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| From | Michael Coxe <michael@audities.net> |
| Subject | Re: Milstein's song-poems & making mix cd's |
| Date | Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:21:48 -0800 |
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Stewart Mason wrote:
>2. Various Artists, DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERNCE BETWEEN BIG WOOD AND BRUSH
>(Bar/None) (My buddy Phil Milstein returns to the history of song-poems
>with a fine selection cherry-picked from all six volumes of his MSR Madness
>series, including the last two as-yet-unreleased sets.)
This has been getting alot of press. There was an article in Entertainment
Weekly. Isn't Milstein on the Spectropop list? I remember him discussing
them & his song-poem website quite a while ago.
- michael
Andrea Kremer wrote:
>>PS - I had a felllow power pop fan recently ask me for a "musical
>>education" cd based on my own tastes. And you know what I found out?
>>Making a mix cd is HARD. If anyone wants to spawn a sub-thread with advice
>>about track selection, ordering, etc., GO for it. I need help!
Stewart Mason advised:
>I just made a series of 10 historical (1980-88) CD-rs for one of our
>listmates who's considering doing a college-radio tribute gig. My advice
>is to select tracks that you're personally excited about listening to
>before you start thinking about stuff like "historical importance" or
>whatever, because if it's a CD that you dig listening to, chances are
>they'll like it too. And what I've found works best for ordering is to get
>into the burning software (I use Cakewalk Pyro, myself) with all of the
>songs in a playlist, pick the song that I think should start the CD and
>then go song-by-song from there. Listen to the end of the first song, then
>decide what would sound best starting after that and so on. After a while,
>it all sort of falls into place.
Stewart gives excellent advice, especially about knowing your software
well. Select 50% more tracks than will fit and burn several different
track orderings covering all the tracks. Listen to them in casually as
you go about your day - car, work, home. Then boil down selection &
sequence to one cd. IMO, sequencing is a close 2nd to actual track
selection. Also, especially if using vinyl or other non-cd sources,
please make sure the volume has been equalized song-to-song. Nothing
worse than making the listener tweak the volume after each song. And
don't rush, nothing can replace appreciation (listening time) as the
key to making an excellent mix.
- michael
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