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I'd been a big fan of the 1st three Castlevania soundtracks (particularly 3), so it was mind-blowing to finally play through SCIV on the SNES. The tunes still have the wild arrangements the NES games, but the compositions were longer and more sophisticated, such a major step up!

Cheers! I really had fun putting this one together, such a great tune and crazy fun to play!

This one's from nearly three years ago, the mix is definitely alot rougher than my mixes are now, but this is also a tune that was definitely the bleeding edge of what I was able to play when I tracked it. You don't get better at playing music by not trying though!

I'm lucky this one came out half mixed ok, this is from the 1st year or so that I was mixing.

@@thesosomusician Try putting everything (drums mainly, but bass as well) to a grid. Every DAW has its own way but yours shouldnt be hard to figure out

I'm using reaper, it's pretty trivial to quantize drums in it, although when I tracked this video I didn't know that. I tend to still not quantize but it's more of an artistic choice than a gap in engineering knowledge.

Nice! Great tune for sure, a fantastic merging of moodiness, melodic atmosphere, and Baroque organs!

Thanks! I gotta get those bass thumps a bit tighter, real hard for me to play that many in a row!

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Are you referencing the mute on the guitar? That's a strip of velcro, it helps dampen the strings. This guitar is extremely resonant where hammering on any string causes all the other strings to resonate pretty loudly even with left and right hand muting, so the extra dampening really keeps the noise down.

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Thanks! The production on some of these late 90s records is classic, but it's mind blowing to me what you can accomplish on a shoe string budget in your basement! The production on the newest katatonia record is brilliant, I highly recommend them!

Thanks! The whole soundtrack is a banger, and this tune is a big highlight!

That's tremendous, as long as it doesn't recommend microwaving hamsters!

Thanks! It was definitely a blast sitting in the pocket on the drums and bass for this one, but on the keyboard I was hanging on for dear life! Great tune!

Always some room for some Swedish metal! There's a few tunes I'm planning to get too, just gotta rotate some vgmusic too since the non-vgmusic doesn't seem to do as well

Thanks! This one came together pretty quickly despite the length, not too bad to mix!

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Cheers! I'm pretty sure I was still playing the original NES when SCIV came out, definitely was a real mindblow when I finally got my hands on an SNES, and then even later when I started going back and playing the classics that were out early in the SNES life cycle. SCIV is still a masterpiece imho!

Katatonia is an interesting band, they really evolved over their career. The record this track is from, Brave Murder Day, almost sounds like an ambient version of Morningrise by Opeth. Check out the song Atrium from their newest record, I'm not even quite sure how to describe it, it has things in common with mellower Opeth and Porcupine Tree, but it's kind of it's own thing. Really cool band!

@@thesosomusician will do, thanks for the recommendation :) edit: also for some reason the singer's voice made me think of another band 'Soen', who are kind of like a mix between Opeth and Tool, sort of. I think they even had (have?) a drummer that used to be in Opeth, but I could be wrong on that. If you haven't heard of them (I don't think they were very famous), their songs 'Lotus', 'Last light' and 'Lucidity' are pretty cool (imho).

Yes, Soen is pretty cool, especially that first record! Martin Lopez from Opeth is, I think, the founder of that project. Right before the pandemic I believe they put out a record that the 1st single was a bit nu-metally sounding, wasn't quite my cup of tea, but early on quite cool!

Cheers! Wayback on the vgmusic archive, there used to be a midi that had the idea of combining these three tunes, that was definitely the influence on this one! Great OST for sure, I think in general the game has a bad rap for not being created by Kojima, but overall it's pretty top notch.

Cheers! That guitar is fantastic, it looks great, it sounds great, and best of all, it plays great! I've been super happy with it so far!

Such a fun tune to put together and jam out, cheers!!

Yes!!!!! Cheers!

Thanks! I'm a big fan of all those Sunsoft soundtracks on the NES. Every tune on Blaster Master is a classic, although the Stage 8 tune is a bit more of a sound effect fiesta than a song but classic nonetheless! This tune always reminded me of the Stage 3 tune from Batman

Thanks, I'm a big fan of the SH3 soundtrack, and this tune is one of them! The full tune is on my YT channel here

@@thesosomusician loveeeeeeeee song end OF SMALL SACTUARY 🎶🎸😍🤘🏾🔥. Faz um vídeo tocando "room of angel" ou "promise"🎶🎸😍🤘🏾🔥

Room of Angel is great, but I'd definitely struggle with putting something together to do it justice (vocal driven music is definitely not my forte!). Promise, on the other hand, is right in my wheelhouse, just would have to do some research on the arrangement.

I'd love to get my tunes onto that platform, but the combination of being in a legally grey area being covers, combined with the distribution fees involved on getting onto the platform looks like it's beyond where I'd like to be at the moment. Hopefully one day I'll have the traffic on this site that might make it more doable to expand to other platforms!

Thanks! Definitely a stand out tune on a killer soundtrack, I'm a huge fan of all the nes Sunsoft soundtracks!

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Ha, it got a little dank at the end there!

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Thanks! It's crazy to have hit that milestone after grinding it out for so long, almost doesn't feel real!

@@thesosomusician I'm stoked for you man. Hope you have a nice day!

Cheers, enjoy!

Cheers! My thumb still get phantom pains when I think about playing that intro bass line!

Such a mood this tune conveys! Cheers!!

Definitely! Might be a little bit until I return to the Ninja Gaiden 2 soundtrack, but there's a few other tunes from this game I really want to put together, such a great soundtrack!

Great tune! Cheers!!

Thanks! I was just barely able to play the guitar parts on this one way back when I tracked it!

@@thesosomusician Wow you did an amazing job! I can really feel your love for Megaman in this track🐣 even from way back when you first tracked it.

Cheers! I had a blast when I tracked the drums, I jammed to the tune 2-3 times and then just let it rip!

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Both tunes are on the future to do list! I'm probably going to mix it up a bit before returning to mm3, but definitely sooner or later!

Thanks! When I started putting the drum part together, that's when I realized the song was in 7/4, only like 30 years after it came out!

Thanks, the source tune is so well written it was a blast to put this one together and play through it! Cheers!

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Great source song from a fantastic soundtrack, cheers!!

Thanks! I think this tune flew under the radar a bit, but this was fun to recreate the original tune and then expand a bit on it. The SNES FF tunes are particularly memorable to me!

@@thesosomusician congrats, man! I feel/hear some prog death, it's so cool! SNES games have a lot of true musical jewels

Definitely a proggy death metal vibe in what I do, I've been a huge Opeth fan for a bit over 20 years now amongst other bands, it creeps into alot of what I do, especially drumming!

@@thesosomusician I love Opeth too, man! cheers! 🍻 keep on rockin' 🤘 I really enjoy your playing

Thanks! Sometimes these classic nes tunes make me want to kick the gear up higher!

Ha, literally! cheers!!

Cheers!!! Fun jam to put together!

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Thanks! The contrabass built in patch on that keyboard I have as absolutely monstrous, and blends very well with the actual electric bass