For the Love of God please help me!!!!

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Eight Minutes To Wapner

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What's the deal with my mix on mp3.com???

The hi-fi version:

http://chooser.mp3.com/cgi-bin/play...AABDBaUOOuSK4hTYqDnlZ_nD3KaFrx8-/splainin.m3u

sounds great, but the lo-fi version:

http://chooser.mp3.com/cgi-bin/play...AABDBaUOOrnFNHDu3jxmWAeJiC6Jo0w-/splainin.m3u

Is totaly whacked.

No bass drum, parts appearing and disappearing like some Vegas magic act.

I used the latest version of musicmatch to convert from 16 bit, 44.1 wav to mp3 at 128 (per mp3.com's requirement).

My other mixes aren't nearly so jacked in the lo-fi version.

Please help.
 
That's one of the drawbacks to the bargain down at mp3.com

But you're right- the hi-fi versions sound great for 128.
That slap bass patch is tasty!
And that one tune just lost chunks of content during the lo-fi conversion. But don't sweat it- this IS a conversion to lo-fi and lo-fi is short for LOW fidelity.... :)

You can find the Nyquist raps elsewhere at this site re: the 24Kbps/22KHz conversion they do to your 128Kbps submission. It suffices for me to say that this a low fidelity format.

You could produce better lo-fi versions yourself and just set up some server space ouside mp3.com with a link at your mp3.com page. Then include a disclaimer/ link in the song description.

I was looping all four of the hi-fi versions at work today.
Who's singing those Philip Glass jungle vocals in Insomnia? That worked well. And I like your choice of percussive melodic patches. Thought the drums needed more work to stay as fresh as it is from time to time. Don't they always?

And here Dobro was complaining that nobody was doing anything even remotely like my stuff.

What's with the name? Is that like the '60s phraseology where instead of giving a time one (not me) would say "Quarter til Star Trek"?

Or are you being sued in less time than it takes to listen to any two of your selections?
 
Thanks for the kind words. It's always good to be getting positive feedback instead of the usual dumpage.

Weird thing about mixing though. You think you've got it right and then go back a week later and listen again, suddenly there's all these glareing problems. Yeah, the drums need tweaking, I couldn't agree more.

re: the name... Watch the movie "Rain Man". You'll get it.

I talked with a friend last night who suggested that the kick drum on "Splainin" might be disapearing because it's a stereo sample and when the extra squish happens it's doing some major phase cancellation. We'll reduce it to mono and see what happens.

Please post a url for any of your work that we might listen too, Mkay?

http://www.mp3.com/eightminutesto
 
Listened to Splainin. Yup, that's the noise, alright. This'd be good to dance to. I like this better than Orbital. Like rhythm, don't you? :)
 
Just wait for the next one...

Working title of "Secret Agent Briefcase of Love"
 
8 Minutes To Wapner:
Listened to "Definitely Not My Underwear", thinking I
could relate to the lyrics...No lyrics, but a great
"It's 3 in the morning & you are listening to member
supported National Public Radio".
Excellent production..Was this all done on computer?
Cool stuff.
DJ
 
Thanks for the complement. Indeed it was created on a computer. Oddly enough, the sound that's like a way distorted guitar is acutally a snippet of Balinese flute that we kept runing through one filter after another in Sound Forge until it came out just ever so.

Also, oddly enough, it was 3 in the morning when we got done with it and yes, we were listening to MPR.

Thanks again

Ed

http://www.mp3.com/eightminutesto
 
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