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On ‎4‎/‎3‎/‎2016 at 9:49 AM, sara_gd said:

I started listening that one with really high hopes :lol: 

My favourite were St Jimmy by Santino and Holiday by Matteo. I think that cover of St Jimmy puts you really well into the story of St Jimmy of that part of the album, and Holiday by Matteo is kind of a nostalgic take on everything that Holiday declares is wrong in an angry way (I can imagine an old person looking at all of this from his window or something like that). I also liked Whatsername by ScottF, Wake me up by Last Minute Men, Give me Novacaine by Luke James and by LizM, Letterbomb by Turtlemay and Extraordinary Girl by YoannA. And I listened to Whatsername too many times for my mental health :(

Thanks so much! My buddy Donnie and I had a great time making it!

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2 hours ago, Jeff Strong said:

Hey man,

Thanks so much for your feedback. Honestly. This track took forever to make! 

I will point out one thing, though.

The drums were NOT ripped from Rock Band. I can promise you that. I will send you the drums themselves and you can layer it and check it out all you want. I know that ripping from Rock Band is a deal-breaker, and I wouldn't do anything like that to compromise my chances. I found the RB MIDI map here and used that as a tempo marker. Then the drums were sequenced in SONAR. 

Edit: Also, the piano and glockenspiel were not ripped. I'll send you the tracks from those, too. I recorded those myself. I have a pretty extensive sample library for piano and orchestral instruments.

Oh dude I'm sorry man.  In that case your samples are perfect, like holy shit, I'm fully impressed in that case, and you get full marks in that case.  Sorry to wrongly accuse you!  The tone of the drums is so incredibly close to the original, it's actually rather incredible.  I'll edit my post so people won't think wrongly of you.

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On ‎4‎/‎4‎/‎2016 at 10:09 PM, HighHorse said:

 

Whatsername - RyanV
- I like the change up for the bit before the guitar solo.  Though the solo itself could be a little better, just fix the delay and perform it a little better, I like what he was going for though.  The lead after the "seems like forever ago" is majorly out of time with the other guitar.  5.5/10.

 

Thanks man. This is my first time recording and I recorded with a pretty crappy mic that isn't suppose to record guitar so I was recording with my amp at like 2 XD I have the Blue yeti and sure its okay for vocals but its mostly for commentary, not singing and playing guitar. And yeah that delay was pretty crappy too and yeah that was out of sync and I couldn't get it any better. So thanks for the criticism! :D

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5 hours ago, HighHorse said:

Oh dude I'm sorry man.  In that case your samples are perfect, like holy shit, I'm fully impressed in that case, and you get full marks in that case.  Sorry to wrongly accuse you!  The tone of the drums is so incredibly close to the original, it's actually rather incredible.  I'll edit my post so people won't think wrongly of you.

It's all good! Apology accepted.

I figured people would be on my case about that. I really tried to make it sound good. Used techniques I've learned from Chris Lord-Alge himself. He's got a great online class with instructional videos. 

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On ‎04‎/‎04‎/‎2016 at 3:09 AM, HighHorse said:

Give Me Novacaine - Noah Blackmore
- This rendition felt British to me from the second the bass started, I'm not sure why, I didn't even really take into account the name, not that any of this is relevant to the cover, just thinking out loud, but anyway:  Cool cover, I like it, it's sorta indescript outside of the word "minimalistic", I really like the synthy/guitar touches in it, also I'm a sucker for basses having a big role in songs.  6.5/10.

Thanks for the feedback!  The 'synthy guitar' is actually a ukulele with a huge amount of reverb on it, I liked the sound so stuck with it.  The minimalism was artistic choice, but partly influenced by the fact that when I was recording vocals my flatmate was asleep in the next room :P Otherwise it probably would have built a bit more. 

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oulalala....poll is now closed :o the excitement begins 

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These covers were so good :ga: so much more impressed by these than those Kerrang covers 

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Overall they sounded amazing.

I intend to post something more descriptive as soon as I have the chance. But still, incredible work.

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It won't let me vote? Anyone know what to do? I entered but I can't find my entry. Again anyone know what to do?

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Voting has closed for the top 10. As far as why your entry wasn't posted, not sure. There was at least one other person to whom that happened.

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3 hours ago, Gilo said:

It won't let me vote? Anyone know what to do? I entered but I can't find my entry. Again anyone know what to do?

Same thing happened to me, don't bother e-mailing them or sending PMs, they won't answer. 

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Where is the top 10???  They said it'd be posted on the 4th

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Top 10 will be going up tomorrow afternoon.

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2 minutes ago, Jorian Holka said:

Still not posted??

You know you can go on ebay and buy the album right? :P

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Tonight. 

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Late tonight or maybe tomorrow. Going through the votes and entries now.

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2 hours ago, Lone said:

Tonight. 

 

14 minutes ago, Fuzz said:

Late tonight or maybe tomorrow. Going through the votes and entries now.

I prefer Lone's answer :P

But seriously, thanks for the perseverance in organising this, I imagine 38 entries makes it a pretty mammoth task when put on top of everything else you guys have to look after.  In spite of the delays, it's been really well organised (so far!) and was very enjoyable to enter :)

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8 hours ago, Second favourite son said:

 

I prefer Lone's answer :P

But seriously, thanks for the perseverance in organising this, I imagine 38 entries makes it a pretty mammoth task when put on top of everything else you guys have to look after.  In spite of the delays, it's been really well organised (so far!) and was very enjoyable to enter :)

Well-put - didn't mean to sound pushy, just anxious to see who's moving on!

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