Feed back welcome for dispatch listing due 12/10

[montster]

Hey Dan I was on the phone and asked if the info was public and they happily revealed! I am also interested to know what the final picks for listings are, and I guess it's up to the "winners" to post their results. M. Glaskow has mentioned on a number of occasions that the only people who know of the results are the writers and the buyers after deals have been made. I'd imagine there's privacy stuff on the buyer's end, so I guess its's up to the writers to let us all know how they id when stuff gets picked up. You bet I'm gonna be sounding out if/when anything I've submitted gets picked up!So Long! Monty

[djdeweese]

bigdrisk-- Thanks man! I followed your suggestions on bumping up vocals, bringing down reverb, and checking the R/L balance. Don't know if it will make a difference or not, but I appreciate the input. And thanks again for the EQ info. I'm looking into some software that may help me with some visual EQ/compression tools, but, as always, it is hard to justify more musical expenses before any further success. Where did you learn about engineering? Any books to suggest?montster-- Good to know. Best of luck to you (and the rest of the crew) on your efforts to clear the "Country Roads" forwarding hurdle!

[bigdrisk]

Quote:bigdrisk-- Thanks man! I followed your suggestions on bumping up vocals, bringing down reverb, and checking the R/L balance. Don't know if it will make a difference or not, but I appreciate the input. And thanks again for the EQ info. I'm looking into some software that may help me with some visual EQ/compression tools, but, as always, it is hard to justify more musical expenses before any further success. Where did you learn about engineering? Any books to suggest? Learned over the years just from watching and asking questions. Don't know of any books, though I'm sure there are some. Just keep plugging away at it, learning to trust your ears. The trusting my ears part took a looooong time for me. Still not completely confident.

[paults]

"paults I think you came closest to what I imagined when I thought about what the listing said specifically, e.g. "quirky." That word in the description threw me so much I called Taxi for clarification. The woman I spoke to said to aim for something very true to the original, so that's what I did, but when I hear your track I can imagine the TV scene taking place with the characters pretending to be out in the woods in kind of a tongue-in-cheek spoof. I think you have a great shot"DJ - Thanks for the compliments! I was thinking about the montage described in the listing while I put this together - I was specifically going for that kind of tongue in cheek feel, in both the lyrics and melody. Its good to know that I pulled that off I like your tunes - they sound like you're in the running to me!

[djdeweese]

bigdrisk- I just started reading "The Mixing Engineers Handbook" and it emphasizes trusting your ears too, along with, "if it sounds good, it is good" in terms of making a mix work as a coherent whole, regardless of what a track sounds like in mono. paults- I think I'm in the running if they want something thats a little more sound-alike, but I'm giving you the edge for quirky as I think you're right on in terms of reading in between the lines of the listing to give them what will make the scene work. Wonder if they'll review them today?

[paults]

With that "High Noon" deadline, I assumed they would start on them right away. But, if they had 80 songs submitted, they may have started on Monday, and not be done yet. If only one screener is doing these, they would likely split them up into several listening sessions. Imagine trying to spend five hours listening to variations of a single theme!

[bigdrisk]

Yeah, I always wonder about these things. Whether the spot is actually still open after the deadline goes by. I mean . . . these are creative people. I would be surprised if they just sit on their haunches while the world takes a few days to write and submit song ideas. I would think that sometimes they come up with what they want from somewhere else before they even hear our stuff. Twould be a shame, but I don't know how Taxi could prevent that.Anyway, if that were to be the case here, and the person doing the screening is someone involved in the TV show, then there might not be a rush to listen to the submissions.

[paults]

Those are the kind of things you can't worry about, since they're completely out of our control. So, "we places our bets, and takes our chances".One thing I *do* know- the next screener for a singer/songwriter/americana listing is going to wonder why there are 80 John Denver wannabes sending stuff in

[twilsbach]

Like Matto mentioned earlier, they've probably already got the scene cut with Country Road temped in, knowing that licensing for that track isn't in the budget. They've probably moved on to rough-cutting the next scene and will settle on final music when they go back to do the next/final pass.Or something like that.

[djdeweese]

bigdrisk- Ouch... that is a possibility, isn't it. (I wonder if they would even listen to them at that point, or just send the polite, but dreaded, "your listing was not quite on target" email?) Then again, the people producing the show certainly have lots to do, and they must be good at project management, which means they could schedule the time to review music for a week from when they got Taxi to run the listing. Not to mention, since they seem to have some very specific idea of what they want, they may be willing to wait for the Taxi submissions, since it seems like it would be a great way to have people like us spend all weekend creating tracks that are exactly what they are looking for (for free) and have the Taxi screeners give them the best ten or twelve tracks to review.paults- I thought the same thing yesterday when I listened to the half dozen tracks on this thread, and was a little fatigued after just only that many. It would be really hard as a reviewer to really LISTEN to each song after you had heard a couple dozen different tracks all on the same theme.