timaeus222

Unless I'm mistaken, I hear a weird phasing/volume fluctuation issue in the bass instruments and wide instruments all throughout. Very strange. No clue what happened there. I purposely left out how I compressed the kick and snare so people could go either way (heavier or tighter). The snare is pretty good. The kick is a little bit buried, but not that badly; that too didn't start out with compression. I like the hard panning on the C64 arp, but with the phasing issue I'm apparently hearing (I don't hear it on my original), I may just be hearing panning that isn't happening. xD I also tried re-mixing my own stems right after I made them, and I didn't get phasing issues, so something's up? Hm.

This is just personal taste, but the distortion could have been toned down just a little tiny bit on the rhythm guitars. Other than that, very heavy, and I agree with all of Dave's last-sentence adjectives.

Hm... As peppy as this sounds, it's not really ruining the supposed badassness, though the drum programming could have been stronger. The kick received less attention to detail than the snares, which were bested by the filler snares. Overall, I guess the production brought down the impressiveness of this for me a bit, but I would also agree that this is just good enough to pass based on the non-percussive elements alone.

Very high energy. I wish the mixing was less muddy, like Larry and Vinnie kinda feel. Basically, the cymbals have a lot of release time, and the sub bass from the ambient impacts is cluttering the mix, but oh well, it's already up. The arrangement is great.

I said some stuff too, lol.

I would support this, though it would honestly take a few full days of effort (i.e. a tedious length of time) to update every single video description, or at least many of the early and later ones. Add that to album kickstarters, album releases, judging, writeups, and a whole bunch of other behind-the-scenes and you've got even more time added to those few full days. I've done something just like this before to my own videos, and it's a big pain even for just one little edit on a few hundred videos, let alone 800~2000.

It may come off that way to some people, but I wouldn't believe it's intentional, and it doesn't come off that way to me.

Maybe I can have time to do it, maybe not. If anyone wants me to collab, I'd be happy to help.

Yeah, same here. I tried out so many other styles. Funk, Electro House, Orchestral (yes, I had to carry out Cosmic Sounds's arrangements because he was having trouble with something), and now... Metal/Industrial/Ambient. Our entry isn't too liberal, is it? I dunno, I was actually going back and forth and making sure I could recognize the source as I arranged it. Do you want me to provide a source breakdown?

Source: On another note, this is actually a really cool source tune. Makes me want to remix it someday.

I have the KORG Microkey 37-key, which is 3 octaves. The keys are a bit smaller than a regular piano, but it's compact, I like it, and I can still hash out lots of ideas on it.

I'm sure he does, though it *is* a pretty short time. My personal fastest is 5 hours, but even then it was only 1 minute long and I spent 10 more hours on the bass mixing because it was ridiculous on the low end presence.

Yeah, definitely. Those kinds of people have almost zero bias on production values, so they tend to be almost entirely subjective, which is great for arrangement practice. Of course, something more than "that's pretty cool", or "nice" would be helpful.

Oh mah gawd, 17 hours? Good luck. =D

I can't say I really know of a reading like that, but I'd say practice improvising basslines to a song you're familiar with. I was in jazz choir for only a year and that really helped me to improvise basslines, and that actually helped me write chord progressions based on those basslines. I basically just get a drum beat down, write a melody, hum the bass, write that out, write the chord progression that I hear in my head, then adjust the melody as I need to.

I said this on YouTube earlier: yeah boi.

Constructive criticism is good, if you trust yourself in giving advice or you want to give advice.

DAMNNNNNNN this is funky!!! Not only that, but it's produced at the quality of 2013's stuff. So worth the listen. GET IT!

Same, but in the Community topic. Also, get hyped for the final round mixes! Rush Riders are going all-out this time! Even more so than Round 2. =D

The lead guitar might be a bit off-tune, yeah, if that's what you're looking at primarily.

Happy late birthday! xD

I liked Brandon's idea of releasing some stems to help people practice their mixing, so I took the time to do this for you guys as well. This is my round 2 entry for the Wily Castle ReMix Gauntlet, and it's more complex than the general person might initially notice. That's why I decided to render these stems so people can see what layers actually went into this mix and perhaps further refine their sound selection skills by having this as a reference. Now, the actual mixing/mastering process took a ridiculously long time because it was very difficult (12+ hours out of a total of 28 hours), so some things have been already processed a little to help. You guys have been so awesome since I've been here, and before then too, so here's something for you guys to help you grow as artists! Looking forward to incarnations you guys come up with or any questions you might have! Stems: 19 Stems & Misc. Info (47.52MB OGG, 176MB WAV) Original ReMix for reference: Funky Moles & Trashy Ducks

Teh birthday of happiness is upon you.

While I agree with some of this, even though the YouTube description is "not even 5% of the description that an artist can rely on for promotion and information about themselves and their music to be communicated to listeners", it's the top two lines. They prioritize making it known who the remixers are because those two lines are on the very top. The staff doesn't want to seem biased for any particular person or group, or certain people will get more popularity than others, and that's not how OCR rolls. Every artist is as important as any other. Any YouTube commenter who doesn't know who actually wrote the ReMix didn't read the description. The info's right there, so if it doesn't register, it's not OCR's fault. I've been a YouTuber for long enough to be able to affirm that too many people on YouTube don't read video descriptions. I go "oh mah gawd read it" every other day.

Too late. Yeah, I don't think OCR "will not accept this style of music anymore". They're open to everything, but the panel still prides themselves on accepting quality music. This ambient style is merely tough to make work, but if it is made to work well enough then what's to say it won't pass?