OceansAndrew Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 ReMixer Name: Fallen Seraph Real Name: Wina A. Kamlongera Email address: Userid: 10661 Game arranged: Sonic & Knuckles Arrangement: Generations Apart (Ashfall) Individual song arranged: Lava Reef Zone Act 1 01000011011011110110111001110100011100100110000101110011011101000010000001100010011001010111010 00111011101100101011001010110111000100000011001100111010101110100011101010111001001100101001000 00011000010110111001100100001000000111000001100001011100110111010000101110001000000100000101110 00001110000011000010111001001100101011011100111010000100000011000110110111101101101011100000110 11000110010101111000011010010111010001111001001000000110000101101110011001000010000001110011011 01001011011010111000001101100011010010110001101101001011101000111100100101110001000000100011101 10010101101110011101000110110001100101001000000110000101101110011001000010000001000100011010010 11100110110101001101111011010010110111001110100011001010110010000101110001000000101010001101001 01101101011001010010000001100110011100100110111101111010011001010110111000101110001000000101010 10110111001100110011100100110111101111010011001010110111000101 110 TRANSLATION: Contrast between future and past. Apparent complexity and simplicity. Gentle and Disjointed. Time frozen. Unfrozen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonAvenger Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Definitely a nice soundscape here, and I like your approach to the theme. There are two problems I have right now. The first is that the mix never really develops after it establishes the groove. There's no build up, and the track doesn't feel like it's headed anywhere. You could have done something bigger after 1:36 as an example. The other bigger issue is that the melody has one cameo area, and then the source is only vaguely hinted at after that. The source needs to be incorporated more in general. On the more nitpick side, I'm not really feeling that snare(?) hit in terms of the soundscape; it's too loud and jarring compared to the rest of what's going on. Overall the drumwork has some areas where it hits auto pilot as well, and could have more variation. I'd say you're definitely on the right track here, but it needs more to get it solid. More source is a must, and development will really keep the listener interested. Hit this one up in the WIP forums to get more feedback! NO (resubmit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halc Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 interesting variations on the main piano motif. this has a great old school feel to it, but the overall soundscape is pretty sparse, especially after 1:30. as Deia mentioned, everything after that point felt pretty aimless, like the song had already reached it's climax. definitely needs some work in that regard. I'm cool with the sounds/mixing. I didn't mind the individual drum sounds, but I agree that the patterns were on auto-pilot. very promising. the arrangement/soundscape need to be fleshed out more to get on OCR, it's just a bit to minimal at the moment. hope to hear this again. NO(resub) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceansAndrew Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 Gonna echo the others, this has some cool ideas, but is too spares and needs further expansion. I think the B section should be a little more prominent as well, since it has a brief cameo and that's it. A stronger melody line would be nice as well, and would help the overall track. No, please resubmit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Opening piano sequencing was stiff but solid enough. The beats and pizz strings brought in around :20 were too loud. The soundscape was decetly filled out when the main melody kicked in at :41, though the instrumentation was kind of simplistic save for the effects. The electrosynths were pretty loud as well. The production was weird in that everything was pretty loud, except the countermelodic writing (mostly the bowed string parts; also the bass-like part from 1:39-1:48), yet the balance was off. The beats needed to be toned down instead of rolling over other instruments. Not a fan of the some of the generic synth sounds used here as well. Arrangement-wise, this was actually pretty decent, IMO. It can be viewed as aimless, but it's almost a quasi-improvisational arrangement that I wasn't too bothered by. It does come off pretty liberal aside from the one straightforward section, so grounding it with more source usage would be nice. Ultumately, I felt the balance among the parts was the main thing that held this back; the beats shouldn't be so loud, the loudest parts all need to be pulled back and the countermelodic writing needs to not be buried. Fixing those along with sprucing up some of the more generic/out-of-the-box synths in there could hook this up. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillRock Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 There were some good ideas present here. The remix overall seemed a little liberal at points, but I found the source easy to recognize, it was used prominently and there was some cool variations on the track. There was some cool sequencing throughout as well. The production had some issues however. The samples left something to be desired, many of them sounded generic, and there were quite a few sounds which sounded overprocessed. The lead at the opening was far too loud and high in the mids which hurt my ears when the lowpass filter was on it at the intro. It was still a problem without any filters on the lead but was less noticeable at that point. The drums lacked punch, but it seemed to suit the track in this case. I have to say, I enjoyed the sawtooth leads at 1:51, simple sound design like the rest of this, but effective. The timbre was a little too consistent throughout, but there was some lead and synth change ups when you listened for the details. I quite liked the arrangement here but you need to work on your sample quality and mixing for this to hit the bar. NO (resub) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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