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I'm with you on the whole harem and cute girls doing cute girls thing (don't like the former at all, but the latter is enjoyable if I just want to relax after a long work day or something). When it comes down to it, when listing the best animes ever or recommending anime to someone, story should come first. IMO. The anime like you mentioned are almost purely fanservice, and if you're not a fan to begin with then it's obviously not going to appeal to you. The only anime drama I've watched besides Clannad (key adaption series) at this point is Welcome to the N.H.K. (which imo was so much better). I think in comparing those two, I can see what you mean, but you should still try watching Clannad and see what you think. It's not exactly the "greatest love story ever told" or whatever people make it out to be, but it's certainly worth trying at least. However, if you haven't watched Madoka you should do that. It's one of the more recent animes that presents themes that are easy to get behind 100%, and virtually lacks any plotholes, which I think can pretty hard to do with the plot it has. Also, has some great character development and is well paced considering it's a 12 episode series. Kind of like a long movie. Watch a subbed version if you do though. The voice actors are great.

Yeah, gonna agree that just headphones aren't going to cut it. Professionals prefer to use both, because they're so different and you want to get a feel for what your mixes sound on both devices. It's vice versa too, just because you have a freaking amazing $2000 monitors doesn't mean you shouldn't invest in some good headphones. Oh yeah and also what shaggyfreak said: once you get those monitors, get comfortable with them. My friend had some great, top of the line professional monitors that he let me mix on for a while, but honestly I mixed MUCH better on the old crappy monitors that came with my computer because I was just used to them and knew how the music was supposed to sound on them. Only wanting to say that because I'm not sure if it's all to obvious or not. (don't have any good monitor recommendations though, sorry but going to keep an eye out on this thread because I need some myself)

That's a bit of an exaggeration Anime (at least for a while now) has always been made to cater to the fans. And the fans really dig the moeblob style for now, but I don't think that's changed the fact that there are still good shows out there and you shouldn't knock everything just because of this particular type of fanservice, or else you'll be missing lots of good shows from enjoyable ones like Hyouka to freakin' great ones like Madoka.

Really just looking for the instrument name here, and if you know of any good soundbanks to get that'd help too: Used here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yUxl95mGAI as the lead I think this might be the same thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onz8RH7FdSQ just processed a little less. If it's not though then it'd be nice the name of this instrument too. Yeah I hear these a lot in music, just don't know the actual term for them..

Have already posted the source to the Starcraft theme just in case anybody else missed it I think to make things a bit easier for everyone, the OP should be updated with all the sources, that is assuming you have them all MindWanderer.

Comments: Not much to say about this one on my end. It was pretty much just the usual stuff, at first I was going to take this advantage to tackle an electronic song since Flexstyle was by my side, but because of a lot of work related stuff, I just didn't see myself having the time to try out a whole lot of new things. The arrangement probably only took about 6 hours to put together honestly, this was over a period of 3 or 4 days though, since I feel like I get more inspired away from the computer screen rather than in front of it. Fun stuff to put together, though. I sent over the arrangement to Flexstyle, and he did a LOT by upping the quality of the samples, replacing a few synths, and redoing the drums to give it a bigger more cinematic feel. The drums really brought a lot to the mix IMO. I loved them. What I learned from this? That I really should look into better samples Really though, I think this song is going to really inspire me in the future to try and expand on what I already know by trying different instruments, synths, etc. to give my songs different feels. I also should start being a little more detailed in my songs, since Flexstyle showed me a little bit can go a LONG way. Was super fun to work on. Glad I got to do this. I probably won't be on the novice side next time, unless you allow me to be (I just got a mix accepted, but this whole experience was super humbling and I think being a novice a little while longer will help a lot) source: (we used the riff at 5:13)

I'd +1 this post if I could.

Everyone get this NAO! Very smooth stuff here. I especially think the songs here "flow" a bit better than your previous stuff. Everything sounds great production wise, and each song is very different but they don't sound to different that they shouldn't be on the same EP. Keep up the good work dude, you keep getting better.

Just sent in our song. Also sent it into OCR. You guys are gonna love this song. Flexstyle helped bring this thing to life. : D

Male and 20 It ranges, but when I do game I like to set aside 2 hours to get the most out of it.

Just finished our mix.. sending over to Flexstyle for some lovin'. It's pretty short, but interesting all the same. I'm pretty sure it'll come out super kick-ass once Flexstyle's done with it. Also, right in the middle of the compo my mix gets accepted to OCR. Don't disqualify me

Congrats Mr. Willrock. I still hate British people. (joking of course)

this world has become hopeless

Halcyonspirit, if you really liked K-ON!, then seriously Yuru Yuri should be the next thing you watch. Seriously. It's too good. Of course there's such a thing as too much moe. So if you're at that point then chillin' out with some more action would be good. Nice reviews, by the way. Going to try and watch Evangilon soon, speaking of. Maybe. Really I'm just trying to get all the short, 12-14 episode classics out the way (along with a few others). Just got a external hard drive storage which I badly needed and have been on an anime craze as of late. After I'm finished with Shigofumi I'm onto Serial Experiements Lain. Then probably Evangilon. Then whatever else comes after that. Probably another mystery series.

