DarkeSword

Not much in the way of interpretation and/or arrangement going on here. The original song's arpeggios in the guitar are actually a bit more rhythmically complex, yet have the same acoustic sound. The rain is nice, but it ultimately comes off as gimmicky. Larry, that 'cheap-sounding vox' at 2:42 is an actual group of females singing; it's ripped straight from the original song. I swear, you've listened to so much synthetic stuff you've forgotten what real stuff sounds like! In any case, I don't really see anything new or exciting brought to the table here. It's a nice atmosphere piece, but it's not very interpretive at all, and the simplification of the original isn't effective either. I'd rather just listen to the original with rain sfx on top. Make it your own. NO

Wow too much reverb with not enough texture. This whole mix sounds hollow and sparse. Sequencing comes across as mechanical throughout, especially the super fake piano secion. You really need to work on the humanization in this piece. The arrangement ideas aren't bad, but you need to fill out the texture a lot more. The percussion seems like it's clipping too. NO

We need some commersial, and quick. Someone post in a thread or something else. No. Don't spam in other threads for this kind of thing. If you need to advertise, do so in your signatures.

Not a crime, just irrelevant. The thread is not about the game, but about the project. You want a thread about the game, make a thread in GD.

Moved to WIP.

Gonna go with the NO on this one, however borderline that vote may be. Let's get this out of the way; the vocals are awesome. The fake guitars, however, are not. Add to that the fact that the arrangement is nearly zero (pretty much follows the original song verbatim), and this doesn't really interpret all that much. It's too bad too; the part with the nice lyrics performed awesomely would have been welcome on OCR. Problem is that for OCR, you really need to interpret a lot more. NO

Because on the off chance that the project is not released 'this year,' people will get pissed off at you.

Uh, I'm pretty sure that's a real piano, Larry. ... Anyway, I think that the arrangement/performance is just fine. Very expressive, and nice use of dynamics. I love the main theme in major thing you have going on. My primary issue with this song is the volume spikes and the clipping that occurs. If you can re-record this with some normalization and no clipping, I think that'd be passable. NO for now.

WHOA really bad balance between instruments around :47. Guitar sounds really fake, and the whole thing gets a bit loud. Got agree with Larry and TO; the mix sounds dry and sparse, and there's not much reinterpretation going on here. The sounds are really basic and don't work together to great a good texture. They're all separate and stick out. I would recommend going back to the drawing board and try to come up with a really clever way of combining the tracks, use some better, more interesting sounds, and try to fill up the soundscape a bit more. NO

I'm going to be a lazy ass and piggy back on Larry's vote, because he basically said everything I was going to say. While the arrangement is nice, it's sparse, and it suffers from sounding empty at points. 2:16 in particular could use some more support. Timpani rings out like crazy, but nothing else comes close to matching it in power; you need balance. Nice ideas. Go for the win, and retool/rework/revitilize/reenvision/resubmit. NO

Too much delay, too much unison, too much rhythmic simplification of the source material, too much repetition, and far too long. The percussion never really sits well with the rest of the instruments. It always sounds like a separate entity. Nothing else really locks together well at all. I don't think I would ever want to dance to this music. The percussion makes too much of an effort to constantly change; there's never any solid dance groove. As a result, the whole song sounds like a buildup to a climax that never arrives. Grossly unfulfilling. NO

Ponderous. I like it. It's hard to do something like this, which is such a slowly evolving piece, effectively, but you've managed to pull it off. I love how this piece moves from one idea to the next seamlessly. The crescendo to the Deku Tree theme at 4:51 is perfect; a powerful statement with lots of emotion behind it. Nice job man. YES!

I'll agree that it's not Mazedude's best, but it's rather well done. Nice, clonky industrial that sounds pretty clean. The problem though is that like Vig says, it's dynamically flat for the duration of the song. Once the drums come in, that's pretty much it. There's some nice sound design (lead is cool), but I think from an arrangement standpoint, it's gets old fast, which isn't good considering the piece is only 4 minutes long. I'd like to see a resub with some more variation in dynamics. NO

Moved to General; lets get some more mixers people!

KFC has had his Site Project forum moderation powers revoked due to behavior issues. However, this does not mean that KFC is no longer one of the coordinators of this project. He started this project and has done a great deal of work to see it to completion. SnappleMan and KFC are still CO-coordinators. Carry on.

GO COMPYFOX GO!!! OSU!! TATAKAE!! OUENDAN!!

If your sole purpose for posting in this project thread is to exacerbate any drama, your trolling posts will continue to be deleted. I've already sent a warning to Lugia; any further posts by him will warrant an account suspension.

And as such, you should focus on the sound engeering, rather than moderating the thread. It is not your job to keep the discussion on track, especially considering the discussion was on topic. Your post was highly uncalled for, and you should consider toning down your attitude and apologizing. We know you're engineering the project; it's a fact you've made very apparent. Make no mistake: every artist on this project definitely appreciates it; but you need to show some respect to the artists whose work you're mastering. So how about instead of worrying about what people are talking about in the thread, you just focus on your work? If there are on-topic posts that don't have to do with the engineering, ignore them.

I like all the other judges better than you (no offense). No, seriously, where's that beatboxing demo?! Only because you've collabed with all of them! D: As for beatboxing, my MIC sux. I've only collaborated with GrayLightning so far, in terms of judges. (Something else in the works now that you might know about, though.) But yesh, I do love him. I posted a comment in your lj a long time ago and you never acknowledged my existence, so that's why I don't love you as much. But hey, they asked me to collab. I'm no ho! (Rayzaaaaaa....) As for the mic... excuses, excuses! I don't reply to most of my comments, so it was nothing personal.

I like all the other judges better than you (no offense). No, seriously, where's that beatboxing demo?! Only because you've collabed with all of them! D: As for beatboxing, my MIC sux.

I like Aurora better than Pixie (no offense). Good show too. Play more DarkeSword.

When the album is released. In other words, don't ask when the album comes out; it will be out when it's out. Uhhh...how about 45TB? He meant storage space, not transfer. What? You've never heard of a Terrabyte? ?? I don't understand your attempt at humor.

Uhhh...how about 45TB? He meant storage space, not transfer.

I wish it varied up a bit more, but this is still pretty solid. Production is tight, performance is tight, and the arrangement is just enough, IMO. I like the fact that the lyrics make no sense. Solid. YES oh, also... whiteboy lol

Ha, this is so off the wall. There's a lot going on, but I think everything meshes pretty well. The production is pretty clean, which is hard to do when you've got so much stuff all over the place. I like the little interludes with the crazy retriggered breaks; it changes things up nicely. It's a pretty good genre adaptation with a decent arrangement. I like how it's only 3:17; any more and it would be nauseating, but the length as it stands is just right. I like it, so YES