2 Mar
2005
2 Mar
'05
1:20 p.m.
Hi,
söndagen den 27 februari 2005 09.18 skrev Mark Constable:
Yes, that might be true, though previously the kick was way to audible so I
lowered it, perhaps I lowered it too much.
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.
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
Robert Jonsson wrote:
Thanks!
More music!
Excellent, go Robert! 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. 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 ? 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.
1.99 c worth.
--markc
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