Garpocalypse

I've finally gotten around to updating my most garpocalyptic remix to date. What started out as a quick remixing of Supremacy for the PRC crowd ended up becoming one of my favorite mixes to work on so far. Mostly because I am closer than ever to the sound I wanted... Two years ago. Source: Remix: http://soundcloud.com/garpocalypse/supremacy-cosmic-cataclysm-1 (updated 6-20-13) Updates: Guitars Redone VST's used: Dimension Pro EWQLSO Le Pou Amp and Cab sims Zeta+ Rapture Steven Slate Drums If it's passable I'm hoping this will be my debut mixpost so please, tastefully, reem this one out.

Expendables 2! Awesome movie! I never thought i'd miss that stuff but these days in our Steve Carell, Seth Rogan, Angry Video Game Nerd society. Yea, i kinda do.

SONIC REMICKS!!!! Crap I just remembered i've been meaning to remix this source for awhile. Drums are sort of apart from the rest of the mix, like the orchestra is playing on a stage but the drummer is right in the middle of the audience for some reason. Not blended as well as it could be. The highhats are distracting too. Try taking the piano out of stereo for most of the mix. At least until the solo at the end. It's muddying up the rest of the instruments and it's a little awkward sounding. The mix as it is is still pleasant sounding. Not abrasive or painful to listen to which is great. I think the swells come out too much and take shift the listeners attention in a bad way though. Clean up the piano and tone down the swells and this would be a fantastic mix!

Not sure what that is at the start but if it's intentional it's great. On my earbuds it sounds like it's coming from the back of my head. If it just wasn't panned slightly to the right... The bass sounds like one long note. Can't hear the plucks at all. Some neat wide swells but they don't come off in a pleasing way. The alto sax has a few notes that had my ears hurting as well. Most of the playing is too mechanical. Was it all moused in? If you can get a midi keyboard and try to play a few things then it would sound a lot more natural. Overall probably not quite ready for Mod Review just yet but this would be very enjoyable with some more development.

Congrats on winning the round MW. Pretty sweet mix for the most part. Off the bat I think there is too much reverb on the horn call. If it's EWQLSO then I know you can't really get rid of all the reverb on the samples and it's probably stacking with the master reverb. The harp is really really mechanical. I would take the plucks no more than four notes at a time and make sure that each one is humanized and varies appropriately in velocity. A little rubato here and there just to widen the downbeats. If you watch live orchestra players, especially the plucking ones, there is a really really long moment in preparation of a pluck on a downbeat. It's tough to explain but next time you see an orchestra watch the basses. The bells are a little too piercing against the lush strings. Maybe filter off the highs or readjust the EQ. The fake vibrato kind of takes away alot of this mix's greatness especially around 3:13. I don't think this is EWQLSO. Overall I really liked it, it reminds me of Star Ocean 2 in a good way, but some of the instruments don't seem to match each other. The starting call sounds very very different from the rest of the mix and this becomes extremely apparent right around 3:13. After mixing different sections I always do a few long mixes where I just listen to it from start to finish and do some final tweeking as I listen. This helps with uniformity in the sound. Great work for only a week's amount of time!

Where the heck did this thread go since last night? This is just getting weird now guys. BS opened a pandoras box that no one can...really seem to deal with actually.

I loved that game! Having never played any other version i can't say any more than that... The dreamcast port of Omicron was pretty awful but then again the dreamcast had a lot of terrible ports. ABXY for 1st person movement my ass! Outside of that the Genesis version of Galaxy Force II was horrible. I still loved the game but I wish they would publish the original arcade version on a system I own! I'm hoping to see a cabinet of Galaxy Force II at a future magfest. The one that had a moving cockpit. Played this one time at Ocean City MD when I was a kid and it was life changing. For a kid.

I dont want to start anything here but I was looking at the description for Tomb Raider on steam and for some reason this description of something in the game made me think of this thread. Croft's Crest (for all classes) - "This badge lets your enemies know you're as brave as a shivering, weeping, blood-stained 17-year-old British girl

I might have something for this one. Finishing it in time though well thats another story.

