prophetik music

i seem to remember hearing him say that, but i wasn't sure.

OR A DRAGON. speaking of that, my wife gets pissy because of all the graphic sex scenes and nudity, and rightly so - there's a lot of it! i don't suppose there's plans for a standard TV version of the show, is there?

jimmy, i can't see your studio because of the gleam and reflection off of those pearly whites, and your fat head. can you take a picture without the dome in there? fo realz, though, which interface is that under your primary monitor? just curious.

the books are similar - you go entire books without seeing major characters because everyone's so spread out.

i've seen him play guitar in person, it's true.

holy CRAP. that is incredible. my wife knows nothing about minecraft and even she thought it was ridiculous.

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yeah, still not what i meant. rozo's got it =) although, if you used cakewalk and made it sound that good, i'd be in awe. <3 you too big spoon. i'm not expecting to win just because i enter, of course. not even koelsch1 was that entitled. but there's no reason that i can't feel that something that's 80% of what i can do is still better than someone else's 100%. that's the nature of competitions, isn't it? i didn't have time to do my best work, but i'm not going to just wimp out because i was out of town most of the week. it'll just be not quite what i had hoped for. i said before that i wasn't trying to be a dickweed or something. i thought drac's entry was good. i just felt it wasn't really a fitting entry based on the criteria of the competition. either way, we've kinda hijacked the thread at this point, so let's avoid continuing this here =)

the combat isn't even close to being the same, and i could overlook the timing-based style of the first with the deep customization and excellent storytelling. then they took a first-tier action game and combined it with those things that i loved about the first. this game is bloody incredible, and if you've got the horsepower to max it out with ubersampling it's amazing. absolutely, purely, amazing. it just sucks that they haven't fixed the crashing bug. the game draws too much RAM and 32-bit windows will run out of memory, making the game crash to desktop. ignore the drivel on different boards of 'techies' talking about updating drivers and that bullshit - it's a programming issue related to the fact that they never put a RAM limit into the game, just like the first, rather than drivers or registry issues or whatever other crap those idiots are saying. that combined with too few autosaves is problematic. they cleaned it up a bit so that it's a clean crash as compared to witcher 1, but it's literally the only issue i'm having with the game, and it's more spread out because the game uses RAM better. i can overlook that, though - a major crash-to-desktop issue! - simply because the game is so damned fun. the battles are hard, the gameplay is fluid, the storytelling is spectacular as usual, the characters are as realistic as a mutant white-haired monster hunter could possibly be, and the updated engine is easily one of the best engines i've seen, with incredible graphics as a whole, even during combat.

shreddage is a guitar sample pack. i'm talking about doing this with faked guitars, not doing it live.

as my last three or four tracks have always had the comment that the guitars sound like cast-iron dogshit. so i need some help. i'm not an electric guitarist by any means, although i'm learning to play a bit. i've been playing acoustic for seven or eight years, though, so it's not like i don't know what strings are which or something. it's more that i don't have any idea as to how to make them sound...like anything, i guess. acoustic is so totally different than electric that i might as well brought my knowledge of the saxophone into learning to play the didgeridoo. i mean, i picked up mandolin in two weeks. i don't get why i can't make an electric guitar sound like anything but a dying cat. i picked up shreddage when it came out, and i love it since all i need is some chugs, some powerchords, and the occasional lick, and it does that splendiferously until i learn to do all that myself. however, i can't get the full sound that i hear on radio tracks with it. i know the basics - i usually split the signal into left and right with different effects/distortion on both (guitar rig 4). beyond that, though, i'm lost. what else is supposed to happen to get that big full sound? for that matter, since i'm using the stock presets on GR4, are there more out there? there's only a few i use on a regular basis because i feel that most of them are mega-treble and don't have any body, but that might be just because i don't know what i'm doing. for all i know, there's more info on how to do this either on the net or in the forum here somewhere, but it's 2am and i didn't see anything at a glance. so, tl;dr version: how do i get that radio sound? because i suck at it, apparently.

lol. i didn't say that it wasn't midi - it's shreddage, actually, so it's like half and half. i know that i just used one double-tracked guitar track with some terrible GR4 preset as the distortion. so there's that i know there's tons of tricks to getting an awesome guitar tone, but i just didn't have the time really to plug them in. i think i might go back and mess with it for the heck of it, though, at some point when i'm not trying to plan a five day trip.

txai's track was bloody awesome, i remember that. he beat me right before he beat you, in the semis, but his track for me i remember blew the mastering on mine away. you make a good point, though - i remember his stuff was pretty shady up till then. gawd knows that my mastering here wasn't that good. i'm terrible at mastering anything with a decent amount of bass because my monitors are relatively small. they get great sound for mids and highs, but they need a sub for the lower stuff and i haven't purchased one. i get stuck listening to everything on headphones, and even though one pair is open ear, it's not the same.

