Dafydd

I will - as soon as I get a wip done, I'll post it there (if that's how it works). I'll leave you and this thread alone now

... you're worried I won't be having guitars in there? Don't be. My working title for the wip is "stick it up your trunk". That's about as "in your face" as it gets.

Ok. Can you elaborate? What makes this source tune so special, what makes it so unlikely to make for as awesome a remix as the others? Is it too happy, too slow, what? Meh, forget it. I'll make you a wip, and then I'll let you tell me what it is you don't like about it. I really want to be part of this, you know.

And unless I collab with someone, you can't reach that goal? I'll find someone to collab with, don't worry, I'm just curious about why. The track I want is kind of a big deal, and I understand if you want someone reliable to take it, but a collab won't necessarily guarantee that. Unless the guy I collab with is, I dunno, Sixto?

What's your angle? You know what, I'll make a wip of it and let you decide after that. If you don't like it, then... that's that. You said pretty much the same thing about the password theme though, so, what angle would you LIKE me to go with it, and what makes you think I might not? Is the genre my mixes generally fall into not to your taste, or do you just doubt my ability? If the latter, I completely understand, but if the former, I'm not sure I do. For the record, I intended to stick with the style, and not deviate much from the original arrangement, only I'd have real guitars and possibly some vox. I could ask Willrock to do some solos if you want. He should be able to crank some out by the time this is due... EDIT: Or is it because you don't think I'll finish it?

Can I unclaim the password theme and claim Flame Mammoth instead? Can't believe it's still open.

It's say it makes it a lot easier to tell where sentences end and begin. Without upper-case letters here and there, it all looks like an overwhelming blob of text, like it's all the same, huge sentence. I don't care that much, but if you want people to read it, you might as well get stuff like that right.

Moar caps lock Lol, I tried to write that in caps, but it kept getting converted back to normal text. Conclusion: repost the entire guide in caps and the forum software will fix the capitalization for you.

If I did any such thing, I didn't mean to.

I guess not. But you do say yourself to post in the thread if you think the first post is too long.

The first post borders on tl;dr too, but it's really all there.

Just voted.

Can I ask - when you record or post-process the vocals, what does your processing/FX chain look like?

Ahhh... Got it. He looks a little spooky to me, like X has been doing crack for a while or something. Way too skinny and long-limbed, and even his bony hand looks sinister. Plus he hunches like he's been stuck in a box for too long. It's a cool pic, but it doesn't look like the X I know. Had it been a human being or, I dunno, one of the bad guys, it would rock.

I could really see it all happening like it was a movie. You're a good storyteller, you know that? I'm not joking at all.

"More attack", as in "less attack"? You think it takes too long to reach full volume, is that it? I'll see what I can do. And by kick, I mean the thing that's actually a kick, it comes in at 00:32. The "click" you're hearing in the beginning is just the synth before the sidechain kicks in (the volume of just about every track in the song, except the drums, is compressed using a second drum kit that you never hear directly, other than as a sidechain). Well then, I'll try to reduce attack on the kick, as well as decay/sustain/release, make it pitch down as it plays, and use that compressor trick I learned about somewhere.

I've showed this to a bunch of people, and most are only moderately impressed. The main gripe seems to be the kick, but no one has been able to explain what it is they don't like about it. Are you? LINK HERE Newer version Should it be shorter, louder, more treble, what? Also, if anyone wants to help with vocals for this, do tell.

I don't think the NES leads fit here at all. The SFX is cool, but you need a meaner lead, more like the bass. Oh here it comes. It should have been the from the beginning. This stays too close to the original in terms of arrangement though.

There's no legs in the pic as far as I can see. The waist is pretty thin though...

I love the spooky, legatoed lead in the beginning there.

I know this isn't one of the songs you listed, but I posted a wip of Mama Bird a while back. http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26589

I misread your post, I thought you meant "the X". Yeah, I agree.

It's the only thing that doesn't look strange to me, heh. For comparison: I think the whole logo part of the sig could be stretched out a bit, horizontally that is.

I was thinking a roughly 40%-tempo [insert whatever you call the genre that the Minibosses usually play, perhaps a little towards that of Linkin Park], otherwise keeping the arrangement pretty much verbatim. That work? I'll send you a wip asap.