RWBY: I'm the One - Orchestral Metal Remix

A symphonic metal cover of Emerald and Mercury's theme.
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Getting the male vocal right on this took some doing, with the ones in the original all being shouted, something which the synth can't replicate, and trying to do it in the same range with regular singing just sounded plain bad. To get around that, I started to transpose them down by a octave, which worked for the verse, but not for the chorus, as they sounded too low an 8ve down. Instead, I moved those notes down by a 5th, give or take a semitone depending on the chords. The thing I couldn't make work, is the pre-chorus, where the notes couldn't be moved at all without interfering with the other voices, owing to the weirdo chord that works in one arrangement, and only one arrangement.
I also reworked some of the lyrics to make them less syllable-heavier, as well as the line "scars that don't heal", since scars are healed by definition.
The guitars this time, I mostly left unchanged, as most of it consists of the song's most recognisable riff. The most notable change come in the chorus, where I moved things around to be heavier. For orchestration, I didn't do a whole lot here, as adding much more than was already in the original would quickly push things into "too busy" territory.
Time spent working on the track: 30 hours.
Credits:
Composed by Jeff Williams.
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[@Ostentatiousnessness]

There was a coarseness to this that I originally found off putting but the more I’ve listened to it the more that I’ve come to love it.

[@serspritztomb]

I’m the one sounds like the local band i’d hear in a local bar and i love this song so much lmao

[@RubenZGaming]

This is one of my Favorite RWBY soundtracks, Glad this was made! 🤩

[@Meuxso]

Nice :) One of my favorite tracks from RWBY

[@NailikNoteworks]

Thank you. :D
I didn't like this one initially, but it grew on me with time.

[@Khak1]

nice cover!

[@bloody0perator]

but there's 2 of them

[@NailikNoteworks]

Don't worry about that. :p