AudioSexed Album - Updated Guidelines!!!

Discussion in 'Our Music' started by thisis theend, Feb 7, 2014.

  1. Andrew

    Andrew AudioSEX Maestro Staff Member

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    Here are some figures regarding shipping fees, it's actually much cheaper than I thought:

    Germany - $3.50
    Denmark - $3.50
    Great Britain & Northern Ireland - $3.50
    France - $3.50
    USA - $4.00
    Canada - $4.00
    Indonesia - $4.00
    Chile - $4.00
    Argentina - $4.00
    Brazil - $4.00

    So the total cost would be around $9 or $10 USD (depending on number of copies)
    The medium used will be Taiyo Yuden Silver Printable CD/DVD, made in Japan, for archival use (actually these are on sale in local shop, 100 pcs for $53). I have excellent experience with Taiyo Yuden media, nevertheless, all discs will be of course triple-checked for errors and burned on Lite-On burner. *yes*
    Booklets might be tricky, for slim DVD case it's easy as the inner diameters matches A5 size, but for jewel case ... :dunno:
     
  2. Someone

    Someone Noisemaker

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    Can't be true... I pay more if I just send the packet throught germany!?!? Or did you wanted to send this in an envelope?
     
  3. Andrew

    Andrew AudioSEX Maestro Staff Member

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    Yes, insured tracked envelope :thumbsup:

    Sorry to drag it on, but this is how it may look when completed (of course different artwork & title & stuff). All printed on laser colour printer, but it's a pain to fit in those jewel dimensions. It was in fact printed twice :rofl:

    This one displayed is my personal fan-made album
     

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  4. Catalyst

    Catalyst Audiosexual

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    We can't really swing that right now but possibly later. I'd actually like it if we all collaborated on a commercial project so that we could get an influx of capital for our other endeavors. Food for thought...
     
  5. Someone

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    I wouldnt like it if we make any commercial profits out of this. Thats not the spirit behind this community...
     
  6. swing

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    Hello mates. :hug:

    I´m just talking with Andrew and the physical release idea is really great. :wink:
    I missed some advances here, so by reading all this now I´m thinking that there´re some things that need to be arranged.
    The first attempt for releasing -still open for discussion on the post- was all digital, a tracks+art package available for free download.

    So as you know, I´m in charge of that front cover. Because the digital domain, in a first approach I was thinking in a large high resolution art -some sort of wallpaper-ish format- plus a preview/thumbnail format for phones and small playlist displays. Also a CMYK version for printing the art in a T-shirt or whatever, if you want it. This is what I can commit now.

    If we get physical (sounds sexy :rofl: ) and everybody wants to add their own 'song inside art' for the printed version, it´s a whole new thing and needs to be arranged well. We need to work with fixed resolutions, color spaces and sizes (because all have to fit in the case eventually) and consider that every case has limitations of space. Also, I don´t know if every artist wants to create/submit an individual art, and I don´t know if I can handle/design 15, 20 or 30 individual images for each song... we don´t know yet how many tracks are going to be included in the album, and for that we need to wait for all the submissions and the final selection/mastering stages, so... :dunno:
     
  7. thisis theend

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    carl

    Yeah, there are a number of things that would have to be a bit different between the digital and a physical version of the album.
    That's why we have to move forward step by step. Main focus right now is to get all the tracks compiled and finish the first version of the digital release including the specific artwork just for that.
    Anyone who has a good idea like Andrew here should bring it on, but let's keep stuff that goes beyond the current guidelines at a brainstorm level for the moment. It will be much easier to work everything out as the project moves along. :mates:
     
  8. Rolma

    Rolma Guest

    What I like the most from the current submissions is how independent and honest work sounds all together…
    I love to think that some guys around the world plug themselves in some kind of audio reality and bring this creations back ….
    I feel a warm wave of empathy towards the artists, the album, the forum and the whole thing itself !
    BIG UPS !
     
  9. Catalyst

    Catalyst Audiosexual

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    Taiyo Yuden is one of the best quality discs you can buy. Good stuff. :thumbsup:

    Again the question is how would we even bankroll this? :dunno:

    thisis theend
    I completely agree with you, let's get the foundation in place. *yes*

    Rolma
    Same here, it's going to be a brutally honest independent album representing a stellar community. :mates:
     
  10. thisis theend

    thisis theend Member

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    If I understand Andrew correctly, he would simply check how many members would be interested in getting a high quality disc version.
    Then all of those would pay for their own copy, and he would get them done and send them out around the world.
     
  11. Andrew

    Andrew AudioSEX Maestro Staff Member

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    Spot on, thisis theend
    I would probably need the 24bit masters as well, to make high quality dithered and noise-shaped 16bit wavs to be put onto CDs (DVDs), I'll talk to Someone, if that's possible *yes*.
     
  12. Catalyst

    Catalyst Audiosexual

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    Wow that's a lot of work, I'd feel bad.
     
  13. thisis theend

    thisis theend Member

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    Don't feel bad Catalyst.

    Let's just be happy that we have such a great friend as Andrew here.
    I think there's a pic of him next to the word unselfish in the dictionary :mates:
     
  14. Andrew

    Andrew AudioSEX Maestro Staff Member

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    So just a little recap:
    Want physical album? Send in PM to me, in a sense "I want CD" or "I want DVD", whatever, just to count people who are interested.
    To make it clear, digital is still a priority, but when I begin with the counting today, then 1 month ago after digital is released, the number of people interested in this would be very valuable for determining the final cost of physical copy.
    Thanks! :thumbsup:
    That's all for this 'physical' topic. *yes*
     
  15. thepopenale

    thepopenale Noisemaker

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    Did anyone hover over the SoundCloud icon at the bottom of the playlist? :rofl:

    Maybe this is old but its new to me, very good.

    Ill get a 24bit WAV up soon. Just checking out some of the tunes, great stuff!
     
  16. Catalyst

    Catalyst Audiosexual

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    Guys not much time left for submissions so put those finishing touches on your track and get it to us. I might make another thread to remind people submissions end very soon.
     
  17. johanna

    johanna Newbie

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    Maybe I think I can at the end of week, fingers troubles! I would really love!
     
  18. thisis theend

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    Do it! :)

    I'm gonna keep tweaking my track til the bitter end @ midnight March 3.
    Don't know what it is about friggin deadlines, but they always seem to trigger a strange desire in me to miss them :blues:

    The End?
     
  19. johanna

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    ME too wait! AS I am waiting my inspiration from outerspace! :(
    :bleh:
    sorry
    @thisis theend
    "Don't know what it is about friggin deadlines, but they always seem to trigger a strange desire in me to miss them :blues:"
    THAT's ME
    Starting something when someone says it's over!
    Then GOES EXCITMENT
     
  20. Catalyst

    Catalyst Audiosexual

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    Johanna
    Perhaps it's time to try something new...like sticking to one. In life timing is everything. *yes*
     
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