Cajun100, Freestyle, Claudiu, MrEd, Tony Rome, Zuki, Rice, EricB, Eddie, Graham, DonM, Fran, DNJ, and TonyMads: Thanks guys for taking your time out to listen, as well as for providing (hopefully) candidly honest feedback, especially because I can no longer use the excuse of having a cold.
Originally posted by FreeStyle:
I like the piano accompaniment very much!
Freestyle: Glad you enjoyed it, as quite a few rootless style jazz chords were used to give it that unique sound.
Originally posted by Tony Rome:
Scotty....nice job on one of my favorate song writters Hoagy Carmichael...Star Dust is my song from him.
Tony, I hope to have the honor of hearing your beautiful vocal rendition of "Stardust", perhaps played along on your Tyros keyboard as well.
Originally posted by Riceroni9:
Many of us are concerned about the apparent loss of so many of the "Old Guard" here . . . I was afraid you had joined Chico, Wolf and the others. They are such great guys and you have always been so helpful and considerate.
Rice, on behalf of Chico, Wolf, Roel, myself, and any others who may have lefted, it means 'a lot' to hear you say this. Thank you. Though I'm not perhaps as experienced & tough skinned as DonM, have worked in enough bars now, to deal with the baiting barbs, and cat calls from the forums so called '3 ring' SZ circus funny man clowns.
Originally posted by eddiefromrotherham:
Just one question:- I like to listen in stereo with my speakers but for some strange reason, I could not get the balance to work. I notice that you recorded in "Joint Stereo" according to Winamp. Does this mean that it plays back in mono?
No. Joint Stereo plays back in stereo.
Joint Stereo (vs stereo) is optionally utilized when encoding to MP3. The difference is how the stereo (left and right channel) were handled by the MP3 encoder when the MP3 was made. Stereo looks at the two channels and eliminates everything that is exactly identical. Joint Stereo uses a mathematical equation to change left/right into mid/side, and which saves space, and it also eliminates things that sound identical on both channels (mid vs side rather than left vs right in this case, though). It also checks to make sure that using this method for each tiny chunk of the song (called frames) is better than the simple left-right method. There are times when left-right will sound better than mid-side, and so for these frames, a good Joint Stereo implementation will allow left-right frames to be used.
In some encoders, such as Xing and L3Enc, joint-stereo is badly implemented, and so it's best to just use stereo. In Lame MP3 encoding (of which I use and recommend), it's best to use Joint Stereo, because it's very well-implemented. I currently use and recommend
dbPowerAmp Music Converter for all MP3/WMA encoding. It includes & utilizes the MP3 LAME (the BEST!) encoder.
Ok Rice, Tony and others: I've gone ahead and re-posted, not only "I Get Along W/O You Very Well", but my other Tyros2 created Songs as well: "You Don't Know Me", and "California Here I Come". These are now downloadable from my website "SONG DEMOS" page, as Windows Media (.WMA) files, of which two versions are available: DSL-Cable (192kbps) & 56k dialup (32kbps). Windows Media Player is now REQUIRED for playback. Please let me know if you're able to successfully download and hear them:
Scott Yee Entertainment Website Thanks again to everyone for listening.
Scott
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