Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Originally composed by: Yukifumi Makino / Masato Nakamura
Arranged by: Triple B Music
Lead Guitars/Rhythm Guitars/Bass performed by: Triple B Music
Screams performed by: Carson Ryan, @Sumask21 , Triple B Music
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Hey y'all, time for my first cover of 2025! I did this for January's Dwelling of Duels, which is Brevity month like every year (60 seconds or less!), but this year it was Sonic-themed specifically. I decided to do a cover of the drowning and game over themes that originated in the first game, but have appeared numerous times since then.
I went for the "drowning and also having a stroke" joke by having the time signature change every bar, at least for the first section. After that, the meters get shorter and shorter and slightly faster to mimic the original jingle getting faster. I also invited Sumask who I've worked with many times, and my bandmate Carson to do some screams to make it sound extra chaotic and brutal. I did a couple as well, but I don't even really know how to scream, so mine are *very* distorted and buried in the mix haha.
I also tagged on the game over theme since I figured it would work well coming directly from the drowning theme. I ended up making yet another game over cover that has slide guitar doing the main melody, maybe that's a theme I'll have to continue incorporating lol. Anyway hope you enjoy this short one! I have a normal-length cover coming very shortly too, once I get the video from my collaborators on that one!
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Instruments/Tunings used:
Ibanez GS205 Bass (Bb Eb Ab Db Gb)
Ibanez RGMS8 (F Bb Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
Sterling JP100 (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
M-Audio Keystation 88 (it's a keyboard)
Gear used:
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (3rd Gen) Audio Interface
Gruv Gear Fret Wraps
Shure SM57 Mic
Software/Plugins Used:
Cubase 12 Artist
EZ Drummer 2 (Drumkit From Hell extension)
Halion Sonic SE
Retrologue 2
AmpliTube 4
IVG2 (Saturation)
Waves C6 Multi-band Compressor
Scheps 73 EQ
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro
Pixlr
Visuals made using musicvid.org and by creators:
caseif - Particles & vis.js
caseif.net
Incept - Particles & vis.js
https://incept.online/
Originally composed by: Yukifumi Makino / Masato Nakamura
Arranged by: Triple B Music
Lead Guitars/Rhythm Guitars/Bass performed by: Triple B Music
Screams performed by: Carson Ryan, @Sumask21 , Triple B Music
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Hey y'all, time for my first cover of 2025! I did this for January's Dwelling of Duels, which is Brevity month like every year (60 seconds or less!), but this year it was Sonic-themed specifically. I decided to do a cover of the drowning and game over themes that originated in the first game, but have appeared numerous times since then.
I went for the "drowning and also having a stroke" joke by having the time signature change every bar, at least for the first section. After that, the meters get shorter and shorter and slightly faster to mimic the original jingle getting faster. I also invited Sumask who I've worked with many times, and my bandmate Carson to do some screams to make it sound extra chaotic and brutal. I did a couple as well, but I don't even really know how to scream, so mine are *very* distorted and buried in the mix haha.
I also tagged on the game over theme since I figured it would work well coming directly from the drowning theme. I ended up making yet another game over cover that has slide guitar doing the main melody, maybe that's a theme I'll have to continue incorporating lol. Anyway hope you enjoy this short one! I have a normal-length cover coming very shortly too, once I get the video from my collaborators on that one!
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Please check out my other web spaces here:
https://linktr.ee/triple_b_music
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SEND ME A TIP! -- ko-fi.com/triplebmusic
or
BUY ME A COFFEE! -- buymeacoffee.com/triplebmusic
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Find my music in other places! (only stuff that can be licensed):
Tidal: store.tidal.com/ca/artist/20854596
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/1fcBr9aQZNQHOYPnT2ER1P
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/triple-b-music/1526866996
YouTube Music: music.youtube.com/channel/UCFm-MGvvdvTTi_PbU42BASg
Amazon: music.amazon.ca/artists/B08FSTVQ98/triple-b-music?refMarker=null
Instruments/Tunings used:
Ibanez GS205 Bass (Bb Eb Ab Db Gb)
Ibanez RGMS8 (F Bb Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
Sterling JP100 (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
M-Audio Keystation 88 (it's a keyboard)
Gear used:
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (3rd Gen) Audio Interface
Gruv Gear Fret Wraps
Shure SM57 Mic
Software/Plugins Used:
Cubase 12 Artist
EZ Drummer 2 (Drumkit From Hell extension)
Halion Sonic SE
Retrologue 2
AmpliTube 4
IVG2 (Saturation)
Waves C6 Multi-band Compressor
Scheps 73 EQ
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro
Pixlr
Visuals made using musicvid.org and by creators:
caseif - Particles & vis.js
caseif.net
Incept - Particles & vis.js
https://incept.online/
![STILT VILLAGE - DONKEY KONG COUNTRY 3 [GBA] || Prog Rock/Post-Rock](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GRQjN9FpJHw/mqdefault.jpg "STILT VILLAGE - DONKEY KONG COUNTRY 3 [GBA] || Prog Rock/Post-Rock
Originally composed by: David Wise
Arranged by: Triple B Music
All Guitars/Bass/Keyboards/Vocals/Snaps Performed by: Triple B Music
Hey yall, I got another long arrangement for you! This was for David Wise month over at Dwelling of Duels this November. No video performance this time; I felt like because of the length and the fairly long sections with not much going on, a visualizer was best for this one.
