exclusive to blip.fm, into the grey
Written by William F. DeVault on June 7, 2009 – 3:38 pm -Just, mere moments ago, finished uploading the new track from the upcoming CD "blister" to blip.fm, for your tasting. It is called "into they grey". Very minimalist and only a hair over 2 minutes long.
Take a taste and let me know what you think.
blip.fm/profile/williamfdevault/blip/13119537
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June 8th, 2009 at 8:33 am
[…] Written by William F. DeVault on June 8, 2009 – 8:32 am - As responses come in on "into the grey" I am extremely gratified by the almost universal positive response, not just from the usual […]
June 8th, 2009 at 11:22 am
i thought there was something wrong with the track. it seemed shaky and echoed to the point where i kept restarting it to hear your words. as well it sounded tin-like and canned. is this my player, or?!?!??! if not the words standing still on the page are much better than trying listen to what you done in the studio. i don’t understand what you mean by “laying down tracks.” do you and the guys record the music first and then layer in your voice? sorry, lots of questions but i don’t understand the lack of sound quality, and as i said maybe it’s my player/computer or whatever, but the words are better left hooked to the page if this is what the outcome is. i couldn’t really hear or understand and walked away from the whole thing with a echoing headache.
June 8th, 2009 at 11:45 am
It could be an incompatibility between your player and the system they use (if so, I am sorry). As for the “laying down of tracks”…first comes the poem. Then comes the vocal recording. Then comes the music (the musicians hate me, as I make them compose to my voice, not sing or recite to their tune, but I want it as pure to the written word as possible).
June 9th, 2009 at 5:13 am
Rhonda (or R, if you prefer)…
I have an email into Kevin, my synthesizer guy, to see what he thinks. We used a single synthesized bass track (canned music, per se, won’t work as it has to be gen’d to sync to my vocal speed and nuance and that is more work than you might imagine). Funny, usually our mix down problems occur more when we have multiple music tracks.
I know in the earlier engineering of it, we had a problem with the bass being too…er…bass. If it was just one computer having that problem, I’d say it was somehow bass boosting, but what are the odds that two would?
I played it back, both the track as such and off of blip and didn’t have any trouble, on three different machines…might also have to do with connection speed (the blip.fm player doesn’t like slow connections).
But I will check it out. Let me know what players you are using and that might help my diagnostic. If there is a problem with some systems, I am glad you spoke up (glaring at the people who may have had a problem and just didn’t want to say anything).
June 10th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Rhonda, still working on the issue. Kevin checked the master, and I tried it on several machines, via blip.fm, then contacted several of the people who had told me they had listened to it, from their personal or work computers in various countries and the US and not one reported the problem you were having on two different machines.
I am baffled.