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Navigating the poor sound quality of Taxi/Soundcloud
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Re: Navigating the poor sound quality of Taxi/Soundcloud
Worth keeping in mind that whatever the screening situation is - it will be the same for all submissions.
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Re: Navigating the poor sound quality of Taxi/Soundcloud
For sure, but having been a judge in singing competitions and worked some track screening in some sub-publishing scenarios- these are always situations where as a judge you just have to shoot from the hip and move. People show up to a singing competition without a backing track, start in the wrong key and can't cover the range all the time- and there is no adjudication panel that's going to try to make this 'fair'. Hopefully the bring a backing track if they try again...that's the thing they should have done.
In this case, it seems possible that 'the thing we should have done' is make our mixes slightly darker, less gritty, more sparse than the references and overall prep them for the lower bit-rate playback.
IOW, if nearly all of the forwards are less gritty, less bright and less dense than the references, then that's the thing we need to do for those types of briefs.
Again this isn't a 'woe is me' situation, I've only written 3 tracks specifically to the briefs and 1 got forwarded. That's great and overall I'm only looking to make sure that I'm not 'showing up without a backing track'.
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Re: Navigating the poor sound quality of Taxi/Soundcloud
Yes, and if you download a Soundcloud track, you get what was uploaded, and not the transcoded 'player' version that you hear on the web. Soundcloud has allowed you to upload full-res WAV files, from the jump. I know, because I was a Beta tester.
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Re: Navigating the poor sound quality of Taxi/Soundcloud
Mixes sound good to me. I wouldn't worry about worry about the things you can't control - we're all in the same boat.
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