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Man I wish I had half the talent these people do

In The Last Story, include damned motion controls for aiming arrows and magic attacks. In DKCR, remove the blowing mechanic.

Man if the map theme wasn't so absurdly short I'd really try to make a mix out of it... Oh well. If I ever get inspired I'll be sure to attempt to get it into this album!

I hope this isn't the final intro There is an off-key or bad sounding note at 0:04 (and it repeats every time...). I don't think the drums are too loud (well, maybe a bit), but the lead is too quiet. The lead synth is very cool by the way. This sounds very good, clean production. If anything, I wonder how you plan on making a full fledged song from this

The track is pretty good. Hope it gets a good remix (probably not by me though)!

I use AKG K44 headphones. Seems I'm on the low-end but oh well, I didn't have a lot of money when I bought them! They work well though, I can hear everything clearly. I should try other headphones to compare though, but anyway, this works for now.

Super bump! I (finally) reworked this song. I think the samples and mixing are better than the version I submitted to DoD in November. I appreciate any feedback or comment or whatever!

The sample you use at the beggining has a very muddy sound. Try cutting out stuff from the 500Hz range, it should make it sound a bit cleaner. You can also try boosting higher frequencies to make it stand out more. The flute that enters later is very quiet, try raising its volume! The haro-ish sample at the end suffers from the same than the beggining. Cut the 500Hz frequencies, they usually sound bad... The arrangement is pretty. I didn't listen to the source so I don't know how conservative it is though.

If you do a death metal/dubstep mix the world will burn.

I'd to love to do that too! But there isn't much we can't do Thanks for explaining the buss compressor stuff. I'll try it soon!

A limiter right from the beggining? Doesn't it make mixing a bit confusing? What tools do you use to measure RMS? Reaper has some stats plug-ins but they're a bit weird. Thanks for all the answers by the way, this is very interesting!

Hey, When you are mastering a mix, how much do you usually allow your compressors/limiters to do in gain reduction? I know you should "play" with the settings until you feel it sounds right, but I'm curious as to what are "common" levels of gain reduction when mastering. I'm always "afraid" of compressing too much so I always end up with pretty quiet mixes

Man I love this remix. I heard it on PoD's youtube channel a while ago and hoped it'd get posted here someday! I like how the song feels like this is what the composer aimed for with the original. I hope he gets to hear it! The rocking mood is very cool and the synth leads are awesome. If I were to be very nitpicky I'd say the orchestral instruments are a bit too wet, but who cares, the mix is ridiculously awesome anyway!

Cool! I always wanted OCR to release a SMRPG album. Too bad (for me) that most of the tracks I like are already claimed though... Anyway, I'm looking forward to the album

You can also use Dropbox. It's free and has a lot of useful functionalities.

Reaper still works after the trial ends. You're never forced to buy it!

Congrats to the winners? Or something like that I have no idea what a Wily Gauntlet is but I may participate even if I barely know Mega Man (not X) series' music. Also, if anybody's interested, I'll do better versions of my 2 entries for the competition and will post them on my Soundcloud when they're done.

Did you see this: http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/zas-displays-seven-years-an-ocarina-of-time-remix-album ? Interesting idea for the Forest Temple by the way. Temple themes are always hard to rearrange...

Seems the intro HiHat doesn't have many fans For that section I actually wanted to do a percussive thing with "mine sounding" samples, kind of like what ectogemia did in his entry. I didn't have time to even look for them though so I just used that HiHat. Anybody know where I can find good samples of mine sounds? Thanks for the other tips, I'll definitely will look into them. I did this quite fast so the mixing isn't that polished. Other stuff, like the bass having no articulations, will also be fixed.

I have no idea how you came up with that Lost Woods arrangement lol, it's so weird and has so many cool key modulations. It has many cool moments but I'm not sure I'd listen to it on a regular basis I'd change the intro though, make it start "sane" and then slowly turn into the crazy thing it's now. The Temple of Time mix is very pretty. The things that appear at 1:11 are beautiful, feels like a movie. The arrangement is maybe a bit liberal but I wouldn't change a thing in it anyway. Pale Blue "Fure" is interesting. It keeps the feeling of the original nicely. The part with the flutes at 1:31 is a bit too loud... Nice job with the organ. I really like the organ sound.

I believe Omnisphere works great for this too. It has much more than pads I think so it's a good buy. EDIT: Woops, free! Uh... DSK has some decent pads. DSKChoirZ (something like that) has some passable pads...

To be fair with this, in most of the cited examples (Metal Gear and TLoZ:WW in the video), the male character that escapes happens to be the main character. Looking at it from a pure gameplay perspective it'd be ridiculously dull to have the game stop every time the male protagonist is captured and switch to another character that saves him. I guess the "problem" here lies with the fact that most main characters are men. I'm not sure about examples of male NPCs (like most DiDs) that are captured and manage to escape because of their manliness. There probably are but I don't remember any right now.

Solos are Native Instruments' Alicia's Keys and the rest of the song is Native Instruments' The Giant.

I can blame my headphones then

The intro is nice, it creates a cool creepy atmosphere. The rhytm guitar could use more low-end frequencies. It sounds way too sharp in my opinion. This is very noticeable in the 0:41 guitar riff. The synth you used for the main melody of the source is amazing. Like, really amazing. You should use it way more in the song! Source usage is a bit tricky in some sections but I think it's recognizable enough. I think that returning to the intro at 1:22 is a bit lame. It kills all the energy that the song had been building and serves no purpose in my opinion. You could have jumped to the 2:17 section, played around a bit and then returned to the intro. On that note, the transition to 2:17 is bit dull, you should change the drums there or something. The sound of the drums, by the way, is pretty cool. Are you using a bass guitar or any equivalent? I miss one, or at least a more noticeable one. Overall, I like this mix. I think it has potential to become amazing so I hope you continue with it! EDIT: Forgot to comment on the lead guitar. It sounds very nice, but dat synth sounds so much cooler