José the Bronx Rican

My impromptu list of other artificial delays that are not about the muzicks: Crediting the original composers Listing of artists and other people behind the arrangements Corresponding album artwork MP3 tags with proper aforementioned info Announcements on web and social media Album website Album trailer (I could finally relax!) Youtube previews Humorous observation on my part; please leave it as such.

Well, not me, 'cause I'm no judge ;P But, hey, by all means. I like a challenge as much as anybody, and going by what Larry says, I think the J's could stand more attempts to be the 'one' that gets through. The guideline can be seen as a reminder to those who are not masters of this 'chip' craft (or the ones holding their breath for that 'instant dubstep' app) to simply be aware of the odds.

They won't take the hint on their own. :lol: I KEED, I KEED!!

Absolutely agreed, but that kind of thing can't be 'half-assed', can it? I love it when people do that: it clearly shows they care, which goes back to my point that if you're gonna 'chip' us, absent certain production elements, that level of craftsmanship would probably be a minimum requirement.

Yet another "where do we draw the line" argument. I thought it was fairly evident that the main intent of this rule was to prevent the kind of half-ass, 'auto-pilot' production that - you can argue against it if you like - is ridiculously easy with 'chip' sounds. Any amateur programmer can do it. Production and engineering effort is mostly unnecessary. And even a single live violin or piano rises above the 'basic tone' description. Not everyone can perform, engineer, record and mix live strings and Gregorian chants. You bet that would get consideration, but see how far you get with one-second samples of strings and Gregorian chant piled together without any regard for the usual mixing techniques. Bottom line is, if the OP even has to ask the original question, he/she is someone, or knows someone, or wants someone, who's willing to try and is not likely to succeed looking for that one 'magic bullet' exception or loophole. That's what we're discouraging.

It's all fixed. I won't go into details, but it was an extremely quick and slightly sloppy fix that was done at my end when a replacement to the original upload was needed. I since cleaned up further: everything is now intact, and this file will be available in the torrent upon release.

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I definitely LOL'd. And thanks to Mirby for the reminder; can't have the trailer without you-know-what in there somewhere.

Don't forget to mention that when we do give CDs out, it will usually be at one of our convention appearances, either with a shirt or other merch purchase, or as a prize, limited, of course, to whatever stock is on hand at the time. So if a physical printing does become a reality, be sure to keep an eye on our event calendar.

Ha, that is interesting for one definition of the word 'constant'; the definition in this context is unrelenting continuation. It's a reference to the old TV staple "Wide World of Sports". If no one remembers that program, they surely remember some part of the taglines: 'Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport. The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat. The human drama of athletic competition.'

Starting with the understanding that 'mastering' covers more than what's being discussed here... "Experience doesn't always sound good," but no one brings up what guarantees we hope to expect from LACK of it. And how about the 'education' part? Know-how does play into it. Also interesting that 'Antigravity' and 'Fittest' were brought up, both of which were done by someone who currently offers professional mastering services. No one would argue that the pros can get it 'wrong' sometimes in the opinion of many listeners, but the implication that 'pro' is as much a crap-shoot as 'DIY' is a honking great conceit. You're much, MUCH more likely to get amazing results from someone who makes it his or her profession. But do your homework and find a good pro, if you care enough, like Rozo does, about getting your product to sound as polished as possible to as many people as possible. If the choice was between someone like Bernie Grundman, who's done everything from Steely Dan to Dr. Dre, and whose name is guaranteed to be found in everyone's album collection, or someone with Audacity and a soft-knee compressor/limiter VST... well, you'd be shit outta luck, because you probably can't afford Bernie Grundman. However, I'm comfortable recommending zircon, who likely is affordable, and is proven. All that said, I don't think it's necessary to list examples of well-mastered albums, because I'm certain your all-time favorite albums will fill the bill quite nicely. And it helps to study each whole album, backwards and forwards, to understand as much as you can how peaks and dynamic ranges between tracks are controlled, among other things. Goes without saying we should keep learning, whether or not we let someone else do it for us.

POW!

Has it really been that long since the "WHAT ANOTHER ONE GEEZ ENOUGH MEGA MAN ALREADY" era?

Naw, there was plenty shaking in the city, depending how high up you were in buildings designed to 'sway' in high winds and quakes (as opposed to 'crumble'), although where we were, in the basement at Jacobi Medical Bldg. 1, we didn't feel a thing; I almost felt bad. I dunno how I'd react in an actual tremor. Naturally, a lot of people panicked and evacuated several floors, although the disaster bell code that was put in place after 9/11 never rang. People are saying 'NYC' and 'East Coast' quake (with schizophrenic news reports mentioning the 'Virginia' quake that hit 'New York'; which is it?), and they also cleared out of City Hall and police headquarters. I'm afraid now I'll never hear the end of it from the media and politicians who want to spend billions upon billions to 'prepare' the city for something that may never happen again in our lifetimes. The epicenter area, however, is a different matter, and I hope our concentration of staff there is all well and good.

Thanks for the Terrahawks reference; I knew it was from one of those Super-Marionation joints.

There may be several; I'm not sure the Tin Man counts. I added more in the spreadsheet: Twiki and Theopolis, and I was right about the Tom & Jerry short... it's called Guided Mouse-ille.

14 - ED-209, Robocop. I'm having too much fun.

And at 32, Wheelie from old Transformers; we see what they did thurr. 46 - from Woody Allen's Sleeper

151 - 7-Zark-7 from Battle of the Planets

47 - Maria from Metropolis. Nice.

And... 152 - Herbie from the Fantastic Four cartoon, back when the Human Torch wasn't allowed on television 174-175 - from an old theatrical short, may be a Chuck Jones Tom & Jerry, I'll see if I can find out 33 - Jet Jaguar 6 - Klaatu... 'barada nikto' 8 - Robot Monster 38 - Red Dwarf's Kryten

The Guardian from Laputa is probably a better answer, but I saw it as the robot vehicle from episode 155 of Lupin the 3rd, second series, which might've come first. It's the same design.

Consider that the original youtube ReMix video had a runtime of 9-minutes-some-odd in order to accommodate the old upload time limit, as well as the record-holder for longest OC ReMix at the time (Disco Dan's 'Blue Lightning'). Consider now that I was just asked for an extension of that video.

Sorry for the wait, Den; I went through a bit of work in making the whole design CMYK-safe, knock on wood. I didn't see a reason for you not to be able to post your work to deviant, but made sure to run it by Dave anyway. He says no problem. To all, everything is virtually final; no additional art needed. Thanks everyone for your interest. We sincerely appreciate it. Be on the lookout; I expect there'll be updates to the torrent & stuff after printing.