djpretzel Posted June 28, 2004 Share Posted June 28, 2004 FYI, my temptation was to direct-post this, but apparently there've been objections to my track record on that recently. -djp Hello Here is the link to a mix I just finished making. I originally had it at a 160 bit rate, but it was 7 megs so I lowered it to 128 to meet your under 6 MB criteria. It's a mix of the intro theme "Fear and Courage" and the "Fortress of Doom" theme. I hope you like it and it gets approved Some other information that you might want: Name to be credited to - Michael "Darangen" Boyd Email - darangen@hotmail.com No website yet Thanks for your time. -Darangen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Protricity Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Ugh, the percusion at 1:25 is so poor. Use quantization or something. As for the rest, its a decent cover of the original. No real variation, or solo or anything of the remix nature. So more or less a cover. Please fix the drums. Try more variation. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny B Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 First off, the percussion issue Prot mentioned is pretty severe. I was trying to find some kind of crazy meter that it fit into, but to no avail. It's bad. Given the relatively low quality of the percussion arrangement as a whole, I can't excuse it as a fluke. Crash cymbals are thrown about recklessly in the more active sections. Needless to say, it gets a bit tired quickly. The snare and kick are nearly lifeless, with no punch to them at all. EQ is needed here, and a more consistent mix overall. The guitar work is consistently good, but nothing really goes above and beyond in that particular department. Nothing but a pretty direct transcription of the original with small embellishments periodically. Vig should be able to critique the axe better than I. The track's arrangement suffers from a sort of "droning" that is in part due to the measure-long guitar chords that well....drone on and on while the barely-audible percussion....drones on. The song doesn't feel like it builds and releases as much as it alternates between a boring section and a faster, much more interesting section. There are parts of this that totally rock. The outro starting at 5:30 is radically awesome. Why couldn't that have been the intro? Why couldn't the rest of the song have kept that kind of interest? I'd like to hear a more defined percussion set with EQ and a more complex arrangement than a slightly ornamented reiteration of the original with guitar. Until then, NO -D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrayLightning Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 The main problem here is this needs more arrangement. I'm torn to give this a no, because this is one of the most fun and pleasing submissions I've heard in a long time. While I can't pass this due to arrangement standards, I would like to congratulate you for this great piece. I'll be keeping this and listening to this often. Please arrange this more and resubmit. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Coma Posted July 8, 2004 Share Posted July 8, 2004 Droning is right. These two themes are pretty much covered with rough guitar and poor drumwork. Good enough for an almost-cover maybe, but not for a rearrangement. EQ to improve the sound of your percussion and guitar tone and vary the originals more the next time you make a six minute long mix. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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