Not broadcast quality?

[Kantele Man]

Hi Folks,
I joined taxi soon two years ago and have had a couple of forwards and several returns.
What I do could be called quirky instrumentals, and this time I sent in three to a listing called Y110610CM which was about humorous instrumentals or something like that (sorry for not remembering the exact wording). Two of these were forwarded, and one was returned. I'm quite happy about that, but what really puzzles me is: The one that was returned was returned for "Not Master/Broadcast Quality" and further they had checked the box "Recording".
That song was the only one of the three recorded in a professional studio, and taken directly from my CD "The Runaway Kantele" while the two forwarded ones were recorded at home, one of them even on a Tascam 144 Portastudio, the other one using, among other sound sources, a Roland S-220 sampler (my first sampler).
Is there something here I should understand better?

[rpittelman]

Can you give us a link so we can hear the tunes?

Congrats on the forwards

Thanks,
Robbie

[Kantele Man]

Thanks, Robbie!

I'm new to this, so I hope this will work: http://www.taximusic.com/hosting/songs.php?userid=29529

and the songs in question were: A Battery-powered Sea Villain (not forwarded), Lapsang Souchong, and Title theme from "Siri Serpentin och Fanny Fjäder".

Best wishes,
Stani

[sedge]

Hi Folks,
I joined taxi soon two years ago and have had a couple of forwards and several returns.
What I do could be called quirky instrumentals, and this time I sent in three to a listing called Y110610CM which was about humorous instrumentals or something like that (sorry for not remembering the exact wording). Two of these were forwarded, and one was returned. I'm quite happy about that, but what really puzzles me is: The one that was returned was returned for "Not Master/Broadcast Quality" and further they had checked the box "Recording".
That song was the only one of the three recorded in a professional studio, and taken directly from my CD "The Runaway Kantele" while the two forwarded ones were recorded at home, one of them even on a Tascam 144 Portastudio, the other one using, among other sound sources, a Roland S-220 sampler (my first sampler).
Is there something here I should understand better?

Hey Stani, learning here too but so far I have gathered;

1) be happy that your track is good and it just didn't fit a certain listing.
If you can't move on - send it to Taxi for a custom critique mentioning it was rejected due to recording quality.
Even paste in the listing detail, I think the screener will welcome this kind of targeted critique.

- make tons and tons and tons of music

Your particular listing may have been heavily weighted to look at recording quality and you were up against "professional GOD engineers", or needed plenty of eq space for a voice over, many many reasons.

Certainly wack it over to the Peer2Peer thread , folks on there are really really good.

while the two forwarded ones were recorded at home, one of them even on a Tascam 144 Portastudio

I think there is a small confusion between "sound" and broadcast quality. A lower budget recording , to some, does have a charm , and will work in the right scene better than a high quality studio recording. Or even at a major studio they can and do things to record and make it "sound" budget.

So, for a certain listing your recording could be too high quality, hows that for a melon buster haha!
Its all about what the listing calls for and not about the tune submitted.

Everyone on Taxi has had confusing returns, in the main I think we just move on to the next fun mission when this happens!
we musos can't afford to let Taxi make us doubt our music or its quality, and from what I see , Taxi push with each Taxi live and newsletter to show this is not their aim.

- it was only a few mins of a persons time searching for what they consider right for a certain listing that has now been and gone.

Hope I helped, this is a similar response I received and helped the doubt demons chill for me, its proper tough to not get in a thinking circle over these.

"We are lucky to have the cash, the opportunity and talent to do this" - is somat I have on a post it note in the studio : O


Sedge

[rpittelman]

Your link didn't work. It brought me to your screen where you upload your music but it wouldn't play the song. There are a few ways that you can post a link. Most common is to send people to your taxi webpage. Its just taxi.com then a slash then your taxi username. Look at my signature and you can see mine.

I like to make a link right to the song. Eventhough your link wouldn't play I was able to grab your song ID# from that screen and make a link for you bellow. Is this the right tune?

http://www.taximusic.com/stream/258922/ ... ain%20.mp3

-Robbie

[Kantele Man]

Yes, the link you (Robbie) made plays my song "A battery-powered sea villain" - I must learn to link directly to the songs ASAP.

Well, there's much to learn, really: Another thing I just tried was to give a link to a picture of me (for an avatar). Maybe later.

Hey Stani, learning here too but so far I have gathered;

1) be happy that your track is good and it just didn't fit a certain listing.
If you can't move on - send it to Taxi for a custom critique mentioning it was rejected due to recording quality.
Even paste in the listing detail, I think the screener will welcome this kind of targeted critique.

Your particular listing may have been heavily weighted to look at recording quality and you were up against "professional GOD engineers", or needed plenty of eq space for a voice over, many many reasons.

Certainly wack it over to the Peer2Peer thread , folks on there are really really good.

I think there is a small confusion between "sound" and broadcast quality. A lower budget recording , to some, does have a charm , and will work in the right scene better than a high quality studio recording. Or even at a major studio they can and do things to record and make it "sound" budget.

So, for a certain listing your recording could be too high quality, hows that for a melon buster haha!
Its all about what the listing calls for and not about the tune submitted.

OK - I know! And I don't doubt the quality of the recording of "A battery-powered sea villain" either, I just was a bit surprised. If they'd said it was off target I could have overstood it better!

As for those tons and tons of music I usually work the other way: I make very little music, but I spend lots of time on it. I'm slow in that way, but I'll upload more music sooner or later.

- it was only a few mins of a persons time searching for what they consider right for a certain listing that has now been and gone.


Sedge

Best wishes,

[sedge]

OK - I know! And I don't doubt the quality of the recording of "A battery-powered sea villain" either, I just was a bit surprised. If they'd said it was off target I could have overstood it better!

of course, no suck eggs intended and I find myself too scratching the head on some Y/N returns.

If you know, then you know , you know that there is no sense from our perspective on some returns.

You could submit the same track for a different listing and find that the same recording IS broadcast quality.

because, for some listings it will be, as you know.

Best to post in p2peer with the listing details ect or if the replies we take the time to write are not helping, as suggested, post it for a custom critique, including the listing too for further clarity

Sedge

[Kantele Man]

OK! I already had a look at the P2P page - haven't posted anything yet: Must work tonight (just having a break now) driving a (what else?) TAXI all night

Don't care about a custom review - in fact, if I remember right, that very song was forwarded once before...

[rpittelman]

I finally had a chance to take a listen to your tune. I really think that I would need to read the actual listing to try and offer any useful advice on this. I've been a Taxi member for just over 3 years now and I've found that much of our success or failure really depends on how well we can interpret the listings.

Here's how you can make one of those links for your tune...

The easiest way is to just send people to your taxi page by typing this....

http://taxi.com/yourtaxiusername

Of course you would type your actual taxi username at the end. This works but I think doing it this way is cooler

Go to the "My Music" section of your taxi account and click the Edit button of the tune you want. Once that page comes up look at the web address in the address bar. It will have a bunch of stuff there but one of the things will say something like "song_id=347637". That 6 digit number is the ID# for your song. Once you have that little bit of info you type this...

I will give you an example using a tune of mine called "The Remains of Sanity". I will type it in quotes so that the computer doesn't recognize it as an actual link so you can see everything that I've typed.

"http://www.taximusic.com/stream/347637/ ... ity%20.mp3"

now here's the link without the quotes...

http://www.taximusic.com/stream/347637/ ... ity%20.mp3

Pretty cool, huh?

-Robbie