[linux-audio-user] Call for collaboration

[Shayne O'Connor]

james at dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul, 2005 at 10:51AM +1000, Shayne O'Connor spake thus:
> 
>>james at dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 13 Jul, 2005 at 10:25AM +0200, Christian Schumann spake thus:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:17:42PM +0100, james at dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Tue, 12 Jul, 2005 at 11:33AM +0200, Christian Schumann spake thus:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I'll take the track home tonight and see with what I can come up. I
>>>>>>think I can post that tomorrow.
>>>>>
>>>>>That's great.  I very nearly wrote about what kind of thing I'm
>>>>>looking for in the original mail, but then decided not to.  If I
>>>>>specified the kind of sound I'm after, it would influence people and
>>>>>give us less room to explore.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'll share later, of course and maybe what I'm expecting and what you
>>>>>intend to do will match up.  Either way, it should be fun.
>>>>
>>>>Ok, see what I came up with on
>>>>
>>>>http://maitre.physik.uni-kl.de/~schumann/sv_WIP_guitar.ogg
>>>>
>>>>I have to apologize first for the bad timing, but it's been late at
>>>>night, after a hard work in the lab.
>>>>This is just some ideas I had, I don't know if this is what you
>>>>expected. Now that Shayne wrote that he might have some lyrics for that,
>>>>I would give it another try after I have something with vocals.
>>>>
>>>>I was kind of unsure whether to do some more clean comping with delay,
>>>>or more of a full-on distorted rock guitar. So tell me what you think.
>>>>
>>>>Christian
>>>
>>>
>>>Bloody hell!
>>>
>>>That sounds amazing!  It's not what I was expecting at all, but I'm
>>>very very excited about it.
>>>
>>>Do you have the guitar parts recorded separately?  I'll put them in
>>>with the rest of the stuff, get the levels right and shufty things
>>>around so that they get the space they need in places.
>>>
>>>I love where this is going.
>>>
>>>I wonder what Shayne's been up to?
>>>
>>
>>
>>http://blog.machinehasnoagenda.com/files/sv_WIP_vocals.ogg
>>
>>this is just a *very* rough copy of what i hear for this track ... 
>>haven't had *any* time to polish it or learn how to sing it properly: 
>>hence, some of the more, er, "intense' parts may sound a little 
>>strained, etc ... but i wanted to throw this up so others could give me 
>>feedback, or if they wanted to do backing tracks, or even sing it 
>>themselves ...
> 
> 
> Nice lyrics!  I know you say this is just a rough cut, but could I
> have the vocal track as it is anyway?  I can start piecing things
> together maybe at the weekend and get something sorted with guitars
> and vocals in the mix from the original - which should sound better
> than just everlaying them because I can make room for them properly.
> 
> Good job!  I think these will fit well with the Christian's guitar
> part.
> 
> I wish I had  time to do this today, but I really don't.


ok, i redid the vocals - sound a *bit* better - but seeing as you wanted 
the first ones, i've included both in a tarball:

http://blog.machinehasnoagenda.com/files/sv_wip_vocals.tgz

there's two .flac files in there, vocal_1 is the first vocals i did, 
vocal_2 ... you guessed it ... these are totally dry and have only had 
some normalising in the way of processing - please, at least put some 
reverb on them :D

i'd gotten my inspiration for the lyrics and melody before hearing 
christian's guitar, and i didn't want to listen to it that much in case 
it put me off what i'd come up with - in any case, between my 
contribution, christian's, james' and yours should be able to mix up 
something pretty damn good (most of james' stuff comes before or after 
what i sing, i think, so it could work well ... i don't know).

also, i've always liked my voice doubled-up ... here's a quick mix with 
my two vocal versions and some reverb:

http://blog.machinehasnoagenda.com/files/sv_WIP_vocals.ogg

have fun

shayne

btw - the .tgz file is 11mb ... let me know if there's any problems, or 
anything else you need.