Phonetic Hero

Dude this is AWESOME, congrats! Tekken 2 is one of my earliest game memories, and as such I've always had a soft spot for the series <3

Not everyone can use FL Slayer as well as you can

Color me interested. Not sure I'll have the time, but I'll be mulling it over for sure

Happy birthday, keep kickin' ass

Happy birthday, my sweet prince

Shumpty Bumpday <3

Some folks also still think "ocremix" is a person's alias DAMN, THAT DUDE IS PROLIFIC

So yeah, I went and saw it last night, and while there were some parts I really enjoyed, I thought it was pretty lackluster as a whole... They have the cast to make a really, REALLY amazing Spider-Man movie, and it just hasn't happened yet. Looking back on my experience, it was like a less-bad-Green-Lantern, in that during a lot of it I kept thinking, "what could they have done to execute this specific part better...?" and couldn't come up with much. Which usually means that one aspect/scene was a shitty idea to begin with and should've been scrapped during the writing in favor of something that would work better, instead of using post-production tricks to make it seem better than it really is. That being said, I still love Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker, and the chemistry between him and Emma Stone was really really good (even if the writing wasn't always that great...). I just wish the movies were written better. I don't even really care if they don't follow the comic story lines (new material never hurt anyone), just don't make it stupid. Imo, the whole reason to make a new (different) story is to pace the story better and make it feel more natural in movie format, whereas everything seemed really contrived in this instance. Again, I can't really fault the actors at all, everyone did great with they hand they were dealt, but I can't help but feel like the deck was stacked against them Thoughts? SPOILERS: They did, however, do an incredible job of making me profoundly depressed when Gwen died. It stuck with me into this morning even. Which is INSANELY frustrating, because it says to me that they're *capable* of writing something that will pull you in on an emotional level and it just didn't happen for about 90% of the movie

A Sonic game with 2 different soundtracks? I heard there's a guy who did the last one of those pretty well

I agree with G-Mixer, it'd be silly if they were. But I dunno what all's going on in their coding process, so I suppose that IS a possibility. I'll check with one of the devs when I can That was one of the possibilities Will and I came up with (which I touched on a post or two ago), and might be pretty probable. I'm not sure if Corey would be expecting to hear it differently as far as frequency response goes (not sure how much he knows about audio), so it's entirely possible that he's hearing it "differently" because his TV has vastly different response than his computer/headphones. Again, I'll try to talk with one of them about it more when I can

Again, not really the main issue. The main issue is whether or not it actually IS a problem. If it IS A PROBLEM, I can figure out how to work around it. I'm a big boy.

God, thank you haha EDIT: To clarify, from what I've gathered by talking with Corey, it's not a problem with the mix itself but that there's something lost/changed in translation from point A to point B in the mix. Will and I were wondering if anyone else had heard of that, if it's common, and if it's a problem that DOES exist (rather than it just being a matter of switching from hearing it on your computer to hearing it on your TV), what the best solution would be

It's hard to know exactly what he meant when we didn't go into much detail. I'll talk with him more about it later, but he's a busy guy, and I kinda am too at the moment If I get anymore info from him directly, I'll post it here, but until then it's kind of a lot of conjecture unless someone has some more solid information (and if that's the case, by all means, enlighten me/us!) What I kinda got out of it was that he wanted the instruments to pop more. He said to mix with more "garishness", which to me says maybe a little more dynamic, and really exaggerate important lines while backing off on supplementing parts so that the frequency spectrum isn't constantly full, leaving room for sfx. What I'm working on now is the main theme, which will play as the main themes for Brawl or Melee do during match setup. I think these allow for less of a "full" sound like that, because you've got the announcer's voice going (which is always ENORMOUS and takes up a ton of frequency space) and all the selection sound effects. I guess it's also the exposition for the game rather than BGM during a fight, so maybe it's better to let it breathe a little more like that? But then I think of how grand the themes for SSBB and SSBM feel, and I want to convey that sense of grandeur to the player too... I keep going back and forth. Thoughts?

WOW this is awesome. Good stuff!

Thanks! Yeah it's not without it's flaws, but it worked in a live setting. I really hate a lot of the structure as a standalone track, but I didn't have enough time to properly arrange it from the original version. Oh well, glad you liked it anyway!

Ain't no secret Happy birthday! Hope it's a good 'un

"But wait," you might be saying, "this game doesn't have any original music to remix!" Hold onto your butts

Happy birthday dude!

I re-worked an old original from scratch last week for a couple shows I had the opportunity to play over the weekend, writing the track was a nightmare but the end product is pretty fun and it was a blast to play it live. Bazow

Yep, Matt pretty much touched on everything already, but basically I was frantically scrambling to finish my set (as in, I wrote 3 new pieces of music and polished up 2 others in the last couple weeks). Last week was 5 10-11 hour nights of work, and I was hoping beyond hope that I'd have some time to throw something together while I was in AR, but it just didn't work out. I hate to disappoint, especially since we've already had so many drops. Sorry everyone My sincerest apologies to Jamison particularly, who would have been robbed of proper competition regardless of whether or not I'd put something together - it wouldn't have been good if I had to make it that fast, and going up against a straw man opponent is no fun either. I'm really sorry man, hopefully we meet on the battlefield again!

Depends on how you're defining writer's block - short bouts of difficulty coming up with something you're happy with, or longer, extremely frustrating periods of time where you can't make anything work I get stuck at least once or twice a session when I write, and I'll either take a break or go to sleep and try again later. Sometimes it works, sometimes I'm still fucked. This week I haven't even started on my Sonic mix because I'm still cramming to get 3 other tracks done by Saturday

I don't even have work or school all week and I still think I'm going to die before Saturday

NEXT SUNDAY: TWO HEROES... TWO TRACKS... *ONE* SURVIVOR /monstertruckvoice

I hear hot tea is the method of choice for the English