Aviators - The "From All Sides" Remix Contest!

[UnderpΩny]

Oh snap
This remix I'm doing is amazing XD
Even if I don't place, I'm satisfied with the knowlege it's one of the best things I've ever done
Thanks for awesome source material, Aviators <3

[A.I. Music]

http://soundcloud.com/a-i-music/aviators-friendship-a-i-remix

[Cherax]

Any chance of getting dry vocal stems, with harmonies separated?
/bats eyelashes

[Inkpony]

...Well since you asked so nicely and are providing the stems, I'll give it a shot. But TEN DAYS? Really, man? REALLY? You and your short freakin' deadlines. Lol.

[K3WRO]

...Well since you asked so nicely and are providing the stems, I'll give it a shot. But TEN DAYS? Really, man? REALLY? You and your short freakin' deadlines. Lol.

Well, he given it out like half a month ago

anyway

Here's my tack so far, I'm thinking of adding some gitch in the vocals, how do you think?

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84338418/Friendship%20remix%20Wip.mp3

[Foxtrot89]

I'm way late to the party, but I'm gonna give it a shot. Perhaps get my creative juices flowing and all that.

[NightmareSnake]

Well, time to put my nose to the grind and finish this thing this week.

[5COPY]

Something is wrong with my project. I can't put in vocals without them being an empty pattern. So now I'm stuck with an instrumental remix. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[UnderpΩny]

WELLP
Pretty much done.
I'm going to wait until the deadline is past before making mine public though

[Foxtrot89]

Oh, snap! I managed to accidentally pull something out of my hind quarters. Not entirely sure of the genre, though. Anyone feel like giving me an idea? It's got a bunch of distorted noise and the half timey dubstep beat, but I don't know if you'd call it dubstep.

Anyway, soundcloud removed some of the high frequencies, it's honestly not this muddy in .wav (submission) form. I need to tweak the mix a little bit more and tack in a little bit more (I rendered out the whole track only to find out I forgot to add in half the patterns to the final chorus.)

Hooray me! For best effect, crank them woofers. There's quite a bit of low frequencies going on in this one.

http://soundcloud.com/foxtrot89/constellations-wip-mix

[Aviators]

Oh, snap! I managed to accidentally pull something out of my hind quarters. Not entirely sure of the genre, though. Anyone feel like giving me an idea? It's got a bunch of distorted noise and the half timey dubstep beat, but I don't know if you'd call it dubstep.

Anyway, soundcloud removed some of the high frequencies, it's honestly not this muddy in .wav (submission) form. I need to tweak the mix a little bit more and tack in a little bit more (I rendered out the whole track only to find out I forgot to add in half the patterns to the final chorus.)

Hooray me! For best effect, crank them woofers. There's quite a bit of low frequencies going on in this one.

http://soundcloud.com/foxtrot89/constellations-wip-mix

I am LOVING the beat you have on this. It sounds pretty nice! The issue for me here is that the mix is sounding pretty dry. Just keep playing with your effects and after mastering, hopefully this will sound as full as it has the potential to be.

Also, those basses are great but very quiet. They're nice and earth-shattering, but I'd love to be able to hear them a bit better. Maybe play around with some resonating higher frequencies?

...Well since you asked so nicely and are providing the stems, I'll give it a shot. But TEN DAYS? Really, man? REALLY? You and your short freakin' deadlines. Lol.

Well, he given it out like half a month ago

anyway

Here's my tack so far, I'm thinking of adding some gitch in the vocals, how do you think?

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84338418/Friendship%20remix%20Wip.mp3

This is pretty nice so far, and it's sounding pretty evenly mixed, which is quite rare here on MLR. xD Mixing is one of the biggest things I'll be looking at for the contest, so I'll definitely have my eye on this one.

While the mixing IS nice, the drums need to come up a bit. The delay on the piano is a bit much... Maybe try putting more delay or reverb on the vocals instead. Also... One thing I notice is that you changed almost nothing from the original midi, at least melodically. Honestly I'm not super picky about that because I like the arrangement so much, but this could really use some high synth leads or something to really switch it up and make it stand out.

Sorry for going OCD on you. xD This is one of my favorites out of the entries so far.

[NytMayr]

Quick question: Are instrumental remixes okay? 'Cause I was trying to do a remix of Monster, but the vocals are being a pain in the rear to work with, so I figured that simply transposing them onto an instrumental track would be easier. Plus, I simply work better with instrumentals.

[Aviators]

Instrumentals are okay, but a remix by definition has to have some part of the original song. Maybe chopped vocals? Slices of Omni's wubs?

Quick question: Are instrumental remixes okay? 'Cause I was trying to do a remix of Monster, but the vocals are being a pain in the rear to work with, so I figured that simply transposing them onto an instrumental track would be easier. Plus, I simply work better with instrumentals.

