Dimmignatt wrote:Hello boys and girls..
As the soul caretaker of Kwed he canned our remix on Trolls from the kwed..
And with good reasons. You should note that as RKO is, after all, Jan's baby, and something he does completely voluntarily in his spare time, he's free to do as he likes in terms of deciding what makes it or not. Sure, there's a few people he trusts to assist, but the final decision lies with him - and that's fair enough. In the upload guidelines this is even mentioned along with plenty of dos and donts which the community respects and takes notes of accordingly. If you haven't already done so, please do have a quick re-read of them.
I did have a listen to your mix myself, and I pretty much felt that with a bit of tweaking and improving, it may be approved. However as it stands now, for me personally the guitars didn't seem to be mixed in the right way, and sounded really muffled and not given enough space to breathe freely in the mix. Also, use C64 arpeggio carefully, and with extreme caution, particularly if it's from the original C64 tune. In addition, I would not sample an arpeggio from any SID emulator, as although they're good, only a real Commodore 64 will actually give you the right sound in there. For me, the arpeggios seemed to be lifted from the SID, and further, they also seemed out of place the way the tune was mixed.
However, the idea was promising and did show some thought, and I'm sure that if you worked on it and tweaked it to be more listenable, and re-submitted it (might be worth detailing comments about your changes to the tune when you do) then I'm sure it will be re-evaluated fairly. It's happened to mixes in the past and ultimately it's ended up better because of it.
Please do also remember that within the C64 remix community there are people who still use their C64s, and in my case for example, still compose occasionally with it. They love their SID sound (rightly so, of course) but do bear in mind as the original game or demo will have memories for them, to enhance a tune to be pleasing to both the casual listener and the C64 diehard is quite tricky, so don't be surprised if some people here are a little more critical.
I also think it's a bit out of order suggesting people email Jan to complain about the tune not being there (not least for spammers if nothing else) - Most of us respect Jan's decisions because at the end of the day, he's usually very fair with what he evaluates. The fact he actually posted his reasons is rare and he was dropping a hint as to how he felt the mix could be improved.
