A dream? A project for the DUC?

[lison44]

Count me in, if the really happens I'd love to contribute!! Fantastic idea!!!

[Vito Voorheis]

count me in... this sounds like fun [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
-Vito

[valvebrother]

NannerPuddin' (god I miss my grandmas!),

What ever works for you; I dont want to think genres really; I know what I posted was atmospheric, but Im a Jimi, Rush, Floyd fan so I can hear what I did being mixed with jams, all kinds of things, its whatever inspiration the tunes you receive give you!

Ill try and get a little more formal proposal together.

Everyone who has expressed interest; if you could email me Ill start a sign-up.

If you could let me know generally where you are (USA, etc), if you have a high-speed connection and a little about what kind of set-up and music you like, it'll help me organize things.

Damon

[Doc]

Sounds like a great idea and I'd love to be part of it.
Sounds very inspiring. Your idea for the track setup sounds good too. Perhaps
the mixed versions of the songs to be passed along could be sent as a
session with two stereo tracks so that alternate songs can be overlapped and
rearranged as necessary.
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[DesertDude]

"Floyd" is my middle name ... count me in.

[John H]

well I could put up a tutorial page on how to mix tunes together, irrespective of tempo or time signature. It might take a while though.

I use soundhack, protools LE and a calculator, nothing more. I've made compilation CDs of various tunes before now that's started at 130bpm and ended at 160bpm+ (Nu School and Drum n' bass stuff).

You'd be hard pushed to spot any tempo changes or even when one song starts fading in while the other fades out. I do a little bit more than simply crossfading to blend them aswell.

The problem with mixing like this is that you need at least 1 minute 30 seconds, ideally 2 minutes of intro on each tune for it to sound right, you couldn't mix Linkin' Park with Eminem for example because of the fact pop tunes are too short to be mixed gradually, it would be simple cross fades and that would be it.

If anyone wants me to throw a little half hour demo together of various tunes, post you're URLs and I'll put an example together.

I'd need tunes of at least 5 minutes in length minimum aswell. If you're totally sample accurate with you're drum programming/tracking it also helps to eliminate double beats and saves me having to time correct ever bar of the tunes I'm blending.

It could be weekend before I finish it though, It eats space for breakfast. Also I'd have to limit it to half an hour at most and encode it at 128Kbps so I can fit it on my webspace.

[valvebrother]

I've gotten 4 confirmed victims, ummm... I mean volunteers via email:

Crugie, Vito, munxcub, and Frank.

I think the idea of having a minute or so of space, filler, looped mateial, ambient wash, whatever on the beginning and end of each tune is a good idea.

I think everyone should collaborate on these kinds of things as we go along. For instance, if Im going to get a tune from munxcub, I should be talking with him, hearing how things are progressing, forming my own ideas and asking “can you give me 9 bars at the end with drums and the ebow”…etc.

So, anyone else interested email me. Id like to get 10 people/tunes or so.

Then, if we get a bunch more people interested, any additional folks could collaborate with someone among the original ten and work with them one of those 10 tunes.

So, maybe let’s have everyone interested confirm by end of next week? That would be the 21st or so.

Also, Im thinking of running this off of my hotline server; its on a major broadband connection (much more than my home FTP), so, if anyone doesn’t know how to use hotline, let me know. For anyone not on broadband; we can make CDRs.

D

[dkrausz]

I'm interested! I don't have a BB connection so I'd need a CDR. Sorry.

Where do I sign up? [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

dk

[kenhawkins]

I would love to do this, however my team could be just me myself and gear! if you still have open slots.

i would even open this up to anyone in the seattle area who might care to colaborate with me email myself directly. i have the gear 'cept drum mic's (insert Roland XP-60 here).

bring in the cats!

ken;

[Munxcub]

if acceptedon the list, i was planning to do it alone, i doubt there are any DUC'ers on here who also live in battleford [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]