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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby Marshmelon » 24 Oct 2012 11:09

Hey, I wondered if we could extend to Sunday?
TB is this topic and I'd like to showcase one of my songs there and then tweak before submitting.
I guess, I just wondered if the deadline was arbitrary and, if it was, if it could be changed.
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 24 Oct 2012 12:04

Marshmelon wrote:Hey, I wondered if we could extend to Sunday?
TB is this topic and I'd like to showcase one of my songs there and then tweak before submitting.
I guess, I just wondered if the deadline was arbitrary and, if it was, if it could be changed.

I've already extended the deadline by two days, so no, I will not extend it further. You could just go to IRC and ask for opinions, though. It'd be basically the same thing.
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby Mesogears » 24 Oct 2012 20:57

How are you guys emailing WAVs? Seriously, they're huge enough to exceed the max file size.

Also, note that, if you get an email from "[email protected]," that's me. It's a fairly old email account, but I had to use it since Yahoo has YouSendIt, which is the only way I could attach a 44 MB file.
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 24 Oct 2012 23:20

MorningGaze wrote:How are you guys emailing WAVs? Seriously, they're huge enough to exceed the max file size.

Also, note that, if you get an email from "[email protected]," that's me. It's a fairly old email account, but I had to use it since Yahoo has YouSendIt, which is the only way I could attach a 44 MB file.

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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby Navron » 25 Oct 2012 01:19

Bah, I've been on a boat det for the past month, and rarely had a fast enough connection to browse this site.

I just finished a remix of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor, and was planning on releasing it on Halloween anyway. Would it be okay to use that as a submission to the album?

There shouldn't be any legal issues, and the song has been used for many Halloween themed movies and skits over the century. I think it'd make a nice contribution to the album theme.
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 25 Oct 2012 07:50

Navron wrote:Bah, I've been on a boat det for the past month, and rarely had a fast enough connection to browse this site.

I just finished a remix of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor, and was planning on releasing it on Halloween anyway. Would it be okay to use that as a submission to the album?

There shouldn't be any legal issues, and the song has been used for many Halloween themed movies and skits over the century. I think it'd make a nice contribution to the album theme.

Sure, feel free to submit!
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby Mesogears » 25 Oct 2012 07:55

CaptainFluffatun wrote:
MorningGaze wrote:How are you guys emailing WAVs? Seriously, they're huge enough to exceed the max file size.

Also, note that, if you get an email from "[email protected]," that's me. It's a fairly old email account, but I had to use it since Yahoo has YouSendIt, which is the only way I could attach a 44 MB file.

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I thought about doing that, but I didn't know if I could.

Oh well, I already attached it with YSI. Captain probably has it already.
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 25 Oct 2012 08:55

MorningGaze wrote:Captain probably has it already.

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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby luukg2 » 25 Oct 2012 17:13

bleh >.< i think i won't submit my (not so much) improved version because it still isn't good >.<
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 25 Oct 2012 17:22

luukg2 wrote:bleh >.< i think i won't submit my (not so much) improved version because it still isn't good >.<

I thought I got yours
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby vladnuke » 25 Oct 2012 21:08

Well, you have my sub. So yeah.
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby luukg2 » 26 Oct 2012 02:05

CaptainFluffatun wrote:
luukg2 wrote:bleh >.< i think i won't submit my (not so much) improved version because it still isn't good >.<

I thought I got yours

yeah but you said it needed some more mixing and mastering and i failed at it, so i won't submit the improved version
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 26 Oct 2012 07:36

luukg2 wrote:
CaptainFluffatun wrote:
luukg2 wrote:bleh >.< i think i won't submit my (not so much) improved version because it still isn't good >.<

I thought I got yours

yeah but you said it needed some more mixing and mastering and i failed at it, so i won't submit the improved version

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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby luukg2 » 26 Oct 2012 07:51

yep, that's really true but it just isn't it what i want it to be
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 26 Oct 2012 16:47

luukg2 wrote:yep, that's really true but it just isn't it what i want it to be

By try, I meant submit.
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby Navron » 26 Oct 2012 21:38

Sent you a download link to my song in wav format.
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby Element6 » 26 Oct 2012 22:08

I'm in the process of sending my .wav right now, but I'm afraid that it might not be loud enough.

For the past few hours I've been in a bit of a panic mode trying to figure out compressors and limiters since I don't know much about them yet. It's not terribly quiet, but it's definitely not as loud as the average track, and I'd rather have quiet than clipping.

I'll understand if this means that my work doesn't make the cut, even if that would be pretty disappointing for me. If anything, this experience gives me further reason to learn how those limiters and compressors work.

Besides that, thanks for starting this project! It has been a lot of fun to participate, and I've had the opportunity to try a genre that I'd never tried before while learning tons of stuff in the process.
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby Navron » 26 Oct 2012 22:10

I wouldn't sweat it too much. From past projects, I haven't seen loudness as much of a deciding factor as composition and mixing.
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby Nine Volt » 26 Oct 2012 22:11

Element6 wrote:I'm in the process of sending my .wav right now, but I'm afraid that it might not be loud enough.

For the past few hours I've been in a bit of a panic mode trying to figure out compressors and limiters since I don't know much about them yet. It's not terribly quiet, but it's definitely not as loud as the average track, and I'd rather have quiet than clipping.

I'll understand if this means that my work doesn't make the cut, even if that would be pretty disappointing for me. If anything, this experience gives me further reason to learn how those limiters and compressors work.

Besides that, thanks for starting this project! It has been a lot of fun to participate, and I've had the opportunity to try a genre that I'd never tried before while learning tons of stuff in the process.


Protip: Mix your songs to about -5db (before mastering) to avoid most troubles with volume.

That's what I do at least. I never ever compress or limit the whole track. Hope your song gets on the album!
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby Element6 » 26 Oct 2012 22:20

Thanks guys, and I'll certainly try mixing to -5db in future projects.
I hope I make it too, but if I don't, I won't worry about it too much since, like I said, I learned a lot from this. And it was fun.
So that's cool too.
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 27 Oct 2012 00:40

Nine Volt wrote:Protip: Mix your songs to about -5db (before mastering) to avoid most troubles with volume.

I was told -10
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby Navron » 27 Oct 2012 01:34

I've mixed plenty of songs down to -24dB, but nobody's heard them yet.
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 27 Oct 2012 01:44

Huge influx of submissions today, by the way. All in the span of a few hours. This makes me happy.
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby Kibbie » 27 Oct 2012 01:47

CaptainFluffatun wrote:Huge influx of submissions today, by the way. All in the span of a few hours. This makes me happy.


This also makes me happy
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Re: Halloween Album - Chords of Chaos

Postby Aoshi » 27 Oct 2012 12:38

Don't count me out. I'll have mine submitted to you within the next 3-4 hours time. :)
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