Circle of Titles II

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Caravan Ray wrote: Though I have had word from my very good friends from Give Our Regards To The Earth's Core - that they have done an unofficial song for this. Apparently relating to some Billy's Little Trip post....
Yay! Can I get a WhOoP wHoOp? :D


...seriously can I? :?
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Billy's Little Trip wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote: Though I have had word from my very good friends from Give Our Regards To The Earth's Core - that they have done an unofficial song for this. Apparently relating to some Billy's Little Trip post....
Yay! Can I get a WhOoP wHoOp? :D


...seriously can I? :?
WhOoP wHoOp!
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The question isn't a matter of Who Izzy, it's a matter of Who izzn't he. *fist bump* POW!
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I've been finished with my song for a while but I'm not gonna submit it until I know it's actually done, or just before the deadline, whichever comes first.

Think "King Missile plus a church choir as fronted by Wesley Willis who has just finished watching a Mork and Mindy marathon." Or in other words, a typical Sockpuppet song.
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I have a song written and the first bit of the basic track laid down, but I've been suffering from a sore throat and runny nose since the titles were announced, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to do vocals by the weekend or not. Went to the doctor and she says it's basically an allergy thing related to the huge dust storms we've had in Phoenix over the past few weeks.

Things may clear up in the next couple days, I've got some medicine now, but if not... I'll get it in when I can get it done...

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You should submit it as King Arthur and the Haboob.
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I as well may be a day or two late. Moving, unpacking, and setup of the office/studio has taken much longer than expected. I do have lyrics to record over the music I have already, I just need the time and the place. I am very very sorry... Hopefully it will be worth the wait.
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Tell you what, anyone want a few extra days?

I'll extend the deadline to August 10th. That's this Wednesday.
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IMAGINE MY LACK OF SURPRISE
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Honestly, I was also beginning to doubt my ability to get the website up in time, too. :)
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Generic wrote:Tell you what, anyone want a few extra days?
Yes.......yes I do, fine sir.
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Jam your extension up your arse. I will be finished by 8/8. (that is the 8th of August - I know Seppos put things around the wrong way)
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Caravan Ray wrote:Jam your extension up your arse. I will be finished by 8/8. (that is the 8th of August - I know Seppos put things around the wrong way)
The original deadline was the 6th, i.e. tomorrow.

So... you're welcome! :lol:
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8th or 10th sounds good to me. Terrible week to record, this was. Next is worse! Stupid people and their stupid summer vacations. Regardless, I stil hate missing a deadline.
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I would have been done if I had to be. But the extension will give me the weekend to finish the song the way I like.

My friend and lover died last weekend, which had adverse effects on my recording.

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I was going to work on my song a bunch more but I seem to be going deaf in my left ear, so I'm not sure how much I can improve the mix at this point.

(I REALLY hope it's temporary and just due to seasonal allergies or something.)
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If you use headphones a lot, it's a known fact that you get build up and need to ear flush periodically. Serious advice is serious.
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I do, and I've been trying various flushing techniques but none are working. I need to see an ENT (the doctor kind, not the Tolkien tree kind).
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And after having started all this discussion about not being ready, I did get to lay down a vocal track this morning, and while it's not the greatest vocal tone, I actually could be ready to turn something in tomorrow if I had to.

Don't know if I'll be able to take advantage of a few extra days to make any improvements on it or not, but at least I do seem to have a song. Who'da thunk?

@Fluffy: I've had wax buildup in my ears in the past; usually it's pretty well balanced, though. I have had some hearing problems in my left ear ever since my neurosurgery back in February though - the 1khz - 4khz stuff just isn't there in that ear and sometimes everything sounds garbled in that ear. When doing mixes, I've just learned not to worry if the lead vocal sounds like it's panned right somewhere - if I flip the headphones and it still sounds offsides right, I figure there's just not much I can do about that. For what it's worth, I haven't had any complaints about my mixes sounding lopsided in the review threads since then...

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king_arthur wrote:@Fluffy: I've had wax buildup in my ears in the past; usually it's pretty well balanced, though. I have had some hearing problems in my left ear ever since my neurosurgery back in February though - the 1khz - 4khz stuff just isn't there in that ear and sometimes everything sounds garbled in that ear. When doing mixes, I've just learned not to worry if the lead vocal sounds like it's panned right somewhere - if I flip the headphones and it still sounds offsides right, I figure there's just not much I can do about that. For what it's worth, I haven't had any complaints about my mixes sounding lopsided in the review threads since then...
Yeah, I suspect I just have some blockage. I've used a tone generator to map out the hearing in both ears somewhat (although it's hard to do thanks to how the brain has its own dynamic range compression in it), but what I do know is that my left ear is tapering off a bit more quickly above 8KHz, and loses all responsiveness at about 14800Hz (whereas my right ear is good to at LEAST 15500Hz, possibly higher since I'm not sure if it's being attenuated in my ear or in my headphones). I have of course used both sides of my headphones on both ears to verify that it's my ears and not the headphones.

Anyway, as a result, pretty much all treble is skewing right, and I'm just listening to things in mono and looking at my meters to see if the stereo is acceptable. Which I know is going to suck (but I usually keep my stereo stuff fairly low-key anyway so maybe it's not a problem).
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fluffy wrote:
king_arthur wrote:@Fluffy: I've had wax buildup in my ears in the past; usually it's pretty well balanced, though. I have had some hearing problems in my left ear ever since my neurosurgery back in February though - the 1khz - 4khz stuff just isn't there in that ear and sometimes everything sounds garbled in that ear. When doing mixes, I've just learned not to worry if the lead vocal sounds like it's panned right somewhere - if I flip the headphones and it still sounds offsides right, I figure there's just not much I can do about that. For what it's worth, I haven't had any complaints about my mixes sounding lopsided in the review threads since then...
Yeah, I suspect I just have some blockage. I've used a tone generator to map out the hearing in both ears somewhat (although it's hard to do thanks to how the brain has its own dynamic range compression in it), but what I do know is that my left ear is tapering off a bit more quickly above 8KHz, and loses all responsiveness at about 14800Hz (whereas my right ear is good to at LEAST 15500Hz, possibly higher since I'm not sure if it's being attenuated in my ear or in my headphones). I have of course used both sides of my headphones on both ears to verify that it's my ears and not the headphones.

Anyway, as a result, pretty much all treble is skewing right, and I'm just listening to things in mono and looking at my meters to see if the stereo is acceptable. Which I know is going to suck (but I usually keep my stereo stuff fairly low-key anyway so maybe it's not a problem).
That happened to me a little over a year ago. I asked Manhattan Glutton to mix for me, and won that fight. If you're late, it's not a huge deal.

In my case it turned out to be an infection, so get thee to a doctor!
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okay this fucking ear is getting worse and yeah it's almost definitely an infection but there's no way I can reasonably work on this anymore, so I'm just going to submit what I have and damn the consequences.
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