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For whatever reason, I'm completely ok with this.

well you're wrong because i have many friendships with moms of all ages, sizes, and colors. p.s. really good stuff on getting this guy mr. strader. that was a smart move.. because well, it worked. that's all that matters : D

Got back into voting this round. Am beating myself up for missing last week. Amphibious, you've got some very awesome stuff here. Guitar + Saxophone? Heck yeah! It's very laid-back and enjoyable. Doesn't try to do anything too crazy, it's just 4 complete minutes of simple, yet good and sexy music. Exactly like I like it. and exactly why you get my vote. Rexy you made a very catchy remix. Your drum work has always stood out too me especially in this compo. Really diggin' your stuff. Chiptune works well with the sega soundbits. (which reminds me, great bass here). Good stuff from both of yah.

You know, I was listening to this a little more, and I think it honestly might be that I just don't like the instrument all that much. But that's a good thing because that's just personal preference. The best way I can describe it is just sticks out to much when compared to all the other instruments. But I kept listening to your arrangement to figure out why I don't like it and I think that it's just me. If someone else happens to mention something, then try something, but I don't think you have to worry about it as is. In this type of piece I would assume the lead instrument should stick out, anyways. Guess those last two posts were pointless then, but do fix the bells panned right at 1:40

It'd be good if someone else suggested something along with this. If a real instrument isn't working for me, I usually just cheeze it and replace it with a synth. It could work here, but that kind of recommendation imo is messing with your creativity in the piece. Maybe try layering it with a similar sounding instrument or flute? Then EQ whatever frequencies sound out of place and let the other instrument deal with those. That's what I would do personally.

You've got a cool, unique style here. I just want to pop in to mention that at around 1:40, those bell like instruments (it might just be the piano) are getting a bit too bright and distracting. They're in the my right ear. Maybe EQ them or change the volume a bit. Also, nobody else mentioned this so I guess it's not a big deal, but I was never a fan of the choice of the oboe. Something about the instrument / mixing is bothering me, but I don't know what. All the other instruments sound cool, the oboe just sounds off to me. Not sure why. Probably not that big of a deal, though.

Woah. This was a big surprise. Breakbeat electronica is a genre that's very hit or miss for me, and I'd like to congratulate you for pulling off an extremely awesome song here, DaMonz. The soloing is absolutely awesome, some of the best I've heard on this site. A staple of the genre (at least from all of what I've heard) being glitchy effects / drums are being used very well here. Also, I'm digging the soundscape and atmosphere of the song! That jump from the piano section back to the conclusion was awesome. Great focus on the dynamics in this song. Recommending this song to anyone reading. Again, great stuff!

That is so freaking epic. Much love to whoever got that for you.

If you haven't already, I'd get rid of some of the reverb in the bass. I don't think you necessarily have to cut below 30khz (edit: I could have sworn somebody mentioned something about cutting it below 30khz, but I guess not), just balance it out with the mix, so it's not putting a blanket over the whole mix like it's doing right now. Try to find a better piano sample and guitar sample while you're at it. Tweak the guitar if anything, but if you can't get it to sound good, maybe replace it with a synth? Or heck, even layer a synth over it, that might help to give it some character. The piano could also use some humanization. I'd hate to keep saying things, but I do think you have a good mind for music from what I'm hearing so far. Just need to work. When you're trying to do cymbal rolls during that piano solo at 4:04 it doesn't sound to good. I'm not sure if you're really going to get a good cymbal roll sample like you're wanting from FL Studios library, but look around. Something might work. I would also try having a pad play there or something, so it doesn't sound so awkward hearing a cymbal roll with only the piano. There's definitely a lot that can be done with this mix. I wouldn't stress yourself out over this one song too much. It's as Skrypnyk said, only doing more projects will get you better. But you'd be doing good to apply as much as we've said here to this project if possible and the next one you do. Like I said, you obviously have a good mind for music - just keep learning production and arrangement techniques and I think you'll be alright. P.S. I found myself liking the part towards the end. Try applying arrangement like that throughout the song. It was fun to listen to!

source: mix: https://www.box.com/s/91f0e3de9dd2c660b6d9 I was mostly addicted to the drums of the source. So there will be a lot of more experimenting in that department. Just a start to the mix. Hope to get a good arrangement out of this/soundscape out of this source.

