Pimp Your Stuff Thursday
Mar. 25th, 2010 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomA few things for you today:
- I don't believe I properly mentioned I'll be at KittenCon in two weeks.
- Thanks to Eric Coleman, I'll also be at DemiCon in Des Moines, IA, May 14-16.
- Here for your downloading pleasure is a very, very rough mix of "307 Ale". It's nothing close to final, and I'm definitely going to redo the vocals. If you can't tell at the beginning how rough it is, you'll damn sure know during the last verse. But those aren't the important parts.
The important parts are [a] the key and tempo are what they should be, and [b] I want all of you to sing with me.
Rev up your copy of Audacity or whatever, and sing along with the choruses (don't worry about the first one). If you want to sing along with the verses, too, or make boisterous barroom background banter, go for it. And then send me an mp3 (at least 64 Kbps, 128+ Kbps preferred) of just your voice -- either directly e-mailed to me, or e-mail me a link to YouSendIt or MegaUpload or wherever you stash files online.
VERY IMPORTANT! Don't put any effects on it -- dry vocals only -- and make sure you don't have my backing track in the background with it.
And, when I get the final version together, I'll cram as many of you in there as I can, and we'll have the biggest virtual singalong you've ever seen. Deadline is April 26 -- I'd like to have this in time for PenguiCon.
Ready... set... pimp your stuff!
ETA: Gaaaaah. The arrangement got out of whack somehow. Give me five minutes to re-upload... fixed.
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Date: 2010-03-25 04:39 pm (UTC)And, ah...can I steal the idea? I have a song I'm working on that would totally benefit from this kind of treatment. It's my filk of The Beastie Boys' "Girls": "Brains!" (http://ebenbrooks.livejournal.com/316505.html)
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Date: 2010-03-25 04:42 pm (UTC)Crowdsourcing the synth as we did at Lunacon, or the exclamations?
Either way, it sounds like fun.
(As does yours, Tom. I'll put my bit together in my Copious Free Time. Hah.)
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Date: 2010-03-25 05:11 pm (UTC)BTW: this job is a breeze in Reaper. 100 voices, 100 tracks, mixed into a single group and then its output normalized. Hope you have a really fast computer for the 100 gates, compressors and room effects though :)
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Date: 2010-03-25 05:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-25 05:15 pm (UTC)Then, for the first chorus, you use WAV1. For the second track, WAV1 and WAV2. For the third, WAV1, WAV2, and WAV3. This also gives the illusion that the bar is filling up with people as the song plays.
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Date: 2010-03-25 05:17 pm (UTC)Got a webcomic to share...
Date: 2010-03-25 05:12 pm (UTC)* may not make actual sense
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Date: 2010-03-26 02:35 pm (UTC)Naperville Holiday Inn Select
1801 Naper Blvd
Naperville, IL 60563
United States
Coming from Chicago you take I-88 West until the Naperville Rd Exit and go south. The exit is a little tricky and it turns you around. But you should be able to see the hotel from the interstate.
It's still pre-reg time where it's $40 for the weekend.
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Date: 2010-03-26 02:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-26 03:00 pm (UTC)http://www.duckon.org/registration.html (http://www.duckon.org/registration.html) for USPS.
http://www.duckon.org/cgi-bin/store52/agora.cgi (http://www.duckon.org/cgi-bin/store52/agora.cgi) for online
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Date: 2010-03-25 05:50 pm (UTC)In light of your concert here, I would like to make this announcement and invitation....
Any of Tom's fans within a hundred miles of Champaign, Illinois, are hereby invited to our home for Kittencon. We figure that any of you that we do not know already are just friends that we haven't met.
In the past, we've had the orignals of charcters from my fantasy stories, an internet porn star from Montreal, a scientist from Tasmania, a Russian professor from Nova Scotia, and two belly-dancing instructors.
Plus you get to meet the infamous kitten trumpinski-roberts, play with Robert Heinlein's (and Cardinal Richlieu's) favorite animals, listen to me reading my stories (and handing out autographed copies of unpublished works) on Friday night and see Tom sing and do improv on Saturday night.
Did I leave out home-cooked meals?
The University of Illinois is not having an event that weekend, but hotels still fill up pretty fast during April, so if you are coming, you should probably make reservations soon.
You can either send us all email at kittencon@gmail.com, or contact me at trumpinski.books@gmail.com for information on exact location of the place.
Tom
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Date: 2010-03-25 11:53 pm (UTC)We wish we could make it out but it continues to be right smack in the middle of everything going on and in the last 6 weeks of the semester. How could that be changed? Do you think Kitten would make her birthday mid-May instead? ;)
*hugs* We miss the Borg!
PS Will you be at Duckon? I will!
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Date: 2010-03-27 11:27 pm (UTC)Love,
TC
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Date: 2010-03-25 06:32 pm (UTC)I-CON 29 - NY - THIS WEEKEND
Date: 2010-03-25 06:38 pm (UTC)More info @ http://www.iconsf.org
Re: I-CON 29 - NY - THIS WEEKEND
Date: 2010-03-26 02:31 pm (UTC)Re: I-CON 29 - NY - THIS WEEKEND
Date: 2010-03-26 04:44 pm (UTC)I will relay word to Lenny.
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Date: 2010-03-25 06:39 pm (UTC)Speaking of con, Tom, I just emailed you pics from Millennicon :)
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Date: 2010-03-25 07:52 pm (UTC)307Ale
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Date: 2010-03-26 01:07 am (UTC)Also, my Official Website should be up by the end of this weekend, at long last: http://www.starcatdesigns.com
There won't be much stuff on it at first, but I'll be adding more steadily.
I can has sale!!
Date: 2010-03-26 02:25 pm (UTC)Available for only $12 (that includes shipping costs). And to be honest I could use some more sales - I am moving to Chicago at the end of April under very poor circumstances (both financially and emotionally) and could use all the extra help I can get!
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Date: 2010-03-26 04:47 pm (UTC)I have to drop you an email about getting some for a dealer to carry.
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Date: 2010-04-03 01:08 am (UTC)