june contest ... GOSSIP

[respirator]

Respirator - Biggest Hit:

This song says it all A formula song all about the formula I can hear Arnold Schwarzenegger singing this for his next governor's campaign Well done with a good mix and well paced. I like it

Well, thank you. I'll now consider sending it to Arnies campaign. Arnie for President!

[xander]

Why not?

[M'Snah]

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M'Snah aka HansM - Popstar

Mate! Boy your mixing has radically improved lately! Really clean and full of sunshine! Love the intro and then the fall into the pop dance beat. I'd like to hear the bongos up in gain a tad, but a very good spread in the mix otherwise. (That your daughter there? ) I lkie it very much mate!
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Thanks . (I know I almost begged for a review ).
No not my daughter, but Rephrased Natural Voices (just like the 2nd voice in the sung loops). My daughter isn't completely ready for being recorded, she's 10, so she wants to, but then she's in front of the mic and then she doesn't want to ... etc.
Thanks for the mixing compliment. I haven't even tried playing with EQ yet, just panning everything into it's on place. And paying a lot more attention to 32bit -> 16bit mp3 conversion...
The bongos/congas: I had them louder at first, but the loop also contained some of the musicians talking . I shouldn't buy those cheap samples

[xander]

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M'Snah aka HansM - Popstar

Mate! Boy your mixing has radically improved lately! Really clean and full of sunshine! Love the intro and then the fall into the pop dance beat. I'd like to hear the bongos up in gain a tad, but a very good spread in the mix otherwise. (That your daughter there? ) I lkie it very much mate!
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Thanks . (I know I almost begged for a review ).
No not my daughter, but Rephrased Natural Voices (just like the 2nd voice in the sung loops). My daughter isn't completely ready for being recorded, she's 10, so she wants to, but then she's in front of the mic and then she doesn't want to ... etc.
Thanks for the mixing compliment. I haven't even tried playing with EQ yet, just panning everything into it's on place. And paying a lot more attention to 32bit -> 16bit mp3 conversion...
The bongos/congas: I had them louder at first, but the loop also contained some of the musicians talking . I shouldn't buy those cheap samples

Mighty nice samples for sure then

I hear ya on the 32 to 16 bit conversion. There's a lot to learn there with dithering as well. For me, it has taken a lot more study but even so, I wish there was a button that said: "Publish"

[Emerald Tablet]

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M'Snah aka HansM - Popstar

Mate! Boy your mixing has radically improved lately! Really clean and full of sunshine! Love the intro and then the fall into the pop dance beat. I'd like to hear the bongos up in gain a tad, but a very good spread in the mix otherwise. (That your daughter there? ) I lkie it very much mate!
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Thanks . (I know I almost begged for a review ).
No not my daughter, but Rephrased Natural Voices (just like the 2nd voice in the sung loops). My daughter isn't completely ready for being recorded, she's 10, so she wants to, but then she's in front of the mic and then she doesn't want to ... etc.
Thanks for the mixing compliment. I haven't even tried playing with EQ yet, just panning everything into it's on place. And paying a lot more attention to 32bit -> 16bit mp3 conversion...
The bongos/congas: I had them louder at first, but the loop also contained some of the musicians talking . I shouldn't buy those cheap samples

hahaha my doughter does the same thing - and than she wants me to make the music but i just can`t make aqua like songs which is what she likes to hear

hey your doughter is 10 to ! she can start a girl band with my doughter! my doughter always complains about me and my music. I like to listen to jazz. Which happens to be the only music my doughter dislikes to the bone, well at least i managed to convince her singing 20 notes in one sentence like you hear in rnb is grossly theatrical, especially when you write the notes in the sky with your forefinger

so now i make her listen to astrud Gilberto to give her a sense of what singing dry notes without frazing sounds like, after all you can only play with pitch if you have a clear sense of tone and only play with "offbeat" if you have a clear sense of "beat" for now her singing is still undeliberately offbeat and dissonant

[grotman]

...audioshots is a great service totally anything but useless, excellent place to check out hordes of tunes,beta fx basically the same and more musos from kvr than you can shake yer cloven hoofs at, it even looks similar. No Spam ever no privacy risk nada just a good site, that until now or just recently was a perfectly reasonable source to host tunes for a kvr contest, i wasn't actually in the know that this had changed so i reckon that rates the entry as kosha....

grotman, I think you may have missed the point. slartibartfast wasn't slagging Audioshots, he was just pointing out that he didn't feel like signing up for any more online services than he absolutely needs. I agree. I pay for my web access and presence so I plan to use it as much as possible. I've registered with so many websites, I can hardly keep track of all the logins, passwords and terms. It's not a matter of how free or how safe it is; it's just not what I need right now. I have barely enough time to keep up with what little of KvR I manage to visit, let alone another online music forum. I'll bet slartibartfast feels similar.

