Yo, it's JackHowers/Harmonizer/MrOwn1. Since Gregah got perma'd and he said he's not going to make an alt, I have taken it personally upon myself to organize this next album.
Before I go on to quote Gregah's OP, let me say this: [B]IF YOU HAD SUBMITTED YOUR SONG TO GREGAH, RESUBMIT IT TO ME, MMKAY[/B]
Now, here's Gregah's OP:
[b]First off, the quality has to be .wav[/b]
This is both to ensure that the music we listen to are of the finest quality (and to appease those darned audiophiles :argh:) and to make sure it can be uploaded to bandcamp.
.wav takes up a lot of space, but it's losless which means no quality will be lost when being sent around.
[b]Secondly, the volume has to be -3 db[/b]
A new step, but one that I think can enhance the quality a lot. If every song is on the same soundlevel, then it will sound like it's the quality product it really is and means people won't have to bother with raising/lowering the volume while enjoying the CD.
I will make sure that the volume of each song is around the same level before releasing, but please keep it at -3db so that there is some standard to the volume at least.
[B]HOW TO MAKE YOUR SONG -3 DB[/B]
[QUOTE=Pepin;27834708][B]How to make a song -3db loud in Audacity[/B]
1. Load your song into Audacity. Select the whole audio file by pressing Ctrl and A. The whole song should be highlighted like below.
[img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/s16.png[/img_thumb]
2. On the top bar go to effect and select normalize. Set it to these settings. This will make the highest sample in your song -3db. If there is any clipping or any ear blowing contrast in your song, you'll want to get rid of it. Dynamics in your music is good to have, but you don't want the user having to manually control the volume.
[img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/s22.png[/img_thumb]
3. Click ok and your finished song will now be at -3db. Inspect it to make sure it looks good. If there are any unusual spikes, your song was clipping at some point and you'll want to fix that.
[img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/s31.png[/img_thumb]
[B]Q&A
[/B]
[B]Q[/B]: Will this degrade the the audio quality?
[B]A[/B]: The answer is mostly no but partially yes. There won't be any big difference with 16bit wav files.
[B]Q[/B]: Could I do this during the mastering?
[B]A[/B]: You should actually do this when you master if you know how. It'd really be a lot a better.
[B]Q[/B]: So all of the tracks will have the same loudness?
[B]A[/B]: No, they'll just have the same peak loudness, meaning that the loudest parts of every song will be the same.
[B]Q[/B]: This isn't that great of a solution.
[B]A[/B]: It is really the best way to go about it for a project like this. I don't believe anyone is going to volunteer to master all the tracks, so this is a simple solution.[/QUOTE]
[b]Don't think your song is good enough? Ask yourself, is it good enough?[/b]
There is no discrimination towards any genre whatsoever, my goal with these CDs is to help people create music (and in this particular case, promote their music even further to the great people of facepunch) and I won't listen to any tracks before release. It's only you who decide whether the music you've done or want to send is good enough.
[b]Once again, only one entry per person.[/b]
This one is going to be a lot more songs though, this time we'll allow 24 songs. We're also going to let people post their best track (don't ask us what track is the best, it is YOU who decide which one you think is the best). You have to make it a .wav though. So find the original recording and remaster it, because there's no use in converting an 192 kbps track to .wav, because there will be a loss of quality.
[b]NO covers or remixes![/b]
I don't think there's a lot to say, no covers or remixes, we want original music from you.
[b]All profit will go to charity.[/b]
This is still a free album that costs nothing, HOWEVER as shown in the last thread people still want to pay for the product and who are we to say no to people paying for free music?
[b]Have a page where all your music is? Include it when you send me the submission so that I can add it to track information.[/b]
All exposure is good exposure, right now the amount of listens to both CDs are at almost 15 000 listens.
I think that is all, any questions can be asked in the thread and I'll try to answer as soon as possible if you have any questions.
[b]24 entries this time around too.[/b]
I think 24 entries work pretty good, don't you?
Well then, let's do this!
