Did you hear about the roomer? (pre-fight)

Post by **Spud** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:49 am

The Rumor Lives Strong
Due: Monday, 09/06/10 9:59am pdt
mp3 with artist name sent to fightmaster@songfight.org

subject: The Rumor Lives Strong
message: Your Band Name
attachment: yourbandname_trls.mp3

ujnhunter · Post by **ujnhunter** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:42 am

I done heard...

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:16 am

Eh, this one's not talking to me. Then again, neither did "The Middle Part," so who knows what I'll do? I'm crazy!

sleepysilverdoor · Post by **sleepysilverdoor** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:48 pm

I have ideas. No idea if I'll actually get it done, as the semester has started.

bottle_knife · Post by **bottle_knife** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:16 am

I submitted some album art for "The Rumor Lives Strong"...my art account was still open.

My last submission was about 5 years ago, after that things got crazy at work, got married, and had two kids.

Apologies to King Arthur if I stepped on your toes. It looks like you have a series going on. I didn't mean to interrupt your crop of featurings.

-TJ/bottleknife

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:44 pm

bottle_knife wrote:I submitted some album art for "The Rumor Lives Strong"...my art account was still open.

My last submission was about 5 years ago, after that things got crazy at work, got married, and had two kids.

Apologies to King Arthur if I stepped on your toes. It looks like you have a series going on. I didn't mean to interrupt your crop of featurings.

-TJ/bottleknife

Hey, no problem, I'm running low on ideas anyway. Welcome back, please bring teh awesome!

Charles (KA)

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:37 pm

bottle_knife wrote:I submitted some album art for "The Rumor Lives Strong"...my art account was still open.

My last submission was about 5 years ago, after that things got crazy at work, got married, and had two kids.

Apologies to King Arthur if I stepped on your toes. It looks like you have a series going on. I didn't mean to interrupt your crop of featurings.

-TJ/bottleknife

Nice art! I'm glad I'm not the guy who has to choose between these two submissions.

Anyway, only one out of three of those rumors is demonstrably true.

wages · Post by **wages** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:29 am

Hoglen and I have an idea for this, already wrote the lyrics and melody, so we're recording tonight. I hope it goes well! Let's just say that lyrically, it doesn't seem to be an obvious choice, but that's just the rumor.

joshmillard · Post by **joshmillard** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:00 pm

Thought I was going to take a week off to recuperate a little, but a goddam idea crawled into my head this morning so I think I'm in. Turns out it's a country song, that should be a fun change of pace from the LOUD FAST ARGLEARGLEARGLE stuff I've submitted so far. We'll see if I can fake up some pedal steel with overdubs on my Casino.

BBABM · Post by **BBABM** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:26 pm

finally came up with something, recorded it, but the converter i use seems to be effing with the vocals, so i'm gonna mess with it some more and see if i can get it right before submitting. if not you may have to bear with a sub-par vocal track. Are you allowed to submit a .wav rather than a .mp3?

blue · Post by **blue** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:31 pm

BBABM wrote:finally came up with something, recorded it, but the converter i use seems to be effing with the vocals, so i'm gonna mess with it some more and see if i can get it right before submitting. if not you may have to bear with a sub-par vocal track. Are you allowed to submit a .wav rather than a .mp3?

no.

BBABM · Post by **BBABM** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:41 pm

that's what i figured... oh well.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:45 pm

You might, however, ask around the community and see if anyone else is willing to lend their .mp3 converter of choice to your cause.

wages · Post by **wages** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:25 pm

Our song is recorded. Now I'm trying to add in some finishing touches. Some special finishing touches. Let's say, kind of like a tribute. It will all not be clear soon.

Steve Durand · Post by **Steve Durand** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:35 pm

BBABM wrote:finally came up with something, recorded it, but the converter i use seems to be effing with the vocals, so i'm gonna mess with it some more and see if i can get it right before submitting. if not you may have to bear with a sub-par vocal track. Are you allowed to submit a .wav rather than a .mp3?

get this http://lame.sourceforge.net/

and this http://www.dors.de/razorlame/

And you'll be all set

BBABM · Post by **BBABM** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:58 am

i got it sounding like a million times better, still has a weird warble in it that sounds like the entire thing is going through a weird chorus/echo thing, and it's not there on the .wav but oh well. hopefully, it makes up for the shoddy recording by being a halfway decent song.

Stubby Phillips · Post by **Stubby Phillips** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:34 am

BBABM wrote:i got it sounding like a million times better, still has a weird warble in it that sounds like the entire thing is going through a weird chorus/echo thing, and it's not there on the .wav but oh well.

Are you converting a verified good .wav file to .mp3, or exporting from the DAW? Might be a difference between two files you think are the same.
Otherwise, since I don't know much about this kind of stuff, I have some suggestions:
1) disable your dithering function or correct any incorrect settings therein
2) convert the master to 44.1KHz sample rate (if it is higher) before conversion to .mp3, and
3) make sure it's 16 bit
I'm not sure, but some encoders might introduce modulation artifacts when converting sample rate, bit depth and format at the same time, especially with dithering.

BBABM · Post by **BBABM** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:15 pm

Stubby Phillips wrote: Are you converting a verified good .wav file to .mp3, or exporting from the DAW? Might be a difference between two files you think are the same.
Otherwise, since I don't know much about this kind of stuff, I have some suggestions:
1) disable your dithering function or correct any incorrect settings therein
2) convert the master to 44.1KHz sample rate (if it is higher) before conversion to .mp3, and
3) make sure it's 16 bit
I'm not sure, but some encoders might introduce modulation artifacts when converting sample rate, bit depth and format at the same time, especially with dithering.

i think it was the chorus i had on one vocal track interacting with the compression on another, and it just made my voice really nasal and weird, but it was definitely exaggerated after i converted it. i think this was the 44.1kHz problem you spoke of. so i fixed that but i still didn't like it. so i remixed the tracks with different effect settings and it seems to have corrected itself. i use a really really basic recording program, so unfortunately there aren't a whole lot of options when it comes to exporting the file. i don't even know what dithering is, but ill try and find an option if there is one. either way, i got it to where i am happy with it. honestly, i should have totally re-done the vocal tracks, but i busted my headphones, and it's exhausting singing that long...and im lazy. you guys are awesome, and thank you for all the help. i think you will enjoy it.

Steve Durand · Post by **Steve Durand** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 10:32 pm

I am in.

inevitableguy · Post by **inevitableguy** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 10:55 pm

Only my third fight in 2010? Sad, but true.

But, I am in.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 10:58 pm

It was a nice streak while it lasted; I haven't done three in a row in FOREVER. This week, however, I'm not in. Have fun, guys!

wages · Post by **wages** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:38 am

Hoglen and Wages are in with some experimentalness.

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