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kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:39 pm

VitaminD wrote:I planned ahead for that one - I'll be bottom of the barrel and still proud of my work

I managed that last time...in the cover song month.

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:46 pm

kovacs wrote:
VitaminD wrote:I planned ahead for that one - I'll be bottom of the barrel and still proud of my work
I managed that last time...in the cover song month.

hehe.. well you have NOTHING to fear this time!

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 5:56 pm

Wopelka!

it starts off...Rolf Harris!

then it goes vaguely Can

and ends up in my KvR keepers folder

Marc JX8P · Post by **Marc JX8P** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:05 pm

Is this the thread for the gossip & stuff for the winter contest? It's a bit confusing as this thread talks about winter while the other is about winter contest rules...

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:07 pm

Marc JX8P wrote:Is this the thread for the gossip & stuff for the winter contest? It's a bit confusing as this thread talks about winter while the other is about winter contest rules...

The "December" contest is the "winter" contest. It's a two-month contest for a change.

Yes, this is the gossip thread, the other thread is just for submissions to keep things clean.

Wopelka · Post by **Wopelka** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:45 am

clueless wrote:Wopelka!

it starts off...Rolf Harris!

then it goes vaguely Can

and ends up in my KvR keepers folder

wow, and i feared the track was too static...

thanks Sir, i'm glad you like it

and your pleasure is mine

Marc JX8P · Post by **Marc JX8P** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:07 pm

kovacs wrote: The "December" contest is the "winter" contest. It's a two-month contest for a change.

Yes, this is the gossip thread, the other thread is just for submissions to keep things clean.

Thanks! I thought it was as some of the tracks in that other thread were mentioned but I thought I'd better check. Anyway, I will be posting my track in the other thread shortly after finishing the arrangement and the mix as well as making a 2 minute version. I look forward to see how it does, there are some very good and interesting tracks here.

You™ · Post by **You™** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:17 pm

Love your song Garret. You weren't calling me were you?

freeztar · Post by **freeztar** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:31 pm

Nikp

Definitly a classic tune, and you did it justice. Great playin man! It's on repeat over here.
The mix is a little weird with some parts (ie flute and drums), but the music is right on. The guit sounds great throughout, love the solo.
What kind of guitar are you playing? It gets a real nice jazz tone for this kind of stuff.

I can't stop smiling. I love Bossa so much.

Thanks for sharing!

freeztar · Post by **freeztar** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:55 pm

freeztar wrote: The mix is a little weird with some parts

Ok, having listened some more...
It seems that the flute is peaking right above the compressors threshold, but sometimes stays under it. This causes the volume to jump from loud to soft occasionally. That's what it sounds like to me anyway.

nikp2000 · Post by **nikp2000** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:55 pm

Hey Freeztar thanks mucho!
The guitar is an Epiphone Dot through a J-Staion modeler on the blackface model.

Nick

nikp2000 · Post by **nikp2000** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:58 pm

The flute is from my gr-20 guitar synth. There was a bit volume fluctuation that I tried to even out with compression, so your most likely right.

Nick

garret · Post by **garret** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:09 am

You™ wrote:Love your song Garret. You weren't calling me were you?

Er, lemme check. Odd, I think the boy EJ must be grabbing my cell phone and randomly pushing buttons again.

Seriously, he did that the other day and called my brother... and he's called me on my wife's phone twice.. the kid's a genius and he's only 15 months.

Glad you like the tune.

Not too many people have heard it yet, so I'm unsure of its genuine worth...

Oh, I forgot to fill in gear details in the subs thread. If anyone's curious, I used Sampletank 2 & Sonic Synth 1 for the brushkit drums, rickenbacher bass, and horns and the talented mr. ray fo the epiano. Cakewalk home studio as usual, with likely suspects wavearts trackplug compression/eq, ambience reverb, classic chorus, and buzz maxi limiter.

-Garret

mystahr · Post by **mystahr** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:07 am

It is time to pick up the reviewing again of the monthly contests; I figured the You-TM approach to this would be best

Donkey Tugger - For some reason I had expected more fireworks from you this (double) month. There's a lot of different elements in this track, ranging from great accoustics to heavily mangled thynthy parts; hence I feel the middle8 (?) starting at around 1.55 to be a bit out of place within the entire track. The vox-treatment there is a bit too much for me although it does bring about a psychedelic feel. How you come back after that break with the guitars though is subliminal, I feel you outdid yourself on that part. Then there's the odd feel that the vox starting at 3.16 has a slight timing issue. So all in all this track leaves me with a bit of a double feeling; some parts are the schiznit and some parts are the nitschiz

winter contest - GOSSIP