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    Super Earth Defense Force - 'Armed Satellite'

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

    Posted

    I wasn't familiar with the source and gave it a listen first-- good selection.

    On to the remix: you definitely succeeded in making a cool bass with the slap sound, in my opinion. So sick! I like the choice to take the tempo down a bit and give the bass some space to move around. The way you wrote it, it matches (if not surpasses) the energy and intensity of the original, despite the slower tempo. The live synths pay off too-- they sound very human, as well they should. I love all of the creative ornaments you hung on the source melody, as well as the completely original riffs.

    There are a few things I think you could do to improve the song. First, I don't think that the drums are cutting through as much as they could in some places. Mainly, it's the kick that's getting a little lost in certain places, like much of the beginning of the song. The cymbals also sound a little loud relative to the snare, to my ears (which you shouldn't trust too much, by the way, but maybe listen back and see how it sounds to you). The panning on the drum set is really well done though.

    Next, some of the synths feel a little thin at times. It might just be because they're so high, I can't hear much in the way of harmonics on the individual instruments. On the other hand, I'm not sure I should harp on that too much since the mix is so clean sounding... maybe you put the leads up in that range for a reason. But I think it sounds a little better and a little more full when you harmonize with it an octave or so lower, like at 0:53 or 2:17, for example. Also, are you utilizing the Haas Effect on them? It's hard to tell, but that's one way you could "thicken" them up without polluting the lower frequencies.

    I enjoyed this remix a lot. Great pick, smart tempo change, and over all good production. This probably needs a more qualified ear than my own to take it to the next level, but it is sounding really good to me. Nice work.

    Glad you like it and, yes, the source is awesome!

    I actually agree with most of your points. I tried to bring out the kick with some sidechaining and EQing but I guess I can still do more. I see what you mean about the hihats, I tend to make the hats too loud for some reason...

    I see what you mean about the synths. The one that plays in the 0:39 section is maybe a bit too thin, but I'm not sure that having one an octave lower would sound that good either. What is the Haas Effect? :razz:

    Thanks for the feedback!

    Timaeus & ACO - Tenchu and Street Fighter X Tekken

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

    Posted

    Nice sound here!

    I'm not a big fan of the kick though. I like how much presence it has but I feel its sound is too agressive for the mood of this song.

    I wonder why you didn't use a rhytm guitar for the song. Not saying that the synth used for the rhytm is bad, but at the very least I'd try to layer it with a distortion guitar (with lots of palm muting!) and see how that goes. I think it'd add some nice "bite" to the song.

    Synth leads are amazing, but that seems to be Timaeus' specialty now :razz: Piano also sounds great.

    Zelda Ocarina of Time - Gerudo Valley (Power Metal)

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

    Posted

    This sounds very cool!

    The arrangement is nice. I'm not too fond of the flanger section though.

    Also, I feel you could use a more powerful snare for this, since the one you're using is too "tame" for a high-energy song like this one. Drum programming could have more tricks too, right now it's just rhytm and has no interesting fills with toms or different snare patterns.

    The piano section at 2:15 could use more sustain pedal.

    Overall, very good! Guitars are very cool, mixing is great. I'd just try to humanize more the instruments that aren't live.

    Super Earth Defense Force - 'Armed Satellite'

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

    Posted · Edited by jnWake

    Link to arrangement: https://soundcloud.com/jnwake/super-earth-defense-force-use .

    Link to source:

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    I made this remix for last month's DoD and ended up 3rd!

    Original song is a tad upbeat and exciting so I wanted to make a remix in that style, which I guess I managed to do (except the calm section in the middle!). I also tried to do a cool bass with the slap sound. Synth leads are all played live by me using my keyboard's samples.

    Any feedback is very welcome :smile:

    Hope you enjoy it and then listen to more of SEDF's completely underrated soundtrack.

    Using Notation Software With Daws

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    I'm not sure about Finale, but one of the problems I had when using Guitar Pro was that the MIDI instruments restricted my song writing, even if I only planned to use GP as a "placeholder".

    I feel writing that directly into the DAW is a bit less comfortable but gives you a lot more freedom than writing on Guitar Pro, so I recently switched to just using DAW.

    "Lost in Time" - Chrono Trigger (Corridor of Time) ft. XPRTNovice

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

    Posted

    Yeah, mastering is terrible. I really dislike lowering too many dBs through compression and avoid reduction when limiting. It's better to have not that loud mixes IMO.

    The reverb on the sax may be a bit too much. I'd lower it a bit since it takes too much space.

    The bell-ish instrument has too much reverb or is too loud too, it generates too much noise.

    Anyway, this is sounding great, just a bit reverb-ish :-P

    Xenogears, Civ 4, Chrono Cross - (You Give Me) Wings

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

    Posted

    Nice! This reminds of Journey/Dream Theater, stuff like that.

    The toms feel a bit too weak and the kick is a bit too clicky (that's a bit unfitting with this softer rock imo). Try to see if you can make both of them more powerful! You don't have that much stuff in the low end so it shouldn't be that hard.

    The rest is pretty cool, nice guitar playing and the synth is very fitting. Source usage seems fine but I'm not that familiar with all the sources you used.

    EDIT: Woops, meant kick, not snare.

    Help Buying Komplete

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    Did they explain why?

    "Yes, that is a legitimate email from us. We require that info anytime there is an

    issue with a payment. This is done to protect our customers and ourselves, to help

    verify the person placing the order is indeed the card holder."

    Doesn't reveal much but at least it's official.

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