[h2]New deadline is May 20![/h2]
Participants :
Stizzles
[b]Hakita (Sent)[/b]
Feralicous
[B]Schmoe222 (Sent)[/B]
Patjo_sweden
LoserFace
hikula
[b]Imaledgev2 (Needs to be resent)[/b]
Loli
[B]CLungcancer (Sent)[/B]
deggie
Silent-Bob
killa101
[B]Harmonizer (Sent)[/B]
[B]Natrox (Sent)[/B]
dezek
vizard38
UberWarri0r
Kalkka
killa101
[B]Yur|ko (Sent)[/B]
Bobie
Zee!
meepugh
UnknownDude
photonManipul8r
[B]Z3r0747 (Sent)[/B]
no8o8
[B]Pepin (Sent)[/B]
[B]Rediscover (Sent)[/B]
[B]Dick Tracy (Sent)[/B]
i guess i'll try to make something
Could you add me to the participants list?
rip greg
[QUOTE=Yur|ko;28751610]Could you add me to the participants list?[/QUOTE]
Sure!
[QUOTE=Stizzles;28751637]rip greg[/QUOTE]
:sigh:
[media]http://soundcloud.com/degge/helluuu[/media]
next stop, drums!
I design album art, yes?
it's still the same project, so yeah :v:
[editline]22nd March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=deggie;28752162][media]http://soundcloud.com/degge/helluuu[/media]
next stop, drums![/QUOTE]
This is good. I'm almost tempted to make drums for it as well, just to see what I could come up with. :v:
the band i'm in is recording an ep this weekend anyway so i'll just steal the drums for a few minutes :buddy:
Aww... Gregah was awesome :smith:
Why on earth was he permad?
[QUOTE=Feralicous;28753295]Why on earth was he permad?[/QUOTE]
Racism/Spamming the Ref Camp
Add me please.
I'm in, again.
[QUOTE=T.F.W.O.;28752297]I design album art, yes?[/QUOTE]
I'll be doing some album art if I get bored, let the best man win. :v:
Also, I'm in.
Do you guys like it so far? Please give constructive criticism!
[media]http://soundcloud.com/meeples/sand-tree[/media]
[QUOTE=meepugh;28756126]Do you guys like it so far? Please give constructive criticism!
[media]http://soundcloud.com/meeples/sand-tree[/media][/QUOTE]
It sounds like it could be a great build-up to something awesome.
Stalked on Gregah's posts. Why did he suddenly flip his shit?
Could I contribute? I was going to on the last one but it was filling up quickly and I couldn't get around to recording anything.
[media]http://soundcloud.com/alphazero66/the-tides-of-existence[/media]
Constructive criticism appreciated on this, by the way.
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20799748/potential%20album%20art%20collection%203.jpg[/img]
One idea for an album cover.
it's kind of hard to read the white text.
I'll resend the song when I get back home.
Also, I don't like the album cover. Maybe it would be better if it was more red instead of blue?
How about this?
[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Facepunchalbum.png[/IMG]
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20799748/potential%20album%20art%20collection%203a%20rev1.jpg[/img]
Or this?
[editline]23rd March 2011[/editline]
Danke, Stizzles for the better Facepunch logo.
[img_thumb]http://ilovefrosty.com/images/facepunch1600hj7.png[/img_thumb]
this one is nice and clean (and huge)
Here's the song I've finished for the album, check it out :)
[media]http://soundcloud.com/samhiscox/imba-astraeus-final-version[/media]
[QUOTE=T.F.W.O.;28762409][img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20799748/potential%20album%20art%20collection%203a%20rev1.jpg[/img_thumb]
Or this?
[editline]23rd March 2011[/editline]
Danke, Stizzles for the better Facepunch logo.[/QUOTE]
the light blue text is somewhat hard to read but otherwise, that is just perfect
-snip-
[QUOTE=T.F.W.O.;28762409][img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20799748/potential%20album%20art%20collection%203a%20rev1.jpg[/img_thumb]
Or this?
[editline]23rd March 2011[/editline]
Danke, Stizzles for the better Facepunch logo.[/QUOTE]
Make the "Facepunch" red instead of blue so it's easier to read and matches the other red parts, and make the "III" white for consistency
I think I'll be done with this one for the weekend
[media]http://soundcloud.com/tirde/internet-hamburger-in-the[/media]
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