Fucking nice.
Absolutely sick. I have immense respect for you to be able to do this. I totally understand the frustration that remixing can dole out. And this was pretty fucking fantastic. I especially liked your variations on the melodies and rhythms.
Keep writing shit. You know you want to.
Actually Jordan Raymond remixed the guitars and wrote the orchestra parts. This was a collab. song him and I did way back in the day but I just resampled the guitars recently. I wrote the drums and some of the synths.
I'll keep writing music but I won't be passing it out here. My original work stays with me, and my closest friends, from now on.
Okay, okay...
Fine. I'll fucking review this song. Only because reading your lyrics made my face do this @.@,
And then this O.o
And then this :D
The song itself is pretty cool overall, I like a few of the riffs in there and the lyrics are... alright, I'm starting a new paragraph for the lyrics.
Amazing.
That is all.
If you ever want a guest vocalist, just ask me. Because I could write something wondrous to go right along with what you've got.
I also like how you're all laughing throughout the whole thing. Metal and humor go together like Pancakes and a box of nails. But as long as you're into blood, then it's a pretty good combination.
Thanks man.
Yeah, I didn't want to edit out the laughter. Leaving it in was funnier!
Cheers and beers!
Not bad. But not good forever.
Interesting, I liked the melody but I think if I had to sit there and listen to it loop like this forever in a game I think I would kill myself. It had better be intended to be like Town music in an RPG or something because if this was constantly playing as I was playing the game I'd shoot myself.
Do you want real, real 8-bit synth? Use Tweakbench Peach, Triforce, or Toad. They're all emulators of that certain sound chip that give the Game Boy/ Nintendo/ Famicom it's signature sound.
Also, it's just an issue with .mp3's in general. They are all given this small (but very noticeable when trying to loop) silence gap at the beginning and end of the song. There is no way to remove it, so having a "perfect loop" with mp3s is impossible.
Don't kill yourself, please! Yeah, it's a bit on the short side. Even I find it to start getting on my nerves after awhile.
I'll be checking out the synths you listed for my next early video game song. The hardest part of this piece for me was findings good sounds.
Thanks for your insight on MP3s. That's sort of the conclusion I came to after hours of struggling. It was driving me CRAZY. I wish we could upload WAVs or FLAC files, but then, they take up much more space, I guess.
Although I've never had one....
Now I know what it feels like.
Nice kind of chromatic, unscaled piece. I love pieces like this that have a kind of tortured, mad feel to them.
Listening to the whole thing I really enjoyed it, I would however recommend varying the Velocity on your notes (I'm assuming this is midi). Changing the velocity (or perhaps even the volume) to match the intensity or message of your piece gives it a little more life, and in a song like this I think having quick crescendos and decrescendos would be really cool. Perhaps it would add in another level of anxiousness to this already very sporadic piece.
I know that this is a WiP, but the ending to me was really interesting how it just stopped and the verb trailed off. If this is how you're planning on ending the piece, I think it's a pretty badass idea.
Nice work!
Means a lot coming from you dude! I am gonna start working on it again, I have to many WIPs, so I need to knock down that list.
Nice composition.
I enjoyed all of the different instrumental renditions of the song individually quite well. I would say you should use more lead-ins and transitions though because a lot of the tempo changes were rather abrupt.
Unfortunately, your song suffers from the same thing that most otherwise good videogame remixes suffer from: Repetitiveness Try writing a counter-melody, or a different harder lead. Just SOMETHING to break the repetition that bleeds a lot of good videogame remixes like this dry and makes them forgetful in the long run.
Another good review with some nice constructive criticism! I like those kinds of reviews!
Yeah, next time I redo Tetris, I might mix in the other themes, to kinda break the repetition. Thanks for the advice, and your review! It's been a while since I've heard from you.
Oh God Dammit.
See, here I am trying to stop enjoying techno music as much and then you go remix one of my favorite video game themes (As well as the first arena battle theme later on in the song, I hadn't read the 'author comment' that said it was in there so it was a surprise).
And as if YOU actually have to worry about not getting on OCR.
Although I think I would have enjoyed a more heavy bassline, (especially around the part where it breaks down around 0:30 in the original) I still really liked this. I enjoy your stuff because it has less emphasis on beat and more on chord progression and the more musical elements of the piece, something that I think modern techno is really lacking.
Nice image for the song as well, I can say that I did recognize it immediately. Also, is it any surprise that the company that made OMF2097 ended up creating the Unreal Engine that powers TONS of current-gen games? Epic Games. Started with Jazz Jackrabbit and ended up creating a legacy.
