Currently listening to it. It's not bad though I have a few issues.
Underneath the Rotting Pizza's guitars are a bit too overbearing. It sounds a bit too dramatic rather than oppressive.
Still More Fighting on the other hand needs more rock.
I feel like JENOVA needs to be more electronic rather than orchestral.
Also, pet peeve of mine: Remastering refers to the enhancement/creation of a new master of an existing recording rather than a re-recording or rearrangement.
Yeah, I can agree that there are a few issues.
I've yet to find a single remade/remixed/rearranged track that hits full marks on everything (and I doubt that can be done universally in either case due to perceptions amongst fans being different), but this guy scores the highest yet (and I count official SE ones among the competition here).
I felt that Jenova's brass was to low on the mix, and that its percussion sounded a bit weak/low in the mix (that's a problem in general in all the fighting themes he's covered so far).
This is hard to get right though, because most other covers/remixes etc I hear go completely over-board on those instead, which I feel damages the dynamics of the songs (loudness war trends and all that =P). At least in his variation, if you apply an equalizer you can somehow make up for this, and it's still pretty solid because the tracks all come through so well.
The same can't for most of the other covers that go all out ballistic on the bass and percussion.
I would keep to standardized music terms if I was on a different board, but in this context I just went instinctively with what I recognize is the easiest for people to get without getting confused =P
In my experience, lay-people use remaster instead of re-recording, re-arrangement or remix because it viscerally sounds like there is less change except in terms of audio-fidelity and instrumental quality as opposed to these others which sound like they entail compositional changes as well (granted some of these tracks do change the composition to an extent as well).
Personally, I'd feel that re-recording and re-arrangement might be misleading in the context of certain game soundtrack covers because A.) they're not usually recorded, they're digitally made using high-fidelity VSTs, and
B.) they're not really re-arranging much of anything, since they're running the original midi through the VST with a higher quality corresponding instrument that the midi section was initially meant to emulate.
This guy is re-arranging things though, so you're point stands regardless. Just didn't want to give the impression that I'm thoughtlessly propagating bad language =P
EDIT :
Perhaps, thinking about it now, the best term to go with would be "cover", although that does have some baggage of primarily being associated with band-music.
