DarkeSword

fantastic This is fantastically pretty and super-chill. I love the combination of synth, strings, and twinkly sounds. Fantastic texture. Personally I think everything fits together very nicely. This is perfect fantastic chill/nighttime driving music. fantasticYES edit: fantastic

This is an excellent start; for some reason it really sounds like a Bollywood song from the 90s. But I have to agree with my fellow judges; it's mechanical sounding, and it's still lacking in the creative department. I'd like to see some more complexity here, particularly as Vig mentioned with the harmonic support. Keep working on this, as it has the potential to be really awesome. NO (rework and resub please!)

This arrangement is awesome! Lots of great ideas and cool sound choices. My main issue though is that it sounds INCREDIBLY lo-fi. WHY? This song SERIOUSLY needs some mastering before I can vote yes. Way too muffly and muddy. NEEDS HI FREQS! NO RESUB

The opening reminds me of one of those chinese martial arts movies where they make the pretense of having a really deep love story when it's all just an excuse to do kung fu. Go figure. Yeah this is really pretty stuff. I'm enjoying the slowly moving lines buried within the sustained chords; nice stuff. Dynamics are excellent; lots of highs and lows; those detache strings are wonderfully executed too. Needs more Yo-Yo Ma. YES

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I really liked this piece. Lots of nice composition ideas and expansion of the original material. Good work. On another note: for those of you reviewing, make sure you're commenting on the remix, not on why you're pissed there isn't a sequel to SMRPG, or proposing a SMRPG project, etcetc.

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Yes, that's the kind of thing I'm looking for.

Messy messy messy! That metallic lead simply isn't working here. It doesn't sit well with all of the other sounds, and doesn't really convey the melody clearly. The piano sample is horribly generic too. Gray's right; it sounds empty in the middle, and throughout the whole piece, there's no hook to really grab my attention. This mix feels like it's going through the motions. NO

Are you guys even listening to the same source material as I am? There's practically nothing there to mix. This feels more like an original song than a remix. Either way, I'm voting no, because the produciton on this piece is pretty bad. That piano is too loud and everything sounds ridiculously muffled. The disparity between dry and wet sounds Gray mentioned is very stark; a bit annoying, actually. Everything else has been said. NO

I don't mind the applause stuff so much. It certainly sounds more realistic than playing piano at an english pub </obscure reference>. Still, something's up with the mixing here in this piece; those drums sound like they're clipping when they get loud. Maybe it's just my headphones? Either way, they're too poppy and stick out too much in the mix. That's the main problem with this mix. There are instances where the balance between elements is pretty bad. Nice groove, nice arrangement, but I think it needs some better mixing and mastering. NO

For cover art, I'd like something clean, artdeco-ish, kind of like a throwback to 50s/60s space posters. No black outlines on anything, no official art either. I'm thinking Kirby (with no powers) riding on a warp star that looks like it's moving upward through a starry backdrop. See what you can come up with, Vilecat, Linearity.

The intro takes a long time to get through; it's a good intro, but it's long. Transitions are awkward and really weird. The song of healing section has absolutely no relevence to the song of storms section. It also sounds really thin, with piano and strings playing in unison. Arpeggiator on the melody is corny as hell and totally ineffective. Seems to me that you made not real effort to cohesively combine both source tunes into a single mix; there's medleyitis out the wazoo here, and the two songs don't compliment eachother at all. You've even got them in two different minor keys without any kind of transitory passage to take us from one key to the other. That's some pretty messy writing. NO

That kick drum has way to much presence in the mix; it's too loud and it fills the soundscape. That lead that come in at 1:39 is atrociously bad. It's messy, wide, and buzzy. Seems like a lot of ideas strewn together too. Not much cohesion to the arrangement. The ambience is pretentious and the substance is lacking. NO

BOOMCHICKADISSH BOOMCHICKADISSH BOOMCHICKADISSH BOOMCHICKADISSH That's what this is. A bit more interesting than boomhiss, but it amounts to the same thing. Come on man; this is so generic and straightforward. Needs highs and lows. It's so repetitive. Pretty much the same thing over and over again. NO

Everything is louder than the melody. The piano is buried way in the back behind with phased sounds. Speaking of which, everything sounds like it's phased. Bring out the melody, vary up the sounds a bit, and do something interesting with the arrangement. It gets old fast. NO

Whole thing sounds muffly, like there's too much reverb. The leads aren't all that interesting; the piano and the weird flanged sound just play the melody in unison for a while. Pretty uninteresting. Pads are boring too. Like Vig said, they just take up space and don't really do anything interesting. Percussion never really breaks out with anything interesting. Bad note choices before 1:30! Yeah, this is pretty messy. Needs a clearer sound; levels are weird, and there's too much reverb. NO

That horn playing arpeggios has got to go. Sounds unnatural; as do the rest of the orchestral instruements (but not as much) Dan really broke it down well; a lot of GMish sounds, particularly harp and slow strings (which I'm guilty of using too). The sounds work well together though, and the arrangement is quite nice. The addition of the guitar is great. The elements of the mix are clearly separated. I would have liked a fuller sound, especially around 3:40; sounds kind of sparse there. Still, the overall package is pretty good. Above the bar in my book. YES

I like this piece; it's got a really nice, clean texture, with cool, albeit fakey, sounds. But I gotta agree with Larry; needs more arrangement. Sounds a lot like the original, upgraded. Cool dynamics, cool sounds; needs a better arrangement. NO

Needs bass. Seriously. Also it's super quiet! The second half of the piece doesn't come off as powerful as it could because the samples sound very thin. I'd like to see a fuller sound that isn't buried in reverb. There's a GM ooh choir in there that sounds really out of place too. Arrangement is awesome, but needs more on the execution side. RESUBMIT PLEASE! NO

The vocal stuff is pretty cool in the beginning. Some odd intonation stuff that rubbed me the wrong way, but nothing major. I agree with Dan though; the piano/percussion should have more presence, and there needs to be more underlying harmonic support. Needs more! Resub. NO

The guitar is way to plucky for the mood you're trying to create. Instruments don't balance out either. What's the melody? What's the harmony? I really can't tell. Nothing changes volume. There's no balance. I don't feel any energy here either. The whole arrangement is plodding along without really building and releasing. Too much going on, not enough focus. Back to the drawing board. NO

I'm pretty sure it's "beefs," Dan. Anyway it definitely sounds like it's straight out of Halo; it has the same sound to it; but I think that like Dan mentioned, the composition is really good, and I think it's varied enough and plays with the source subtly. Conservative, yes, but not a cover. Good stuff, I think. YES

Did Uematsu use this chord progression in FF6? Whatever. Okay jeez man that guitar just doesn't let up. It's a nice sound but it seems to go on forever. I'm not saying it's played badly, it's just a lot to listen to. This needs some bright comping '80s style piano. That's what's missing. It feels kind of empty without that middle register harmonic support. Anyway nice arrangement I really like it, but I wish the guitar would cut out for a while and you'd segue to another instrument for variety; I started losing interest after about two and a half minutes. Keep at it; I like your style! NO, for now. Go for the resub.

Everything that needs to be said has already been said, but I'll throw in some comments to close this out. Your percussion sounds like four-on-the-floor techno percussion run thought an orchestral sample set. Seriously; mmSS! becomes BOOMCHING! It sounds like everything is run though reverb on the same mixer channel; in other words, too much reverb and everything is bleeding together. Your instruments need to be clearly defined when you're doing something like this. Originality would help too, although I thought that the runs were written excellently (played on those string samples is another story; blech ) but this song basically follows the progression of the original. It needs more of you. Keep at it. NO