Lunkhead wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:58 am
Maybe somebody who attended one of those early day Song Fight Lives that used that format could explain better how it worked though.
I was at the last SF Live to do this and it didn't work all that well. Even in 2003 the number of titles was way too diverse to make a sufficient match-up for most titles, and the artist changeover was a mess. Plus we had a bit of drama where one of the people who was drumming for a bunch of other people just up and left without telling most of the bands he was involved in. Obviously that's not an issue for a twitch sitch, but it seems analogous to issues like having tech problems where someone's stream isn't quite working or ready.
Oh and the voting was a chore and just took a lot of time away from when songs could be played instead.
Anyway. My thoughts for how a Song Fight Live sort of thing can happen with twich is: each band is responsible for figuring out their own streaming setup, and they take turns streaming to a shared rebroadcaster, which then rebroadcasts that stream to twitch or whatever. Bands would have the option of watching the stream's chat and maybe address comments between songs or something. I've seen a few online music festivals work this way and it's pretty okay. None of this helps with multi-musician performances though. People with local actual-bands are at an advantage here, if they're willing to break social distancing anyway.
Also setting up a streaming setup has gotten a lot easier, but there's still a bunch of stuff to watch out for. If anyone is interested in doing streaming stuff I recommend playing around with
OBS, which is the most commonly-used software for this purpose these days. Maybe set up a Twitch channel and experiment with that too. It's hard to do a simple writeup that captures everyone's technical situation and it's something you
need to practice ahead of time to make sure that the right audio is going through and that you've got a reasonable quality tradeoff.
And I would absolutely not recommend trying to do a virtual jam through Zoom or any other group conferencing app. It's good enough for dance parties but the latency is just terrible when it comes to having multiple performers playing together. I've posted my ideas on how multi-artist stuff can happen elsewhere on the forum but I think if you really want to have other Song Fight participants perform on your set, the best bet is to have them record backing tracks and only have one actual live performance on top of them.