Hey all, I'm back this week with something different! This cover was actually pretty complicated (despite it being rather short). I spent a while looking for good orchestral samples that I could use. After that, I carefully recreated everything by ear. The soloing in the later half isn't quite 100% like the original, but close enough I think. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy the cover! Special thanks to efirehawk for suggesting this song!
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Shoutout to LegalShade for nominating this track! Special thanks also goes out to my friend, Sam, for voting Mabinogi into COVER BATTLEGROUNDS III.
Man, this was real fun to make. I really wanted to stick very close to the original on this one. I also did my best to try and imitate the synths from the original. I was going to do one of the synth parts with the guitar, but it just didn't sound quite right. In the end, I decided to save the lead guitar for the final stretch of the song.
I did however, make some other little additions. I made up the guitar part around 0:26-0:58 because I couldn't quite tell what the guitar was doing in the background of the original. I also made up new/different piano parts as well. I also added in a calm little interlude as well (3:25).
As for the video, my footage of the Glas Ghaibhleann boss fight got mostly borked. So I had to improvise and shot some more footage elsewhere. I decided to go off and do a couple of my favorite pastimes in Mab: Running Rabbie and Ciar Dungeons. Also at some point the video seems to have become about a boy and his bear wrecking everything, but anyways...
Hope you all enjoy the cover, and look forward to the upcoming COVER BATTLEGROUNDS IV!! ~DAR
OGG DOWNLOAD: https://www.mediafire.com/file/qp5bvathfrs2v0f/Mabinogi_-_The_Final_Stand_%5BCover_By_DAR%5D.ogg/file
Gameplay recorded over on the MabiPro private server: https://mabi.pro/
Originally Composed By: HanStone Lee
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This track is one of my absolute favorites from the first DOOM! If you guys couldn't tell, I had a blast making this cover (neck was a bit sore the next day). After recording the main riff and rhythm guitar parts, I couldn't resist playing leads over them. Then after a bit of noodling, I decided I wanted to try and make this song more melodic! Anyways, I hope you all enjoy the cover! ~DAR
MP3 DOWNLOAD:http://www.mediafire.com/download/yp5a3d461l7wd0r/DOOM+-+E3M1+Untitled+%28Hell+Keep%29+[Cover+By+Davester2296Covers].mp3
Next DOOM Cover: "E2M4 - They're Going To Get You": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGAmoDoHDtY
Previous DOOM Cover: "E2M2 - The Demons From Adrian's Pen": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7D5CJNgcU4
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Man, I am SO excited for this. I've had this idea for quite a while now. I've been wanting to introduce Slaughtermania since shortly after the end of CB III! I put together this incredibly cheesy theme song too, back sometime during the summer (back when I was stuck on the FF7 Medley).
With SlaughterSphere acting as the chaotic qualifying event, the action becomes concentrated and more personal later on in SLAUGHTERMANIA!
Anyways, I hope you all look forward to this event!
-So... now, there's just one thing I've gotta ask you all...
WHATCHA' GONNA DO, WHEN THE SLAUGHTERMANIA, RUNS WILD ON YOU, BROTHERS?
~DAR
Crowd sound effect from here: https://youtu.be/tq-Bp_2FOGA
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It's nice being able to play bass parts like this every once in a while. Hey all, the TNT Marathon continues sooner than expected! I didn't think I would have this ready until like Saturday!
As always, I wanted to try and stick closely to the original, with the usual small additions here and there. One small change being that I switched the sidestick sound and used a scratch sound. The sidestick sounds I had available to me, just didn't quite sit right with the mix. So after running the little DJ scratch noises through a few effects, it just sounded right to me.
The other thing I've added as you'll probably hear is the addition of a simple riff played on the rhythm guitar at 1:07 and 2:37 as well as a nice little melody on the lead guitar at 2:37.
