Jared Hudson

Prices vary. If you're staying inside the United States, and using L.A. orchestras or Seattle, etc....you're looking into extremely pricey sessions. That 50-100K+ price tag is definitely in the right ballpark. However, overseas orchestras like Bratislava can get you a 50 piece orchestra for around $1500 an hour. Many games and movies have been recorded there, and apparently many composers prefer it to Prague. Granted, I cannot say the extra costs for engineers and other overhead. $1500 for an hour should probably be planned over 2K an hour. If you want 80-90 piece, then it just keeps going up. It ain't cheap, no matter how you slice it.

Van Halen has nothing on this. My hair is purple, 3 feet long, with a can of Crisco shooting it straight to the sky. Where are my leather pants and chain bracelet?! http://www.jaredhudson.com/music/Jared%20Hudson%20-%20I%20Wanna%20Rock%20You.mp3

I believe you have to start from the beginning. All 5 stages through the scenario, and SURVIVE the final fight. Get on the boat, helicopter, whatever. That's what I did anyway.

Oh FUCK YES Left 4 Dead is the bestest most freaking awesomest badassest sweet ass game ever ever. It has filled every void in my life permanently....for now. I have been waiting for this game my whole life. Blowing up zombies, it's why we're put here on Earth. Jared is also reading World War Z. Already have my Zombicidal Maniac achievement. Working on all campaigns expert. Add me on steam if you play expert only. "Commando Jigga" w00t

Ho Ho Ho .....speakin of hoes.

This is a soft gentle type electronic tune I wrote for a project. Imagine a magical intergalactic voyage getting ready to leave Earth's orbit! https://jaredhudson.com/othermusic/Jared Hudson - Above the Ozone.mp3 Jared

I hereby dedicate this to our panelist Darkesword http://www.jaredhudson.com/music/OCR%20-%20The%20Bestest%20Place%20Ever.mp3

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Just messing around with production. Inspired a bit by the artist Space Night and Hallucinogen. I went very electronic on this one. I'm debating on putting melodic vocals in, you know...for a melody. Big beats, big fun! LOL http://jaredhudson.com/music/Fly%20My%20Mind%20V3.mp3

Electric Sheep is pretty awesome. Here's the real question....... Have you ever seen that kind of stuff NOT looking at a computer screen?

Really a sad day. Dark Knight will hopefully make him go out with a bang. I hope he didn't die from the AIDS in Brokeback Mountain.

Well, it depends on what you're looking for in a headphone. Do cheap ones satisfy you? What about comfortable wear, build quality, sound quality? What are you hooking them up to? How often do you listen on headphones? Do you travel a lot? In my personal opinion, as a balance between them all, noise cancellation, build quality, sound quality, etc....the Sennheiser 280 Pros are a great buy, which run around $100. They aren't exactly cheap, but they are totally worth it once you have them. They aren't in ear, on ear, or tiny headphones. Also, make sure you aren't the type of person that throws things down, breaks things, or leave them at a party to get stolen. If you're a REAL audiophile, look at the Sennheiser HD590, HD600, or the king shit of the universe HD650's. However, they're open-air, and won't cancel out noise as well, but they'll sound better hands down. The AKG K701 is also an amazing headphone..top tier. Keep in mind these are all REALLY pricey headphones. They're an investment. Although, you can get really satisfactory prices on them from ebay. Screw MSRP. Also, on high-end headphones, you benefit more with a headphone amp, but those can run even more money. I'm not sure what your budget is, and how important headphones are. If you ARE indeed a casual listener, the a $50-$70 headphone would most likely be more than enough the quality you're wanting. However, I'm also giving you information on products that maybe you didn't know much about. Finding out that BMW's and Lexus's exist when you've been driving a Honda Civic all your life can change a lot in what you want in a car. Check out www.headphone.com for lots of awesome information about headphones with all budgets in mind. It's a great site, and I read it a lot. Hope you find what you're looking for. Side note: "Around the ear" headphones are much more comfortable than "on ear". The HD280 Pros are around the ear.

It's basically guaranteed to be better than the crap excuse for a movie Advent Children (so shitty, and I'm a FF7 fan to heart). Resident Evil has zombies, good characters, zombies, good back story, zombies, gore, and......zombies. I've played about every major release RE game except Code: Veronica (btw..Umbrella Chronicles is awesome). Still, Resident Evil 4 for the win. Leon kicks ass, so this movie will too.

A jam session my friend and I did up in Boston. This was thrown together in about 2-3 hours, but I'd like to involve more structure. Lyrics are already written, and was experimenting with ways to implement some phrases, although no real singing choruses yet. I don't even know what genre this is. It's like house/industrial/metal. Props to my friend Teo for the guitar work, especially with all the booze and other "ahem"...substances.....j/k. http://jaredhudson.com/music/JH%20-%20MDMA%20On%20Sunday%20WIP2.mp3

I'm sorry, but that trailer kind of sucked. This one however, steps it up a notch

I think Death Proof was a little homage to Bullit. That movie took forever to get going, with lots of dialogue, and ended with one of the greatest chase scenes in cinema. Also, let's not forget the method of Tarantino creating characters on screen, making the audience attached to them. I think that was the point, to make you more involved, and the sequences more surreal.