Im really proud of this one, not just because of how good I feel I did, but because it also represents another shift in my usual sound. The arrangement is fairly similar to other longer tracks Ive done, with starting pretty low-key, developing into a bigger-ish section, dropping back down, coming back in for the heaviest section, and then dropping off again at the end to send it off. But I did a lot to customize my guitar/bass tones and especially the drum sound this time around to better suit what I had in mind for the track, rather than just going with my usual presets and only tweaking them slightly. The drum part I also wrote pretty differently, going for a much less metally, double-kicky kind of approach and going for more of a heavy post-rock kind of sound. With listening to a lot more music this year thats different from what I used to for a long time, I wanted to incorporate some of that into my music more, and while that showed up a bit in my recent covers, this one shows it a lot more.
I also did a lot of work on production during the arranging phase this time around rather than saving for right before mixing, and I think it really affected the vibe of the track and how I recorded more parts later. I did things like using water sounds in the intro, middle and end (referencing the water sounds in the original of course! :D ), utilizing the cutoff/resonance filters on my synth sound, among other parameters, and doing a weird unintelligible whispered thing in the middle. Dont ask me how I thought of that, it just came to me and decided its what the part needed lol.
With all that to say, I hope you enjoy this one! I think its best enjoyed on headphones because of the extremes in dynamics. Btw, I left some intentional Deftones and Big Wreck references in the music, let me know if/when you catch them! ;P
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Amazon: https://music.amazon.ca/artists/B08FSTVQ98/triple-b-music?refMarker=null
Instruments/Tunings used:
Ibanez GS205 Bass (A D A D G)
Ibanez RGMS8 (E A D A D G B E)
Sterling JP100 (D G C F A D)
M-Audio Keystation 88 (its a keyboard)
Gear used:
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (3rd Gen) Audio Interface
Gruv Gear Fret Wraps
MXL 440 Mic
MXL 441 Mic
Software/Plugins Used:
Cubase 12 Artist
EZ Drummer 2 (Drumkit From Hell extension)
Halion Sonic SE
Retrologue 2
AmpliTube 4
IVG2 (Saturation)
Melodyne 5
Waves C6 Multi-band Compressor
Scheps 73 EQ
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro
Pixlr
MusicVid.Org (visualizer)")
![Battle 2 - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest [feat. @DisposedHeroVGM & @Sumask21 ] || Metal Cover](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NxgGny_JZGk/mqdefault.jpg "Battle 2 - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest [feat. @DisposedHeroVGM & @Sumask21 ] || Metal Cover
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Ive been planning on doing this one for months! Im glad I finally got a chance to do it, and I also got my friends DisposedHeroVGM and Sumask to lend their talents for it, so special thanks to them for doing some excellent shredding on this one!
Ive had the idea for how I wanted to arrange this cover for a few months, so that part went by pretty quickly. The main part I knew I wanted to do for sure is the long ending part, that is really just the riff from the last section of the original song, but slowed down and transposed down from B minor to F# minor. I based that whole section on the end of a couple Dream Theater songs (namely The Dark Eternal Night and S2N) that have this sludgy riff going by with a keyboard solo on top. This one ended up being some keyboard and guitar, but I think I still pulled off that kind of vibe pretty well (with Sumasks help of course!)
This is the second video Ive done with my green screen, and Im still not entirely sure about whether I like it or not. Im definitely not super good at using it properly yet; theres some unavoidable artifacts in the video (mostly just small outlines and the very edges of my instruments disappearing a tiny bit), but its still very watchable. I also tried using my webcam for recording instead of my phone, although Ill probably go back to my phone because the quality is a bit better, and Ill probably have better results with the green screen now that I know how to film it better than the first time. Trying to edit myself into the rooms of my contributors who dont use green screens was also an interesting and fun challenge!
This is also the first video I made using my new computer! Its been amazing so far, with very few of the hiccups, lag, and general slowness of my previous laptop. I was actually able to watch the preview of my video in the video editor!
DisposedHeroVGM - https://www.youtube.com/c/DisposedHeroVGM
Sumask - https://www.youtube.com/c/Sumask21
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Also on YouTube Music and Amazon Music! (cant seem to find working links for those...)
Originally composed by: Ryuji Sasai
Instruments/Tunings used:
Ibanez GS205 Bass (B E A D G)
Hart 8-String (F# B E A D G B E)
Sterling JP100 (E A D G B E)
Gear used:
Steinberg Cl1 Audio Interface
Geekoto Studio Lights
Logitech C920 Webcam
Geekoto AT24Pro Dreamer Tripod
Gruv Gear Fret Wraps
Software/Plugins Used:
Cubase 7 Artist
EZ Drummer 2 (Drumkit From Hell extension)
AmpliTube 4
IVG2 (Saturation)
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro
Pixlr
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Don Burk
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