Emunator ⚖️ Posted May 7 Posted May 7 (edited) Artist Name: Jonathon Orsi "I have no idea where to put anything", I kept thinking to myself every time I tried to arrange my studio room. In a background tab, I usually have the Twitch streamer Mainstun doing ACE Glitchless runs of Final Fantasy 6, and I overheard him musing about having some interlude music for his stream for breaks. I imagined it might be easier to figure out how to setup a recording space while actually recording a song. It just so happened that at that moment Mainstun had arrived to the Returners Hideout. I quickly found some midi sources for the Returners theme on RPGamer, and started learning each part on the acoustic guitar I had sitting beside me. After learning the main melodies, I began taking out patch cords, headphones, and moving items around on my work desk so I could plug into my audio interface to start recording. The Ableton metronome is absolutely annoying, so I put a kick bass down on every beat, a snare on the 2 and 4, with some hihats that had an accent between each. At that moment I realized that the Returners Hideout was going to be the Returners Nightout -- and it needed to be disco. My instrument decisions always hover around having a live band sound - drums, bass, guitar, synths. The midi drums were crafted from samples the drummer of my cover band had graciously played and recorded for me years prior. The main melodies I chose to record on my two lovely guitars: a 2003 Fender Stratocaster and a 2018 Gibson Les Paul. The bass is a 2019 Fender Jazzmaster. Having all the midi notes for the instrumentation that I wasn't going to record, I started clicking through Ableton instrument presets: the Poly 60 Saw preset for Ableton's Wavetable synth ended up taking over most of the brass parts; and the Wurlii Hollow Piano preset for the Electric synth somehow felt right for the strings. Dance on, Returners! Edited 7 hours ago by paradiddlesjosh
prophetik music ⚖️ Posted May 19 Posted May 19 this is a fun idea - i like name-based puns for remix genre adaptations. what's here is pretty upbeat and honestly an enjoyable concept. unfortunately, this is what we'd classify a cover - replacing instruments in the original with either new sounds or something that was performed live but not really updated at all. the performances are great, and i do like your instrument choices! but this doesn't meet our arrangement guidelines, specifically section 4.2 which calls out this situation directly. beyond that, from a mix perspective, there's no room sound nor is there really a complete job of volumization throughout, so the mix is uneven and doesn't sound as natural as it could with more attention there. this doesn't change though that this is a fun representation of the original! everything with your distorted lead is great, especially 0:41, and like i said i really like the concept. i'm sure this would get a bunch of listens on YouTube, for example, which doesn't have anywhere near as stringent of submission standards around arrangement. but for it to work here, we'd need more Orsi and less Nobuo in the arrangement. NO
Liontamer ⚖️ Posted June 21 Posted June 21 Cool cover, Jonathon, and thank you for sending it our way. :-) I appreciate you running down the various instrumentation aspects involved, which was very creative to use here. prophetik's right that, although this is a brilliant cover, this is essentially a find-replace of the source's part-writing with your (strong) sounds there's no structural difference with this version vs. the original, including just hitting the loop point at :53 and repeating the same stuff for 2 more loops. We're looking for substantial interpretive and transformative aspects of arrangement, even if an arrangement is otherwise melodically conservative. In the writeup for this ReMix, I link 10 other examples of melodically conservative yet overall transformative arrangements we've posted https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04414. If you're ever interested in fleshing out a more developed, evolving arrangement, your instrumentation and mixing already sounded very solid! Join our Discord and/or use our Workshop forum resources if you're not against taking that kind of journey. NO
paradiddlesjosh ⚖️ Posted 7 hours ago Posted 7 hours ago (edited) Howdy, Jonathon! I'm gonna give a quick so-sign with proph and LT: you've got a good production here; it's just not what OCR's looking for. This'll definitely have a fanbase among VGM enthusiasts on YouTube and likely Twitch as well! NO Edited 7 hours ago by paradiddlesjosh
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