Yaoi Dream Puppets MEP (Released...you read right, RELEASED)

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Postby dj_ultima_the_great » Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:11 pm

Two things...

1. Yeah, the audio doesn't sound so hot. It's particularly noticeable in anything with acoustic noise or a low, strong beat, such as the intro.

2. LAWLZ, I love how my big, angry Three Days Grace song is the first thing to break the series of sad, slow music in the beginning of the mix. Fuck emo, Yuki and Kyou are pissed! XD

Anyway, I'm not terribly fond of the fadeouts in some of the pieces, but I guess it works. It's tough to mix vocal pieces with all types of variations in style, I know.


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Postby Takefuji » Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:28 pm

fsdklaj I'm first? :O

I like the mix :3 Sounds great!
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Postby wurpess » Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:35 pm

Yeah, that's a pretty wide range of music there. lol. Considering what you were given to work with, I think it sounds great. *^_^*
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Postby savvy_style » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:05 pm

I also like the mix...I didn't hear any problem with the transitions >_>
it just sounds like Andika's music is a little lower quality than everyone else's D: (though that's probably more from her end than kiarrens XD )

ANd like Ingow, I'm also wondering if this was just a 'preview' version. Mp3's should be encoded at 320 kbps for highest quality :3 (regardless if some are of lower quality while mixing, exporting it as 320 keeps quality exactly the same as it went in. If you throw in a 160 kbps and further save the final track as 160, it'll just lower the quality of the already 160 tracks...)

Also...this is more of a question for u_queen about the mix, was there supposed to be more of a pause before my segment? Just cause you made me have 5 seconds of blank space before it >_> (and are you just going to put your end credit music in at the end, rather than having kiarrens mix it?)
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Postby u_queen » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:02 pm

savvy_style wrote:Also...this is more of a question for u_queen about the mix, was there supposed to be more of a pause before my segment? Just cause you made me have 5 seconds of blank space before it >_> (and are you just going to put your end credit music in at the end, rather than having kiarrens mix it?)

Yes, that's a little thing is was thinkig before kiarrens got her fixed computer and I was doing the audio mix :?. But I'm planning to leave the credits separated because the clip begins with the song (and this one begins with fade in).
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Postby CodeZTM » Sun Aug 26, 2007 7:52 pm

Loved the mix kiarrens! I'm shocked that my segment is number two, but I'm kind of greatful, too! I'm really excited at how this is going to turn out. ^_^

Oh, and I'm very sorry about your aunt Kiki.... :cry:
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Postby kiarrens » Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:22 pm

Ingow wrote:I like the mix and transitions (especially the one for my track :p), but the compression feels really hard somehow, 160kbit aren't really high quality, is this just for preview or the final audio track that's gonna be in the MEP in terms of quality?

Though it's really weird that some tracks sound clear as hell and others sound very compressed, did you use some that already were in low quality to begin with?


Used what was sent me, save for one, that I re-edited because the audio was horribly over-saturated (Filter's "Take a Picture"). I did export at 160, that's what I always use for all my AMV projects, but I can re-export at a higher quality if needed, I've got the project file saved.
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Postby Autraya » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:45 pm

I've got to say X2 on using a 320kbps mp3.
The minimum I ever use is 192kbps and that's pretty shitty compared to 320kbps.
I had to turn the volume way up for this one and some track just didn't sound health.

Do you want the seperate .wav of my track (not sure if mine was giving you problems or not considerin how old the song is... not to mention it was ripped in the mid 90's)?

Also I got a bit worried about the comment around "all the emo tracks" .. but after listening to it it's fine lol not as much emo as i was expecting and i think there was only 1 song i didn't like (which is a first for me listening to a MEP like this).
good choice of tossing around the songs
i have to admit tho I was a little bored in the middle needed something more upbeat i think to wake the listener up XD but tis still a good job :twisted:
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Postby kiarrens » Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:27 pm

This sound any better? Hard limited almost every song, either lowering or amplifying the dB to normalize, and exported to 320. I also removed some of the original filtrations I put on a few of them, since the hard limiting seemed to fix the issues.
(I was really paying a lot more attention to the transitions themselves as opposed to the quality of the music itself the first time around, so this time I did a LOT more work on the normalization and cleaning up the audio, since some of you seemed pretty unhappy with the first one.)
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Postby kikai_saigono » Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:34 pm

kiarrens wrote:Used what was sent me, save for one, that I re-edited because the audio was horribly over-saturated (Filter's "Take a Picture").


Was that version of the audio sent to you to mix? That version was in a beta, where I quickly compressed the audio straight out of vegas to quickly render a beta O.O I have the uncompressed .wav version in my final ( a solid 1411 kbps much better sounding and clear version)...

Aww I'm screwing this whole project up :(

Anyways, I'm on my way home, my aunt's doing better, and I should have the link sent as soon as I walk in the door \o/
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Postby kiarrens » Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:34 pm

kikai_saigono wrote:Aww I'm screwing this whole project up :(


No you're not. :D I recut it from a version I had, so don't worry about it. You only had that one cut in there, anyway.
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Postby Ingow » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:38 am

kiarrens wrote:This sound any better? Hard limited almost every song, either lowering or amplifying the dB to normalize, and exported to 320.

Seems that it wasn't all that much about the kbps, dunno but if you listen to it on headphones there's this very metallic sound that's like some kind of noise popping up from time to time through the intro and the first two/three tracks. After that it gets clearer and your changes on the filters seem to have worked pretty nice. I don't know much about audio stuff but I still get the feeling that for around the first three segments something's messed up with the channels because the noise only always appears to be on one side.

I'm not saying you have to do it again though, it's ok :wink:
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Postby kiarrens » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:18 am

Ingow wrote:Seems that it wasn't all that much about the kbps, dunno but if you listen to it on headphones there's this very metallic sound that's like some kind of noise popping up from time to time through the intro and the first two/three tracks. After that it gets clearer and your changes on the filters seem to have worked pretty nice. I don't know much about audio stuff but I still get the feeling that for around the first three segments something's messed up with the channels because the noise only always appears to be on one side.
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I'll listen to it again on the headphones. I do remember hearing that metallic sound, it was on the original wavs, I tried filtering it out with a light hiss reduction, guess i need to try again.
Odd about the channels, though, I DEFINITELY didn't notice that. I'll look into it.
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Postby u_queen » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:34 pm

Well, I've downloaded Kikai's clip and I'm working on the final. Probably by monday everything will be set up (I'll send you a pm with important stuff). The project is going very good to me. :wink:

@Kiarrens: Do you still want to improve the sound quality? I can get you the audio again if needed but I think it will not have much change with the one before :(
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Postby CodeZTM » Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:07 pm

u_queen wrote:Well, I've downloaded Kikai's clip and I'm working on the final. Probably by monday everything will be set up (I'll send you a pm with important stuff). The project is going very good to me. :wink:

@Kiarrens: Do you still want to improve the sound quality? I can get you the audio again if needed but I think it will not have much change with the one before :(


Awsome. I can't wait.

On another note, can I expect Yuri Dream Puppets? Because I would love to have that too. ^_^
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