Chimpazilla Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 I am submitting my remix of Midna's Lament from Twilight Princess, I have named it The Torment of a Twili. I will link to my soundcloud where it is posted as well as attach an MP3 in the proper format/quality. The quality on soundcloud is 44.1k/16-bit but it is a WAV file, as it makes the upload more consistent in volume and representation. If there is anything more needed that I didn't manage to see or skipped over in the instructions then please let me know! Thank you for your time! Sentient Pulse Brett D'Agostini www.soundcloud.com/sentientpulse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimpazilla Posted August 18, 2016 Author Share Posted August 18, 2016 Mix is a bit mid-low heavy. Whoa, those distorted leads, they are tortured! Leads and piano are just a bit too loud and could have a bit of the low end eq'd off. Ok so this is a 3/4 source and the remix is in 6/4, which is disorienting at first, and the drums are keeping essentially a 4/4 pattern for an even more strange feel... but I love it. This is such a unique adaptation of this source, it is unsettling both in the rhythms and the timbres used. I feel like the distortion especially on the leads is a bit heavy-handed but I think this is a stylistic choice to convey the Torment, so I get it. Snare could be louder and snappier. Tasteful wubbage. I like the varied filtering. This one is really resonating with me. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gario Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Very haunting source, and at first this gets that style down pat. Then it slams your balls with the dub bass and overall meaty presence. I like this approach a lot - deceptively cool. I like the sounds that are used throughout. The synths are very tasty, but sometimes that distortion physically hurts my ears. I don't know what it is about those high frequency distortion makes my ears hurt, but it legitimately does - the highs on the the distortion need to be EQ'd down a few notches whenever it's present. The mixing on this one gets pretty cluttered, from time to time. At sections where everything is going at once (like at 1:50) it becomes pretty muddy, and overall the track is pretty overcompressed. The sidechaining helps quite a bit, but instruments do still get lost in the mix quite often. I enjoyed the change of the meter from 3/4 to straight up 4/4, with an offset theme against that 4/4 beat. It's disorienting, yet it fits perfectly. I really enjoy the approach on this one, but it's really hard for me to ignore that the distortion is actually hurting my ears on this one (to the point where I actually can't get through the song more than once). The overcompressed nature of the track and the overall muddy mixing when everything is going at once take it down a little, too, but those extremely piercing distortions really do affect the piece quite negatively. I really, REALLY want to see a resubmission of this with the highs of the distortion EQ'd down a bit, though, as I really like this a lot. -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimpazilla Posted August 23, 2016 Author Share Posted August 23, 2016 Let's hold up this vote until I ask Brett if he wants to revisit the mixing. This song MUST be posted! It's soooo good. But I agree about the mixing and the piercy moments. Gario 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimpazilla Posted August 23, 2016 Author Share Posted August 23, 2016 Revised version up. Brett is quick! And quite nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gario Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Ah, that's much better. Yeah, the new version addresses the issues I had pretty solidly - it's a pass for me, now. YES Chimpazilla 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimpazilla Posted August 23, 2016 Author Share Posted August 23, 2016 Agreed totally, this makes my YES much stronger too. This track has really gotten under my skin and I have been listening to it a lot and it's in my head at other times as well. Now it's even better, yay! It's in my favorites folder of course. Yay for Zelda dubstep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Just noting that I've only heard the revised version. I was worried about the opening being so similar in instrumentation and tone to the original song, but it differentiates itself a lot once things kick in, as the others said. Loved the section using the more chippy elements the most, first isolated at 2:16. Later, at 3:16, I thought the opportunity was there for a more pronounced dynamic shift for the finish, but the wind-down at 3:44 worked nicely to mirror the close with the opening. Nice work, Brett! Short and sweet, count it.YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir_NutS Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 Pretty good, dark and mysterious atmosphere. Production is solid, and the interpretation is there even if it sticks fairly close to the original. I would've liked to hear more variation on the dubstep bass parts, as it feels like small sections such as the pitched-down, off-beat filtered bass parts were reused one too many times. But the mix is big, and not too long to overstay its welcome. Nice work overall though, I'm ok with giving this aYES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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