I submitted a saxophone heavy track to OCR a while back (https://www.box.com/s/57xp66377r2k33tolrjh it's here), and well, it got rejected. I'm finally going to try and up this to the standards they were hoping for - one of the things mentioned in the rejection thread was the lack of humanization on the saxophone. This is a piece that I really want to get the best out of, so I was hoping to find a live saxophone to put over the piece of. I still have other things to work on and balance out to get the be fully ready for OCR, but wanted to go ahead and try looking for any willing saxophonists now. Feel free to send me a message on my wall and we can talk over a messenger or something. Thanks for taking the time to read.

Quote from this thread: http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=38283I remember seeing this pop up in a few other threads too, iirc. I'm curious as to the extreme of this though. Does this only apply to big production issues, or does it also apply to small issues too? It seems like it would be fine for small things like small volume issues or maybe panning issues. Or maybe even compression issues in a particular part of a song. Since they're quick fixes, should that really warrant them to go through the whole submission and evaluation process completely? Unless I'm misconstruing the extreme of this like I mentioned earlier.

I will be getting this eventually. I absolutely love this music, and it's cheap. Just atm, I pretty much blew all the last fun money (and more) on Tales of Symphonia on ebay so gonna wait a bit.

https://www.box.com/s/9e6a7c6063bad34b6205 aaaand update! I'm going to have to mix the snare in my car stereo - it's the only true place where I can get a feel for if it's powerful but not too powerful. Because at the moment I think it might be too powerful. It's hard to tell with my headphones though. I did up the kick again, and I also unfiltered the higher frequencies so it could be heard a little more. It took me a while to get used them, but I think it might be working. I'll probably up those frequencies. It was also recommended I mess with the high end hats a little bit, so I'm going to do that some either tonight or tomorrow. I want to get this snare working first. And the kick. As for the piano thing.. well, it's kind of used to build up the intensity. I changed the frequencies a little bit to make the piano a bit more exciting. I might improvise with it a bit more. Maybe some high notes playing to give it more energy at the start. It's supposed to be used to kind of start off the mix, and the chiptune melds in with it, and I have them layered throughout the song because the chiptune lead is a bit too much just by itself. I might bring in some chiptune counterpart writing over the piano in the piece earlier. I'll ask others for what they think too. Cause I can kind of hear what you mean when you say the piano parts are a bit less interesting. also better fadeout! and better fade in!

The World of Warcraft soundtrack (Vanilla and BC's specifically) do nicely for me. I found Chrono Triggers soundtrack to be very comforting, as I was in Indiana working a job, and I didn't bring my mp3 player for whatever reason, so I only had my DS with me. So every day after those long 15-17 hour shifts I'd listen and eventually sleep to the Chrono Trigger DS music box. This is probably how I grew attached to the soundtrack after only a week. And two other series I can think of: Animal Crossing and Metroid.

FYI, your soundclound link isn't your own. It's a bunch of rappers talkin bout girls and money.

I would definitely be interested in this. Since I'm not yet accepted I'd love to be the newb, and learn new stuff from already posted mixers who've been doing this for a while. You should totally run this by the way MindWanderer. It's a good idea.

I'd also like to mention that Tales would probably be more popular with Nintendo fans than Dig Dug or Tower of Druaga anyday considering a few (3 off the top of my head) of it's games have been on Nintendo systems exclusively. And even more that were later ported over to Playstation consoles. Unless you were saying you'd personally prefer those games over Tales and Tekken. In which case ok.

I'm really hoping to see some Tales series action. Lloyd Irving would make a freaking great Smash character, IMO.

Now that's just cute. I want that for any children I may incur in the future. Using words like incur makes me feel smart.

I agree with this statement or do I?

https://www.box.com/s/9e6a7c6063bad34b6205 And....finally! The arrangement is finished off. Again that little string stab cutoff is at the beginning. Will fix that in any future update. Will wait on any crits or production ideas now, and if none get posted I'll put this on mod review. Naming this finished for now, though. edit: also yay for my first triple post ever.

Want to drop by and say I'm really liking this. I'm not sure if you're planning on changing this (like a final master or something), but I do want to say: That first lead synth you bring in might be a little too loud, maybe try lowering the volume and beefing it up with another lead synth on top of it? If you can. Other than that I like this. The drums are a little on the weak side in terms of mixing, but I think they sound good like that, like something you'd hear on an RPG or something. I really dig this song. Great writing in pretty much all aspects of the song.