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I love the uplifting nature of this. Really fun remix, smooth guitar work, and awesome job! =D

Phew, started halfway through the week, almost done. Might even be better than my last entry, who knows. Definitely more adventurous in terms of composition.

Hm... you might wanna try to get that cymbal a bit louder; it gets buried much of the time, and I think it makes the song sound more overcompressed than it actually is. The piano fits in fine, but sample quality might be brought up as an issue at 1:08 based on hearing the lower notes. The lower notes are also a bit muddy. 1:53 has the most evident example of the amount of overcompression you currently have. Also, the lead at 2:36 and on might have a little bit too much treble. The kick sounds better, and the acoustic snare works a bit better now.

I hear a bit of overcompression throughout. Not sure if an acoustic kit is necessarily the best way to go; after optimal processing, I imagine the snare would "sound" overcompressed, even though it might not be. I think you could make the snare work anyway, but the kick should be stronger and more thumpy. The kick might be one of the current causes for the overcompression though, so be careful on it.

Skrillex-style Dubstep. The kind of dubstep that some listeners might diss. It might help if you lower the resonance on those wubs a little bit and use less pitch-rising wubs. You might find some inspiration for that here.

Pretty cool vibe. I liked the bubbly lead. Coulda sworn I heard a sneeze at 1:53. xD

Do you think our ears experience a similar effect as how our voices can sing better and more stably in the evening? (Disregarding the constant EQing)

The difference between what I said and what you said are the extremes. Yes, it's electronic music, but those genres aren't the same genres at all. They all have different drum rhythms. One of the characteristic parts of any genre is the drum rhythm, a lot of the time. They only work together if there are proper transitions. I will say that Death Metal, Power Metal, and Folk Metal are similar enough, but your earlier example of Metal, then Dubstep, then Country was too extreme to be practical. You can go Metal and then Dubstep+Metal fusion, but we both know shifting to Country really doesn't make any sense. That actually worked for me on the few times that I tried that. Gunstar Heroes, for example.

I'll try it and we'll see how it goes!

Do you mean a whammy bar harmonic divebomb? =o Also, when I say bass mixing, I mean below 200Hz, so I don't think bringing the lead up an octave will help the bass mixing in particular, as the lowest lead note currently reaches around 300Hz or so.

Yeah, this was the one.

Alright, here is the Plants Vs. Zombies behemoth of a remix! ReMix: There's a Zomboss On My Roof by Timaeus & Chimpazilla Source: Ultimate Battle Source Breakdown: 0:00 - 0:52 = Source (0:00 - 0:16) 0:52 - 1:17 = Source (0:16 - 0:48) 1:17 - 1:30 = Source (0:48 - 1:04) 1:30 - 1:56 = Source (1:04 - 1:20) 1:56 - 2:23 = Original Lead on top of Source (1:04 - 1:20) 2:23 - 2:36 = Source (1:04 - 1:20) with some reharmonizations 2:36 - 3:01 = Source (0:48 - 1:04) 3:01 - 3:28 = Source (0:16 - 0:48) Length: 212 seconds 181/212 = ~85.38% source

I lost el juego. Anyways: I'm finding the instruments to be a bit narrow in the frequency range, even for chiptune. It's hard to notice at first, but there should be some more treble on the whole track. Something else that's rather important is that it feels like everything's not panned (yet?). A more 3D stereo image would help this a lot too. Even if you plan to add guitars later, the chiptune can stand to be wider, to perhaps 16~25% pan on each side.

These are the helpful phrases I found. It's also a good idea to, like Moseph said, break down a melody or the source tune in many different ways throughout the song. is an awesome example. Just study how many variations zircon put into Devil's Lab. And in 8 hours, no less. There's also no inherent wrong to changing genres in the middle of a song, like Kristina said. It helps to change the drum rhythm to adapt to a different "genre". For example, DnB into halftime, then into a breakdown, then downtempo, then build back up to DnB.

Yup, it is.

I don't mind that it's electro house. It did sound a bit overcompressed at times, though, and the treble on some of the leads and basses is a tad too high, but other than that, great debut.

I can actually say that although I couldn't hear the bass as distinctly as I could at 3 AM, in the morning I was accepting that the bass was well-mixed in the end.

I still recommend changing the genre in the middle of the song, and it's a great way to put variation. Just don't do it to an awkward extreme.

Since you improvise in some form, try getting a MIDI keyboard. You can improvise your ideas there while you want to write a new part.

This may come off as strange to some, but to me it seems to make a difference. There was a day where I stayed up until 3 AM EQing the bass on a song, and I could hear how well I was making progress. That morning I woke up, I felt like I couldn't hear the bass as distinctly as I did the night before, but it still sounded good. Is there a time of day or night that you guys find your ears most fine-tuned when EQing either tough bass sections or treble sections?

ArtsAcoustic Reverb and Valhalla Shimmer are pretty good too, since you're working in primarily orchestral.

Not bad. It'd be even better if you actually played piano. I can tell that's sequenced.

That makes total sense, actually. It explains why zircon has all mono samples in Shreddage 1 and 2.

Yeah, I realized that, then went back and edited my post. xD EDIT: At 0:50-0:57, the organ was hard to hear once I tried to hear it just now, so it's a little buried under the scratches. I could hear the higher frequencies, but not the individual notes. Something I consider when mixing is, "can someone with enough skill and the same materials as me recompose the track note-for-note with the exact stereo image and instruments?". Of course, that's not a rigidly structured "absolute rule", but it's generally a good guideline I like to follow.

Is it weird that I read track 60 and thought it said "Cluster F*** Missiles"? xD That said, DAMN, that's a lot of music. A good amount of it is awesome too.