Shift in music quality? Redo the old, crappy tracks?

[Alzelia]

I'm a musician, I sing, play guitar and bass, and I record my band. The problem with the electric guitar in the leve music is that it sounds like they used a crappy solid state amp, like a line 6. If they would have played that through my guitar rig, A Gibson SG and a Mesa Nomad amp, it would sound 100 times better!

[Jennestia]

I'm a musician, I sing, play guitar and bass, and I record my band. The problem with the electric guitar in the leve music is that it sounds like they used a crappy solid state amp, like a line 6. If they would have played that through my guitar rig, A Gibson SG and a Mesa Nomad amp, it would sound 100 times better!

It would sound a lot better, even a slight recomposition in LoV RE:2 has better sound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0v_OOPyqXs

It's partially why Nobuo likely wanted to redo some tracks, because it's pretty clear that the original soundtrack could have been much better and he felt the same -- That's the beauty of MMOs, you can even update the soundtrack if you so wish to.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

I'm a musician, I sing, play guitar and bass, and I record my band. The problem with the electric guitar in the leve music is that it sounds like they used a crappy solid state amp, like a line 6. If they would have played that through my guitar rig, A Gibson SG and a Mesa Nomad amp, it would sound 100 times better!

Yes. I was going to mention this, but wanted to go through the comments in the thread first. I don't really think it's so much the tracks, but the quality of them that really cheapens them.

In fact, all of the music that we've got recently are all written by Nobuo, but are rearranged by whoever is doing them now (Don't remember names, I know they're mentioned in this thread and have their own XIV music blog). So, actually some of you are still listening to tracks by Nobuo and don't even know it. This is what Alzelia is basically pointing out. It's not really so much the writing as it is the quality of the recording and the arrangement.

Nobuo written these tracks based on concept and if you look at it like that it might have made more sense. It could have been what you're hearing in concept and not actually what they ultimately shaped the game to be in the end due to all of their ridiculous restrictions with crystal tools. I still think Nobuo is an amazing composer and FFXIV doesn't give him much credit.

Back to the new tracks, the GC track played in that action cut scene is actually this song by Nobuo and just rearranged:

Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...1wI0RuM#t=135s

Rearranged: http://youtu.be/b4Nszi0kigE

This was always the case even with the new chunk of tracks the major patch before this. They were all (Edit: maybe should say most as I haven't confirmed all of them) Nobuo written tracks.