@willrock - yeah, i know i came across strongly, but like i said - drac did a nice job on his track as a remix for this site. i just felt it didn't do as good of a job mixing the two themes together. i also know that rozo and michael voted for drac's track, which is why i said 'most', not all. i was more attempting to make a point with the direction of the votes than anything else =) and i'm not worried about votes, as voters will vote how they will without my interference or otherwise. @heroe - dubstep? DUBSTEP. @strader - midi guitars lolwut @orlouge - i agree, i think people went for the shiny and overlooked what was underneath. but that always happens in compos, so i guess it's not a new thing or anything. i wouldn't want to pad votes, though. if i lose, who cares? drac gets a chance to play with solar man some more, and i get more time to play witcher 2. which is ridiculously awesome, by the way. i've noted a few people saying that spring man wasn't obvious in the mix. for reference, everything with the poppy overcompressed electronic drums and straight lead (the one with no scoops) was spring man, and everything with the drier drums and scoopy lead was solar man. that's how i show which theme is what in these compos - i'll at least use two different leads to help differentiate between the two. two drumsets is a little different, but i was stuck in a rut and wanted to mix it up a bit to get over to solar man, so that's where that happened.

unfortunately, 35 people already voted, with like half of those people saying 'hey this song sounds good, drac ftw'. oh well. there's always next round, or competition, based on how this one goes. enjoyability is good, but when most people are saying that we're close in that factor, where do you look for the difference? most people just do genre bias. i know i do - personally, i'd want to vote for rawk over electronic any day of the week if they're close. but that's not what really matters, you know? it's not really in the spirit of the compo. guitarheroe, do yourself a favor and make it upbeat. it's hard as hell to make catfish's maw make sense when you're doing within the genre restriction i did it in for LAProject.

you're an FL user, right? i've often seen people use a large primary and a smaller secondary to fit their playlist and mixer on the second and their piano roll, synth settings, etc on the big one. works really nice. i used three for a while, with the playlist being on the third, but it's a bit excessive in my opinion.

the smoother aspect is what i really liked about it. having the battle system integrated into the world just makes it flow so much easier. the seperate-screen-for-battles thing is one of my most hated RPG traditions.

i am surprised that our battle is as close as it is. i don't want to sound mean - i like his track a lot! but when most of the actual posted remixers - gario, abadoss, willrock, etc - vote for mine, and a bunch of lurkers vote for his, that says something to me. it says that the people who think it sounds cool but might not know the source the best voted one way, and the people who understand the music and can hear the extra stuff that was added in with mine voted the other way. i don't feel that his uses the spring man theme much at all, and it seems that most people didn't bother to listen to the original source. all the parts that are mentioned as being awesome are just stuff that's inherent to the solar man track, which is bloody awesome. he didn't really add anything to it besides a drumloop and different instrumentation. that's not really a remix at that point, unfortunately =/ draconiator, you're clearly a skilled musician - mastering that particular style is something i have next to no skill in - but your focus was clearly on your track and on production instead of the arrangement itself. if you beat me - which you might, there are a lot of people voting for mastering and OST awesomeness instead of arrangement like they should - you really need to work on getting the arrangement to actually be a reinterpretation of the theme instead of just dumping the midi into a synth and boom-tissing the rest of it. you also need to work in the other track more, since you basically ignored it. i know spring man sucks, but that's the point. it's supposed to be hard you can't get better if you only remix schala and terra. you've gotta do catfish's maw and spring man and all the other crappy tracks out there. that's why i never take a project mix until all that's left is the junk. it forces you to work with less, and you learn more at a faster pace that way. i realized after writing this that this sounds abjectly harsh, and i don't mean it to be. drac's song sounds great as a remix of solar man. i don't think it stands up as a 50/50 split of both themes, though, simply because it's nowhere near 50/50. and yes, i'd be happy to do a remix with you =)

it works having a terrible theme, though, because every theme you're matched up against is always better than yours - hence, you can rawk with it more. sorry about putting everything out of order, darke =)

holy balls, solar man is awesome. what a contrast to trampoline man. needless to say, this mix is using a bit more of solar man than it is out-of-ideas man. sir nuts is done with his track, i thought.

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whoops, might not want to generalize that much, considering there's so many VSTs where the only thing they do is simulate real instruments.

tell him that MMX got rejected due to genre bias and see what he says. say that the album needed more disco rock and less thrash.

fixed it for ya

the reason most people don't post wips is because any track, no matter how awesome, ages a little bit after listening to it a few times. something brand new will always sound a little shinier than one you've heard before. it may not age as well, but it's the initial impression that counts. so you probably don't want to post WIPs.