[LoreRD]

And I shall try to make my first remix ever! Key word being "try". It will suck, but it will be worth it
(also, I know I'm REALLY late, but I'll still try to do something)

[K3WRO]

...Well since you asked so nicely and are providing the stems, I'll give it a shot. But TEN DAYS? Really, man? REALLY? You and your short freakin' deadlines. Lol.

Well, he given it out like half a month ago

anyway

Here's my tack so far, I'm thinking of adding some gitch in the vocals, how do you think?

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84338418/Friendship%20remix%20Wip.mp3

This is pretty nice so far, and it's sounding pretty evenly mixed, which is quite rare here on MLR. xD Mixing is one of the biggest things I'll be looking at for the contest, so I'll definitely have my eye on this one.

While the mixing IS nice, the drums need to come up a bit. The delay on the piano is a bit much... Maybe try putting more delay or reverb on the vocals instead. Also... One thing I notice is that you changed almost nothing from the original midi, at least melodically. Honestly I'm not super picky about that because I like the arrangement so much, but this could really use some high synth leads or something to really switch it up and make it stand out.

Sorry for going OCD on you. xD This is one of my favorites out of the entries so far.

Well, for the thing that almost nothing is changed in the midi, it's pretty early work and I haven't come up with variation yet, that's something I've gotta fix from now on. I already have a little synth melody I've modified from the original work, but I couldn't find a nice place to fit it in.

I still have to fix the repetitive, annoying drumloop that goes from here to then, the snare hits mainly, the delay/reverb on the piano, and the side-chaining bass pad is something I've gotta fix, otherwise It'll be really unconformable to listen to

Thanks for the feedback! Your music is awesome by the way, and I had a lot of fun remixing them!

[Foxtrot89]

That's something I missed; decent and helpful feedback. I managed to make the mix less dry, which is something I never would have done without being told it was dry to begin with. Hilarious, seeing as it now seems like a glaring flaw to me when yesterday it was totally acceptable.

I've done about as much as I can do, I think. I'm gonna throw in a little synth thing at the end and submit it within the next 2-3 days, hopefully. Thanks, Aviators, for reminding me of what simple but helpful feedback is, and how delightful it is.

[Aviators]

So guys, the deadline is getting close! That means I'm gonna be collecting all the submissions soon. Thing is, I will NOT be judging them for a good long while. With the delay of the album's release, I'm gonna give you guys some more time if you need it. If you're done by July 25th, awesome! If you need more time, just let me know. There's no real rush.

[NightmareSnake]

So guys, the deadline is getting close! That means I'm gonna be collecting all the submissions soon. Thing is, I will NOT be judging them for a good long while. With the delay of the album's release, I'm gonna give you guys some more time if you need it. If you're done by July 25th, awesome! If you need more time, just let me know. There's no real rush.

I don't know if I'm going to need more time yet or not, but maybe.

[NightmareSnake]

2nd place: A place on the deluxe version of “From All Sides”, a free copy of the album, a link to your work on my YouTube channel, and a free copy of the album.

You said "a free copy of the album" twice! XD

[Aviators]

2nd place: A place on the deluxe version of “From All Sides”, a free copy of the album, a link to your work on my YouTube channel, and a free copy of the album.

You said "a free copy of the album" twice! XD

*facepalm* That I did. Want two free copies? xD

[AdmiralYoshi]

So I just found this thread four days ago. Already almost finished with it.

I may need that extra time as I've got what is probably going to be two of the most ridiculously crazy weeks of my life ahead of me, but I'm hoping I can smash out the rest of the tune this weekend.

Anyway, here's what I have now; if anyone would give me suggestions or feedback or whatever, I'd really appreciate it! I already have some things I'll be changing; it's just hard getting time to do anything when you're out of the house for 16 hours per day. But yeah, feedback! Please!

http://soundcloud.com/admiralyoshi/constellations-remix-wip

[Triple_B]

What time signature is Monster written in? I'm having difficulties syncing the vocals to my drum beat, and hypothetically FL should be doing it for me.

[Cherax]

I'm gonna give you guys some more time if you need it. If you're done by July 25th, awesome! If you need more time, just let me know. There's no real rush.

Oh thank goodness. This remix has been eating up my all free time, which is good, because it's incredibly fun, but bad, because it's preventing me from doing all my university work. Whoops. I'd love a few extra days, please. :3

[Decmaster IX]

What time signature is Monster written in? I'm having difficulties syncing the vocals to my drum beat, and hypothetically FL should be doing it for me.

I don't know how much of this you have down, but the track is in 4/4 at 130bpm and the vocals start on beat 2, not beat 1. Aviators often won't start his vocals on 1, I noticed. What I'll do when putting remix vocals into a track is listen carefully to the original and find out what beat the vocals start on, since it often varies.

Hope that helps.

[LoreRD]

May need a day or two extra to finish, though I'll still try to get it done by the 25th.