Passion & Pride

I'm going to have a hard time not seeing that now, thank you for that.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remaster

Image is vertically stretched, so no surprise.

 

Update on CD, it's currently stuck in fucking customs as I foretold.

UK customs is getting ridiculous now, as if increasing the price of stamps and postage wasn't enough, they'll stop anything coming into this country via EMS and slap a fee on as they lick their lips and rub their grubby hands together.

Fucking Parcelforce.

 

I meant the It Doesn't Matter remix. I already got the songs off Amazon and listened to them in my post.

 

Thanks for the update, don't stress about it we all know the customs in any country are fucking assholes.

 

Actually, it's pretty fun listening to the growth and progression of Sonic music, especially as it ages. I have three examples of one song that highlight the changes.


Let's look at the often re-used Seaside Hill Zone from Sonic Heroes. I won't be using the Generations mixes because those are almost entirely separate demons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LKzPxAJ0AQ
So, here we have it in its E3 Xbox prototype variant from 2003. Aside from some mastering, you can tell the drums are from a synthesizer.

Here is its finalized version. Note the percussion changed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-jWLyQu3MY
Years later, it got changed up yet again in Mario and Sonic 2012. This time, the percussion and bass changed (has a nice little slap bass going on) and you can hear additional (Sonic 4!) synths in the background. Also, it removes the barren second half of the song. Never did understand why Seaside Hill and Sea Gate did that originally.

And of course, let me take this opportunity to SHAMELESSLY PLUG that you can grab the Sonic Heroes prototype soundtracks we uploaded a few years back here. If anything, it's always fun to see how songs develop. The earlier prototype has some very different tunes.

 

The music of the franchise has always been about progression, IMO. While it definitely has evolved, you can still hear touches of past musical styles in the modern tracks. For example, Dragon Road Night and Quartz Quadrant wouldn't sound out of place in the same game. Even Colors had a soundtrack reminiscent of the Sonic CD/Saturn era in my opinion.

That being said, I can't wait to hear the remastered tracks. Gives me a reason to revisit Unknown from M.E again :v:

 

No, variable mixing doesn't happen in Seaside Hill Zone. It's really that long a song. You're welcome to go make some of the characters go stand around for a bit.

 

It's great to hear the Sonic Adventure songs as instrumentals for the first time.

I think this is also the first time we've heard the Sonic Adventure 2 songs without background vocals.

 

It's not. The SA2 vocal album when the game originally released had instrumentals as well.

 

Not entirely; the SA2 vocal album technically had "karaoke" versions of the SA2 themes. Many of the themes retained snippets of their backing vocals (To help people pace themselves with the song, I'd imagine.)

 

I know its already out digitally but are you still doing a CD rip Soniko?

 

Considering that the album is easily available digitally, I'm not sure if we'd allow that.

 

We've certainly come a long way from 2009, when mods were actively advertising my rips on the front page of the site. :v:/>

 

Well, I'm not a mod so I can't really tell you guys if you should or should not put the album up on here. But like I said, considering how easy it is to buy these albums now, I'm not sure if we'd allow it. Especially considering we recently had someone who worked on one of the games come here to complain about it. :v:

 

Then how about just person to person via PMs? whoever is interested can just PM Soniko, that way its not publicly on the boards.

Wat? when was this?!