Hey moskus...

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Jagular said:
All right Hey Moskus Band bandmates. I am seriously studying the vocals and lyrics in the original versoin. From that endevor, I have a challenge for you. At 3:09 in the original version there is a softly sung phrase. I can't for the life of me make it out. I can make out every word of the rest of the song, ad lib phrases and all at the end of the piece except for this one. I'd love to hear what you all think it says. If nothing else maybe we can reach a concensus on what we think it says so I don't sound like a total jack ass when it is finally sung. :D.

Ok...here's my first attempt at deciphering it :D.

It sounds like..."Oh I'd like to Donna" kind of slurred together.

OK..that's my first shot at it. What do you guys think it says.

I was actually going to try to attempt a vocal tonight because my wife went to be early, but I'm having hardware problems (my speakers. So I figured becoming intimately familiar with the lyrics would be a good thing to spend some time on anyway. :D
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You got me. Sounds like, "Ah, like to die now." But, of course, that doesn't make much sense in the context of the song.
 
Jaymz,

Could you possibly create the kick track for BPOM and upload it for me again? Otherwise I'll just use a kick which I've got and create it from the MIDI track.

Let me know.

Thanks,

Porter
 
Porter - if you're doing a mix, I uploaded an update to the elec piano track to the moskus server. No big changes, but I added a couple of things to it to fill some spots in the mix.

I also uploaded another guitar track (from yours truly). It covers some of the same ground that moskus and bluesmeister covered, but it'll give some additional choices. You could chop it up and just use sections - or not use it at all. Just giving everyone more options. I'll be interested to see what everybody (anybody) does. :D

Sax tracks should hopefully be available on the server by early next week. Lt. Bob sent 8 tracks, said to pick whichever one we wanted (or to chop them apart and mix and match). Lot's more options guys. :D
 
Porter, I appologize for not answering for that long. It's not because I'm ignoring you, but...

I'm away from home for a month.... AAARRRGGHHH!!!!!

My company sent me to other town now, and assigned me to give training for clients company's customer suport section which is now using our software. It's been very very bussy days, and though I have access to internet, I don't have much time to surf. FYI, now I must work 6 AM to 9 PM everyday, because the project should be done before Dec 31. So, I am realy sorry my friend...

Anyway, I've checked the file you mentioned, and tried to download it. I guess the kick works fine in my office PC. I'm not sure what went wrong. Indeed it has smaller size, but it works. I haven't checked deeper because there's no audio application in my office PC. I played it with winamp only. I need to know if anyone has same problem with the file, or in case it only happens to you, then maybe you can re-record the file for you (we got the .cwp file and the soundfont there, right?). I guess it will be interesting. Otherwise, we'll have to wait until I come home and re-check to solve the problem. Once again, I appologize my frineds...

Thanks fella... :)

;)
Jaymz
 
NP Jaymz,

I dont' have the sound font, however I have a selection of Kicks which I will go through and try and find an appropriate track. I couldn't get the track to line up at all!! It was almost as if it was playing at a different speed or something.. could someone else please confirm that for me?

Porter
 
Daniel - just take James' midi track and route it to a DXi bass drum. Any DXi, it doesn't matter. Then bounce the midi track and the DXi to create an audio track. Line that track up against James' audio track and see how they compare.

That should tell you if there is a problem with James' track.
 
drum roll please

I posted a final version of BPOM on moskus' server. It's in the current mix folder - BPOM Full Mix 12-14. This one has Lt Bob's sax in it.

Not too shabby considering how this was put together. Many of the tracks started life as 128 kbps mp3 files - not the highest of starting quality. :rolleyes: If anyone would care to send me wave files instead (Pedulist? Jagular?) it could help increase the quality.

Take a listen and see what you think.

In the meantime, if anyone has a place we can post the file, we can run it through the mp3 clinic and see what the unwashed masses think of it.

Tomorrow I will put Lt. Bob's tracks up on the server, for those of you mixing along at home. :D
 
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dachay2tnr said:
I posted a final version of BPOM on moskus' server.
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WHOHO!!!!

:D :D :D :D

Nice work, Dachay!


Group hug, everyone. I know you want to!
 
