Geoffrey Taucer

I forgot to mention drums in my post. Everybody's reccomending DFH, but honestly I have yet to reach the point where I couldn't be satisfied with free drums (usually either ns kit free or the ken ardency kit)

sixto.exe. Best rock remixing program in the world. ... Anyway, now for a real answer. There is no one sequencer that's better for rock music; any half decent program will work for any genre you can dream up. If you're looking for a sequencer, FLstudio, Sonar, and Cubase are all pretty popular. If you're looking for something free, Reaper is excellent from what I hear. It's not technically free, but you can download a full demo with no built-in limitations, and it's pretty cheap to buy if you like it. If you play guitar or bass and want to use live recordings in your music, you will need a decent audio interface. I believe there are some that will suit your purposes for well under $100. One you might try that's specifically designed for guitar is the line6 toneport. If your audio interface doesn't have it's own amp-modelling software, you'll need a VST amp modeler. If you're willing to spend money on this, I HIGHLY reccomend Amplitube 2. If you want free options, I suggest you check out Sixto's guide. If you do not play guitar or bass yourself, then you'll need the sounds for that. There are a number of free soundfonts at www.hammersound.net; you'll need a VST soundfont wrapper in order to use those. I use SFZ. You can also find a number of VSTs for just about anything you can possibly imagine at www.kvraudio.com. It's extremely difficult to get a fake guitar to sound real, and nearly impossible to do with only free stuff. Nevertheless, it's a good idea to experiment with free stuff before shelling out the cash for a commercial guitar library. One thing to keep in mind is that there's a lot more to a guitar's sound than just the tone of the sample. To get a realistic sound, you'll need to humanize the part; add pitch bends, slides, and so on to make the performance sound less robotic. You can try running your sampled guitars (even the ones that already have some distortion) through a distortion and/or amp modeler VST. There are probably other people who can be more helpful than I can in telling you how to fake guitars; I always use real ones, so I'm not really an expert on how best to use fake ones.

Holy dejavu, batman!

That was the theory I shared at VGL. I dunno, thecoop makes some good points, but that picture isn't a very good one; he looks SOOO much more like the NWG in the actual show. Can anybody find any more pics of Luiz from Destinos? I've been looking, but haven't been able to find any.

I agree that the fadeout is lame, but understandable considering how close to the deadline this was done. Ending aside, this mix is brilliant. Sexy swingin beat, badass synths... this is definitely one of Andy's best, and that's no small feat.

I like it. THe guitars and chip sounds work well together, I think. However, arrangement wise a lot of it might be a bit too close to the original, if memory serves. Tone on the guitar isn't what I would normally call great, but it works well in this context.

Who the fuck is Trenthian?

AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA! Oh my god I laughed so hard. THat's great!

Aaaah. It's really because of Kaijin that I am as much a part of this community as I am now; it was his mixes that made me want to start remixing myself, and I really can't thank him enough for that. This has all the makings of another classic Kaijin peace. Crisp production, absolutely beautiful arrangement, excellent choice of tones.

I am gray lightning.

Yes, and?

Arek, Atma, and G-T: SHUT THE FUCK UP WE KNOW YOU HAVE THE FUCKING GAME ALREADY.

rofl awesome

You couldn't do it in SSB64, but you could in SSBM.

I didn't think anybody was actually being SERIOUS about hiring a gay stripper.

In order for that to work, we'd need to find out his real name and his home address. If we can find these things, however, I'll donate to the Hire a Gay Stripper For Bluebomber Fund.

CLARIFICATION TO ALL POSTERS 1. This guy stole a number of OCR songs; it appears that all or nearly all of the songs on his imeem page are songs stolen from OCR, which he claims to have remixed himself. 2. This guy DID NOT steal any art as far as we know; that was a dumb joke by bozlifyme. Ok, carry on.

OK, what's the OCRAPS plan of action this time around? Mass flaming, or is there something else we can do to fuck his shit up?

rofl! Awesome.

I actually think Nintendo's technique of not giving main characters voices, and generally not doing a significant amount of character development, is a deliberate and very effective technique; it allows the players to give the characters whatever personalities they see fit to. It's like reading a book as opposed to watching a movie; in a book (or a game) we can give the characters whatever voice we dream up for them, but when we actually hear their voices, it's almost always a disappointment. I'm glad Nintendo doesn't make extensive use of voice acting.

Wow, this is really nice! I dig it. BTW, any progress on that other mix? The one for the thing?

I'm going to categorically disagree with everything Rozovian said. I like the disharmonies, and I think this mix really succeeds at controlled chaos. Yes it's a bit cluttered, but the clutter works in the context of the mix.

I would be honored to have you butcher any of my mixes, and I'll be happy to send you some of my WIPs as well, if you like.

HOLY FUCK TETRIS ATTACK HOW TO PLAY REMIX I'M GOING TO CUM! lower case shit

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