Garpocalypse

GARRRRRRRRR Pocalypse's SZRC Edition Vol. II Fashionably Late as always. You're Too Snow! Really enjoying the snow like vibes from the intro. I think the guitar stay at one level in the mix too much though. Would have liked to hear some tone changes. Maybe a double tracking or a synth layering for some sections. If you were going for a live sound, which is possible with all that reverb, then it works. Really good use of both zone themes! Synth Snowman Some interesting avant garde sounds in this one but probably unintentional. Very tough to pick out the themes at times but it was a pretty good effort. Sterling it's great you are getting started this early in your life. Keep at it and you will get some great stuff going! No Love Lasts Forever InTro WAs a ComPLetE MIcHaEl JacKsOn RiP oFf! Kick Snare Kick Clap? yEa, ReAL oRiGinAl... WhAt iS tHis 1985?! GeT sOmE tAleNt Ya sHMmMmMuCk!! NEXT!! Call of The Phoenix Orchestra remixes are kind of a funny thing. Sample libraries are either great or completely unusable. This remix might not have the best samples but they were used very well. Though the violins really stood out to me in a less than great way when they took the melody at 00:56 mostly because the articulations were unnatural and the vibrato was really awkward. Find someone who has a decent set of orchestra samples and see if they would mind working with you on this! get it subbed! Double Cross Nice intro. Enjoying the sweep. This is definitely going somewhere. Crap it's dubstep NEXT!! ... just kidding. Production is fantastic with a great sense of depth and movement from background to foreground. Though with Death Egg being your pick for the Competition I was hoping to hear more of it. Nice job though! Sininen Sili Silai Classic ROck sOunD oHh yEAa!! Despite the (intentional) shoestring budget demo sound the guitars all fit together pretty well! Can hear each one very distinctly. Just a small section around 1:58 gets a little hairy but otherwise awesome job! Advanced Good matching of similar sounds used in the source. Though I would have personally like to hear more of an aural 'splosion at 00:45. You had some good energy building but all that was lost after the 'splosion! Keep tabs on what you have in the center and what you have panned outwards and don't be afraid to cut the bass out for a beat or two before those moments. Try to make it as obvious as possible and it will come across well! Hedgehog Reboom Spoken word intro? Man, you GOTTAA RAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! I like to use images to help get the best performance. Look at something like that right before you record and it will help get some more out of you. I think some of the issue is that you used too much disonance at the wrong times which adds to an overly lethargic feeling throughout the remix and that probably had an effect on how you did the vocals. Not bad, just not kickin' quite as well as it could have. Hope to be hearing more from you in the future! Smooth as Ice Really like that sax. Can actually hear the keys clicking at the start and feel the spit coming out of the end of it. I would kind of like to hear the sax take a break for one of the melodies though. Let someone else have the spotlight for a few beats you know? Very nice remix hope you can submit more of these to OCR! Frozen Heart Awesome production... despite the auto tuned vocals. Awesome work! Twisted Chemicals ... and here we get into Chemical Plant. Also reffered to as the next Sonic Track to be remixed Ad Nauseum. An Ice Cap Zone in progress. Very nice arrangement. ...and I'm not just saying that because I have nothing good to say about the mixing. That's great too! Going to be listening to this one for awhile. Chemically Groovin' Oh man, getting Shenmue vibes at the start! It sounds you have something great here it just needs more elaboration. Sadly 1:23 quickly throws away everything you set up so well. When you go back to this one I would delete that last 20 seconds or so before doing anything else as it's not in key with the rest of the remix. It's really just that lead too that's killing that section. Far from unfixable though! keep at it! Ruinous Ruins For not being a Sega person phonetic you sure nailed this one. I'm a major sucker for that specific Genesis FM bass. Get the megaman out of there tho! High Adventure This is one matchup I was really looking forward to seeing. I had no idea how it would turn out since Bingo Highway sounds like it was written under the influence of someone obviously coked out and Wing Fortress Zone that is no one's favorite Sonic 2 level. Love the wide bass drum when that hits. Very good remix that sees Bingo Highway through the lens of Wing Fortress Zone. Though that did make it tougher to pick out the parts that were Bingo at first. The Perfect Bingo Perfect buildup too. Though on my Sennheiser Cx215's something in that snare is killing my ears. I'm guessing it might be the compression. Regardless it's a very solid Bingo Highway remix and must have been a real challenge for both remixers to incorporate both themes.