I have put Lt. Bob's tracks up on the server. There are 4 files in total. Each file has two tracks on it - one on the left channel and one of the right. You will need to split the stereo files into two mono files, which will give you a total of 8 tracks to choose from (more if you make a compliation track and choose sections from different tracks).
 
Re: drum roll please

dachay2tnr said:
If anyone would care to send me wave files instead (Pedulist? Jagular?) it could help increase the quality.
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Yes, I can. But I've reinstalled my PC lately and I don't know Moskus' FTP address, userid and password anymore.

Otherwise I could upload it.

I can also open my FTP ports for you, Dachay. You know my mail address (I'll send you a mail in a sec, just to be sure). We figure something out OK?
 
Pedulist - I tried to download from your machine, but it refused me. I sent you an e-mail about it.

I'm assuming from his message that moskus sent you the info about his friend's server. Do you want to try it that way?

It will also give you a chance to listen to the full mix I posted.
 
Re: drum roll please

dachay2tnr said:
I posted a final version of BPOM on moskus' server. It's in the current mix folder - BPOM Full Mix 12-14. This one has Lt Bob's sax in it.

Not too shabby considering how this was put together. Many of the tracks started life as 128 kbps mp3 files - not the highest of starting quality. :rolleyes: If anyone would care to send me wave files instead (Pedulist? Jagular?) it could help increase the quality.

Take a listen and see what you think.

In the meantime, if anyone has a place we can post the file, we can run it through the mp3 clinic and see what the unwashed masses think of it.

Tomorrow I will put Lt. Bob's tracks up on the server, for those of you mixing along at home. :D
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I definitely will send along the final vocal in a wav file. :D

Would it be possible to put a current mix up without vocals? Purrrdy Please?? :D I will get a better idea of how to weave the "improv" type vocals aroud the instrumentation. Especially the sax part. Those two parts kind of play on each other in the original and I'd like to do that here too. I tried taking the Ambrosia recording and import it to my project and work off of that in the background. They don't line up that well though. I had to cut it apart a bit to get it workable. A current mix without the lead vocal would be most helpful :)
 
John - I can do that. :)

However, I think there are gonna be some issues. Neither moskus' guitar solo or Lt Bob's sax solo's follow the original recording. As such, I don't know how well the improv's are going to work with them.

I need to listen to the original recording again. I thought that at the end of the song there were two sections of chord progression with no sax (where the improv takes place) followed by an additional two sections with a sax solo (which fades out). Lt Bob, however, played in all 4 sections. That certainly fills things out in the current version of the song (since the improv isn't there), but it may create problems when you go to do it.

Bottom line, I'll make you up a mix without vocals and see what you can do with it. However, if you find that we need to remove some of the sax, let me know.

I guess these are some of the issues you run into when no one has ever had a chance to rehearse the song together. :D

Give me a couple of days. Do you want me to e-mail it to you? In the meantime, why don't you take a listen to the mix I posted yesterday. That might give you a better idea of what I'm talking about.
 
Thanks Mike!!! :D

My feeling is if Lt. Bob got some jammin' sax in there (which I'm sure is the case) I'll work around it. Most of that extra vocal stuff isn't that important to the song and quite frankly, some of it at the end is a bit hard to sing :D. This doesn't have to sound just like the original :D. It's downloading now as slow as molasses in January, but when I get it I'll take a listen. If nothing else, I'll try to sneak up here and burn it to a cd in the morning before I go off to work.

I tried a vocal track the other night and it just wasn't happening. Especially the falsetto parts. But I will get one!!! I'll just have to baby my voice that day :D.
 
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Jagular said:
My feeling is if Lt. Bob got some jammin' sax in there (which I'm sure is the case) I'll work around it. Most of that extra vocal stuff isn't that important to the song and quite frankly, some of it at the end is a bit hard to sing :D. This doesn't have to sound just like the original.
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I agree, John, so no problem. Lt. Bob already thinks we're crazy for redoing the vocal anyway (and he may be right). He feels while you may get a technically better performance, it might sound a bit sterile compared to this one.

Before we had the sax, I thought the ending really needed the ad lib vocals - as there wasn't enough going on. That's much less a problem now with the added sax.

It's your call. But either way, I want a wave file. :)
 
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