Klonk Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:11:22 -0500 veschprigt mroktar Jon Kamm <kammagic@comcast.net> [re: [Yello] Yello - Bostich remix wav]:
There is nothing faulty about using high quality mp3 files for a remix contest. The Soul On Ice Remix Contest proved that. It was a huge success and delivered over 300 remixes. Many of which I still listen to and enjoy today.
The following quote was taken directly from the contest rules of one of the Beatport remix contests.
"The contest is being judged on originality of remix, not sound quality. You do not need to download the WAV files to enter the remix contest, unless of course you want to. If your remix is chosen as a winner, there will be time to have your tracks mastered to highest quality. "
This is the same sort of thinking that gets us all the foo-fah magic hokum in shows like CSI: Las Vegas where the actors use Mandrake-the-Magician-esque "technology" to zoom in on a reflection off someone's watch, thence through a car's rearview mirror, and thence to read some off-distant license plate. "there will be time to have your tracks mastered"... presupposes that the remix itself was done with quality ingredients. What they are TRYING to say is that somehow, if you win, your track, made with crappy MP3s, will be Kammagically mastered to a higher quality! Zing! Zowee! Hollywood! It doesn't work that way. It order to attain professionally publishable results, our intrepid winning remixer extraordinaire would have to completely remix his or her remix - due directly to the absolute fact that there would be inherent timing issues between even the original source WAV/AIFF/RAW audio sample and any compression made directly therefrom - even if said remix-o-master decompresses back to WAV/AIFF. They won't line up the same. Retardation for sale. --gcr