I stopped worrying about setting snare compression once I started replacing it with saturation. I just turn it up a smidge but it might be the crappier Dimension Pro EDM snare overpowering the SSD one. That one wasn't saturated. Thanks! i'll get to fixing it hopefully before the start of the next round!

Quickly becoming my favorite show! :)I was able to catch a little of the show yesterday but I wasn't able to get into irc. It was kind of flattering and somehow a little cryptic hearing Rexy talk about me first appearing at DoD. For the record, I started doing DoD because it was the only way I was going to see myself on the front page of anything!(Don't bother looking them up, all those remixes suck.) :)I've really been a huge OCR fan years before that! Was it me or did Tuberz's remix have a few sections where it sounded awesome with all that extra compression?

yOur'Re GonNa GeT YoUrS PhoNEtiC!! BeFoRe ThiS iS OveR!! Thanks for the comments. About the drums are you saying they were mixed too weak or the sounds themselves are too weak ? It was a custom SSD Kit layered with an EDM kit with the EDM kit being reverbed seperately. Both were then sent to a Parallel Compression Aux where I believe I used a compressor that imitates a Urei 1176 in all button mode. Can't remember for sure though if I used that one or another one i'll have to take another look at it.

Well, if it was going to be an interactive videogame musical, which would have been awesome any way they were going to do it, I put my vote in for 40+ HOUR ROCK/METAL OPERA.

Soo, they approved FFXV to go back to consoles because Nomura designed a bunch of clothes for Lightning? wtf. Either SE really has lost touch or this is what business deals in Japan have been reduced to. Yu Suzuki offered to personally pay back any loss his early arcade games endured. Nomura offers to design clothing. Digital clothing.

I had a couple of remixing ideas down for some Mass Effect tracks but ran into some familiarity issues right off the bat. If I ever get them off my harddrive I would probably say they were inspired by the music of mass effect rather than remixes. BGC had some good Mass Effect remixes but the only one that is remixable with any sense of familiarity is the Galaxy Map track in my opinion. Still one of my favorite games though. I'll probably be doing a bunch of Freedom Planet remixes once that comes out. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=120841685

I told you that you were going to have a good laugh when I sent you those. 5 seperate bass tracks 3 or 4 pads 2 sequence loops and a different lead for each 8 bar phrase. I had no idea why that wasn't sounding like I wanted it to... Rage Reviews for the current round forthwithcoming!

Wow i am really digging this track. Though I would be too tempted to remix it in the style it's already in and that would be considered a cover. I will definitely be checking out this OST!

Hey Happy Birthday!

thanks Mindwanderer! Sometimes you don't realize how long you have been working against yourself and when you finally discover something you could be doing better other things start to click. ...Just ask Superior about those stems I sent him over the summer.

Hey everyone, I'd thought I would chuck my entry for this years Sonic Zone Remix Competition up on the forums here. Partially to prevent it from sitting on my hard drive for half a year or more. I went for an 80's inspired sound and while there is still some work that needs to be done to the remix I am pretty happy with how it turned out. Sources are Cosmic Wall(SA2) Lava Reef Zone(S&K) Remix: https://soundcloud.com/garpocalypse/no-love-lasts-forever-cosmic

Happy Birthday ecto-blood-dude! Ecto only eats grass fed right? Probably better off driving out into the country and taking a chomp out of a cow with those crazy grocery store prices!

I had a section or two I meant to improvise over. It got to the point where I was an hour before the deadline and realized that I had ...forgotten. Those are some ears. Yea it's a Korg M1 which is one of my favorite keyboards ever made. Can't get an 80's-90's sound without one!

While I am not one to argue for the ethics of cohesiveness... I do appreciate the comment! There's still some stuff I want to rewrite and mix better but I am definitely putting this one in the pile I am throwing at the judges. I thought it would be a good idea to start this year's SZRC by selling out as fast as possible. No, I just really wanted to try an 80's inspired track at some point and especially since The Jetzons Hard Times song surfaced a short time ago I thought this Sonic Remix competition would be a good place to try it. Working on Vol 2 of the SZRC's 2014 RAGE REVIEWS which will be up in a day or two. fantastic round!