Spyro TEN (GBA)- Fellmuth (PRC112)

Votes (6)

Jan 27, 2008 OneUp
  1. Eternal Fruit Salad
    Hylian_Lemon
  2. Overdriven
    Chickenwarlord
  3. Eternal Knight
    OneUp
Surprisingly hot one from Chicken! But yeah, that synth was quite annoying...

Hylian gave us a very tasty smorgasbord, love that ghosty part. The drumwork especially impressed me, so you got my vote.
Jan 28, 2008 bundeslang
  1. Eternal Knight
    OneUp
  2. Eternal Fruit Salad
    Hylian_Lemon
  3. Overdriven
    Chickenwarlord
Hylian Lemon - The drums in the beginning are dominating in the intro. They are a bit too loud. I like the other samples, but the song is a bit boring because the bass and the drums are making it at some parts. I like the part around 1:30, nice sampling. The ending is nice.
Chickenwarlord - The song starts.... I don't like the background 'bass' you used, it irritates at some points, especially in the beginning. The drums are too strong here as well. The middle part is not bad. The ending is a bit boring.
OneUp - Nice, but slow, start, I like the way you entered the drums in the song, they are very good. The song comes too live and it sounds very well, the drums are a bit too loud. After this 'living part' the song calms down in a nice way, the variation in the samples is strange, but I like it.

Conclusion: 3 PRC-Worthy entries with a good song length.
Jan 28, 2008 Chickenwarlord
  1. Eternal Fruit Salad
    Hylian_Lemon
  2. Eternal Knight
    OneUp

I felt as if Hylian's arrangement was on the whole a better one. Loved the echoing run at 1:27.

The drums at about :49 in OneUp's screamed for realistic guitar shredding. The astonishing differences in plugin quality really killed it.

Despite having the better drums, OneUp's piece didn't have as much rhythmic interest or variation in the melodic lines.
Jan 29, 2008 Hylian_Lemon
  1. Eternal Knight
    OneUp
  2. Overdriven
    Chickenwarlord

Eternal Knight - I see what you did there. Overall, more interpretation and better production. Sometimes the off-beatness (or whatever you'd call it) confused me, but it wasn't a big problem.

Overdriven - Not sure what synth you're talking about, but I don't hate anything in particular here. XD I really like the drums starting at :35. I kind of see what you mean about getting lazy 1/4 of the way through, although I'd call it more like 1/3.
Jan 29, 2008 kylenin
  1. Overdriven
    Chickenwarlord
  2. Eternal Fruit Salad
    Hylian_Lemon
  3. Eternal Knight
    OneUp
For once I thought that Chickenwarlord's was the best. Hylian Lemon's seemed too dissonant. It got better during the second half, but the first half kept it from getting first place. OneUp gets third. For some reason it felt very "empty".
Jan 30, 2008 Rexy
  1. Eternal Fruit Salad
    Hylian_Lemon
  2. Eternal Knight
    OneUp
  3. Overdriven
    Chickenwarlord
HL - Your composition sounds like a patchwork of multiple ideas at once, so this makes things interesting. The first bit for some reason makes me think of the indoor events in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (particularly Table Tennis) due to similar arrangement style, and after that I sense some thoughtful transitions into a funk-rockish elements after that and a more happy bolero-kind-of-thing down the line. I can see where you're looking at in terms of feel. Though, the transition from the first two parts needed a bit of work when it comes to their connection, but it's not bad.
In terms of your mixing down I think you need to turn the recording volume down slightly, because I think I sensed instances of clipping particularly among some of the more active sections of the mix. I appreciate your sample bank well enough though, albeit it's more a case of getting to learn more of what you can do with it and I think you're starting to come along well enough.

CW - Interesting genre choice, but I think some of the execution seemed to be lacking (I would say write your own drums instead of midi-ripping those, it would make all the difference). I appreciate some of the additional melodic/rhythmic elements though, yet in spite of that things seemed to come off a little too conservative.
Again with the production, I can see you're using FL but that's not the big concern; it comes to trying to learn to use the software more effective and efficiently. If you haven't taken part in the FL Music Competition before, I say that'll be a good start to learn some fresh techniques to end up carrying over.

1UP - The off-beatness with the melody almost put me off on initial listen, but now that I think of it it seemed to tie into the rhythmic and pad elements interestingly enough. Mind me, going for synth guitars in a mix like this could be asking for trouble as it's hard to program them well enough; I think some more time could have been given to the rhythmic ones, but I think the lead wasn't too bad.
I think you executed some better sample work than some of the other contestants as well so that makes things a lot more coherent. Though, I don't know if it's me but I sensed a lot of bass in comparison to other frequencies here, so I feel that trying to re-adjust the EQs slightly would help add some boost in clarity upon the instrumentation. Still, not bad.

When it comes to the overall vote, I thought it was a tight call between HL and OneUp; the former had the better arrangement content and the latter seemed to overpower everything in the production department. So objectively, I've had to look at the pair of them and make my final first place decision on which one had more of the listenability factor, and I think Ben only just managed to succeed personally.