Cover of the song The Massacre by FantomenK

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/315202

This is an alternate mix of the cover I made for the N G A P 10th Anniversary Contest!.

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1335917/1

Original is here

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/530450

Because I got the fifth place I received a lot of feedback from the judges Step, Buoy, SkyeWintrest and ZStriefel. They were overall positive, but the downsides I heard most were there was too much high frequencies, too little low, and too much distortion and compression. My music teacher Jan-Willem van der Graaf and fellow Newgrounds musician Wandschrank gave similar comments.

Personally I didn't mind, because I think the rumbling bass was a bit of a hype musicians depart from nowadays. (Compare the first Justice album to the second). High is the new low. So instead of the rumbling base of the original song I went for a screaming high. Perhaps I pushed it a little too far (complaints about painful ears occurred, and the distorted highs were compared to a frying pan), but I think it worked for this song, and gave a new fresh attention demanding sound.

But to show my gratitude towards the many comments I received, I give you an alternate mix for the faint of ear. One with more bass, less treble, less distortion, compression side-chaining etc. Because of this it's also less loud. "No gain no pain" (That's how I wanted to call this mix, "The Genocide (no gain no pain mix)" but it didn't fit in the title). I also changed the ending a little, because SkyeWintrest didn't like the looped sound (which I of course also did intentionally to give it more impact). Also I made the slap bass less detuned, and made several other minor changes.

Let me know which version you like best.

[Edit April 28th: Even more bass, less high. String break removed. Synth lead less bass to make more room for slap bass. Louder base and snaredrum. High hats slightly less loud. Intro less loud to make the part after less anticlimactic. More distortion on strings and orchestra hits because it needed it.]

[Edit April 29th: Placed the instruments further apart in terms of panning, to make a less cluttered sound (as ZStriefel called it). Put a detuner on the bass again, and made the sound wider, especially in the low end. Made the stereo imagers on the mastering more subtle to get a less smeared sound.]