timaeus222

I think Shreddage X only went to drop A or something, and Shreddage Bass goes down to drop Bb. Shreddage 2X goes down to drop G, but that wasn't used in the demo.

What does your bass guitar sound like by itself? I think that's what could be improved. Maybe it's just me, but I think the guitar as-written sounds more "rock" than "metal" because it doesn't reach as low as some of the metal I listen to, and the bass guitar lacks a powerful low end. If you can get a meatier tone to your bass, that would be a great improvement. This could be a good metal reference track for this song; it's pretty similar.

Here's a bunch off the top of my head. Surely you can find ONE of these useful: Orchestral: https://soundcloud.com/stephen-anderson/i-am-the-sentinel-credits - dramatic film score https://soundcloud.com/stephen-anderson/dinosaur-dna - action score https://soundcloud.com/stephen-anderson/unity - pretty much perfect bass https://soundcloud.com/stephen-anderson/turn-my-crimson-into-white - african cinematic spiritual General Electronic: https://soundcloud.com/zircon-1/level-bounce - funky electro house/chiptune https://soundcloud.com/zircon-1/rise-of-pharaoh-remix-of-lara-croft-and-the-temple-of-osiris - middle-eastern drum & bass http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02367 - drum & bass with vocals https://soundcloud.com/isworks/celestia-terrarium-naked-by - ambient/atmospheric https://soundcloud.com/isworks/shreddage-2-nuclear-dubstep-by - Dubstep reference 1 http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02318 - Dubstep reference 2 Eastern: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02305 - General middle-eastern https://soundcloud.com/ocremix/11-tibetan-tussle-timaeus222 - middle-eastern big beat / dubstep http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02853 - far-eastern cinematic / dubstep http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02094 - meditative far-eastern Rock/Metal: https://soundcloud.com/isworks/shreddage-2-subterrenea-by-ian - Djent metal https://soundcloud.com/magnus-engdahl/wing-it - Common metal http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02293 - In-your-face rock http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02625 - Melt-your-face metal Solo Piano: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02962 - Nocturne http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03096 - General jazz http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02954 - "Freeform" jazz

Well yeah. I just wanted to type less. Strategic typing GO!

Have ya seen this topic? =P http://ocremix.org/community/topic/37172-metal-mixing-a-general-approach/ The drums sound pretty good, actually. I'd say, try not to high pass your guitars too much. They're a little thin, but not bad. Try high passing near around 100 Hz lightly (in FL Studio, use a slope of "2" instead of something like "Steep 4" or "Steep 6"), instead of near 200 Hz, and scooping as I mention in the topic I linked.

Here's a new video with me experimenting on a few synth I got! If you're into sound design and wanna learn what makes for an aggressive dubstep bass, I think you'll have some fun with this one! Length: 11:20 Just me trying out a new synth called Serum by Xfer Records. The presets are pretty generic, but the synthesis engine is fantastic.

For some reason it had never worked for me in the previous forum version anyhow. =P Yeah, needs to be a URL. Maybe try tinypic.com?

Heyyyyy! Naw, the clicks are gone! Are those the default FL kick/snare later on? =P I think you should layer the drums with some punchier layers to rise above the deep bass, and try finding a new limiter. RIght now the whole track is getting pushed down a bit much by the limiter, at least until 1:22 (but that's because there are less elements there). I'd suggest TLs-Pocket Limiter; it's simple, but I've yet to use a different one!

Yeah, the kick's there. So you wanted a silent kick on this? What you can do is link the kick drum to the bass track, do the sidechaining you did here (choose the kick as the sidechaining source on a limiter in the bass mixer track, lower the threshold to maybe 9:00, and raise the threshold to maybe 2:30), and mute its sending to the Master. If it still sounds like this after doing that, then I don't think it's a product of your kick somehow still being audible. Can you screenshot your limiter on your bass track?

Well, first of all the initial piano, though a little thin, is fine. The drop at 0:28 came a little early for me, but it's okay. A little much bass though, and lacking more fullness in the low-mids and midrange from some sort of chordal element. By samples you may have meant the cross-panned speaking, the random interjections, and the other vocal samples. Yeah, I don't think those were necessary. They stop the musical flow, don't really add anything creative, and sound cheesy IMO. Even if you didn't have them in there, there wouldn't have been any lacking component other than the midrange and low-mids mentioned above. Overall, not bad, but it could lose the cheesy vocal samples and have a fuller midrange and low-mids (except in spots similar to 1:57, where you do have that supersaw). Everything else sounds good as-is IMO for what you were going for.

The main thing is that there is a huge lack of transitions and many sudden source tune switches, making for a definite medley. You can have a completely cohesive sound palette being used here, but it won't change anything if there aren't enough transitions and the switch to a new source tune is so musically easy to distinguish. It'll stretch ya, but I think you should work on your transitions; it's a recurring thing I hear from you, and if you can get on more solid ground with transitions, you'll be several steps forward. In general I think your production is already pretty good.

