Sweet.
This game has a great soundtrack. I don't know how you did it, but you pretty much captured the exact sound of the SNES cart's music in this game, just now with better sonic quality. Sounds great. 9 rather than 10, because there isn't much difference from the original which makes it just a little bit redundant.
Anyway, all in all cool stuff. BTW if you're into Castlevania music, I've done a remake on here of Vampire Killer you'd probably like.
Keep it up!
Thanks Nick! I already listened to your Castlevania music, loved it! As for this one, I really tried to get as close as possible to the original on purpose. It was actually pretty hard to find/create the right instruments, but I'm happy with how it came out. :)
Have a nice day!
Cool track!
Nice catchy little rock theme song. EZDrummer being used to nice effect.
I felt there was a real lack of low end in this song, I didn't hear a bass if there was one, and the song would sound a lot fuller with that low end filled out and emphasizing the rhythm.
Anyway, cool stuff!
Thanks man!
I did have bass in it, but I'm not a bass player..and it didn't sound right. So i just upped the bass in the rhythm guitars, and drums in the final eqing of the tracks.
I'd like to ask a bass player to help me out...but its only 50 seconds. Maybe you'd like to help? :D
Kickin'
Your music, from what I've heard so far, really possesses that professional sound. To be more specific, by "professional" I mean it has that self-assured musical confidence and solidity matched with great audio production.
I gave this one a 10 because, as you said below, this style may not be extremely original but you accomplished the aim of the scene without flaw.
Thanks for the great review...as I've said many times before, there is no greater compliment to a professional than to hear his work is as such.
I do hope that my work shows a certain confidence in performance and production--I'll paraphrase the great jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker, God rest his soul, who said (at a clinic for jazz composer/musicians) that any musician must take the stage knowing he's the best at that moment, that all insecurities are out in the open, as every musician's soul is naked on that stage. As a composer, this is part of my stage, and I feel I'd have no business being on this stage without exuding that kind of confidence.
Thanks again for the great review, and I wish you all the best!
Great piece.
Great piece, interesting and entertaining. Doesn't suffer from too much repetition and prolixity. This piece could HUGELY benefit from more careful sequencing to make it sound natural, as it sounds like point-and-click into a sequencer right now. Tempo rubato might help a little here as well, although I imagine it would hardly be used in this piece. OR, record this being played on a real piano! That would be the best-case scenario.
Keep it up!!
Thanks for the review. Yeah... it was all point and click, since I can't play the piano very well (so live may be out of the question). Might add a little more dynamics and shift notes a little bit left and right to make it more 'real'. Also, this is just a draft; if possible, I might introduce some modulations (since they are a key ingredient to sonata form D=).
Excellent
Excellent as usual. Nice use of the March form and the French title (as someone who is half-French, I appreciate it haha). Great instrumentation, the whole thing was alive and moving, noble and passionate at once. I missed the snare drum a little bit though, the staple of the march along with the bass drum, but the song didn't feel like it really needed it more, so I'm not sure what would have been better.
Keep up the good work - as if I have to say that!
BTW I love Krayon's review and your response below, I got a laugh out of that!
Nick!
yeah I try to avoid using percussive instruments (excluding piano) as much as possible. I didn't have a bass drum but in it's place I have a timpani and a snare drum part quieted down. I try to have the strings and the winds trade off the parts that give the piece movement and rhythm without just leaving it to the percussion, which is the easy way out.
hahah yeah, those reviews annoy me
glad you enjoyed the piece
and that review response lol
-Winter
Cool!
The first minute of the song was by far the best composed and orchestrated of the song. So that's my only complaint - the climax of the track was at the BEGINNING!
Otherwise, great work. And good luck with that new website thingy. BTW are you using EWQLSO? Sounds like it!
Quite right Nick... quite right. I should probably do a remix of the song eh? I agree the beginning is my favorite too, I spent the most time on it, so it shows I guess.
Yes this is in fact largely EWQLSOG. LARGELY I say! A few things here and there like the choirs and the oboe were not from EW, but this is pretty much all that.
Thanks for your honest review Nick, always glad to hear from you, i'm glad you liked it!
Verrrry nice.
Why are people voting this stuff down?
Extremely chilled and mellow tune with very warm production, as it should be. Nice noodling and riffing going on with the guitars. Great to kick back and listen to.
Oh, and nice title :D
Haha, thanks man. People rate it down, because..they are the people that get beat up EVERY day at school. They come home, and give zeros, and it makes them feel less like taking their own worthless lives. haha
Anyways, thanks for the comments. Glad you like it. \m/
Reminds me of old Black Metal albums...
Reminds me of old Black Metal albums when the production was tinny and horrible and it was impossible to hear anything!
HOWEVER that does mean that it also is very atmospheric and intense. It's just that it's so annoyingly difficult to listen to that the music is really just lost. You guys should look into recording each part directly into your soundcard on your computer. You will not get a pro sound just like that, but compared to this it will be way better.
So yeah, keep it up, get a better setup for recording so we can actually HEAR the music that's going on, and KEEP ROCKIN!!!
(I didn't give this song a rating I didn't want to bring it down unfairly, as I can't really tell much about the music!)
Haha aye fair enough, it is a little hard to hear the guitars over the drums. We'd love to multitrack the whole thing but we don't really have the time, or the means :( no decent microphones or anything.
Sound quality is basically down to the fact that audio from 4 amps and a drum kit are going into a tiny computer mic.
Thanks for your review ^_^
Why does everyone hate Megaman 4?
I really wonder why so many people hate MM4 with a passion. It's actually a very fun game once you get good at it.
Anyway, game aside, I thought this track was pretty weak. How so? Well, I know every part of this Dustman song, having remixed it myself into an orchestral version a little while back, and even though you call this a "remix," you haven't changed a single thing. You just put new instruments on each track. There is nothing creative or new about that whatsoever.
Next time, try changing the style of the original song into a specific new genre, or try adding new stuff, or changing rhythms, etc. Try actually remixing it rather than just throwing the pre-existent tracks onto new instrument channels!!
How dare you accuse me of using pre-existing tracks? That hurts.
I start from a blank template when I start. I like to make it sound similar to the original, because thats how I do things. Other people do it, why not me?
I hate Megaman 4 because it went too far. Yeah, I played it and beat it, but you can't do shit without the eneny's weakness, while in contrast, you still stand a chance with out it in other Megaman games.
If you didn't like it then thats one thing, but please don't go around jumping to conclusions saying I used a pre-existing track!!
Good work!
A fun quirky piece that makes good use of contrapuntal woodwind melodies. Only thing I'd say is that the Bass Clarinet part gets a little repetetive rhythmically pretty quickly and starts to feel corny in an otherwise very smartly composed piece.
Keep it up, I hope you can record the live performance and upload it at some point in the future!!
I really hope they record it at the contest so i can. making the shhet music is a bit problematigc... annoying programs
oh well thx for review and kind words^_^
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