Dafydd

Glad you like it. I think a few forewarning shreds from the guitar would help though, it comes in kind of abruptly there.

I think the idea was to lessen the workload for LT. But true enough, it might not, actually.

Right, I heard about that. I still think it would be cool with a mega update of the "to be judged" queue once you've taken care of all the ones currently in it (unless it's so out of date all of the ones in there are already taken care of).

Lawl! Sorry, couldn't resist. Saw this in the to be posted queue and been anticipating it ever since. Very interesting piece of music, this. It reminds me of another composer's music, but I can't put my finger on whose. It's very nice, anyway.

What's up with the panel anyway? Barely anything has happened in the last month or so. What would be awesome is if you (the panel, not just you, OA) would finish voting on all the 17 mixes still in the queue, emptying the list completely, then refill the queue with ALL the mixes subbed since April 5. It'll be an impressively, depressingly long list, I'm sure.

A Line 6 Pocket Pod looks to be pretty useful and affordable. But then I'd still need to record using the mic port on my computer. Which is fine, I guess, once the signal's loud enough there's not a lot of noise there, so something like the Toneport GX wouldn't be necessary if I have this. Plus this one I don't need a computer to use. Any reason I should go for a Pod 2.0 rather than a Pocket Pod? The former just looks more confusing to me. What would you use the MIDI ports for? EDIT: Looks like I can any of the above dirt cheap from ebay uk. Now all I need to know is which one to get... EDIT2: Damnit, I wanted to get an octaver effect too, but those things cost as much as a Pod. Wtf? EDIT3: I got a used POD XT for less than $300. Good deal to me. I would have preferred a cheaper model but what the hell.

I actually like their dirty, live sound, it's such relief compared to all the studio rock you hear (and that I also like). And, as I've said countless times, the fact it doesn't stray far from the original doesn't bother me at all. It feels like this is what the original creator wanted it to sound like.

Mind you, at the rate things are going even if this was submitted today it still wouldn't get judged until late 2010, and not posted until early 2011 or so. Assuming there's a boatload of mixes still not in the judges queue (anything submitted after April 5 this year). So it would be the official remix of three years in a row. Not bad!

That runs on usb, so I'd need a computer whenever I want to use it. Other than that, looks pretty nifty... Do you really need to use it as a VST, or does it show up as a recording device in, say, Windows, like my USB mic does? All the processing takes place inside the box, the computer gui is just for setting it up, right? Lots of questions, sorry about that...

Or is there a better one at about the same price? This one seems to do just about anything I could want it to, and you can plug in an expression pedal (no idea what one of those would cost though) to control it. Any good / bad experiences with this one, or similar products from the same company (or not)? Any better suggestions?

This still isn't finished? Oh my...

I don't personally have a problem with mixes sticking close to the original, and I really don't understand why anyone else does, as long as no one else has done the same thing with the same song before. This is new enough, simply because it's (for this source) a new genre. For being an orchestral mix though, it feels really rocky, rhythmically speaking. I think the drums shouldn't have been so much "kick, snare", but rather "snare, snare", with snares both on the 1st and 3rd beats of the measure as well as the 2nd and 4th. It's like a rock remix with orchestral instruments. Definitely worth a listen, and I appreciate the effort, but this could really have been made more "orchestral" with a few small tweaks.

I think DJP disapproves of having scripts accessing the database. I remember another guy tried that a while ago, and while his intentions were good, DJP thought the impact on the site bandwidth, or the risk of one, is not good for the site.

It's not an insane task, it's a task for Larry-bot! He gets so much done every day sometimes I think he has to be a machine, and we're just pathetic creatures of meat and bone, panting and sweating as we run through his corridors... In all seriousness though, if 15 people take 100 MP3's each it's not that much work. So it should be done soon, if someone's still working on it. I read adding lyrics to songs that have them still needs to be done - but there can't be all that many songs with lyrics on the site...

Yeah, I do realize it would have been better, but compared to everything else I've used, this guitar's trem is very stable, and having played for it for a few days I still haven't noticed any sort of tendency to get out of tune, unlike every hardtailed one I've played. I guess all of my friends have cheap, crappy guitars. This one is fantastic in comparison. Fishy - the one you have would have cost me at least twice as much as I paid for this one. I'm not going to return it, not even sure I can, but there's a few other used guitars near here at about the same price, namely an XV-500, an RG470, an RS530, an RG550, an RG570, an RG7321, an EDR 470EX, a Starfield, an S370, a 540S LTD PN, and a Fender Toronado. Would any of those have been a better buy, assuming they're in the same condition?

If by trem you mean the whammy bar, I don't think I'm going to use it much, to be honest. How do I know where it's manufactured? Does it say on the actual guitar? Also, can you name a good, Japanese-made $650 model? Do and I'll tell you how much one of those would be here. Remember, I'm not in your part of the world. Slap 25% tax on your actual price and you'll get closer to what I have to pay, whatever it is. It's also a lot smaller a market, so used anything is harder to come by.

Well, in that case I guess it was a good deal. Now I have an incentive to practice so it doesn't feel like I threw that money away. I mean, I've wanted to get one for years anyway.

Well, in case anyone cares, I ended up buying it. Now I just have to learn to play it...

Ok. Thanks.

I walked into a guitar shop to get a new string for my gf's guitar. Poked about in the store looking at what they had there, and one of the guitars that caught my eye, besides a similarly priced brown Fender with black sports car stripes on it, was an Ibanez RGT42DXWH. Both these guitars were originally more like $1,000 (with the current SEK/USD rate), the Fender the last they had and the Ibanez, again, used. Didn't look used at all. Just touching the strings on it felt completely different from the one I bought strings for, the whole thing was just beautiful and even though it had a whammy bar it still didn't lose pitch when pushing the strings down between the frets. Quality! Now, I don't know much about guitars and I can't play worth shit, though I would really love to learn. Should I buy it anyway? I mean, I could always sell it again, for almost the same price too. Unless I wear it out, it feels like something like that would only become more valuable as time passes. Then again, $630 is a lot of money, and even though I could afford it it feels like sort of a stupid thing to do, spending half a month's wage on something I wouldn't even be able to play properly. Help? EDIT: Actually, retail price for this guitar is $1,200 rather than $1,000. My bad.

The two actually fit very well together, I think, but I can still smoothen out the transition. Thanks though.

You mean at 00:49? Yeah, fingered the wrong fret and was too lazy to rerecord. Plus the guitar isn't very well tuned, and even though it doesn't have a whammy bar (if it did you'd be dead now), it changes tune depending on how hard I press the strings, but I hope I'll learn to handle that with a few weeks' practice. But if I ever finish this I'll most likely get someone else to do the job anyway. Unless this mix takes my usual time to finish, in which case I will hopefully have learned to play power chords without breaking a sweat. And thanks!

You have no idea what strange images pop up in my mind reading that post. Anyway, yeah, I think the part where the guitar is in (Silence) could harbor a dirty bass pretty well.

Distort the bass? Interesting idea.

This feels SOO 80's. Regardless, not having heard the source this is a piece of music I probably won't be walking around singing. It's like there's... nothing to hold on to, really. That said, it's not a bad mix by any means. It just hit me I won't remember the melody once the mix is over. Doesn't sound like anything else I've heard on the site before, though, and that's always a good thing. Damnit, I didn't mean to sound like I didn't like this. I did.