jnWake
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Intro is pretty cool, the bass sounds great. Guitar riff at 0:22 is sweet, feels very natural alongside the source (or your interpretation of it at least). The idea with the lead at 0:45 is pretty interesting but I'm not that sure if I like it. Maybe something higher there could work too? Like something else playing higher notes. I dunno.
What happened at 1:05 haha? The tapping is a bit sloppy and since it's almost solo (bass is barely listenable there) it's very noticeable.
At the 1:18 mark it'd be pretty cool if you played the A in the melody as double notes instead of a single one.
Quite abrupt transition to the clean section. Reverb on the lead is way too high and too low in the clean guitar (curiously).
2:42 seems like a perfect placeto have a higher lead playing too. Wonder why you placed all the leads in middle/low octaves... I don't think that's common in this type of music or at least in the few bands I listen that are similar to this.
3:15 is incredible. I'm not fond of the cymbals at 3:27 though. I think you could use a cymbal pattern like the one in Symphony X's Egypt intro. Here.
Transition at 3:49 is a bit sudden and the toms sound super exposed here. Bass solo is cool, it could play from the start of that section really. To be honest I felt the song ended well at 3:50, although the solos are kinda cool.
Overall, this is amazing. I would have never expected a Megadeth type song to come out from the Veldt source haha. I'm honestly very surprised by how well it works and how you adapted the source to perfectly fit the trash style. My main gripe with the arrangement is that everything seems to be playing in lower octaves mostly. Some higher sounding notes are welcome you know!
Regarding the playing, the rhytmic riffing is awesome but the solos have a few sections that are a bit sloppy, like the tapping at 1:05. Still, that's mainly nitpicking from me since the playing is pretty good.
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I like the instrumentation for Bonetroussle, although the staccato strings could work better one octave lower. I'm not that fond of the horn harmonies in the beggining, they sound weird since they play too similar notes. The entrance of the bassier brass at 0:42 is great, adds so much energy to the piece.
The melody at 1:11 sounds very unnatural. I don't think anyone would play it like that TBH. Add some legato or something there.
As Hank points out, the transition is very medley-ish but it doesn't bother me really. It could be stronger but it's not a dealbreaker in my opinion.
Love the xylophone at 2:05 although I'd switch the octaves between the strings and the melody here.
The transition to Megalovania is way too sudden, much more than the previous one. Piano is an interesting choice for the first melody. I think it works.
Overall I feel this sounds pretty good, although I think the bass is lacking. You have some solid percussive instruments but there are like no instruments really filling the bass role and that's an important role for such a rhytmic mix like this one. Xylophone is the standout IMO.
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It sounds a lot cleaner now! Panning really helps, and the bass adds a lot too.
The flute sounds a bit dry as you mentioned in the previous post. I wouldn't pan that particular instrument too since it isn't that powerful sounding (at least in the part where it plays solo). Also, being super nitpicky, the note at 0:42 in the flute seems to go off-key a bit near the end.
Sounds pretty nice!
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On 23/2/2016 at 6:07 PM, Neblix said:
This is really a compositional problem, not a mixing problem. You need to voice your ensemble in such a way that every instrument has a place that doesn't overlap with any other instrument. Don't cross voices, and don't write dense lines below C3 (C an octave below middle C).
What exactly do you mean by dense? I mean, having chords with too many low notes can sound a bit strange, but I wouldn't say it's a rule to not write them! For example, there are piano pieces that are "dense" in those passages and they sound fine!
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1,000 submissions a year? That's like 3 per day haha. Considering you need at least 3 votes to reject a song and 4 to pass, you'd need a pretty big team of active people to keep up! If Brandon's reviewing rate is similar to his writing rate he could get rid of all the backlog in like a week haha.
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We also went down a few places. No biggie though, I think Ivan's arrangement is pretty sweet. Hope he submits it to OCR
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There are rarely any reviews in DoD though.
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Yeah, DoD has another focus. I've gotten some pretty good placements there and my production quality is definitely not standout! It's still fun to compete there, just for the sake of making a remix in a somewhat limited time (which is why I haven't written an arrangement there for a looong time, I'm relegated to supporting Ivan haha).
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Math explains everything.
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I support Rayman, Origins and Legends have godly soundtracks.
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Premonition is damn good. Someone like Fishy seems fitting for it.
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Yeah, I did, that's why I asked actually haha. Some sounds do feel slap-like. It'd be a cool thing to add in the future though and you already have Tony so you'd get great slap sounds!
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3 hours ago, Ivan Hakštok said:
Ok, I wrote a quick post this morning because I needed to go to work, here's a longer post:
A good remix of Force Your Way doesn't exist...yet. The Black Mages version is awful, and the Dissidia Duodecim version doesn't utilize the good points of the theme. There are a few decent ones on Youtube by random people. But none of them is creative enough. The theme has a few awesome elements that are under-utilized even in the actual theme, and that's one of the reasons I don't like Nobuo's compositions and why I rarely remix FF. But I'll make an exception this time because FF8 is the most fun FF game next to FF12 (and FFX-2 if you count spinoffs).
What I had in mind will probably require a massive collab. I'll post the exact details once I'm done with a midi arrangement. Force Your Way is by far the best boss theme in the whole FF series (even though, like I said, Nobuo fucked it up), and it deserves treatment as such.
Get ready.
You know what to do if you need synths
That actually goes for everybody but I'm not sure if many people are interested in a keyboard player that's easily replaced by VSTs haha.
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This seems pretty cool. It doesn't have slap though, right?
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I could pick up some guitar players (probably Brostok haha) if I write something with guitars, but I'll see what I come up with first
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Actually, if it interests you, I could claim the track The Mission, which isn't on the list. It's quite cool
Also, someone (Jordanius *cough*) should do The Winner.
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Awesome! I'm not sure if I want to claim anything yet but I wish you luck with this. VIII has some damn good songs.
EDIT: Rexy should claim Find Your Way and write an awesome piano piece for that
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It's weird that this remix has so few comments...
I love the melancholic feeling of the mix. Leads are very nicely played, with the bends and vibrattos adding a lot of feeling to the music. I also really like the panning, with the clean guitars and synths on different sides.
The mix is very true to the source, but with one small twist that makes the song so much more impactful, which is the rhytm change for the backing instruments. It's a subtle change but it adds a lot.
Awesome remix!
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If only Magfest was nearer to South America
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Rayman is a good one. Legends and Origins have awesome soundtracks.
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Yeah, I don't see anything bad about this happening and, in fact, can only hope it happens more in the future. Terranigma could use some love.
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This is cool! I listened to the OST of DD1 today and actually got some inspiration. Who knows, I may try this.
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I can play synths for anyone interested.
EDIT: I can also collaborate on an arrangement too, I just don't plan on writing one myself haha.
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I did like 20. Not much, but hope it helps haha.
My stuff sounds muddy
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I know. I'm just saying that, while it often doesn't sound very good, it can work in some contexts!
EDIT: @below: I know chords sound bad more often than not at lower octaves (the lower the worse). I guess I simply don't like spelling it like a rule since it depends on the context and instruments used (and what we define as low).