Hi, s?ndagen den 27 februari 2005 09.18 skrev Mark Constable: > Robert Jonsson wrote: > > More music! > > Excellent, go Robert! Thanks! > > > This is actually a tune I have recorded and improved several times but I > > have never posted it here. > > It's basically a mellow pop tune with a very central main vocal and > > acoustic guitar figures. > > Very nice. My FWIW comments: the bass is nicely compressed > and sustained but the kick is a bit low so they don't quite > reinforce each other. Yes, that might be true, though previously the kick was way to audible so I lowered it, perhaps I lowered it too much. > I know some people like "dynamics" but > I prefer a radio-like mix with everything "in yer face" so, > ideally, I'd prefer some sidechain limiting of the vocals, > and solo, so the surrounding music was up a bit more. Perhaps > a bit more stereo split of the acoustic guitar too. Ok, that might be, I'll see if I can play with it a bit :) Also, I don't really know how to operate a sidechain. Possibly MusE does not allow that yet, you need an additional audiotrack, right? > > Direct link to the ogg: > > http://spamatica.se/musicsite/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?cid=1&lid=11 > > (No streaming yet, sorry) > > That is not quite a direct link... are you using the redirect > to do some logging or something ? Yeah, something like that, I changed the site to an off the shelf package: www.xoops.org, very nice, but to take advantage of the features (access count and such) I guess I need to use the builtin functions for that. Possibly the code can be hacked to work better. I'll look into it someday. > I pasted the direct URL to the Rad IO page and it streams > nicely for me. Is this a problem for you that anyone using > the Rad IO streaming link probably does not get logged ? > > The version number is a but awkward... perhaps there > could be a "convention" that there be a song_latest.ogg > soft link (or copy) to the latest verion ? This way other > links around the planet pointing to a particular song > will automatically always pull in the latest version? Yes, I'll think about adding some such. > Also, FWIW, in spamatica_-_undecided.ogg during the racey > chorus part, that splash symbol sounds like banging on the > side of a tin shed... there is no "ting" to it at all, like > a lo bit rate soundfont instrument or something. I think > it should be the cup of a ride cymbal. It's actually a china crash, I wanted something trashy :) so the lack of "ting" was intentional, I might have overdone it slightly though ;). > > > On a related note. There's been several discussions here about creating a > > separate list for musical announcements. The concensus so far seems to be > > to keep it here. Though I can understand the reasoning I can also see the > > limitations. > > There needs to be two parts... an ongoing "working group" > discussion or comments about a piece and then some kind of > summary or permenent changelog for the same piece. The > first suits a mailing-list and the 2nd a Wiki/web-page. A > forum could kind of work for both, I guess, but I find them > too cumbersome signing up for yet another account, logging > in, and the heavy HTML overload per message... and those > inevitable useless one-liner comments. > > No one is complaining about song postings/discussion here > yet anyway... perhaps when the quantity picks up to the > point where the LAU help-line is getting drowned then it'll > be natural to move on to elsewhere. Right. My fear is that people will silently leave because of the added traffic though. Maybe I'm just paranoid. Thanks for your thoughts! Robert > > 1.99 c worth. > > --markc -- http://spamatica.se/music/