I play to fulfill my male power fantasies. 'cuz that's all they are at this point. If I can't be the good guy once in awhile and save the cute girl by walking to the right and punching everything in my way then I want to at least pretend I can.

No kidding. I'm pretty sure this was all ground that was pretty well covered here about a year ago. http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=38909&highlight=sexism+videogames But I like a good fight every now and then so i'll keep watching. Just keep it civil and remember. I love you guys...and chicks, i mean women! Of OCR.

Plus repped for puppets and gratuitous shots of a dust free Dreamcast. Wait, nevermind. Putting the dreamcast to bed just freaked me out. At least you didn't put eyes on the thing. Pretty good sense of humor though. These are worth a 7 minute watch. It's great to get some non technical views on what makes videogame music enjoyable.

I know this is rare these days but: At least I know I still enjoy some things for what they are.

lol yea I wish he would do some different things once in awhile. One of his recent videos has him using his own mix as fodder and he says those god awful Linkin Park esque guitar licks he did were a strength of the mix. I'm not crazy about the amount of nasal singing that are on his videos either but the information is good and that's what matters to me.

Sort of but not really. I've never used reaper so I can only guess that it's used to get your supporting instruments out of the center. You can do the same thing recording a stereo track and splitting to mono which is how i am doing it. Forcing everything to the center let's you see how everything stacks and makes it much easier to find something that's clashing or disappearing completely. Some issues you might not be finding in stereo become much more apparent in mono. Plus a quick and easily reversible change in your DAW can be used to combat mix fatigue and give you a better perspective.

Sonic's the man! I only played the demo for 06 and never went further sooooo as far as I know i have no opinion about it...

Happy Birthday! Hope to see you again at Mag '14!

As much as I love Graham I gotta say that today's video couldn't have come at a worse time for me. Just this week, after over a year of doing things my way, I just identified how poorly i've been using my stereo tracks in my mixes and today his tip reinforces what i wish I knew all this time. Thanks graham but if it came a year earlier I would have been posted by now!!

I check for new recording revolution videos pretty regularly but today I nearly deafened my coworkers once I saw that 5 MIN TO A BETTER MIX III just going!!!!!!!!!!!! On the negative side now everyone knows I surf on my phone at work. Oh well screw 'em! http://www.youtube.com/user/recordingrevolution A great piece of mixing wisdom everyday for the rest of the month!

At the end of any console generation everything becomes dirt cheap. I usually pick up a refurbished system and go on a spree for all the games I missed that I really wanted to play. I'm planning on doing the same for the PS3 just as soon as a massive price drop hits. Which better be before Tales of Xillia releases. No sense in ruining a game for yourself by listening to someone whine the whole way through it Just be patient.

Sweet, looks like the cover art is in good hands.

Avoid Ministry of Rock like the plague. A complete miss from Phoenix. A few games have used it though most notably Motoi Sakuraba's work on Tales of Xillia. (something that is bound to prevent my enjoyment of the game when it gets released) Duke Nukem Forever also used it and I think I heard some of the background guitar squeals from Ministry of Rock were used in Soul Calibur V on that one stage. The Blue and Red one. Chaos something i think. Maybe zircon can confirm that. I've been using it since my first remix i had here on the forums and now that i have gone beyond it I don't know how i ever used it. You can't humanize the rhythm guitars without them souding awful. Only one of the rhythms in the whole pack let's you use your two hands to play it, everything else needs a keyboard split which means you have to run two instances for one instrument. You can't double track or quad track which is a metal necessity nor can you control the panning unless you mono each side by itself. The guitars sound so bad though you won't even get to that point. The lead guitars would be usable if they weren't so thin. But only if you play everything on a keyboard. If you can't play a lick, programming it is going to sound like hell. The articulations are a big problem too as each guitar has seperate articulation triggers. If you liked the bends the les paul delux has but want to do it on the les paul standard, Tough! You can't do it. The drums are ok but i've never used them in anything I finished. Steven Slate Drums are what I use most of the time anyway. Need further proof? http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40535&highlight=valhorteka