Anyways, I hope you all enjoy the cover! ~DAR
MP3 DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/file/s0nulklnh6xvsy0/DOOM%20TNT%20Evilution%20-%20Soldier%20of%20Chaos%20%5BCover%20By%20DAR%5D.mp3
Next DOOM Cover: "TNT Evilution - Infinite": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wShgSRCHCKo
Previous DOOM Cover: "TNT Evilution - Agony Rhapsody": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfIKtWVmVtE
Originally Composed By: Team TNT, Jonathan El-Bizri, Josh Martel
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Hey all, I'm back this week with the Overview theme from MiG-29 Fulcrum! I was going to try and make it as close to the original as I could. However, about halfway through the week, I realized I couldn't get it to sound quite right. So I started from scratch again, and decided to make more of a, "rock version" of it. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy! Once again, special thanks to efirehawk for suggesting this song! ~DAR
MP3 DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/download/ls8c7yw4ocskg2w/MiG-29+Fulcrum+-+Overview+Theme+%5BRock+Cover+By+DAR%5D.mp3
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Oh man, you guys have no idea how long I've wanted to cover THIS song! This has been on my Covers To-Do List since all the way back when it was just a humble .txt file. I'm so happy to finally be able to cover this after almost 6 years!
Big thanks goes out to all whom have been voting for Metroid in previous COVER BATTLEGROUNDS! Also shoutout to longtime subscriber "6usfsd adsfe" whom also suggested this song back 2.5 years ago during the first Cover Battlegrounds. Hope this one has been worth the wait! It certainly was for me, I remember just sitting at the start-screen and listening to this song all the time back when I was a kid. Metroid Prime was also my first Gamecube game (and yet to this day, I still haven't actually played it all the way through! Ironic really...)
In some ways, I'm actually glad it took me this long to finally get the opportunity to cover this track. I feel like with all the tricks and experience I've picked up over the years, I'm really confident in feeling that I was able to do this track justice.
As always, I really really wanted to try my best to keep true to the feel and spirit of the original. I wanted to maintain that spacey and electronic element, but I also wanted to inject some nice heavy rock/metal elements too.
First thing I really wanted to get down was the "radio" sort of sound effect. Of course after poking around, I came to realize the crackling and whatnot is supposed to be the sound of the Phazon material. I managed to luck out and find an audio-rip of the game and used the Phazon clip in there (link to the rip is towards the bottom here). I figured I'd take the geiger-counter-sounding sample and try to run it through some granualizer. After a bit of fiddling and using an arpeggiator, I got it sounding pretty computer/radio-like. However in the end, I wound up just combining and layering all three sounds together; the modified sample, the original sample, and even the sound from the original song!
One of the things I always loved from the original was that guitar power-chord (with flanger) part that kicks in throughout the song. At first, I was also going to throw a flanger on to my guitar track, but I decided, "no, it needs to HIT HARDER!". This was a job that not even a distorted guitar could satisfy! I had to bust out the BIG bass and crunch... the DC Murda Bazz synth/plugin (first came across this lovely thing back when I did my original song, "Get Gored"). After getting a nice, powerful, and dirty synth kick/bass, I layered that sucker underneath (or on top??) of the guitar. Then I threw on some other effects on to the guitar and automated them a little. Finding myself nodding along vigorously at this development, I pressed on to the other elements.
For some reason, I felt compelled to try adding some double-tapped guitar parts. Maybe its because I'm still real excited about finally being able to get that sort of tapping sound now. I really enjoyed how the part wound up sounding, as well as how it looks when played in the video!
I also really enjoyed thumping out the bass parts for this cover as well! To back track for a moment, after adding that hairy synth kick/bass, I felt like "no, it needs MOOOORE!", so that's why I went and plugged in my bass. Gave it a nice thump, but I felt like spicing things up a little... Before I knew it, I was already slapping out this almost Doomy sounding bassline!
Anyways, I hope you all enjoy the cover as much as I enjoyed making it! Also, it took incredible restraint to not go ahead and also cover the Menu Theme as well. It was sooo tempting, but I wanted to keep things fair for Cover Battlegrounds. Prime's Menu Theme is DEFINITELY going to be the next Metroid cover that this channel gets! ~DAR
OPUS DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/file/x67sjhsp1vyc70m/Metroid+Prime+-+Title+Theme+[Cover+By+DAR].opus/file
Special thanks to knarkleo for ripping and uploading game-audio: https://www.sounds-resource.com/gamecube/metroidprime/sound/3672/
Originally Composed By: Kenji Yamamoto (山本 健誌)
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Oh man, I've been really looking forward to covering this one!
