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[Day of Reckoning]

Great music but as usual I complain about mixing :))

I would have less thickness on the synth, with some ping-pong delay to enlarge the stereo field. Guitar sounds a little fake and thin. I would make it HUGE by tracking it twice and pan it extremely left and right with different amp/cabinet and eq.
To glue up the whole mix I would put a reverb on send, something medium-small, like a room or "club" and send a little of guitar, synth and even some of the percussion.
The percussion would sound epic if you would use a big reverb (concert hall, arena, stadium sort of type). Same would go great on the piano sound.

Troisnyx responds:

Noted. Thanks a lot for the input! I've got the EQ on, so I can reboot this file and tweak with the mixer.

As for putting the reverb, I'll need to PM you about that -- I'm not sure where that goes, TBH! ^^;

[In an Unrelated Story]

Nice

I was listening some of your tracks and I'm impressed with your sensibility. You have a very good sense of melody and you master quite well the technical aspect of guitar playing.
Nice ideas, good orchestration and very tasteful choice of guitar tones.

I would suggest just to improve the mixing skills and pay more attentions to gain when you record. There are several places where your track is clipping. Slamming a very fast compressor/ limiter as the last effect on your master bus might be a quick fix for this.

KD18 responds:

Thanks for the advice; it's greatly appreciated. I'm actually self-taught in the mixing department and am always trying to learn as much as possible. In terms of a comrpessor/limiter, I actually use my pre-amp's limiter before sending the signal into my computer. Would you suggest adding a digital one in the mix too?

[Nedeleg Laouen!]

Better

You just get better and better :)
I'm glad to see/ hear that your mixing skills get better. Your composition was always good.
There is a bit a machine feel on the ostinato bass groove, but I think it can be interpreted as a VGM style thing...

Troisnyx responds:

Thank you! I'm glad that mixing bit is getting somewhere. ^_^ Anything else I could tweak? x

[Phoenix - Main Theme]

Nice

Nice track.

The only thing that bother me, from the mixing point of view, is the the piano doesn't sound "from the same room". I would put a bit more reverb on the piano, but that's just my opinion.
Maybe if it's used in a movie is good like this, describing two different places...

Sheodon responds:

Thank you.

Yes, I can understand that problem and I could hear it from a lots of other comments. To be honest, it can be described as 2 different situations (since it's a meditative-like story-telling soundtrack), but it's also because when I made this I lacked some useable instruments for my software. However, I've improved it and now I have more realistic sounding instruments. :)

[A Sea Song]

Fair

A simple but quite well done. Good melody and harmony, rhythm fits also the feel of the melody.
Maybe not pipers but a group of sailors playing accordions :)
Loops well.

[[dB] Babulia (Hey! Mix)]

Filters Will Rule The World!

Awesome job man, really really awesome.
Love the filters and the minimalist feel of the guitar.

Decibel responds:

Thanks :)

[Timohi - Babulia House Remix]

Very big

Somehow the sound is very big and orchestral, almost epic I would say (is there such thing as Epic House?).
Nice mix, nice synth theme at 02:16 and 02:36.

10/10 5/5

TheBellmaker responds:

Haha glad you like it. I used some orchestral strings in the background as well, I like how it turned out. Thanks for listening!

Epic house, you say....?

[Baubulia SuperHeavyDeathRemix]

A Darth Vader Mix?

So noisy and rough, it must have been done by influence of the dark side :)))

Quarl responds:

naw man. I just tried really hard to imagine what sex with you would be like and made a song from the inspiration.

[Morph1 -Skyline Breeze ft Soro]

Nice

I like how you cut and rearranged the trumplets :)
Very polyphonic composition, somehow more to the classical concept, but with a very strong jazzy feel.

Morphone responds:

I actually don't know jazz so that's good to hear that it actually is geared towards jazz, even if it isn't truly representative of it. Thanks.

[Timohi - Babulia /Lazy Ho]

by now

Lazy or not, for now this is my personal favorite in the remix contest. Clean and clear mix.
I look forward to hear more from you :)

JPRixdorfer responds:

Thank you very much, my friend! I guess I'll have to do better, as this contest goes til october. If it were over now, I'd have 3rd place for sure! :D