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Old January 21, 2007, 2:00 PM
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Old January 30, 2007, 6:38 PM
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I have now completed what I hope to be the final rendition of Fool's Gold. I've been working on this theme so much for the past few weeks that it's all starting to become a blur. Many, many nights I've found myself staying up until 5:00 in the morning making change after change to the theme to try and finally get it perfect. I think I've finally gotten as close to that perfection as I can.

In the end, I settled on a different feel for the theme than I originally planned on. I originally wanted it close to Murray's series one theme, but now I've decided that I wanted it a little more like a cross between the album version and the original unused version of the theme -- something a bit darker than anything we've heard on the show. To achieve that, I replaced the staccato string arpeggios with lower, darker cellos instead of the higher violas, and I put in several new kinds of strong, booming percussion, as well as reducing the snares in volume. I've also brought up a few of the synth components in volume, and changed the structure of the theme slightly to incorporate a section from Murray's album version. I hope you'll agree that I've achieved a result such as I intended!

Anyway, without further ado, here is the final version (hopefully) of Fool's Gold!

http://www.dannystewart.com/music/foolsgold_album.mp3

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Final? Bah! What am I going to criticize now?

I know, the strings! They aren't loud enough!

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Old January 31, 2007, 3:20 AM
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And that's how I want them.
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Old January 31, 2007, 5:17 AM
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VERY nice alterations, you've altered the pattern of which it goes, and it fits in marvelously, great work
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Old January 31, 2007, 5:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Danny Stewart View Post
And that's how I want them.
I criticize because everyone else will more than make up for it with praise

Someone has to keep you on your toes
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I suppose I could give you some criticism on one bit...erm....the quality! 192 is shoddy, ram it up to 320.
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Old February 1, 2007, 4:05 PM
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I suppose I could give you some criticism on one bit...erm....the quality! 192 is shoddy, ram it up to 320.
I can do better than that! I'm gonna upload that whole sucker as FLAC!
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Old February 1, 2007, 4:28 PM
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Old February 1, 2007, 5:49 PM
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I can do better than that! I'm gonna upload that whole sucker as FLAC!
I'm taking Flack! I'm taking heavy FLAC!
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Old February 2, 2007, 2:07 AM
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Yes, Jez. Have your fun while you can.

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Stupendous! I watched the youtube videos you had with it but I always wanted to hear the clean version. Til now it never donned on me to check here. xD

Haven't heard the album version yet but the closing version is stuck well in my head. And that's a good thing. Keep up the great work!
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Old March 29, 2007, 5:23 AM
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Ah, the closing version is vastly inferior. Check out my newest version here:

http://www.dannystewart.com/music/foolsgold.mp3

I stopped updating all versions but the album version months back.
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Old March 29, 2007, 9:23 AM
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Wow, you're right! Stupendous! Once more it is stuck in my head quite well now. (And that's a good thing.)
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Old March 29, 2007, 9:33 AM
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Thanks! I may do a bit more work on it before calling it done. I'm thinking about adding a choir section to it...
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Danny, Fools Gold is *really* good and I love it.

I don't know if you've already made them available anywhere, but there are two "versions" of it that I'd love to have.....

Namely, the opening version and closing version you put on YouTube.....

The closing version is the one that you put over the end of Father's Day, so the shorter mix that matches the length of the actual closing theme.

If there are copies of those available that would be amazing.
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Old May 30, 2007, 11:46 AM
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Haha, I have so many versions of Fool's Gold on my hard drive it's hard to keep track. Actually, let me go and count them...

As of this post, I have 25 exported WAV versions of Fool's Gold sitting on my hard drive, some of them dating back to when I started this mix (December 2006), and some dating from last week, which is the last time I updated the mix. I've done a lot with this version of the theme. I have versions ranging from v1 to v3f, an experimental v4 that was ultimately never used, and then my current version, which is version 2.5.1 (don't ask how I somehow went backwards in the version numbering).

Here's the complete file listing:
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version - No Mastering.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version 2.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version Album Version.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version v2.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version v2 - Electronic.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version v2 - Electronic with Derbyshire.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version v2 - Orchestral.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version v2 (1).wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version v2 Background.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version v3.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version v3a.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version v3b.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version v3c.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version v3d.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version v3e.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Album Version v3f.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Closing v2.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Closing v2.5.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Condensed Closing v2.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Extended v2.5.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Extended v2.5.1.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Opening v2.5.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold Opening v3f.wav
Doctor Who - Fool's Gold v4.wav

I have opening and closing variations that are newer than what was posted on YouTube, but I also have Series 1 style and Series 2 style closing masters that aren't included in the list above -- those are the ones that were used in the YouTube videos and are now, in fact, obsolete. I would be happy to post my newest versions on the site when I have a chance.
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