Chimpazilla Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Hi dear Judges! Hope you're all doing great! (I think I'm stating all my sub mails like this now xD) Contact Information Chernabogue Alexandre MOUREY www.fflproduction.fr ID: 20943 Also features (on sax): XPRTNovice (ID: 48347) Submission Information Final Fantasy 6 & 10 La Ambiente Gogo's Theme (FF6) & Auron's Theme (FF10) -- Both composed by Nobuo Uematsu The inspiration behind this mix is my will to change a little my remix habits. I tend to do a lot of metal/orchestra (and even a blend of both), so trying jazz/latin music was a new challenge for me. It was done in a week, for the FFCC compo, and I recently remastered it a little. My theme was Gogo's, and I had the mix it with Auron's, which ended up in a nice and calm jazzy mix. Many thanks to the awesome Joe/XPRTNovice for the live sax recordings and tips on how to mix live instruments. If you want to check more remixes from that compo, head to my BandCamp to find my "La Buena Vista EP"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimpazilla Posted September 4, 2015 Author Share Posted September 4, 2015 Interesting style! Right off the bat the sax is sounding great, and it sounds great all through the mix. The xylophone is much too loud and sounds extremely fake whenever I hear it in this mix. There are a couple of percussion elements panned 100% left, I really dislike extreme panning. Drums are sort of stiffly sequenced. Piano is realistic enough for me. That xylophone, though. The overall writing is blocky. The arrangement doesn't integrate the two themes, they play in turn, but the arrangement is cohesive enough. Need more time on this one, and some more opinions. edit 10/19/15: I'm going to go with my gut, I think unfortunately this mix isn't quite ready for primetime. The xylophone is the worst offender, but the stiffness of the sequencing of many elements here is bringing this below the bar. I still feel like the arrangement itself is workable, it's just the humanization aspect that's the problem. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 The overall writing is blocky. Yeah, where's the smoothness? Almost everything's VERY mechanical, and I agreed with the Chimpa that the theme integration wasn't solid. There were subtle usages of Auron's theme on the piano during the Gogo section and vice versa from the piano, but it wasn't a comfortable fit at all. The sax performance was decent, but needed more body & richness to the tone. Very rough execution so far; this would need some meaningful work, Alex. Decent arrangement, but the themes don't yet have any synergy or flow as a pair; you'll need to rethink some of how they combine together. And the sequenced elements badly need humanization. Challenge yourself to get more serious and thorough with the detail work. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonAvenger Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Really agreed with Larry here, the blockiness is the major issue that would need to be addressed but honestly I'm not feeling the combination of the sources at all. I don't think it's something that could necessarily be addressed by a different arrangement either, I think the themes are just not a good match. In terms of production is also consider looking at the balance of the leads vs. backing tracks. Nothing particularly egregious here, but it felt at times that the leads weren't coming through as much as they could. No (resubmit?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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