untitled (out of ram mix)

so, i've spent most of the night listening to two nearly identical versions of this track and trying to decide which one i want to use.

when i initially recorded the track in cakewalk (as an experiment with the program) on a windows 98 machine, i ran out of ram after eight tracks and had to go back to my normal wave editor collage-build mixing process to finish it. unfortunately, i didn't really like the edits i made and ended up defaulting to this version for many years. however, it was only saved in mp3...

on aug 11, 2010, i converted the track to 32-bit directly from the mp3 (which i verified in dec, 2014 via phase inversion) and uploaded it to bandcamp, as a part of the never really finished and with now unclear future tetris project. while i don't feel that the sound quality of the track is sufficient to act as a base for a final version, the process of compressing, decompressing and then converting to 32-bit produced something special on the bottom end that i feel is worth keeping for it's own sake. however, i'm going to have to keep the track as download-only for two reasons. the first is that i'd have to convert back to 16-bit to burn it. the second is that there's not going to be room on the disc for it, anyways.

so, i'm leaving that as it is - and the next thing i'm going to do is revisit the remix of this that i did to emulate it. now, yes, i'm going to take a snapshot at this point, but it's also going to act as the core of the final mix, so it's going to have to be a little more produced sounding. that's kind of why i felt the need to make this available. it seemed foolish to sit there and try and make a clean mix sound like a muddled mp3 mix; i got a cool bass sound out of the compression, and i should just let that be. if i'm going to remix it, it makes more sense to remix it for optimal quality.

so, that's the next thing. i've got a few hours to blow while i wait for the temperature to hit zero, then i need to do groceries. it won't be done today, but it will probably be done and uploaded for tomorrow.

this is dated to sept 1, 2002.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-original-out-of-ram-mix

i saw it again out the window tonight...

it's definitely too small to be a cougar, but the tail is too big to be a house cat.

it might be a fisher.

this is outside the fisher range, though. hrmmn. it's in the "historic range".

it could have been a pet. either way, i don't think it's cause for concern. there's my "testing" and neutralizing...

i mean, fishers are violent, nasty things. no doubt. but they're not powerful enough to pose me a serious threat the way a mountain lion would...

removing corrupted files from youtube

i just took four more songs down and will promise to be more careful about uploading things in the future. everything up here is now done, with the exception of that intro track which needs to be completed.

taken down...

1) this is out of sync and will require a re-render. it was rendered in a hurry on equipment i wouldn't normally use to render and i didn't even think to check the latency.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/orb-symphony


2) this is the track i'm currently working on completing, and a complete version will be the next upload.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-ep-single


3 & 4 were stranded versions of the following tracks:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/strung-out


https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/trepanation-nation


they were all uploaded haphazardly when my drive crashed, and, again i lost hits on that. that's about 1000 lost hits. but they weren't done...