November- rules and downloads

[brandondrury]

Band: Boz Millar/Jayson Brooks Duo Extravaganza
Website: bozrecords.com
Song: New Skin
BPM: 140
Key: Am?

Boz's Tips
There are a lot of tracks to work with. I think people need to not be afraid to pull stuff out. Insturmentaly, I didn't have any big inspiration for doing tracking what I tracked. When I tracked it, I added as many tracks as I could without breaking it, then added a few more. There should be no obligation to keep everything in there.

Brandon's Thoughts
I wanted a contest in which all mixes were CLEARLY different. There's a video on Katy Perry's production of Teenage Dream where Dr. Luke (the producer) is talking about how they have 160 tracks or whatever. Then you hear the song and they have two. Whoever mixes those kinds of tracks is doing a lot of muting. Good. We wanted to do the same thing here. It's not a "remix" contest, but it's your job to find a song in there and bring it out. If you leave all tracks in, it will sound like shit. That's by design.

Contest Rules
You can find all rules for the entire Slate Digital Cup here: Rules, Details, Prizes, Questions, and Comments

That's the place to go if you have any general questions.

Deadline
Last day to enter is the last day of the month. More details.

Downloads
There are multiple zip files. I've done this because it reduces upload errors.

File #1 - You'll have to go through the Slate propaganda for this month (only 3 questions) to download this essential zip file here.
File #2 - Vocals
File #3 - String Pads
File #4 - Guitars Processed
File #5 - Guitar DI


Brandon

[adam_asr10]

Are we gone a get this month file before hurricane sandy bring this world to his knee ...

by destroying all the networks.

New York, New York, ...

"Empire State of Mind" Jay Z | Alicia Keys [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube

[fHumble fHingaz]

Just a heads up guys - I'm guessing the drum room mic is actually mono, because flipping the phase on either the L or R track completely cancels the other out.

[Stan_Halen]

It's 44,1/16 bit. What's the song name?

[fHumble fHingaz]

It's 44,1/16 bit. What's the song name?

I could be wrong here, but the way I see it, only the drum files are 16bit - the others are 24bit.

[Stan_Halen]

Now that you mention it I see the Vox and Guitar_DI and a couple of the Strings/Pads are 24-bit. All the rest are 16-bit. Damn, brought them all into the Pro Tools session as 16-bit since I thought they'd all be the same bitrate.

[bozmillar]

Just a heads up guys - I'm guessing the drum room mic is actually mono, because flipping the phase on either the L or R track completely cancels the other out.

I'll have to download and double check that. on the files I have they aren't the same.

[fHumble fHingaz]

What are the drum samples you used on this, Boz? They sound very, very good.

[bozmillar]

It's 44,1/16 bit. What's the song name?

I took the liberty to not bother upconverting the ezdrummer samples to 24 bit, since they are 16 bit samples to begin with. The vocals and especially the DI guitars I kept at 24 bit. You might as well just make it a 24 bit project.

The name of the song is New Skin.

[bozmillar]

What are the drum samples you used on this, Boz? They sound very, very good.

EZDrummer.

[brandondrury]

If anything is messed up, blame Boz. Ruprect tossed them all in Cubase and they worked so we ran with it. I definitely didn't comb through them with a fine-toothed comb, but Cubase doesn't bother me about such trivial matters as bit depths.

Brandon

[fHumble fHingaz]

Didn't worry me in the slightest -The drums are sounding awesome already!

[kakeux]

Cool, looking forward to play with a Boz song...

[willj]

Youre making the propaganda too easy. i didnt even have to read the article, and got it on the second guess. i think if SS is good enough to donate their products the contestants should be pretty much forced to read the propaganda. At the very least dont tell them which one they missed. just a mans opinion..

[fHumble fHingaz]

Youre making the propaganda too easy. i didnt even have to read the article, and got it on the second guess. i think if SS is good enough to donate their products the contestants should be pretty much forced to read the propaganda. At the very least dont tell them which one they missed. just a mans opinion..

Aww... shut up man, wouldyah! - I got it on the first guess (but don't tell anyone)

[willj]

Aww... shut up man, wouldyah! - I got it on the first guess (but don't tell anyone)

Haha! see!

I got it about 3 months ago on the first guess, but i think i actually had to read the last two months.

i think it was the first month, i couldnt get it right no matter how many times i read it. Man i was soo mad. I thought i was going to have to ask you guys for the answers

[wireman957]

Bits, bytes, butts...should be able to deal with it. Watching Dropkick Murphys on Palladia and eating Halloween candy as I download, so all is right in the world. Looking forward to working with the tracks. Thanks, Boz!

[fHumble fHingaz]

i think it was the first month, i couldnt get it right no matter how many times i read it. Man i was soo mad. I thought i was going to have to ask you guys for the answers

Damn!.. & if we woulda known how good your mixes would turn out, we mighta not told yah!

[ncls]

Ha ha, new song! 4 months to go!
By the way, kudos to Brandon sense of management

Thanks Boz for your song. Another genre for this contest.

[bozmillar]

Just a heads up guys - I'm guessing the drum room mic is actually mono, because flipping the phase on either the L or R track completely cancels the other out.

Oops. Yep. My bad. They're the same on the file I uploaded. I think we'll all survive.

Unless you guys want the other room mic. I'm not sure how much of a logistical pain that would be.

[bobbybovine]

Oh shit Boz, I loved the instrumental version you did of this track. I am very stoked to work on this.

[bozmillar]

Oh shit Boz, I loved the instrumental version you did of this track. I am very stoked to work on this.

I'm excited to see how people interpret these tracks. I'm hoping the overabundance of tracks to work with makes it so each submission sounds different. So far the only other one I've heard is fhumble's and it sounds very different than mine, so it looks like we're off to a good start.

[bobbybovine]

I'm excited to see how people interpret these tracks. I'm hoping the overabundance of tracks to work with makes it so each submission sounds different. So far the only other one I've heard is fhumble's and it sounds very different than mine, so it looks like we're off to a good start.

I already know where I want to take this song, but since I haven't downloaded the tracks yet I have no idea if I will stick with that. That track just has an epic vibe, I may do 2 versions

[brandondrury]

i think if SS is good enough to donate their products the contestants should be pretty much forced to read the propaganda. At the very least dont tell them which one they missed. just a mans opinion..

That job was outsourced to Ruprect because I absolutely hate it. There ain't NEARLY as much propaganda out there as I had hoped. Feel free, willj, to submit questions for next months contest.

Ha ha, new song! 4 months to go!
By the way, kudos to Brandon sense of management

Ha! More like "sense of mismanagement". It always gets a bit hairy when there are 3 contests going on at once. It chews up Brandon's RAM a bit more than I'd like it to. So far no one has died so I'm content.

I loved the instrumental version you did of this track.

[Evil genius rubbing his hands together.]Good.........good.

I can't to see how many males-who-like-noises ruin this song because they can't ignore the titillation of all those cool tracks. I don't think I actually got this through to my brain since this year. Now I just mix like a girl. That's what I call it. The manly mixes won't work this month.

Brandon

[willj]

Knock all the Willj crap off you son of a bitch! .....Anthony Hopkins, Meet Joe Black.