Yeah, I still don't like the intro; it sounds like you sampled the original game and faded stuff in and out. It's just not creative, I definitely think it's medley-itis right now, and I think it would be to your benefit to start this at 1:00. It's much better at 1:00 and on. Furthermore, I still can't really hear Boss Select at 1:16 - 2:46. It's too liberal of an interpretation. It's like, 30% inspired by it. At 3:16, it just returns to the basic medley-itis that hit you in the beginning. The complete and utter stop at 3:16 just ended the remix for me. As far as I'm concerned, 3:17 starts something completely separate and just not related at all. Additionally, whenever you've been using melodies in this remix, it's been just repeating the melody over and over again. The bass at 4:10 was actually grating for me, and 4:23 was sudden and dissonant compared to what came before, at least until 4:30 where more harmonic context came in. Then at 4:41, somehow we skipped on over back to the first remix. I can't even talk about this without calling it two separate remixes. *shrug* At 5:08, we're back to the second remix with some sort of really resonant, painful high bell lead that should definitely, without a doubt, be replaced. It just hurts and melodically doesn't click until we're back to remix #1 at 5:39. Yeah, main issues are definitely: - Medley-itis, using the source tunes willy nilly - Extremely resonant lead at 5:08 - 5:39 - Stagnant intro until 1:00 - Lack of sufficient transitions

The main issues here are the sample choice and the partwriting, not so much the mixing. The main tom drum sounds like it was repitched as a sample (so it sounds fake), and it's on loop the whole time (so it's repetitive). Also, the strings and french horn sound too detached to be playing the parts you've written for each (so it sounds fake). Also, the panning's too wide for an orchestra. Are these hard-panned? Overall, the textures sound sparse and unfocused, and the panning's too wide. Try listening to this and paying close attention to the panning positions. Right now it doesn't sound like you have a focus for what you want each instrument to do. Were you inspired by anything when you wrote this? If so, listen more closely to what it was, try to imagine the song how you would want it, and think about what instruments are missing at each point in time. So far this sounds like everyone's vying for lead attention, and it's telling me that it's a standby theme for a boss battle.

? It didn't take that much work to get the modwheel working on FL for me (Windows, but still). I guess I'm careful or something.

I tend to be inspired by zircon, Stephen Anderson, and once each, Weather Report and Zalem (you'll see some Zalem-esque didgstep on the BadAss V3 album). Obviously with zircon the styles range pretty widely, from dubsteppy EDM, to expansive ambient, to aggressive D&B. Stephen Anderson is a hybrid orchestral film score composer, Weather Report is pretty snazzy Jazz Fusion, and Zalem... well, look below. I think I can pretty safely say I have my own style now though, in mixing dubstep with funky stuff. Some stuff from Stephen Anderson: https://soundcloud.com/stephen-anderson/orc-wars-opening-sequence https://soundcloud.com/stephen-anderson/covert-mission https://soundcloud.com/stephen-anderson/dinosaur-dna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYP4wKD-6J8 Some stuff from zircon: https://soundcloud.com/zircon-1/augment https://soundcloud.com/isworks/celestia-terrarium-naked-by http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02547 https://soundcloud.com/zircon-1/9-fiberoptics Some stuff from Weather Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae0nwSv6cTU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMQUFvv0WRY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSUk8bSVHYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7_vNpVXubA Some stuff from Zalem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ9TJmmwRBY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXBGZoBYaLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiozWbBNzT0 On a side note, I figured out how to post youtube links as links.

yeah, I was wondering where they were. =P

To save you time, it would be rejected based on the instruments being mechanical (fake), particularly the strings and the staccato lead (clarinet?). Interesting rhythmic similarity with the woodblock though; I think that part is valid arrangement. Based on 0:19 and on, which generally has more overt source usage, I think the lesser presence of scales compared to the original (which has more scales and less >1 whole-tone melodic jumps) makes your melody a bit too different, at least until 0:58 for me. 1:36 is the most obvious source usage IMO, and I can say that 1:36 - 1:55 is quite valid because it's in the context of a similar harmonic progression as well. Afterwards, however, it gets more liberal. Overall, I think this feels more inspired by the original than being an actual ReMix of the original. It's kind of borderline for me but I would lean towards it being too original.

How does your cord look while connecting? What I mean is, is it connecting straight on, or do you have to bend it quite a bit in an awkward way? I say that because I have to do it that way to put my keyboard in a nice playing spot, and occasionally (every few weeks) it gets disconnected, and I have to resecure the connection. Other than that, if it's a nice new cord, it should connect fine afaik, since you say it's connected before.

How does your cord look?

It's okay man, I looked at it, and I can assure you that I would have a problem with it too. It's really dissonant, and almost random.

The instrumentation is pretty similar. The original sounds italian with almost a medieval town feel I suppose. Yours also has that acoustic-like bass, that same waltz meter, and that accordion-like synth. However, the notes sound different enough IMO that it sounds like you were just inspired by the original and wrote a new arrangement. I think this could pass as part of an OST.

Oh yeah. Well, all hopes are dashed now

I would really avoid using Javascript, because people can disable it on their own. Instead, if possible I think it should be done in jQuery. While it's similar to Javascript, it's referenced similar to CSS files, and afaik isn't able to just be turned off.

You can click the upper left icon in the posting container. Leftmost, near "Font", "Size", etc. Might be better to have an Alt message for that.