Garrett Williamson

Next deadline is February 1st, correct?

Are you talking about the forum you linked in the "OP"?

Ok, after l listened to the menu theme I could most certainly go and do something with it. Really, anything. Sign me up for something.

True. True.

I may sound stupid saying this, but what does OP stand for? xP

I'd love to contribute to this. What are deadlines and requirements and such?

Well yesterday me and my cousin played Sonic 2 and got to Winged Fortress Zone and then died, after noticing we had used 4 continues and like 20 lives. We weren't the best at that game. I sorta sat there and was like, "did we seriously just get so determined just to do that? What is the point?" Of course, that's how it is with most video games. Beating a video game hardly ever actually has an effect on your actual life.

I always am saying to give people deadlines. Not too quick of deadlines but not too long either. Like a month. Are you PMing people? That's useful too. I'm sure you've been doing both, though. I've never directed an album on OCRemix, so don't listen to me.

If Rainbow Road for GCN is dropped, it's mine. I think it'd be nice if we had a few more Super Mario Kart songs in this record, such as the original main theme, and the SNES version of Rainbow Road is killer. Battle Mode in SMK is also cool. If any of these sound cool to you, I'm up for remixing one. The main menu of Double Dash is not very remixable, I don't think, but I could find a way around that and do something with it anyway.

Yo Zoltan! I'd love to do something here. I'd probably be able to do more of an orchestra type of song. Also, when would be the deadline?

I almost want to claim "Legend of Hyrule", but I seriously feel unworthy of doing so. xD To do orchestral stuff will most certainly require my collaborating with someone else that has really good orchestra stuff. I've got Logic and the orchestra instruments sound pretty real, but they are limited to only being played note by note or chord by chord. They can't do arpeggios or anything related to that.

Haha well I'm not sure if I can claim it yet because I have other remixes I'm working on and I'm sorta busy. But I'd be happy to collab and if I did so it wouldn't necessarily take up as much time and commitment.

I may wanna claim it...

I'm a little amazed no one's claimed Jungle Japes.

Pretty nice. I think the lead mallet of the melody needs to come out more. I know it's a WIP, so I don't know if this mix just doesn't have a lot of compressor or EQ or anything. But I would certainly bring out the lead mallet more.

If you're going for more professional stuff, then there isn't much stuff that is cheap. Like some of the others before me have said, there are sort of like dumbed down versions of all the pro stuff for cheaper, but there's hardly anything you're gonna get that's really good that you'll get a lot out of. I use a Mac, so I'm not sure how much help I can be. But FL Studio and Pro Tools are my best suggestions, and if they've said there's cheaper versions of those two, then great. If you had a Mac I would've suggested starting with GarageBand... I went from PC to Mac, because I prefer Mac over PC, mainly for its programs (such as Final Cut and Logic Pro... though Final Cut sorta is poopy now... I think I'm gonna get Premiere... but that's away from the main point) and its layout; it works better for me. But I'm going way out there now and hardly even talking about the main point, so there ya go.

Wow! Great work! I'd say my biggest issue is I think the snare is too compressed in a way that makes it not pop out as much. I think it needs to be compressed in a way where it has a much clearer hit, if any of that even remotely makes sense to you.

Well hi there! Geesh, wow! So the idea is that we send a remix starting the 6th for a week and one person wins and money goes to cancer patients (or something of that sort... I really hope I'm not sounding rude... I'm just trying to make sure I have this right) and the winner gets his/her remix made a free download on the site? Slightly confused on the rules. If I got it right, then cool. I'd like to be a part of this. But of course, I probably wouldn't win. But I'd still love to contribute.

I already have joined too many other projects, but if I happen to drop out of any of the other ones or finish another one really soon here (which is actually very possible), I am very interested in this. I would claim one, but I'm going to give it a little bit to see if I'll have the time to be a part of this, if you understand what I'm saying. I just happen to want to be a part of everything, whether it's a remix album project or something completely different.

No clue what anyone else has said, but here's how I do it. I use Logic, and I know Kontakt works with that, but I don't use Kontakt, and I don't know what software you use, but hopefully this won't be too different. If you are a Logic user at all, Ultrabeat is a very useful plugin that actually comes with the software. It's very nice and you can seperately EQ specific drums while all on the same track. If you don't use Logic, what I've always done is just duplicate the kit and have a snare track, kick track, hat track, tom track, and cymbal track. Obviously, because it isn't an actual recording, there's no Overhead mic track or anything. I'm not sure if that was even your question. If your question was literally "how do others do it all on one track", I seriously don't really have an answer other than the Ultrabeat solution I gave. There are probably tons of other plugins that have the same role as Ultrabeat, so that may be the explanation (like Kontakt, I bet). With my record I released on iTunes almost a year ago, though, I only had one song with a real drum track. Any other song with real-sounding drums were really just fake, but I recorded all on one track. I mixed it all on one track, and I'm not sure why I did. It doesn't sound awful, but it doesn't sound amazing either. I had been recording that whole record in 2010-2011, but by now I record any drum stuff I do in separate drum tracks for specific drums, like most people. Of course, this last record was more of just a simple, indie, half-acoustic record, so it was more about the songwriting than the way it sounded. I'm working on a new record and it's based more around programming and sound than the songwriting. I guess really, it all depends on what you're doing. But hardly do I ever hear about OTHERS using one track to do a full kit on. This was probably a waste of your time to read, so I apologize. My A.D.D. and my going off-subject and saying things that really aren't needed.

WHOA no one's taken Dragon Roost Island? Heck yeah! I'm up for it! I need to keep control on how many album projects I'm a part of, though. xP

Well if you've set five deadlines, and nothing has happened, then you need to go make sure everyone is still interested. Are you private messaging the deadlines and the current state of the album's progress?

Lol when's the next deadline again?

Seriously. You set them a deadline and they'll listen. You just have to make sure they're still interested in this. That's how you'll get this thing going. I'll take 2 remixes if that helps. But I'm not gonna go and steal so many. xP

Well get on it! Go and bother the people that claimed the tracks and give them a deadline. That's how they get it done. If you get them back into this and give them a deadline (like, let's just say Feb 1st for just a WIP), then they'll probably do it. People often feel more obliged to do something quicker when they have a deadline. I'm totally talking as if I have directed something before or could. I just don't have time to be the head of big projects like this when I have other big projects I do of other stuff. It looks like Ben Briggs had claimed something. You're gonna want him on this record if he has time and is still interested.