Many thanks goes out to Ren for bringing this wonderful piece to my attention =).
I'll keep things short here in the description since I'll be posting a time-lapsed "Behind-The-Scenes" video of what goes into making covers like this one.
I also came across a nice MIDI Visualizer by kosua20. I've been wanting to find something like it for a while now to use in my videos, especially for fairly fast synths.
Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this cover! ~DAR
MP3 DOWNLOAD: https://www.mediafire.com/file/372hnm68pegdg16/Magical_Chase_-_Waltz_of_Meditation_part2_%5BCover_By_DAR%5D.mp3/file
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Originally Composed By: Hitoshi Sakimoto (崎元 仁)
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It's time, you guys... Let us all join together with Doomguy in his macho powerwalk towards the final showdown!
So, at first I got stuck trying to figure out what sound to go for with the synth. My usual choices just didn't quite sit well with everything else going on in the song. Eventually I decided to try a new sound using a different synth in combination with a harp.
Also, since the choirs were well received in the previous cover, I decided this one could definitely use the addition of some choirs and strings as well!
I followed closely to the original for the first half or so, and then changed up the lead guitar parts for the second half, while the harp and synth play the original melody that we're all familiar with.
Speaking of which, I don't know what it is about this song, but there's something that sounds familiar. Even though I don't think I ever played any Final DOOM back in the day, I still feel a sense of nostalgia when I hear this particular song.
I also had fun putting together the little "animated" sequences, using the sprites.
Also, my apologies that this took a while to upload. I actually spent around half that time working on a map, in preparation for a special surprise cover later down the line.
Anyways, with another TNT cover down, there's only one more to go, and I think we ALL know what is to come next. As always, I hope you all enjoy the video, and look forward to the upcoming grand finale! ~DAR
MP3 DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/file/1az4inugn7x33au/DOOM%20TNT%20Evilution%20-%20Into%20the%20Beast%27s%20Belly%20%5BCover%20By%20DAR%5D.mp3
Next DOOM Cover: "TNT Evilution - Legion of the Lost": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qaTORfxDSc
Previous DOOM Cover: "TNT Evilution - Death's Bells": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVvdy7-vRtk
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-Originally Composed By: Leo "L.A" Sieben
-Doomguy sprites taken from BrutalDoom: https://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom
-FINAL DOOMER +: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=55061&sid=9d38755e52f2335199416cd06e4c0073
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 PSX DOOM Ending Parody
0:38 Intro
1:52 Voting for the next marathon
3:12 Hail to the King, Baby! Duke's in the poll
4:17 Cover Battlegrounds pushed back to January
4:42 Future Plans
4:49 The "Decade Of DAR" Continues. "New Genesis" & "HORIZONS" remakes
8:36 Mini-marathon for Raptor: Call of the Shadows
9:20 Unused Tracks from the Plutonia MIDI Pack
9:47 TWO surprise Doom covers coming this month!
10:30 Covering stuff from Freelancer
11:06 Shoutout to MatrixSektor and "The Nomad Legacy" mod
12:23 Revisiting certain covers for distribution & streaming services
12:39 "One Doomed Space Marine Vol. 1"
13:13 DAR rants about licensing and getting covers distributed
15:07 Derivative licenses
16:30 Miko Mayhem!: a new music side-project!
19:02 Getting back into vocal synths
20:25 Dreamtonics' "Synthesizer V" vocal synth
21:41 DAR Covers "Anamanaguchi - Miku (oo ee oo)"
27:05 "Everyone needs a Cloud Keiko!" -Vilison 2024
27:42 DAR explains the "deep" OC lore of the band.
30:03 Projekt Yggdrasil updates
44:04 Wrapping up
The DARchive (Public MEGA folder): https://mega.nz/folder/JCcixShI#UXsnld42H1_r2M3Tc3q7Qw
Freelancer - The Nomad Legacy: https://freelancer2.space/en/
Vilisons Productions: https://www.youtube.com/@vilisonsproductions2926/featured
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