FWIW, The rulez are pretty clear about direct linking: "your track MUST be ... entered into the contest by posting a DIRECT link in this RULES & SUBMISIONS thread". Because some online service changes their terms midway through a competition doesn't affect these rulez. Besides, I'll be happy to host your track (or any other contestant's track) for the month if you need it. Just PM me.

Cool guys i was a tad over the line and i guess a little rude (Uni course and understanding bloody transistors with a teacher who can't speak english properly doing my head in) I apologise Slart . Nothin meant by it. Seriously tho i just entered it for a joke and won't bother direct linking it, was just a wired acid filled night where i chucked a mic under my flatmates bellowing nose while he was asleep and added my best 70's porn theme underneath and randomly pitchshifted his snore, and still find it funny evry time i listen to it. So once again i apologise Slart nothin meant by it....

And Lady J well well well...
you just made my day. what a beautiful lady.. I'll listen to the song later.

peace

[Emerald Tablet]

I should win this competition on meeting that requirement alone

haven't heard your song yet - but i always go for extremes love it when someone is either ultra modest - or has a ultra confident attitude
hope the song can live up to my expectations
no soundcard at work at this moment

[M'Snah]

hahaha my doughter does the same thing - and than she wants me to make the music but i just can`t make aqua like songs which is what she likes to hear

I like conventional / pop music, as well as many others . I don't mind listening to K3, Chipz, Kim-Lian, etc etc. with her. And she wants to be a singer when she grows up (a popstar actually), so she has been practicing jazz-dance for 3-4 years, and performed solo at school, at her own initiative (singing the tune from Hamelen) . Her idea of a singer is aimed at the current popstars: A lot of dancing and a bit of singing.

And before you ask: Yes, in addition to this months theme, she inspired me to this song.

[scamme]

What a mess...

Anyone hearing something except silence in Paulie Phonick's entery? Or it's just me?

You've got to hear BEYOND the silence... Look around the internet and see if you can download the original. The similarity's uncanny! If it wasn't for the analog warmth in the original I could have sworn Paulie had converted it to MP3 and tried to make it pass as his own.

Hah?

What I mean is yes, it's supposed to be silence.

ok but this is REALY empty.

[Wopelka]

What I mean is yes, it's supposed to be silence.

ok but this is REALY empty.

i beg to disagree. silence is less empty than a lot of music

listen to the silence, you might hear the true music

[Hovmod]

What a mess...

Anyone hearing something except silence in Paulie Phonick's entery? Or it's just me?

You've got to hear BEYOND the silence... Look around the internet and see if you can download the original. The similarity's uncanny! If it wasn't for the analog warmth in the original I could have sworn Paulie had converted it to MP3 and tried to make it pass as his own.

Hah?

What I mean is yes, it's supposed to be silence.

ok but this is REALY empty.

4'33"

[scamme]

I know in 70-80s there was some guy that recorded the noise of his studio and released it on vinyls as full albom, don't remember the name of the guy but the record sold many copys. What we have here is a total emptiness, sorry but i don't get the beauty of it.

[Wopelka]

the thing with 4'33'' is that during a performance, there's always different noises, coughs, breaths, a child who cries, the life in action. Moreover, there is a silent relation between the pianist and the crowd. The crowd may react in some way to the situation.

i think Cage was requesting the crowd to "listen" to that particular reality. i'm not sure a "blank" mp3 is in a position to renew the whole experience, tho. it's really a performance, it needs the presence of the pianist and of a crowd, stopped for 4'33'' of "silence"... a kind of communion thing, if i dare...

[M'Snah]

I know this is old news, but these VST's seem very appropriate to this discussion

[AndreasE]

AndreasE - Melrock:

There is a consistancy in AndreasE's tracks that I like. In fact. they sound completely balanced in that I can take all his tracks direct to a CD without any normalizing. Thoughtful and evocotive tunes, as usual. This one sounds like an intro to 'Evil Dead' - The Game.

Thanks much for your nice comments, xander.

I must confess that I just wanted to remove my entry from the submission page because of all the annoying gossip of and about Lady J. But your nice words have kept me from doing this.