DragonAvenger Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 VROOM Best of Sega Racing Project Your ReMixer name: Brandon Strader Your email address: oinkness@gmail.com Your website: http://www.bstrader.net/ Your userid: 3123 One Way Name of game(s) arranged: Power Drift Name of individual song(s) arranged: Side Street Special thanks to Willrock for mastering the song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonAvenger Posted May 13, 2011 Author Share Posted May 13, 2011 I like the arrangement here, nice work and no complaints for that. I'm not as sold on the production. Right now things feel kind of subdued overall, and it's killing the energy for me. Guitars overall feel a little dry, and I'd like more bass in general. Kinda borderline due to those aspects, and knowing you can make it better, I'd rather throw it back at'cha than see it squeak by. NO (resubmit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceansAndrew Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Very cool panning intro - It gets into more of a generic rock groove afterward, and Deia has a point that the drums could be a little more exciting; that snare is a bit weak, and the bass could come up a little. I am not quite sure that's enough to force this into resub territory though; I like the track, and though I think it could be improved, enough is clicking with me for the yes vote. Yes (borderline) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halc Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 I agree with the minor issues with the bass and snare, and your lead is a little bit 'nasal-y' sounding, for lack of a better work. but otherwise, I thought this was pretty cool. nice soloing synth. performances and timing are pretty solid and the source usage is obvious. overall, a very conservative mix (wow, even the original has a solo?), but it's well varied and personalized with new harmonies and countermelodies. YES (flipped vote, see below) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vig Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 These guitars are the tits! The drums not so much. Guitars should be up in front of the drums in a track like this, but not quite so far in front. Also, drums need verb. As it is, the track sounds like some killer guitars with nothing else really going on. I don't think you even have a bass in there. It's fine if you want to make a bass part that mirrors the guitars exactly, but you still need that bottom end information....okay I stand corrected: there is a bass, it's just way too weak. More of everything but guitars. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I think it sounds good. Really rockin' guitar stuff and good development throughout. I don't really hear the production issues everyone else is hearing. Drums sound fine to me. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Agreed with Vig. Guitars are awesome but loud, while drums are very plain/vanilla, bass is almost inaudible. Organ is good but also too quiet. This mix sounds like it is missing parts up to 0:58. I was waiting for a lead before that. Even when the lead guitar does come in, I would like to hear reverb/delay and/or some kind of stereo effect to really fill things out (some on the synth would be good too.) Good performances overall, but it ends up actually sounding more sparse compared to the original, which is already in the same style. Arrangement is OK but because things don't really change much in terms of the texture and instrumentation, I think it's tied into the other issue. Beef it up more. NO, resub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palpable Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 My vote is pretty close to Andy's. While I like what's going on here, the arrangement style is pretty close to the original. There's enough difference that it's not problematic, but I'm not excited either. The drums and bass are barely there and in the section when the guitar drops out, it's really apparent. The song loses a heck of a lot of power. Needs better balance, more reverb or delay to fill out the gaps. I'll just echo what he said: beef it up. NO (resubmit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halc Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 gonna flip my vote on account of the production/balance issues brought up. I'm still cool with the arrangement, but like the others are saying, the mix excepting the guitars needs to be beefed up. NO(resub) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Pretty fucking badass source tune! Where has this been all my life? Arrangement-wise, aside from the sparse drum tone and writing being a huge weak link, it's a pretty balls-out cover. It was feeling too cover-ish for a while, but it at least ends up doing its own thing with the soloing. The percussion composition (other issues aside) also provided substance. Fleshing out and further personalizing the drum work in a way that's markedly different than the source is always an easy way to add your own unique flavor to an arrangement, for those of you keeping score at home. Now for the bad. The drums sound like you're hitting some buckets. The background sounds REALLY empty without some good drums to anchor this, and there's (practically) no bass, making this only sound like half a song. Volume and intensity nonwithstanding, it's still both empty and incomplete. The drums and bass are barely there and in the section when the guitar drops out, it's really apparent. The song loses a heck of a lot of power. Needs better balance, more reverb or delay to fill out the gaps. I'll just echo what he said: beef it up. See? My fellow Brown Heat team member summed it up in just a couple of lines. You know what to do. NO (resubmit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emunator Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 This track is sporting some pretty nice production and performances, but right away I can tell that it's very much a cover song. Aside from some very minor embellishments, this feels like a straight cover up until the solo section at 1:40, at which point it's just soloing over the same chords. The repetitious chord progression gets a little bit boring and feels pretty uninspired to me, but I'll concede that it works fairly well here so I'm not going to hold that against the mix as a whole. After the first verse/solo, things start to spice up a bit more and the mix goes into something a bit more creative with the melodies/arrangement. Still, I'd feel a lot more comfortable passing this if there was even a bit of interpretation going on for the entire first half of the ReMix. Arrangement aside, the drums feel slightly pushed back and devoid of energy when they're not being used for fills/transitions. Work on the levels/compression of your drums (particularly the snare, which just sounds wimpy,) or see if you can replace the kit samples outright with something a bit more energetic and powerful, and perhaps spice up the main drum writing a bit more, too. Most of this mix is spot-on: nice fusion of guitars and synths/organs, some really cool performances. Brandon has proven many times over that he's a competent musician and arranger, but the two aforementioned issues are keeping this one from being quite at the bar. Solid effort, but it could use a bit more effort, personalization, and attention. NO(please resubmit!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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