DragonAvenger Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 (edited) ReMixer names: TheWicked And TheNomad Real Names: Matheus Preischadt and Roberto Betini Name of game arranged: Castlevania I Name of arrangement: A Damned Prodigal Son Name of individual song arranged: Wicked Child Additional information: This is our "Heavy Jazz" arrangement for one of the best of Kinuyo Yamashita, Wicked Child. We tried to mix erudite style, jazz and scale playing... That's it. =------------- Edited June 20, 2013 by Liontamer closed decision
Vig Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 Cool interpretation, occasionally iffy performance, really sub-par mixing. I love the rhythmic interpretation. The bass is consistently flat. The mix is extremely muddy. Lots of guitar wash, not a lot of drums. The mix is pumping terribly. You've got to back off that bus compressor. NO
DragonAvenger Posted June 15, 2013 Author Posted June 15, 2013 Really really cool approach to this mix. I'd LOVE to hear you clean this up. The one thing I have to add that Jesse didn't mention is to add some humanization to the string parts, which sound very blocky. Oh, and that ending is super sudden, and kinda awkward. That too Send this back! NO(resubmit, please)
Liontamer Posted June 20, 2013 Posted June 20, 2013 Those electric guitar samples at :25 definitely ain't foolin' anyone. Not a fan of how jumpy the "performance" sounds moving from note to note; it does give the sound a different kind of feel that's not like a real electric guitar, but the sequencing was pretty robotic. Beyond that, the mixing was SUPER murky, as pointed out by Vig and Deia. That said, even if the mixing were great, the super fake and rigid instrumentation was the biggest dealbreaker, and there'd be no way a piece with guitar "tone" like that would make it. The bass stuff and bowed strings at 2:43 sounded better in comparison, but it's nothing that would save this piece. The brass sequencing also sounded too fake as well. The ending also cut out abruptly. The arrangement has decent, creative ideas, but there's absolutely no polish put into this presentation. If you don't bother to humanize sequenced parts AT ALL for a piece that's meant to come off as a pseudo-live performance, there 0 chance it would pass. Wish I had something more enthusiastic to say on that level, but on the production level, this left a lot to be desired. NO
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