Greetings fellow humans! Recently I was playing around with the idea of remastering some songs from a favorite game of mine. I figured I'd go ahead with that plan. It's going to be a challenging task, but it's something I really want to do. The main challenges are:

1) Transcribing

I'm still fairly new to transcribing, so that makes it a bit of a challenge. Some things are hard to hear in some of the songs (that may not be entirely due to my skill level).

2) Arranging & Instrumentation

In one particular song it sounds like the acoustic guitar is going down to a D1 and the lowest string is generally tuned to E1. The way I handled it was just to use the D and octave above (D2). I suppose the guitar could be tuned to Dropped D...

 

In regards to the instrumentation, I'm not 100% sure what some of the instruments are. No doubt I can figure it out by asking someone or just finding something that sounds close to what I hear. That's another thing: I may not have access to all the instruments used. I don't think that will be a problem, though.

 

Something else that I'm unsure about is the synthesized and processed instruments. Some of the instruments used are synths. In some of the songs, they are a really important part to the overall song. I haven't decided whether I'm going to try to recreate the synth or use a combination of instruments that comes close to the sound or something like that. Or maybe just exclude the synthesized insturment altogether (which I probably won't do). I'm really a beginner when it comes to using synths, so recreating those sounds could be a real challenge. I'll have to think hard about what to do. What do you guys and gals think? It's sort of the same with the processed instruments. For example, there's a processed kick drum (it sounds like the highs and mids are removed) in the Prarie/Grassland theme (where you first go after getting out of Hellena Prison). I'm not sure if I should also process the kick drum or just have it unprocessed. I guess if I want to try to stay true to the originals, then I should process instruments as they are in the original music... provided I can figure out all of the processing used!

 

I honestly don't plan on doing too much in terms of arranging. I want to keep things as close to the original as possible when I can. I do, however, plan on doing an arrange album of sorts somewhere down the line ;). That's when I'll stray from originals a bit more, especially when it comes to the processed instruments and maybe the synthensized ones, too.

But yeah. I'm not sure how many songs I will do or which ones I will do. Okay, I do already have an idea of some of the songs I want to do xD But I don't want to make any promises! I'm already jumping the gun in revealing my plans! I need to think about how I want to release the tracks, also. I've got a few things to consider! I think I know how I am going to do it, though. I'll keep that a secret for now ;).

Let me know what you think about all of this!

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