If you ever want internet guitar lessons you can hit me up anytime :)
Oh, and I'm listener number 666. Just thought that was funny.
haha! you're awesome for even knowing OMF's music! bonus points for it being one of your favorites too! so many people dont know about omf, easily the best thing about the game is it's music.. kenny chou (or C.C Catch) is so awesome :D
and we'll see haha, they have REALLY high standards and there's soooo many talented musicians on that site that I dont even compare lol
i'm happy you enjoyed the remix that much, especially because you're a OMF fan, and yes haha, Epic Games makes the most epic games. XD
PS: I just might!
Have a 5
And a 10.
Good work. It's been a while, and you seem to have improved a lot.
I don't really have much advice to give you other than watch the clipping on your filters around 3:12. Whenever I use a resonance filter like that, I always put a "Hard limiter" compressor on whatever track I have that on so when it goes up and down the spectrum it doesn't clip.
Keep writing and rocking man!
haha i tried the limiter and it sounded perfect :D haha thanks for the advice.
also glad you liked the song, i put alot of work into it :P
Awesome!
That tone is sexytastic. What Line 6 product has these tones to them? I'm using a Line 6 Spider III amp, and I couldn't get that tone out of it if I tried for hours.
Also, how do you record yourself? Just kind of wondering how different artists on NG do it.
This is the podx3, with downloaded tone from line 6's tone library. You can browse by artist, genre, guitarist, band....and when you find a tone you click "get tone" depending on your set up, humbuckers or single coils... and it loads the tone into the podx3 empty channel. If you like it, you can save it there forever.
I use cool edit pro for recording. (Now adobe audition or something)
It's old, but it still outdoes all the new ones in my opinion. Also, uses hardly any memory. SO a mixdown of 20 channels of a 4 minute song takes like...5 seconds.
Thanks man, glad you dig it.\m/
Bad. Ass.
I've been listening to this loop for the past 15ish minutes as I make myself some fucking twisty noodles. Weird combination of activities, I know. But I fucking love twisty noodles.
This was pure badass riffage from start to finish, excellent guitarwork. I understand your frustrations with the bass, mine is like a $30 piece of cock that I borrowed from a friend.
The lead guitar at 4:00 was really... strange. I'm sure you did this intentionally, but it's clawing at the classical musician within me who is screaming "That's not a full fucking harmony! GODDAMNIT ITS WRONG ITS ALL WRONG!!!" but I can appreciate the melodic quality in that part there, I'm guessing it's supposed to be conveying the downfall of society and our eventual decline into chaos that will ensue.
My only true gripe with the song overall would be the drums. I'm sure you get this a lot, and maybe have similar hatred for it, but It's just... GAH! It's such badass guitar riffs but the drums are so... stale, for lack of a better word. I really suggest getting Prodrummer or Addictive Drums or something. AD even has a demo you can download.
And if your PC really just CAN NOT HANDLE it, then if you wanted to, you could send a master my way and I could replace your drums with AD drums. I'm sure it would improve the quality of your song nearly tenfold. Just a suggestion and a friendly extension of my services :D
Alright well my water is probably boiling over the sides of my pot by now. Awesome song, just really wish it had badfuckingass drums. Keep up the metal! Fucking yes!
Wow thanks man!
Yeah that lead sounded the way it does because of both intention and lack of lead guitar ability! Haha!
I totally agree with you about the drums and you're right, I hate them so much! I've been trying to aquire a copy of Addictive Drums for a while now. I think my computer should run it ok. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it!
I can't believe my shit luck though. For the first time in literally about 5 years I started to do well with my money and actually start saving up for a new PC, then some dick broke into my car and caused irreparable damage, so I had to buy a new bastard car instead!!
The next tune will have better drums, whether it's by taking you up on your offer (cheers for that too) or by getting AD.
Cheers for the awesome words pal!
:)
Badassery.
Okay I'm not sure if that word applies here. But still, this was pretty damned good. Great instrument choice, very welcoming feeling. Sounds like it could be the elevator music on the ride up to Heaven (Not that I believe in that shit)
Although I am curious to know whether or not you used precreated midi or came up with it all yourself. Because if you did it all from scratch I have immense respect for you, because it seems like nobody does that anymore.
Actually, I transcribed the MID file to a tablature program called Power Tabs and I manually transcribed it, note for note, to the piano roll in FruityLoops, meaning I listened to the sound, and actually recognized the fret the sound was on, set each note on there, and it went from there. It was at 80 bpm, I lowered it to 70, and I had choir aahs in it the whole time to give it more of a holistic sound, and, well, this is what came out. I did not import the MIDI file directly to FruityLoops, 'cause that'd be way too simple. I did the transcription thing for the Goron City theme too, BUT I made my own classic rock-n'-roll remix from it. In short, thank you for this fabulous review.
I like make the sound go "bwaaaww"
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