am physically unable to sing this in falsetto; I lack the vocal range. All of my enthusiasm has been for naught. I don't like smilies but his warrants a . I let you down.
  4. I suddenly have roommate so it's been tricky finding a time to record. Should I repeatedly sing "I just got laid" in falsetto I'll end up recording a lot of laughter and ruin the track.
  5. Fuck it. Ending's too short for lyrics. Get to work, Proto. As shall I.
  6. Just accept it and move on to a new subject. Clearly, you will never understand.
  7. The rest of them are okay at best. I just mean that one and only that one.
  8. It's a cool song and all but, seriously, nothing you make from this point in your life onward will ever be as great as that sentence right there.
  9. Third chorus: (I) love my brother, Physically; Screw conventions of soci'ty! I just got laid, I just got laid, I want to tell the world! Darkness fully embraced. Still needs an ending.
  10. Dude, I've got the microphone from my PS2 copy of Rock Band. My music editing software is Audacity. But I'm gonna sing this and, dammit, I'm gonna give it my all. Oh, and to answer your question, Fern, I have zero experience. Anyways, I'm not recording for a couple days at least, gotta do it when nobody's around, but before then we've gotta get these lyrics down. I'm thinking we should probably alter the third iteration of the chorus, lest this take on a far darker tone, and now that there's an ending we probably want words to go with it.
  11. You first. Then maybe I'll have the courage. Because if I record this thing my neighbors are going to be hearing it. Also I need to hunt down a microphone.
  12. Pretty sure we're all guys that have been writing lyrics. You want we should do it falsetto?
  13. I met this fel-low, he was quite at-tract-ive, we flirt-ed to-ge-ther and con-sumed al-co-hol and af-ter a whi-le we went back to his place and took off all our clothes and then is when it-got-magical! We need two more verses. Apologies, Fern, for ruining your pretty song. But I could not resist.
  14. You should write an ending. Repeat & fade is lame. Quite pretty, though. It conveys the tone way better than the original. Which is surprisingly rare.
  15. Supongo que puedo Google Translate para ti, si buscas en Google Traducido por nosotros. Suena muy bueno para mí, me recuerda a la banda sonora de Bionic Commando Rearmed. Esa es una buena cosa para la producción pero no es muy original. Desde el estilo de Electrónica está tan cerca de lo que el original tenía no es suficiente de un cambio por sí solo. Los jueces tienden a no así. Tal vez añadir piezas nuevas, tal vez la mezcla de trozos de otra canción.
  16. Too much dir reet teet dirr. It's just so monotonous. Can't really speak for the rest, the song just not being a style I'm fond of, but you've got to switch up that whistle thing at least a little.
  17. The line "I'll never run short on my PP" doesn't really work except in print, since it sounds like "pee-pee". And "please don't pray in my vicinity" doesn't exactly intimidate. When you rerecord the vocals, you should give Giygas a raspier, breathier voice. All his lines from the fight convey that it's taking a great amount of effort to say them.
  18. I can totally picture this in Galaxy 2 or one of the Paper ones. Seriously, from the first little speck of lone banjo I could totally hear where this was going, the arrangement just feels so natural. Low production value, though, it'd never get through the panel like this. I say just play with it more, I know it's not proper advice but this first taste has me trusting your ear.
  19. 17.29 MB. Dude. Seriously. It sounds echoey and muffled, timing is stiff, volume levels make some instruments completely drown others out when they're clearly not supposed to be the focus, and I'm pretty sure you didn't actually rewrite a single thing and just updated the samples.
  20. It's from A Link to the Past. It was also in Wind Waker and Twilight Princess but it's still an A Link to the Past song.
  21. This isn't an Ocarina of Time mix it's an A Link to the Past mix. But that's not really important. Your feelings are right on, this source tune is simply too flat to build into something interesting on its own. It works in the games because it's the build-up to a confrontation with Ganon (or, originally, Agahnim) but you've got it building to a couple loud and very anti-climactic organ notes. This source can't carry a mix on its own, but a shorter version of what you've got could make a pretty powerful intro or middle section to a mix of one or two other sources. Since it's a song that was always designed to be a lead-in, have it lead into something. Technically, it sounds great until the organs but, since it sounds like you took samples from the game, that's understandable. Also, I like the bass work a little after the half-way mark, it reminds me of . I'd be more precise about the timing but Tindeck doesn't have a counter.
  22. My guess would be to get a handful of different guitar samples, as much of a pain in the ass that would be.
  23. Uh, I wouldn't worry about people calling your work too original. Each instrument you use only makes one kind of sound, and that just feels terribly unnatural. This is more glaring the fewer instruments there are, making the more complex DKC piece sound more convincing than the Tetris mix, and the Tetris more convincing than the Pokemon. I'm more familiar with guitars, so I'll expand for that Pokemon example: All you've got is a short and deliberate single-string pluck sound. This is reasonable when notes are slow to come, as it makes them stand out that much more, and for mediums speeds since it's still possible to play that way. But when the rapid fire notes start hitting, it suddenly sounds a lot less bare-bones and beginner-ish (sounding like a beginner guitarist, that is) and a lot more like a guitar-playing robot; it's like if a pianist lifted their finger for each note instead of just sliding down the keys when appropriate. Listen to some people playing acoustic guitars and pay attention to when they pluck vs when they strum and how long they let notes reverberate. Even though you've only got one instrument, it still should make a variety of sounds.
  24. I disagree with Quirk, I think this is a pretty solid intro, chaos suits the source and the arrangement. Still sounds like background music, though, and that generally doesn't fly. Like, it'd be amazing for an action scene or a trailer but not really the kind of thing people put on their iPods. I'm hearing Song of Healing but I don't hear Majora's Theme as far as I can tell.
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