XPRTNovice

FF6, the ending theme, when Uematsu blends Locke's and Celes' themes. That makes me tear up damn near ever time I hear it.

I don't know that there are many Farmboy remixes out there...you can use mine if you're man enough for the bluegrass.

Congratulations!

Just to be clear, I was joking.

I got your Cid right here. https://soundcloud.com/xprtnovice/cid Yes, it's only 29 seconds.

I'm interested pending some details.

hrrmmm...normally I'd jump all over this, but I'm like 6 tracks deep in commitments right now.

Thanks everyone

Well since we're being guilty. Pros: Easily recognizeable (I like tunes that stick to the source) good groove and timing the organ solo Cons: The wavy panning of the piano in the beginning is a little jarring. The way you hit grace notes very frequently on the piano starts to sound more like wrong notes, if you know what I mean. It's every other note in some places. Those expressive moments are to be used sparingly. The arrangement is pretty straight. It feels mostly like a cover and not a remix, because I don't hear a lot that was changed. Hope this helps!

This. I've done way too much music work lately and not enough of everything else in my life...

I'm interested.

Not to toot my own horn (bada BOOM) but I think the sax could be a touch louder, and with a little less up-front reverb. The wet mix makes it sound like I'm holding notes for longer than I am, rather than adding depth. But I don't have a very good ear for this kind of stuff so I could be just stupid.

I thoroughly enjoy sharing WIPs, particularly because I'm primarily a musician and not a sound engineer. I love the learning element of it, and the communal element of trading music. Since music isn't a source of income for me even a little - and in the times when it has been, it's had nothing to do with my compositions - I'm not really worried about my music being stolen by Coldplay and them making a CD out of it. Besides, as Rozo said, if they did and I could prove that it was my intellectual propety, I'd get some money out of it anyway. As far as not posting my best work...I consider the "audience" to be the greater community, not the WIP forums. The people who frequent the WIP forums are there for that purpose, so they're not there to judge you based on something you did in two hours and want some feedback on your composition for, you know?

I think a capella would be fine - I actually have some plans in the works to do one myself, having been an arranger, singer, and vocal percussionist for an a capella group in college. This site's standards are about quality, not category.

FF XIII ...and FF X-2.

Sax has been delivered for this piece...interested to hear how you mix it in!

I will jazz you until you have no choice but to put on a beret and grow a soul patch on your face.

You want sax collab? PM.

This, but it's really cool. Maybe if you had some overarching instrument playing the lead that could be heard over the top. If you hadn't marked it Kakariko village I'm not sure I would have known it was this tune... maybe...some whistling ?

This. Yeah, it's tough to beat. But this is still Shnawesome. I don't hear a whole lot of string quintet accompanying a piano, and it creates a really neat soundscape. And, of course, the sheer piano skills make me look at my inadequate, clumsy hands and cry. OH SHIT GILGAMESH. That just happened. I almost never look at the source list because I love getting surprised, and that was cool.

OMG, the title.

I wanted to tell this story because I think it's funny. After finishing my contributions to this, Theophany emailed me and said "Hey, tell your wife I said thanks for all the help with the vocals." I said "No, man. It was just me."

It was nice finally meeting you all. I was telling Vinny that if I had to write a blog article about this, it would be called "How to do MAGFest Wrong". I was only there for a few hours with a pregnant wife and I missed mostly everything. That's what I get for working through thursday-friday and commuting to the con rather than getting a room. Oh well, next year!

You have time - it's 2PM at Busboys and Poets in Arlington.