Making good progress here. Not as far as I'd like to be, but if I'm persistent I should have a good arrangement finished off by midnight tonight. This is not a source I expected to cover, I can only hope I'm doing it a little justice 'cause it's pretty freaking awesome..

Yeah, that's not unusual at all. There has to be some way to get your creative juice running. Many good professional musicians have their ways to escape music and get that creativity back. The simplest thing I can do is just hang out. I can go out, eat with some friends, go to the park, whatever. Sometimes I just get inspired by people. I'm also a very visual person when it comes to music. From hiking in the mountains, to just simply looking at art helps a lot. I come with a lot of melodies, chord progressions, etc. just from being outside, though.

Do want to drop in as an Acer customer, I would not recommend it. Have not been pleased with the company as a whole, you have to go through hell to get in touch with them if your warranty runs out. Customers service isn't great at all. Also, the labtops like Flexstyle said are not that reliable. Go with a better company. Specs are fine, IMO. Just a different brand name would be recommended.

Happy birthday Mr. DJPretzel. Wish you best!

Just wanted to get this message out to my possible future star - I just got a job (yay : D) from Wednesday - Saturday (technically start tomorrow though since I'm driving out then) and will be out of town. I'm not entirely sure of what times I'll be able to spend on the internet (gonna be at a hotel), but I'm probably going to be spending more time with my hopefully future bosses rather than in front of a computer screen.. just to make a good impression and stuff. So yeah, just as a little heads up. This doesn't mean I won't have internet at all though, so feel free to message me via PM here and we'll back and forth through that. We can at least hopefully have an idea of what to do so we can start composing Sunday.

Yes it does, mostly because of that insane clown on my FL Studio monitor that keeps staring at me. In all seriousness, I do sometimes get a little iffy when writing original music at least. Remixes, it's free game.. but with original music.. I just have this creeping feeling sometimes that I'm just writing down someone else's music that's just been stuck in my head for a long time. It scares me that what I call original isn't so original after all.. but at some point I just end up going with the flow.. doing my best to avoid cliche riffs, improvise.. and more importantly just express myself. That's the most important thing in the end...

Thank YOU SuperiorX. This competition was a great idea, and the music that came out of it was some of the best Sonic remixes I've heard in a while (maybe ever). It takes true guts to hold down something like this. Thanks for being dedicated through everything (issues, drama, whatever else might have gone down)- hopefully next year will be an equally if not more awesome year for Sonic music. : D

I want to pop in this thread and just say that I really like the arrangement. The instruments are really cool. I would have preferred more stereo width in some of the instruments, but that's not an issue really, just preference. Haha. Great sound design here. Thank you for loving Kirby.

Sources (Both sources are only about 3 seconds long, so won't take long to get the gist of the arrangement): - "Title Screen" - "Floating Tile World"Remix: https://www.box.com/s/a9023c8637e3d2f72fea Hardcore inspiration on this one, but of course as with most pieces I get super inspired on, I've run into a brickwall. Not sure what it is, but I'm really trying hard to bring this arrangement to full circle. I feel like another minute or minute and a half would be just fine for this kind of thing.. just gotta figure out what that minute and a half is going to be. I'd hate to put an incomplete song out there again, but usually when I do with something like this, it becomes easier to complete the song with getting proper feedback, 'cause you guys are pretty smart . And also like hell I know how to compose a proper solo piano piece. The piano is EQ'd the crap out of by the way, I've pumped up the lows and highs a lot. Any EQ'ing tips on this piece would be helpful (if necessary). The feeling for the piano I'm going for is dark and eery. Dreadful in a sense, but not scary or anything like that.

It's not going to be the rendering most likely. It's probably the mixing itself, just because everything sounds good one on studio setup doesn't mean it's going to sound good on everything - you gotta try and mix on various things to get the "perfect" sound. Advice, listen to the song on different things. Mix on your monitors first, then mix it on headphones (which really, you should ALWAYS mix on a good pair of headphones, regardless of if you have monitors or not. Mixing on both is the best way to get a solid mix), then try listening to it in your car, and mix it to your car. Then you can take it even further and listen to the song on a crappy pair of earbuds from a dollar store, and mix it a bit on there. If this is confusing at all, the whole point of this is to basically to get one good mix through listening on all these things. Mixing on just monitors alone doesn't mean it's going to sound good on everything else. Hope that's not confusing. edit: also the subwoofer thing like moseph said. always good to consider that. oh yeah also i should mention because i don't think it's that obvious, you're not going to get one "perfect" mix that sounds totally awesome on every single pair of speakers ever, you're just going for solid. if you have to make decisions to sacrafice quality on those earbuds, then i'd do that before anything else.