Hi, Be careful what you wish for! In response to Dave's suggestion that we focus on music, I'm posting one of my songs. My server is complete crap. If you experience download problems, you'll have to be patient. Of course anyone is free to load the song onto another server. Marek, I am tempted to rerecord the vocal track just for you. But I won't, so, you'll need to replace every instance of MP3 with RME. Of course I love RME and you'll hear why I wouldn't do that. Not even for you. :) DISCLAIMER song contains adult language. if this offends thee, please don't download it. Background Info This song, mp3dotcom, is from a set of around 20. My order for the band was to write and record the music for two albums in one session and that each song must be a different style of music. We did not record any previously written ideas. I hired my studio partner Bill Bailey to produce and engineer the album. We designed an itenerary that started the recording session with drums. We worked with the drummer for about an hour to warm him up, judge his capabilities and get tones. About every hour there after we added the next logical instrument; bass, guitar, keyboard, second guitar, percussion, second bass, etc until we reached the finale where everyone achieved euphoric stupidity. There were about a dozen players involved. Everyone had a specific time that they were expected to arrive and we asked them to not show up early. Think of it as mahem by design. Everyone involved agreed that it was the most fun they ever had in a studio. After 18 hours we had enough music for two albums and we began writing lyrics and producing vocals. It took about four sessions to complete the vocal tracks and a couple more to mix 11 or 12 of the songs. Production Details The music was orginally recorded to 16bit blackface ADAT. A couple years ago I transfered the multitracks to Ardour for remixing. I mastered this song today using Ardour and JAMin. There were transient spikes on the snare hits that caused distortion and a short loss of audio immediately following many of the snare hits. I put the TAP limiter post fader to hold the spikes down by -5db or there abouts which corrected that problem. Total mix and master time for this song is definitely less than 60 minutes. I've never released this album although half the songs ended up in an indie film that starred one of the Saturday Nite Live writers. The movie was titled Jack Halloween. I appreciate bad movies as much as anyone but this movie sucked so bad I couldn't even watch it. After agreeing to let the producers, City Lights Media of NYC, "use my crappy songs in your no budget movie" i informed them that they had thrown their money in the toilet and that the movie wasnt' worthy of releas. They agreed about the quality of the movie and I don't think it ever saw the light of day. I guess this album is about four years old and it's time to start releasing it one song at a time. One of the bass players was murdered in a domestic assault, and the flute player died of a herione overdose. The rest of us are just getting older, fatter and losing our teeth. Damned it all! After much TODO: http://www.multitrack.us/~parker/music/mp3dotcom.ogg Long live The Who, ron __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
