DarkeSword

Alrighty! The week is done, so I'll be moving this thread back to WIP. If you're a mixer on this project, please help Shael with finding remixers, and if you're able to, try and take more than one track. Good luck everyone.

In defense of the original, it's more of a minstrel's ballad, which is why it doesn't sound as epic. Its suppose to sound more like a fairy tale than an epic legend.

AND KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE!! Anyway, you can't directly sample the song like that and add beats to it. That's not what we do here at OCR. NO OVERRIDE

You should keep the concept in mind when you're doing all of the art for this thing; how would you promote this as a movie soundtrack? It's got to have a unified look; it needs to be 'branded.'

Klutz's piece is a fairly straightforward interpretation of the theme. It's hard not to compare, but the drastic differences present themselves at the very outset.

Well I had mentioned this to you on IM before, but I don't think we should have the album sound as if it was performed in a concert hall. It's supposed to be a movie score, so it should have more of a hollywood studio sound to it.

What does this have to do with Chrono Symphonic?

NO The rap is fine; no hate there. The problem is that there is pretty much no interpretation at all of the chocobo theme. It plays ad infinitum throughout the piece and is only supported by descending horns on the downbeat of every measure. Needs more interpretation, and at least a little more complexity.

Really amateurish sounds with very sloppy percussion. No attention paid to balance between instruments. That hi-hat is too loud, the lead is boring, and all of the elements vy for my attention. Arrangement basically follows the progression of the original without any real interpretation. NO

Ooooh this is pretty. A bit weak on the arrangement side, though I like the texture and production on this. The bass drum has just the right amount of reverb to convey a feeling of expansiveness without muddying up the lower end of the frequency spectrum. Cool. Nice pulse throughout, with some simple stringwork that accentuates the piano. I like it, though it could use a bit more arrangement and interpretation. Particularly another lead instrument to contrast with the piano. Almost there! borderline NO with emphasis on resubmit.

The strings sound oddly synthetic along side the female vocal, but that's a minor gripe. I like how well the choir sample meshes with the real vocal lead. The balance is just right. I'm also enjoying the cinematic quality, even if the instruments sound a bit fake. The entire track could be brought up in terms of volume, though its a minor gripe. Wouldn't mind getting a fixed version if this passes. Nice arrangement. YES

Wow, nice use of dynamics throughout the piece. I'm really enjoying this arrangement. Lots of expressive lines and interesting interpretation of the theme. I love ever-changing aspect of it. Lots of twists and turns, all performed very well. Plenty of nice harmonic ideas too. YES!

The opening is pretty good; nice crunchy sounds and good balance between elements. Unfortunately the piece degenerates over time and becomes overly harsh and ridiculously distorted, especially around halfway through. Piano is a nice touch but its short lived. Things get mucked up around 3:14. The arrangement overal is pretty repetitive too. Some more clarity and separation would have helped this track. NO

So anyway, is this project still going anywhere? Looks like 11 days of inactivity. Let's try to make some progress gentlemen.

I didn't notice this when I was listening, but you guys should say the dates for the week you're covering. When you say, "This is VGDJ show #14," you should follow it up with "for the week of august 15th - 21st." It helps when listening to older shows.

Hey just so you know, when you say the word 'hole' and you mean entire, it's spelled whole. Not trying to be a jerk or anything; just letting you know. Anyway, as far as MMOs go, I'm not a big player, but I played RO a long time ago during the alpha days, some of the beta, and on a few private servers. That game is filled with hat quests, but it was still pretty fun as far as the social aspect went.

I'm moving this project back to General Discussion for 1 week so that it can get some more exposure. Shael really needs remixers guys; it'd be great if anyone can help him out.

Yes, I'm sorry, I missed the deadline. I was working on something yesterday, but did not get at least 1 min.

The lead sounds good, but there's hardly anything there to support it. I'm getting a real feeling of emptiness from this mix and its really hurting it. Some comping chords, arpeggios, or pads to fill out the midrange is what this mix really needs. I would like to hear more interpretation in the melody as well; more than successive eighth notes. The percussive beat is nice, but the lead screams for some rhythmic variation. The acoustic guitar is fantastic but underutilized. More acoustic guitar would be great in this piece. The production is really nice. Everything has a clean sound and sits well. Nothing really clashes, so kudos for that. I want to see a resubmit on this piece; right now it's bordering on really awesome; give it the extra push. NO

I really don't think the background locks together harmonically at all with the melody. Not as well as it could, anyway. I think that the breakdown section is pretty gratuitous; it sounds like something completely original thrown in for variation's sake. It seems like there's a lot of freestyling in this piece without a lot of substantial use of source material. The texture isn't bad, but it's a bit sparse, and the percussive elements stick out and have a strange enclosed kind of reverb on them. The pitchbending ending doesn't really fit in this context either. NO

I think having a separate forum for VGDJ is a bad idea. This is OCR's official podcast, right? It should be based on OCR. If you create a separate forum for VGDJ.net, the show's focus will invariably shift away from OCR to VGDJ's own community; we'll start hearing more inside jokes and, eventually, music unrelated to OCR.

Pirate.

Quoted and fixed for emphasis. As an artist releasing music on the internet, you should never, ever delete your project files for any composition, remix or otherwise. It's the only proof you really have that the song was made by you. I'm sure in this particular case though, we're talking about lossless encodes.

KFC has the right idea. Start proactively contacting remixers who may not know about this project (if you haven't already). I agree with you in that at this point exclusion is not really an option. Contact those unresponsive people and ask them if they seriously want to be on the project, or if you should just go and get someone else. Be firm about it too. You don't have to exclude them, but keeping in constant contact is always a good idea. It's something I learned the hard way with the Kirby Project. That said, deadlines ARE good because they give people something to shoot for. Initial WIP deadlines usually call for about a minute of material by a certain date. I would say that when you've got most of your spots filled, you should think about setting up some deadline dates.

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