djpretzel Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 Takes awhile to pick up - djp Here's my first submission for OC Remix. Just call me CC Ricers. I chose to remix the Inner Quarters theme from the game Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, since it's one of my favorite themes of the game. I hope the ID3 tags went through OK! Original composer: Junichi Murakami Platform: Gameboy Advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Protricity Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 Amateur from the beginning. Lots of poorly concieved string pads kinda weirding up things. Perhaps is an intended effect. Just sounds bad. Poor notation, ugly notes. Poor percussion, great deal of repetition. I'd say take any one of these issues and try to improve upon it. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 I'm not so critical of this piece. There's clearly a lot of potential here. Some of the samples, though reverbed, come off flat, notably in the intro. I loved that keyboard-like support (started at 0:28) that you used throughout most of the track, and the 2:45-3:04 section was particularly good while it lasted. The percussion does need more behind it, but I wasn't bothered by the repetiton at all. Lots of small additions and subtractions helped keep it moving, and the overall energy was nice. The section from 1:07 to 1:25, where those strings were on top, didn't work at all. The strings sounded flat (though reverbed, once again) and the melodic flow of the notes was awful. Same thing from 2:04-2:45 and at 3:24 when the idea was used again. This was a pretty cool submission though, CC, and I enjoyed listening to it for a number of times. Like Prot said, attempting to improve even just one lacking area could hook this up. Perhaps the ReMixing forum could give a few tips on refining some of the sample sounds through further effects and/or tightening up the melody on those synth string sections. I'd love to hear a resubmission. NO (resubmit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcos Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 This could be a really good mix, but I think there is just overkill with the effects here, and it makes it sound, well, not nice on the ears. The drums have just been flangered to death, and it's just too much. Take Liontamer's advice. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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