Rexy Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 (edited) Original Website https://m.youtube.com/user/Audiomancer/videos My remixer name is audiomancer, and the name of this remix is Three is a Crowd. It's a remix of the second walkabout theme from Dragon Warrior 2. I made this on my phone using an app called Caustic 3. I really like how it turned out; it makes me think of Amiga MOD tracker music, so I went with it. Thanks for your consideration. Respectfully, Audiomancer. Edited October 10, 2021 by DragonAvenger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 high rms and pretty loud mastering overall right off the bat. melody is apparent right from the beginning. there's some playiing with the B theme to mix it up (and some interesting chord choices to make it work). the A theme comes back pretty quickly and we get a little expansion with new instrumentation. there's a switch to triple meter right where it was starting to get a little static at 1:06, and some FF7 battle theme-esque riffs with a distorted synth. there's a bit of a break at about 1:48 and it comes back to duple for a recap that's very similar in instrumentation to the opening A/B section. this is honestly a pretty decent attempt using a not-DAW to make music. the mastering is pretty blown out, there's some funky notes in a few places (you settle on some non-chord tones around 0:26-0:30, and there's a reliance on a b7 between 2:06-2:14 that sounds odd), and the static nature of the synths throughout starts to get repetitive pretty quickly. i don't know what kind of flexibility you have in the app you're using, but if you're able to make it sound not so over-compressed and mix up your synth usage a bit more so it doesn't feel copy/paste from section to section, you'd have a pretty fun little track on your hands i think. right now i think there's too much repetitive texture usage and it's too blown out to consider. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindWanderer Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Caustic3 actually is a DAW, and it's not a horrible one, for fighting with the touchscreen interface. I haven't tried to do anything really powerful with it, but calling it a not-DAW isn't really fair. Still, it might be better to export each track individually and import them into a desktop DAW, or even Audacity, for mastering. That wouldn't really help with the synth selection, though. The bass in particular doesn't really change, or let up for more than a few seconds. The ending loop, with its sort of call-and-response flair, might also work better with additional instrumentation instead of the same track responding to itself. I'm basically in agreement with proph on both points. It does need cleaner production, and it could really use some more instrumental variety. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonAvenger Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 Yeah, really not much to add on here that hasn't already been said. I do enjoy the idea you have behind the arrangement, and the little flairs you've added to the melody are very nice. If you can fix up the mastering to not be so loud/varied I'd love to hear it again. NO (resubmit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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