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Standard Card Size: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_7810 We should use ID-1.

Post counts are always changing. These aren't automated sig graphics. These are print-them-out-and-laminate-them cards.

I've always thought membership cards were pretty neat. I'm actually a card-carrying member of the Star Wars Fanclub (my card sits in the middle pouch in my trifold wallet, right behind my credit card). Now, in an official capacity, it'd be way too difficult and/or expensive to do, but I thought it'd be neat if we, as a community, could come up with some kind of template that a person could customize in order to print out an OCR Membership Card. That way you could say that you're a card-carrying member of OC ReMix. Any thoughts? Here are some ideas: * Forum name * Some kind of barcode generated from a person's forum ID#. Useless, but barcodes are oh-so-official. * Special symbols on the card for staff members (like a gavel for judges or something) * A special symbol for a remixer * We could do a new design every year, or maybe even every season My past threads (OCR-tan, Judge Cereal, and Mix Title T-Shirts) have brought out some of the best and creative stuff I've seen from this community. Do not disappoint me, comrades. Let's see what you've got.

If it's not on OCR, it doesn't exist.

Probably a toss up between Ziwtra's 'Aftershock,' Harmony's 'Dragon Song,' and McVaffe's 'Makoto Jungle Jazz.'

What the hell is wrong with you? That was a really good show and that guy really cared about educating kids. It was pretty sad when he died; a lot of people grew up on that show. Quit being tool.

It was announced months ago. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-12-17/new-haruhi-suzumiya-anime-series-details-revealed

So "The Legendary Hero" from Wind Waker (and by extension, my Ancient Hero mix) didn't make the list. Fail.

Your mix has to be a mix of the music. You can't take sound effects and create an original song out of it.

I personally will hate you for the rest of your life, or for the rest of my life. Whichever ends first. This will not factor into my judging though, so go ahead and remix what you want.

Joking.

There's no reason the opening strings have to sound so crappy, and if you're going for that filtered sound, you never contrast it with clean unfiltered strings. After the minute mark, this song feels like it's on autopilot, lazily going through a genre-adaptation of the melody. The guitar and harp stuff is interesting, but not enough to save the blandness of the arrangement. The percussion especially gets old fast. It's not all bad; balance between instruments is good, and it's got a nice groove, but you really need to work on this more. Bring some more originality to the track. NO

There's a second season coming of Haruhi.

You interpreted that question incorrectly.

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Yeah, we don't really accept those.

First, I just want to say to everyone else: lay off. He's allowed to request whatever songs he wants. Stop your mini-modding. As for purplecowdoom: As an artist, let me tell you: reviews are certainly worth beans. I always appreciate when a listener takes the time to leave a few comments about my work, even if it's just as simple as, "That was pretty cool." Reviews are not really for recommending mixes to other people; they're for giving your opinion on the song to the artist. Similarly, I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about when you say you need expensive programs to help with WiPs (especially concerning graphic design; I have no idea where that's coming form). All you need to help with WiPs is a pair of ears. You go to the WIP forum, listen to something someone is working on, and give them feedback/your opinion. That's all you have to do. Anyway I just wanted to clear stuff up.

Kind of disappointed nobody actually sent me anything for this. Looks like our judgecount is going to stay low this summer.

weed, what you're hearing is the choir clashing with the trailing reverb of the bell line, specifically on beat two of the measure. Plus the staccato choir is clashing with the sustained choir lines. I think that this has a really nice sound to it, but like weed mentioned, it's a little wonky in terms of choir harmonies. There's also the issue how conservative it is. Instrumentation is certainly a viable method of arrangement, but for the purposes of OCR, I don't think it can be relied on as the primary method of arrangement. Part-writing is very important, and I think that lifting not just melodic lines, but harmonic and continuo lines, out of the source doesn't really jive. There's certainly a lot of personalization here, I'll give you that, but I'm afraid that the combination of issues is a dealbreaker for me. Really wanna hear this tweaked up. NO, resub

Yeah it really follows the structure of the originals far too closely, and coupled with the Batman movie theme incorporation, it doesn't really jive with the standards. Still, a nicely executed piece of music; drums and guitar are particularly nice. Anyway, gonna have to say NO on this one. Hope to hear from you again. An aside, not having to do with my vote: The smattering of Joker voice clips also gets old pretty fast, to be honest. I'm not a fan of their usage here.

You're not really thinking about how your patterns fit together. It sounds like you came up with a few cool sounding patterns and utilized the standard beginner's arrangement technique: add patterns, subtract patterns, add patterns, subtract patterns. Never mind the fact that the arpeggiating lead gets old fast and is pretty weak in establishing the hook of the melody. It's just meandering the same old syncopated pattern over and over again. There's absolutely no development in here; you've got 1 minute of material stretched over 6 minutes. Sorry, but you've got to do way more with the arrangement; Jenova is too little too late. NO

Which is precisely why you'll never be a judge. Aside from the fact that it's a cover, there are a lot of balance issues between instruments, especially when flute and oboe attempt harmony and countermelodies. Too crowded. The samples really aren't that great either; they're only about as good as the ones I use. But like I said, without the attention paid to balance between voices, they don't really deliver as well as they could. So no, it probably would not get a YES from OCR judges. It's not a production, it's an arrangement with some serviceable samples.

SR 3rd Season is confirmed.

I'm a huge fan of the Lost Odyssey soundtrack, particularly the song Neverending Journey. Simply fantastic work. I wasn't impressed at all with Blue Dragon, but Uematsu is back on his game for LO.

Yeah this one is almost there. I agree with the comments about the snare; pull it back or soften it up and you're good. What I don't get is why you start of with this great piano line and then switch to a whole bunch of non-piano stuff for most of the mix. I was really disappointed when the piano took the backseat to the other leads. I think that once you hit the Place of Peace stuff, the sample quality makes this end up sounding a lot like BGM from some old Falcom PC RPG, that is to say, the xylophone is kind of exposed. Something with more meat to it might be a better choice there for those syncopated lines, but that's a totally minor gripe. I think the punchiness of all the instruments wears on the listener after a while. You might want to consider highlighting winds and strings in the soundscape in lieu of all the different kinds of piano and chromatic percussion pieces. Really though this is quite enjoyable and I think that if you just tweaked a few sections with regards to dynamics you could make this really shine. NO for now, but please resub