DarkeSword

Thanks for providing the originals! Nice rain! To bad that annoying deep droning comes in and numbs my mind. The percussion is also way too crazy; there's no balance here. Remember what Mr. Miyagi said in Karate Kid: Lesson of balance not just for karate, lesson for whole life. You need to find a balance between your sounds. Everything just comes off as overwhelming, especially when you've got an incessant drone with off-the-wall percussion. The melody is drowned out. Apart from that, a bit repetitive; voice clips work though, so kudos for that. NO

Oooh very nice. Quite heavy on the kick; but that's the way I like it. Very clean sounds; nice synths and clear drums. This is clearly not just an original-with-drum-loops-over-it; like Vig said, it's got some nice expansion in the way of surrounding material. Very nice stuff. I do agree that that buildup is long as hell though. Wish it was shorter. However, this is some nice trance, and I just can't say no to something like this. YES

Be forwarned, however; Squidfont is generally only good for strings, unless you really know what you're doing with the other sounds.

Very amateurish sound. Everything is just piled on with effects. I recognize effect presets from FruityLoops, especially on the percussion. Everything sounds overly reverbed; very muddy sound. There's also very little attention paid to balance and texture here. Everything is all over the place. DJP is right though; it does pick up after a while. Unfortunately it's still got an amateurish sound and is plagued by the wonky reverb and percussion effect. NO

Drums are too repetitive. It sounds like one of those freshman drummers you meet in high school that wants to start a band, but he only knows how to play one drum pattern. You've got one nice fill in the ending, but the entire mix is plagued by the same beat over and over again. The violin lead is too thin and sounds stretched. You've gotta be careful when you use your samples; they don't always have the range that the instruments they're sampling do. General advice for everyone who might read this: Treat your violin samples like violin samples, not violins (this goes for any other instrument as well). Also, the arrangement is lacking; not much deviation from the original, and quite repetitive. It's not overridable, but it's certainly lacking. NO

Holy crap! Not even the Soundblaster Card has enough cache to run this thing! Beware folks, beware! EDIT: Actually, if you have the skill, be prepared to cut the sf2 file into a few smaller peices using the bank manager in Vienna. There are some instruments in there you may or may not need. 275 MB and the brass is still crap.

First things first, thanks for posting the original for comparison. This is solid stuff. Very enjoyable; you had me dancing in my seat. Nice variation throughout the mix. Malcos is right however; drums can be a bit loud at times, in comparison to the strings. Watch the balance. Not much else to say that's already been said. Nice work. YES

Currently grabbing the sheet music; if someone can try to identify the originals used in here, I'll upload the sheet music to the FTP and we can compare the notation. EDIT: Don't even bother. This a straight playthough of the sheet music. There's not even a hint of deviation from the sheet music version. Judges can contact me about the sheet music if they wish to compare for themselves, but rest assured guys, I sat down and followed the entire piece along with the sheet music. It's exactly the same. NO OVERRIDE

Percussion is really poor too. Hate to judge it this way, but there's not much else to say, except that the timing is really awkward thoughout the entire mix. Sounds a lot like you used a keyboard to play the syncopated lines. In agreement. NO

I don't think it's an issue in this mix. Go ahead and impart us with your gems of wisdom.

HMMMM Yeah. It's nice and all; there's a flow there, but it's not particularly tight. Unfortunately, it's not much a remix of the Luigi's Mansion. It's just there to be rapped over. Nice joke about Mustin though. XD It's cool, but not much of a Luigi's Mansion remix. Percussion coulda been tricked out at some point too. Sorry man. NO

Alright, you've managed to use your sounds really well. They're not the most amazing, but you've put them together in such a way that a pleasant texture comes a across. Very nice! The arrangement is quite nice. I agree with Prot about the variation; good stuff through and through. The transition at 2:10 is kinda jarring, but it's followed up with a nice execution. Everything melds together nicely and sounds full and grandiose. Nice flute work too. Yeah, as Larry says, no way I can 'hate on this.' Nice work. YES

Unfortunately, this is a pretty good concept marred by some shoddy execution. Sounds like it's run straight through the synthesizer. Not a lot of attention paid to the balance between the instruments throughout the piece; like Prot said, poor mastering. The samples sound unprocessed and don't mesh well. The whole thing comes off sounding very unnatural; but since the piece makes an attempt at an organic sound by using 'acoustic' instruments, it's gotta have that humanized element. There are just too many points where I feel like I'm playing a PC game from the EARLY '90s. Such a shame though; it's a damn good arrangement once it gets going. I disagree with Prot's claim of 'simplistic notation.' There's a lot of nice melodic play going on that really shows an understanding of the source material. NO, but I want you to work on sampling and mixing and try for a resubmission.

