Also on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/n30l1nk/saturos-warrior-of-mars-golden
So this was my entry for Dwelling of Duels' Free Month this July. (http://www.dwellingofduels.net/duel.php?dir=11-07-Free_Month&month=Free&a...e1107) I got the 9th spot and was criticized for bad production, mainly the rhythm guitars strangling the hell out of the mix, so I went back and tweaked the mix a little before putting it up in YouTube, let me know if it works better. :O
I originally started working on this for June's One vs. Many month, but this was like three days before the deadline and it became apparent when I was almost finished tracking that it wasn't gonna be done in time, so I passed it over to the next month, which was a Free Month anyway. This is from one of the best games on the GameBoy Advance, a jRPG called Golden Sun. Its soundtrack was composed by Motoi Sakuraba, the same guy that's composed for the Tales series. I owned and beat this game as a kid, and I remembered it having an awesome soundtrack. Definitely some of the most fun I've had playing a jRPG, too. I was excited when I looked this guy up and found that he's a total progger. :D This song sounds more like power metal with prog in the middle, though, so that's the sound I tried to go for.
This is definitely the best thing I've recorded so far, and this time I wasn't alone; my friend from SCAD Joe, a keyboardist (http://www.youtube.com/user/pumpkinking872), helped me out with the keyboard solos around the second half of the song, and we play a unison, too! All guitars and Joe's keyboard solos are played live, but everything else is sequenced in GarageBand. Really happy with my work on the drums here, heh. Once again I used a MIDI from VGMusic for reference as well as to cut sequencing corners, but I'm beginning to think that not relying on these too much in future covers would help me think outside the box a bit more when it comes to arrangements.
My gear hasn't really changed at all (Ibanez Xiphos, Line 6 POD X3 Live, Macbook Pro, Harman/Kardon Soundsticks II, GarageBand), but I dialed new tones rhythm and lead tones on my POD for this song using my new Sony MDR-V150s as reference. They're one of the simplest, cheapest studio headphones you can find, but they seem to do the job. They're just a little boomy on the low end. I alternated between monitoring with the MDRs and my Soundsticks while mixing this song. And I've added a new member to the family: an Ibanez RG7321. About time I got my hands on a goddamn 7-string. It's not featured in this song, however, since I didn't bring it back home to Panama. I'll see if I can make a video to show it off when I'm back in the US and in my new apartment for Fall quarter.
In the past I've had videos where I play the game I'm covering a song from to accompany the music, but this time I simply took a video from a user called GoldenHeartNeko playing the boss battle this music is supposed to play to and edited it with my cover in After Effects. Here's the original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jljcxYk3gI&feature=related @GoldenHeartNeko: Thank you for putting up that video! If you have a problem with me using your video just let me know and I'll do something about it. xD
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I miss the pib sound every time you chose attack, browsed spells, etc :D
Puddimans 6 months ago 3
Fuck yeah! <3
AndreasKotsamanidis 6 months ago 4