Calum

This is "cave of mystery", just a little tune I recorded with live guitar/drums/piano/violins also some bowed cymbal/bowed glockenspiel. The guitar is a little out of time, but it's not finished. A jingle with mostly live instruments. Short jingle that sounds like an sort of ending in a sonic game or something. All midi, using cubase. I'd love any feedback on any aspect of these!

Hey I don't know Hudson Mohawk or diplo, perhaps I should! Thanks, yeah I think I will expand it, at some point!

oh what a coincidence! haha Well i'll work on something and que sera sera!

I can work on a Inside the Castle Walls if that's still available! I'm not dibbsing it but when i've got something recorded i'll send it to whoever's in charge! Calum

This is great! I don't know that I completely agree that it's that game music'y, but if you can ReMix game music in this kind of style it's bound to be a pretty big success! Good luck, I'm also pretty new so I can't give you an awful lot of advice!

I'm certainly not a metal master so take what i'm saying with a pinch of salt. One problem might be that you seem to have taken the song quite far away from the original source. In the opening riff you have a kind of variation on the main melody and the accompanying chords have changed as well. The melody does come back almost as it originally was in the middle section but it's kind of not that strong and the lead guitar goes slightly out of time at times, if you don't mind me saying so. I do like it though. You could think of having a bit like that end somewhere in the middle where it all comes down to like a piano section where you perhaps go back to the original source a bit more then go back into it! But yeah, I'm no expert on metal so that's just what I wanted from it, more reference to the original source. Also its structure seems to kind of be A-B-C-D-E, you could think about repeating some of the sections. Correct me if I'm wrong though! You might also like to think about putting in like an organ part, i know it might not be that metal, or it may be, but just to fill out the other frequencies and make it sound fuller. Ah, i've rambled on a bit here. But well done for the ReMix. Calum

Hi, I have to agree with SiriusBeatz on most of what he's said, particularly timing. In places where there's repetition, which there does seem to be a lot, you could copy and paste if you have a "snap-to-grid" kind of function in mixcraft, I don't know, I use cubase. The main thing with most of these is that it seems to be a melody with slow moving chords underneath. Something to think about would be making the chords underneath more interesting, rhythmically, instead of just holding them on for the whole bar (ALTHOUGH YOU DO HAVE A COOL MOTIF GOING ON IN THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF SECOND SONG. Do more of that kind of thing). That said, that kind of thing does seem to suit the whole villain theme thing you've got going on here, which I dig. Also, similarly, you could think about adding counter-melodies - something that may respond to the melody or answer it in some way. This may create more interest as things do seem to be chords + melody. And perhaps thinking about using more individual instruments. Correct me if i'm wrong, but it sounds like, in the orchestral songs, you are using, for example, a brass ensemble sound or string ensemble sound to play chords. This is absolutely fine but I guess in real orchestras each person would have their own "track" so to speak. It may just make it sound fuller if you have violin, viola, cello and double basses tracks instead of one string ensemble. That way, also, you might think about different accompanying phrases or counter-melodies! I know it kind of sounds like a chore but, with orchestral writing, I think it will make it sound far more realistic and will open up the songs for you! In terms of the last song, I think you've got a particularly tough job trying to make jazz sound good on VSTs. I mean it's definitely possibly if you're using synths etc. But sequencing real instruments in a jazz set up is never particularly convincing, at least to me. The drums in particular as jazz drumming is so "feely" for lack of a better word, programming generally does it justice. I'd say for your last song, you could have kept the hi-hat/ride cymbal going like in the intro at 0:23 where it seems to stop and just do cymbal crashes etc. That said, definitely don't give up on jazz at all when using technology, but maybe use more synthetic instruments or try to record your own authentic instruments in addition to VSTs. OK, I'm rambling on. Basically I'd say, echoing SiriusBeatz, that timing/clarity in writing is key but also to think about separate lines

This is just a little bit of VG R&B using some Wind Waker samples & cubase. Only the first chorus/intro kind of thing but I wanted to post it to get people's opinions! It's kind of mid-way between a Remix & an original so I wasn't too sure where to post it.

This sounds great, not that I've submitted a remix before so I won't know the grass wasn't as green before but it's just nice to know that it's greener, now.

I'd be interested. I love "In The Sky That Night"! I'm afraid I didn't listen to any of the links above so that may have been one of them. I pretty new to OCREMIX so, I don't know how things operate... But being interested is where I stand! A little something about me that you may want to know, I'm a music student, I use cubase and a Samson Go mic, I don't profess to being a music tech wizz but I can get along. I'm a percussionist as well as a pianist, violist/violinist and guitarist There's my short little introduction, I'll check back soon, or something.