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I'm talking about the currently dominating lead. Why would I look at the guitar there?

The crackling is from excessive CPU load and getting near the RAM max. If you're constantly at 98+%, you just might get crackling in your rendered songs as well.

The piano should go away when the guitar comes in, IMO. It sounds like it's just there, taking up space, after the intro. If you can, try getting a different kick. It's also a bit too loud. The track overall sounds overcompressed. The cymbals in particular are dominating.

This is pretty funny. The singing is a little tentative and strained, but good idea.

Yep, turn everything down about 10 dB and start from there. Then raise it back up about 5.

I heard the vibrato. It's good, keep doing stuff like that throughout. Add things most people wouldn't notice, and eventually it'll turn out to improve the song a lot. Don't be afraid to modify the melody a bit more, either.

Sounds like a rock disco track to me. Probably because of the hi hats. There's a playing mistake at 0:31, or something rhythmically weird. Check that. Aside from that in that section, the solo kind of meanders, IMO, until 0:42. The arrangement overall is just the same riff with some somewhat random soloing. I think you should add another source in and make the arrangement more varied.

You might want to contact Dj Mokram. He/she wanted to do it too, so maybe a collab would be great for you both.

You know, Dancing in Phantasmic Hell intrigues me. I might try a crazy hard-hitting electronica mix of that later. Example of work: http://timaeusproductions.bandcamp.com/track/funk-it-up

Looking forward to your take on it. I'm imagining some sort of crazy hard-hitting dubsteppy electronica.

Dat chemistry oxyacids reference. Weird gap at 0:22.055, 0:25.925, and 0:29.274. Song feels like it's minor mixed with major or something in between, bass versus melody, especially at 1:02. Weird gap at 1:26. Breaks with the rhythm possibly, and feels like it's not actually at the end of a set of 16 bars. I don't know why, but I'm counting 12 bars before that happens, and 2 more bars after that before a switch at 1:33. Odd. Bass isn't too mind-blowing, but it's a pretty good acid bass. Textures stay rather static throughout. Structure is pretty repetitive. Shorten it, rearrange things, make it more listenable. It's alright so far.

You might want to check out the bassline at 1:23. It sounds a little muddy there, and possibly a little dissonant. After a bit, the lead sounds too loud and it's overpowering the snare, like at 1:33. So far, pretty good.

^ not replying to, but referencing this. I wouldn't recommend sampling from the game, and neither would the judges. Keep that in mind.

I dunno if you have plugins that are taking up lots of memory. If you know you have some plugins that take up lots of memory, and you know you don't actually need them, take them out. I think porting your libraries to MIDI Outs might help too. For example, maybe Kontakt instances take up memory for both the library and Kontakt itself. Not sure since I'm not home.

Yeah, that's why I suggested I contribute to that 3:11 section. I have it, and I'm willing to do some work on that section to make it ultra-major epic. If you're okay with that, I'd just need the MP3 of the song (easy to get), a WAV of the bass part at 3:11-4:00, and the drums for that part (it couldn't hurt to glitch the drums too!).

I did that at one point, stopped, then started doing it again more recently. It's a good idea. Sometimes I get lazy, and if I want to do a simple kick-snare dance rhythm for a buildup or breakdown section, I just grab a kick and a snare sliced from another pattern and use those to build the drum patterns for that section.

Congrats, you two.

This is absolutely ridiculous. Compressed, heavy, and hard-hitting electronica, reminiscent of 'mAEt B0y' by A_Rival. If you haven't listened to either one yet, you are in for some major mind-blowing, either way.

A pretty nice precursor to the epic madness of future zircon. I think it would have been nice to have that first lead at 0:47 to have a little more modwheel vibrato (it's pretty subtle), but oh well. These days, that'd happen. I also would have liked that sync lead patch at 3:27 to have come earlier, but that's alright. To me, the female vocals felt out of place and kind of fighting a bit with the lead, and choir vocals in the background would have worked better, but it's not necessary. I liked the occasional dBlue Glitch effects and resonant filter sweep effects on the drums. For a 2005 mix, this is quite awesome! Great work, zircon.

The link works, but I'd suggest using a host that is better oriented to music hosting, like box, soundcloud, tindeck, etc. The new lead sounds pretty good, but it can sound even better. Try adding a slow LFO to modify the tone as it's playing. Maybe synched to a 1/1 or 2/1 rate? (that means 1 cycle per bar or 1 cycle per 2 bars respectively) That remix I mentioned earlier, "Jazz Castle Adventure", is a great example of a really good sync lead.

Well, looking at that Public Domain article, I got these: "Works in the public domain are those whose intellectual property rights have expired, been forfeited, or are inapplicable. Examples include the works of Shakespeare and Beethoven, ..." "...public domain works can be freely used for derivative works without permission." Cool, looks like it's legal according to the artists I'm thinking of. No worries though, I've never in my life tried to sample directly from an actual song. I tend to stay away from actions like those.

Weird question, but... is it legal to remix classical music and then sell it? i.e. Beethoven/Mozart into electronica/big beat or something like that. xD Just a random thought. I heard that 70 years after the composer's death, it's legal.

Well, I released an album two weeks ago, and I felt good about it. Not many people actually bothered to look, though... http://timaeusproductions.bandcamp.com/album/thermophilus

Going through Calculus II in college. Taylor series, Taylor's Inequality, and all those series convergence tests were horrendous. Somehow I made it through with a 93.35%. xD