Argh, so torn... Okay, so it's more than a cover, but there's not that much arrangement going on here. The sound and texture is really nice, so the mixer gets major points for that. Like Prot said, cool compression stuff on the drums. I can hear a lot of the parts from the original; not just the melody, but also some of the countermelody stuff. You gotta watch out for this kind of thing. I do feel however, that there's a lot of skill shown in the mixing aspect. Whole thing sounds really clear and clean. Percussion exhibits very tight beats, and the rhodes stuff is great. I think that while this song doesn't have the most amazing thinking-outside-the-box arrangement, there's a lot of personality put into it that presents the material in a fresh and interesting way. The strong execution balances out the less-than-amazing concept. YES

Vocals are really terrible. You've got a lot of intonation issues going on; things like that can only be fixed with lots of voice training etc. Lyrics are also corny, typical, and all around bad. The guitar playing is pretty nice though, and there's a good groove and texture going on once the percussion comes in. However, that's not enough to negate the terrible vocals. NO

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It's official. I hate all Middle-eastern people now Well it's a lot better than "SUPER FIGHTING ROBOT!....MEGAMAN!" ad infinitum. Also, I'm South Asian, not Middle Eastern. Bitch.

uhhhh... Yeah, Coma basically summed it up. Might have been interesting if you'd actually attempted to arrange the song instead of relying on an already used gimmick. Good for novelty, but not much else. NO

Man I hated that level in TMNT. That whole game was hard though; farthest I ever got was beating MekaTurtle and getting to the fourth world. Meh. Anyway. Yeah it's fairly close to the original. I think that sometimes the piece just gets too crowded; there's not much attention paid to balance here. Drums and guitar and everything else; they're all vying for my attention, but I don't know what to listen to. 2:02 is a pretty nice section, but unfortunately the whole piece is kind of washed out and muddy sounding. Crazy drumming like that usually only works when you have a real drummer; that's uber sequenced and overly complicated. Tone it back a bit. NO

Dear God these lyrics are brilliant. Appropriately campy; it's MEGAMAN! Yeah, quite nice all around. Guitar work is good, voice isn't bad at all. Vocal harmony is right on. Very nice. Medleyitis does describe it, but that's quite minor. YES INDEED!

UGH...what's up with the recording? Sounds like you guys were in a box and the microphone was not. The arrangement is not bad. It's got a great groove and a nice interpretation. However, it does get repetitive. There's not much in the way of development as this song progresses. Too bad. NO

Wow, you definitely don't want to use Roland Piano for this. Try NS Piano or something. Way to bright here; sounds like some construction workers smashing a piano with hammers. This sounds very mechanical too; as I mentioned when reviewing another piano piece, the human touch is crucial in solo piano productions. This piece lacks that human touch. There are portions where I feel like one person could not possible play this piece on a piano. Lots of smashing block chords everywhere; it's a bit irritating. Work on humanization and organic...ness....yeah. NO

That drumbeat just doesn't change, and it's a bit loud compared to everything else. Aside from that, the arrangement is pretty static. There's a nice texture, but this piece doesn't really go anywhere. NO

I agree with Vig. You could have done a lot better than just using those choruses. Some nice string work or something would have worked a lot better. The low bass stuff is really nice, but unfortunately it doesn't balance out with the higher stuff and the chorus. NO

Hooray for drumloops. Not much to this. The bass is, like Vig said, too low. If it had some more body to it, it'd sound nice, but it's so negligible at the moment. The synths are kind of thin and weak sounding, and they sound like you just layered as many effects onto them as you could to make them sound interesting. The song really repeats a lot without much variation too. You need to vary up your sounds more, and work on a more interesting arrangement. NO