Why don't they rename it to "I like to chug robitussin. YEEHAW!" It's nice to know that the drug they dedicate it to is known for its destructive nature to the brain, overheating, deterioration, and what not. No wonder they're delusional. If this is a joke band, then I feel like a sap.

WTF is this site? It doesn't even make any sense. Everything is some type of poetic jargon, the pictures are emo as hell, and in his music section, he has 3 cd's for sale, and you can't listen to a sample of any song! Essential, there IS no music, and this guy is a douchebag/tool. Velvet Cacoon fails at music, and life for that matter. Christ.

MAN, ALL THESE GODDAMN SHITTY JUDGE FGTS MAKE ME SO MAD. AARRRRGGHH. MY SONG IS TEH BESTEST EVAR! I MEAN, COME ON....TYPING IN CAPS MAKES ME ANGRIER TOO!!!!!!! WITH LOTS OF EXCLAMATIONS!!!!!!!! ARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!! All I have to say is look at VGMix 2.0, and I rest my case. Yay for judges. Even Jesus would judge OCR.

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For $100, the Sennheiser HD280 Pros. If you want to push the price, go with the HD580's or the HD595's. Once you hit the HD580's and up, couple that with a good amp...and DAMN will you be glad you bought them. It's like an Alpine car stereo on your head. HD580's and HD595's run about $150-$200 new on ebay.

I always thought I'd play the game if I was finanically secure, in charge of my own work schedule, and had no committments or obligations to anything in life. Seriously, I know friends who were A students flunking out of college or at least their majors. They were almost grad students, then WoW came along. If I played this game, I would most likely flunk out of college and move back in with my parents. Or if I managed to get a job, I'd be fired within 3 days. I strongly believe this came is quite possibly more addictive than crack/cocaine. I've never touched an MMORPG, and I don't plan to soon. So other than that, I basically complimented the game.

Haven't reviewed in awhile, ugh...stressing out like crazy lately. ANYWAYS...after listening to this I actually felt quite satisfied with the listen. Production is mostly very well done, nice musicianship, good uses of synth and ambient textures, and an overall nice rendition of the tune. However, although Pixietricks did a fine job singing, the recording and mixing of her vocals were poor. I was listening on monitor headphones, and still couldn't understand the words. The recording also sounded hollow and raspy, with a lack of a pop filter, or a de-esser plugin on the track. The voice is what helps this mix shine a lot, and is why I am critiquing it so much. Vocals are tricky to mix if you're no engineering expert (myself included), but I still felt it could've been a bit better even for an amature effort. From listening, this came out to be a pretty successful collaboration. I still enjoyed the tune, even with the repetitiveness. It had nice thick textures, riffs, and layers that kept things interesting throughout the piece. Keep up the good work.

You fooled me then. I am a visitor to OCR for over one year and half and when I see loutish actions like these it makes me shy away from participating or sharing my own music at OCR. Well, looks like music isn't for you then. People need to stop expecting opinions like "OMG U R L33T".

So I was browsing around the internet again, and brought up OCR. I decided to listen to a few mixes, also coming across this piece. It is not my intention to "bash" Gray, or completely rip apart his pride, but here's the math equation in a nutshell. Melody + Bass + Percussion + FX = Gray Everyone has a style, and a voice, but I have reviewed many Gray pieces in the past telling him what he NEEDS to do. This isn't a preference of Jared, but a complete upgrade of what your music CAN be. As I will state again, there is hardly any harmonization in here, and a poor job of orchestration. I've never heard so many random instruments come out of nowhere, and the use of instrument effects were poorly executed not only in proper implementation, but mixing as well. When I heard this piece, I soley thought that high quality samples were the only drive. It has lots of hits, lots of percussion, and a melody line. Yet, this piece doesn't use hardly ANY form, and parts are just plugged in because they can be (SAM Brass FX Swells, VOTA screams). There is no counterpoint or harmonizing at all, other than the bass and melody. Instrument choice also seemed poor, because I felt the random insertion of the authentic instruments didn't fit, and became stale as the piece progressed. Gray needs to stop using constant fx patches, balance levels of sections better, select an actual form (percussion is way too loud), and bring more actual orchestration into his pieces. I don't care what you may think, but all I heard in this and many other pieces in the past was high quality samples, and nothing else special. I DO try to give every mix an honest chance, but when this ended, I felt empty and had no memorable moments in the song. Again, I'm not trying to be a dick, but I'm throwing the cold, honest truth. In my experience, it is reviews like this from people I've respected that have helped me most. 20 songs is a lot, but remember it is quality that matters, not quantity. Jared Hudson