What's up, RMers?

[Kain Nobel]

Steel Beast 6Beats, that's excellent! What were your biggest challenges in creating your project? Is there anything you know now that you wish you knew starting out?

Remi-chan, Definitely looks like a wild ride. What are you using, RPG Maker MV? Great use of resources, great use of cinematics, a little heavy on the dialog but the voice acting is just fine, each character pops with a unique personality. You've got a knack for coming up with names, I especially like Sacreblu (I think that's French for OMG). This character should have a special attack with OMG in the title, like "OMG Beam" (I'm sure you'll come up with something cooler.)

I've been crashing out after work, just exhausted.

Solos have been re-written, so I'll have to re-learn and re-practice. Some were re-written better, some were re-written because they weren't as cut-and-dry to play as I thought they would be. I'm still taking on most of the challenging pieces I've wrote, but a couple pieces just weren't worth the hassle and I believe I came up with something easier and better too. Whatever I can't reliably play consistently without too much mistakes and getting lost, I'm changing up. One solo I really hated to change, but I had to manage notes on 3 strings in rapid succession and one of my dumb fingers kept prematurely muting the notes so I'm moving on and doing something different there. I could still do that solo, but it just isn't the same if those 2 notes terminate too soon.

I've now recorded 5 different versions of "Coastal Mist" with different effects / no effects / clean / subtle distortion and documented which track is using which effects. I figured this was the track to focus on since it requires the most particularly crisp and clear playing; for each chord that is strummed, you must hear the pick 'pling' each note of the entire chord, at least that's how I prefer this particular track.

Once these versions have been listened to enough, this track will set the master tone for "Exploring the Unknown", "Desert Travelers", "Shrouded in Darkness", the revised and expanded "Surfside Groove" and whatever other tracks use "clean" tone.

And finally the last track, "Shattering Skulls" has been written! The rhythm, bass and drums have all been laid out in full, all bridges, choruses and verses, now I just need to decide if there will be a "lead guitar" and the solo needs to be written / practiced.

I'm hoping I can record EVERYTHING this weekend but it looks like I might have other things to do. I need new cables, the ones I have are about a decade old and the signal craps out, which means I'll be out of town for a few hours burning fossil fuels at a premium of $5+ a gallon, yay!