The THIRTY second rule...

[Slackmaster2K]

Here's the deal. Many of you haven't even recorded your Comp CD songs yet, and you're guessing at the running time. That's fine, but I'm making a rule (YOU BASTARD SLACKMASTER!)

Keep your submission within 30 seconds MAX of the running time you sent me. That is, if you said your song is "around 3 minutes", that means that the maximum length of your song will be 3:30. Tough titties if you don't like it. We need a good maximum running time before we can decide what to do with the remaining space.

With 25 or so guys, the 30 Second Rule will pad our run time by roughly 12 minutes in a worst case scenario which isn't too bad.

Slackmaster 2000

[crazyhorse]

Great idea! My little ditty is done but i burned it to cd and listned to it in my work truck, oh my god! Sounded like hercules on the kick drum with superman on the bass. So I'm gonna go back and cut some lows which will change the size of my file (slightly) but basically leave the running time intact. I kind of figured the file size was more crucial to the cd than the runtime but what do I know.
Slack, starting to detect a little moxy in those e-mails, I think that's cool. Thanks for donating your efforts. I think we're gonna have to come up with a new title for you. Maybe you could be knighted or something. Sir Slackmaster2k !

[Slackmaster2K]

crazy,

Cutting the bass in your recording will in no way change the file size, except perhaps under certain compression schemes (stripping insignificant zero bits perhaps)...but that's not the case here and would never effect the final length of the song on CD. (since it will be converted back to 16bit 44khz audio when going to CD)

If you record 16bit audio, you're going to get 16bits per sample whether it's super loud or super quiet....super bassy or not super bassy...etc

All that is important is song length. It and file size are one in the same. All CD's can hold 74 minutes of audio, whether it be rap or John Denver

Thanks!

Slackmaster 2000