FP Mega Collaboration Admin Thread

[bandcoach]

Ladies/Gentlemen and Others
(hard to know what gender role someone has when communicating via forums and e-mails)

The time is upon us to commence on an endeavour that some call foolhardy and others just cringe in fear of whenever it is mentioned: the multi-producer collaboration.

Given that most producers tend to be individualists and loners, with high egos, it is no wonder that many are frightened by the concept of someone else taking their work and making it fit into a big jigsaw-like production.

There will be no attempt to

• steal your ideas (fear #1) or
• copyright the work in one persons name (fear #2)

You will need to

• subdue your ego (fear #3) and
• accept that your ideas may not be usable in this production (fear #4) and
• know that you are respected regardless of your contribution

Storage is located at bandcoach.org (actually nirraic.com, which is the master account name for my current crop of domains) and will not be difficult to access unless you do not have access to ftp facilities (unlikely as every browser allows you to use ftp:// as a protocol). I will give you the ftp address, username and password in a separate e-mail once you have committed to the project.

Submissions may consist of any legitimate part of a track, i.e.

• Drums
• bass
• Keys
• Arps
• Melodies
• Raps
• Sweeteners - Brass, Strings, woodwinds, etc
• etc.

They should be sent as

• preliminary stereo mixes
• in mp3 320kbps cbr format
• labelled as your-screen-name

e.g. bandcoach-MegaCollab.mp3

This will allow you quick, easy, uploads and downloads, as the size of the mp3's even at these hig-quality settings is about 1/10th of a wav/aiff file of the same length.

When we are ready to do a final mix, you will need to submit your individual full-length track components, clearly identified with your screen-name and the name of the track as a wav or AIFF; e.g.
bandcoach-kick.wav, bandcoach-snare.wav, etc

They need to be full length, mono (unless the instrument is a stereo instrument) as I do not use pro-tools and most projects in pro-tools use the project track to show individual track off-sets from the start of the project.

I expect that this will be a two week experiment.

If you feel the need to send a complete track try to restrict yourself to about 90 seconds or so, so that we can mix and match easily.

It would be cool if you could put your key into your track title or even use open ended percussion links at the start and finish.

There are no confirmed participants right now, but the following have been sent the invitation e-mail (which is pretty much as above):

Bobcat;fataltone;iceberg760;MegaloDeez;JPride;JohnRiddle;FLBeatMaker;L_Houdini;M.C.-Exclusivo;killerkraut

If you have any questions or complaints please let me or bobcat know via personal message.

Cheers

BC

[Bobcat]

chagned "are" to "may"

Edit this once again please! Nah, just kidding

By the way, what exactly do you mean with this:

use open ended percussion links at the start and finish

Does that have anything to do so we know when a percussion kicks in? Because I was wondering how'd we do that, I thought we could record the metronome over the (temporary) sound, because with not-so-obvious-drums people may not know where to place them exactly when experimenting with them. I see lots of instruments on kicks coming here instead of offset instruments hehe! (if it's ment to be offset)

[bandcoach]

open-ended percussion in this sense means a sort of intro/outro setup that uses only the percussion to allow for cross-fades if needed from compete tracks to individual stem contributions to complete tracks and so on.....

e.g I have a full track - I add 10 seconds of my percussion groove to the start and another 10 seconds of the groove at the end, so that a cross-fade can happen without me getting all bitchy about the end or the beginning of my "track" being covered in someone-else's muck.....

[Bobcat]

Oh of course, I see what you mean now!

---------- Post added at 11:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:39 PM ----------

I have made some kind of little groove which I will upload tomorrow, maybe we could expand it to create our melody! That means, if all persons involved like it of course.

I also tried to connect to the server, just to test everything, and all works fine.

---------- Post added 06-12-2012 at 09:40 PM ---------- Previous post was 06-11-2012 at 11:51 PM ----------

Nobody up for this anymore or what?!

[L_Houdini]

i'm up. for filler i could contribute a 1 minute or so track with tempo changes, ending and beginning with whatever you guys plan on moving with for the overall track/project

[noblewordz]

Sorry I don't have a lot of time for FP lately and missed the beginning of this.

Is there a set BPM, style or sound?

Or we all contribute what we want into a big pot and stuff is pulled from the pot to construct the track?

I'm in BTW.

[Bobcat]

Yeah we decided we'll produce the track at 110 BPM, and it will be written in C. And yes we throw everything in a big pot (as long as it's 110 BPM and in C!) to construct our track!

The 'big pot' is on bandcoach's server - but I have the feeling that people are too lazy to download a very simple and small app to conect to the server, because we had like 5 people in total and it seems like everyone's gone...

---------- Post added 06-13-2012 at 11:49 PM ---------- Previous post was 06-12-2012 at 11:42 PM ----------

Wow, nobody has uploaded anything yet, I really think we can forget that and we set up all for nothing... well bandcoach did, we did nothing at all

[noblewordz]

lol gimme a chance

[Bobcat]

Man if we're just like two or three it's not even worth it.... we would have been 6 or 7 in total, but everyone seems to be gone...

[bandcoach]

No, I'm figuring it will take a week or so before everyone is down with contributing something; some of us work day jobs and don't have a lot of time at the end of the workday, others have nothing but time......