MindWanderer

I think my beef is that the reverb doesn't seem to be consistent. In 0:13-0:30, with the sweeping "landscape" pad, the piano here sounds oddly like it's in a small, padded room. The subsequent section is similar, where the individual instruments don't seem like they're all in the same "place" (the bass sounds more shallow than the lead, especially). Might be the reverb levels, or some EQ that's swallowing some critical harmonics. I suspect EQ, because both the piano and the bass sound fine elsewhere.

Agreed, but there's something just a little unpolished about it that I can't put my finger on. If it's already as clean as timaeus knows how to get it, I think it could stand a mod review before submission. Someone else may be able to articulate the off vibe I'm getting from it (unless it's just me).

The judging status page says: Since you said the original submission was 8/13 or 9/13, and they're on 7/13 now, they haven't caught up to your resub yet. The only reason your original one went through so fast was because of the album. Check with them if the date on that page is later than the date of your resubmission. Usually updated versions of album tracks are still flagged as being part of the album. I suppose it might not if you altered it drastically enough. They'd probably contact you to discuss it, though.

Results! First Place: "Cruisin' the Docks" by Esperado feat. timaeus222, with 24 points. Second Place: "I'm your huckleberry" by Hollow feat. evktalo, with 18 points. Third Place: "Spectrum Path" by BrothaDom feat. Argle, with 16 points. Esperado and timaeus pull off a flawless victory, earning a first-place vote from every voter. Voting was close on BrothaDom and Argle vs. Hollow and evktalo: of the five votes placed by everyone else, three favored Hollow and two favored BrothaDom. Good round, everyone! RMWtS will be taking February off, due to the SZRC, and will resume in March, once 3/4 of the Sonic competitors have been eliminated.

The SZRC gave me an idea for resurrecting this. The problem, IMO, isn't that it's only 7 songs (which would be enough for an EP), it's that only about half of those songs are long and interesting enough for remix ideas to come easily. So what if it was a Marble Madness Mashup album? Beginner Race with Marble Zone from Sonic. Practice Race with Aquatic Ambiance from DKC. Or whatever. There's a particular Ultimate Race mashup I've wanted to do for years, and have been holding off on trying until I think my chops are good enough to pull it off. And if there was sufficient interest, this could easily bring it up to the target of two mixes per track.

7 hours left to vote! I have 6 votes so far, and I'm missing some from participants.

Also, Nintendo has always been garbage at 3rd party, since the N64. Look at this list of top-selling Wii games. The first 3rd-party game is Just Dance 2, at #16. Then Just Dance 1 at #18, with rest appearing en masse at #27+. People don't buy Nintendo consoles for 3rd-party games, and haven't done so since the SNES. Once the Wii U has Zelda, Smash Bros., DKC, and Mario Kart, it'll be in a much better position. Add new Paper Mario, Metroid Prime, and Kirby games, and everyone will forget the doomsaying ever happened. The Wii U will never be another Wii, but if it's another N64 or Gamecube, that'll be good enough.

If I may suggest, the Beginner Race from Marble Madness has a similar rhythm to Marble Zone, although the bass line of the Silly Race has some similarities to Marble Garden. They'd actually mesh quite nicely. Funny, I listened to Endless Mine for the first time just to see if I could hear what you meant, and it immediately sounded to me like a sad song of lost love, if you slowed it down by just a few BPM.

That is pretty cool indeed. There are some melodic parts where the strings are in the uncanny valley range (too mechanical to sound real, to real to sound intentional) and should probably be glitched up/filtered a little. And if you're using the actual source for the choir, that's of course a no-no. But otherwise I'd love to see this turned into a full remix.

Whoa, that's awesome! This thread had been dead for a while, so I was getting worried, but no longer! I'll get my nose to the grindstone as soon as I'm done with this week's PRC.

Well, I have next to no theory either, but I heard one sour note at 4:22, and the bell arp starting at 4:44 felt off, too.Overall it was one helluva solid entry, so don't feel bad at all.

I only hear piano and bass except for 1:43-1:53, when I just barely hear guitar playing the exact same part, pitch, and timing as the piano, and 2:16-end when it finally breaks free. Ending is kind of abrupt. Otherwise, it's simple but effective and enjoyable.

If Metal Man's suggested hardware doesn't work, you could use: 1) A 3.5mm headphone splitter (intended to use two headphones on one jack, chained to: 2) Two 3.5mm to RCA stereo adapters, resulting in two Left ends with sound and two Right ends without, chained to: 3) An RCA to 3.5mm adapter, taking the two Left RCA's as input. Stupid, and will result in the volume being halved, but it would absolutely work.

Epic source! I'll try to get something in.

Download Now! Got yours, BrothaDom, a minute under the wire. I thought I added this to the submission rules, but apparently I forgot. Can I get source links from each of the participants, preferably YouTube? Hollow's in particular was a little obscure. Edit: Got Hollow's, and Esperado's was given by name, but it's been a while since I played Pokemon RGB.

Got yours.Have you selected "Save a copy of sent messages in my Sent Items folder by default" in your options? Esperado, you neglected to turn downloadability on for your submission.

12 hours left, and I don't have any entries. I hope at least a couple of you are squeezing this out at the last minute!

18 seconds of a 3-minute track (10%) seems about right. Maybe 15% as an upper limit.

Your software just can't credit that anyone would actually like hip-hop. :ducks:

Fun stuff. I personally found the off-beat LFO on the lead from 0:40-1:42 to be distracting and irritating, but otherwise I thought this was an entertaining take on the source. I do agree with earlier commenters that there seem to be some overlapping frequencies, but I'm not an expert.

Capcom is awesome that way, and give a lot of support to fan remixers. I know they officially sponsor Mega Ran, and they're certainly aware of all the other Mega Man bands.Covers and remixes are an interesting legal area. Interesting tidbit I got from Tommy Tallarico: at the first Video Games Live concert, they did One-Winged Angel performed by an improvisational pianist and 3 operati. It was pretty bad (especially having just followed the More Friends concert, a few blocks away and a week or two earlier, which did One-Winged Angel with the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir and the Black Mages). But the reason they went with such a crappy arrangement was that SquareEnix refused to give them the rights to the orchestral arrangement. I'm not sure what the legal distinction is there, but apparently there is one.

There's a sort of "squashed" note at 1:38 that needs fixing. Otherwise this sounds good to make the cut!

Listened to the Flimbo's Quest source on YouTube. It was catchy, so I took its suggestion that I listen to the third track of the OST. Wow, a 2:00 source from a C64 game! And that led me to find Machinae Supremacy's cover of the song... so thanks for the suggestion, OneUp!

Looks like about 4 or 5 in each bracket, about even. Going to be quite a challenge.

Hold it open for 2 weeks anyway and shoot for 64.