Marauder remix... Finally.

Maindrian · Post by **Maindrian** » 05/09/2004 - 3:49

Yeah, it's not a finished remix, but I'd really like your opinions. Remember that little tune by Barry Lietch that I could never get to work no matter how many times I tried? I had another go.

It's Marauder, done apropriatly enough, in a retro John Carpenter style. This marks my first attempt at at remix with absolutely no guitars whatsoever, so I'm curious to see what you guys think of it. And also, any suggestions for improvement.

http://vgmix.com/song_view.php?song_id=2200

merman · Post by **merman** » 05/09/2004 - 9:11

Sounding good so far. If anything, it needs to be more dramatic and darker.

(One idea about the intro - layer some sound FX in there. Thunder, explosions, gun shots. Give it a kick start.)

XGener8or · Post by **XGener8or** » 05/09/2004 - 9:59

Wow. this is really fantastic. I love John Carpenter's music and this is a terrific homage. I think it's perfect right now. No need to mess around with it anymore.

Vosla · Post by **Vosla** » 05/09/2004 - 10:10

merman wrote:Sounding good so far. If anything, it needs to be more dramatic and darker.

Some organs? Uhm, clichÃƒÂ©, i guess.

(One idea about the intro - layer some sound FX in there. Thunder, explosions, gun shots. Give it a kick start.)

Quick footsteps, grunts, muffled screaming, sinister laughing, perhaps? Oops, clichÃƒÂ© again. Though a bit clichÃƒÂ© wouldn't be bad.

Nice work, so far. I like some Carpenter horror music (especially halloween).

Analog-X64 · Post by **Analog-X64** » 05/09/2004 - 11:26

Is it Georgio Marauder that you are trying to style this after? If so what is missing is the Ambience sounds a bit dry for a Georgio Marauder tune.

Try applying some type of "Dark Hall" effect or "Church Hall" effects, to give it that ambience.

Listen to some tunes from Vangelis or the SoundTrack for "Cat People" by Georgio Marauder as an example.

Maindrian · Post by **Maindrian** » 05/09/2004 - 11:59

I think you're thinking of Giorgio Moroder. He who scored "Scarface"? No I'm not going for his sound. I don't particuarly like any of his soundtracks. My sister drives me insane with the "Flashdance" OST. Yuck.

This is based on the video game, Marauder. Hope that clears it up.

Analog-X64 · Post by **Analog-X64** » 05/09/2004 - 12:07

hehehehe

I just finished hearing the original sid

I stand by my original post. it needs a bit of ambience. add some Hall effects on either some of the instruments individualy or the entire piece.

Post by **tas** » 05/09/2004 - 12:50

nice and plesent on the ear!

Maindrian · Post by **Maindrian** » 08/09/2004 - 12:38

God, here's a depressing thought. My computer has died horribly in a messy and tragic hal.dll. corruption. Whatever the f*ck that means. From what I can tell, I can't re-start my computer without re-installing that file. However, I have to be able to start my computer to install it, so it's a joyous Catch 22 situation. I'm angry.

This means I cannot get at the work file for this remix. I've either lost it, or just wont be able to touch it for a while. Gah!

Eliot · Post by **Eliot** » 18/09/2004 - 6:50

Maindrian wrote:hal.dll. corruption. Whatever the f*ck that means.

HAL = Hardware Abstraction Layer.
Seems to be a hardware problem. Maybe memory, cables (from/to harddiscs), cpu, chipset.
You may try to save your work on an other machine first, just plug your discs in

next time think about to have a spare-disc, where u can backup any of your important datas.

regards,

Eliot

Vosla · Post by **Vosla** » 18/09/2004 - 12:06

Or having cheap backups regularly on CD...
Without my "Daily Shit"-Series of CD-Backups I would have lost all my stuff with 3 HDDs gone to hell this year alone.
(If you wonder...Yeah I got sh*tty equipment. Second hand or worse.)

Maindrian · Post by **Maindrian** » 23/09/2004 - 1:38

Shit, shit, shit, shitting, shit-a-bugger-bum-poo. I am angrier still.

Its gone. I lost everything on my harddrive. This is the second remix I've lost to my crappy computer. Worse still, I was actually enjoying working on this one. Oh well, I'll fade the unfinished version out at the end and keep it for myself as a time-passer. I wish a bloody and violent death to the creators of Windows XP.

Anybody here ever lost a remix like that? One you put so much effort into, only to have completely destroyed?

Vosla · Post by **Vosla** » 23/09/2004 - 12:56

A bit offtopic, but my brother (using XP) formatted an HDD with FAT32 and handed me over the drive (with some nice stuff on it). Thanks, bro!

All worked fine until I tried to rename the little bugger. Next bootup, all was gone?! FAT-table was blank, copy was blank.

Reformatted the darn thing and next time I changed the partition label - *WHOOSH!* - all data gone. What the f***???

Ok, you pile of ogre-dung! It's FDISK time! Killed all partition data, formatted it with FAT32 under WinME. VoilÃƒÂ !!! Works without twitching a bit!

Seems XP can't handle FAT32 so well and f*cks up great time with it. (And NO it's not a user problem, my brother & myself are IT-professionals!)

Heard that XP also likes to trash 120GB drives.

Eliot · Post by **Eliot** » 24/09/2004 - 20:27

Maindrian wrote:Anybody here ever lost a remix like that? One you put so much effort into, only to have completely destroyed?

I lost some important data due buggy sata-pata converter

So I have now two extra spare hdds for backup and of course a cd and dvd burner

I guess it has nothing to do with XP... if you have pata hdds use shielded round-cables, they will help to keep your datas because some of the 80pin flat-cables are junk and break easily.

For more stable working I still recommand to use w2k, it may not have all the features of xp, but its more stable.

Eliot.

Vosla · Post by **Vosla** » 25/09/2004 - 8:58

Eliot wrote:For more stable working I still recommand to use w2k, it may not have all the features of xp, but its more stable.
Eliot.

At least more stable than XP Home Edition