Don’t worry about it Ron!
Yes we need to pick a song for a collaboration! Any pickers?
Jesse
Lets do a collaboration
I want to do one! Where do I start? 
How about a gospel song? I looked at the site and I have no idea what to do.
Stacey, we’ve been kicking around some ideas on putting together a new song but have yet to pick one.
All you need is a decent mic to record your playing or singing. I personally use one that plugs right into the usb port on the computer. Once you have a decent mid you can download “Audacity” for free from the internet, set up the mic within your computer and Audacity and hit record and sing or play the parts against a backing track (with headphones on) and you’ve captured your part.
We used “Kompoz” as the online site to upload our parts and then “LpDayton” has done the mixing.
To familiar yourself with the entire process and get an idea on how to do this, I’d say start at the very 1st post that I started and read it from there. Some of it is just us shooting the breeze from time to time, but there is an education to be had.
Ben:
Thanks for the “plug” on facebook as I hope all this help you drive some users over here to your site! Also congrats on the song getting picked up…that’s cool man!
I’ve been staying away from recording for the last week or so. I needed some time away before jumping back into a new project. I like making the recordings and love listening to the results, but I get pretty burned out on recording about 3/4 of the way through. This time, I think we should pick a song well ahead of recording, so we can figure out our parts, and like I said before, I think an original or public domain song would be best for copyright reasons.
Jim, thanks for the nice comment!
Ron, Sorry we missed you on the Rider project. Seems like these things take on a life of their own and I was relcutant to slow our forward momentum once we had the project rolling. You should jump in on the next one for sure.
I"ll be interested to see what Ben’s facebook bump does for our song.
I have a M Audio box that I can plug in to the laptop and then plug a mic in to that. Would that work? It came with pro tools, but I’ve never figured it out.
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I think an original or public domain song would be best for copyright reasons.
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Larry, I have never been shy about covering other people’s stuff unless I was going to sell it (and I have never had a problem with it). Just browsing at Kompoz, I noticed most of the stuff was not recent covers. Is there a non-copyrighted material policy there?
For what it’s worth, I am probably going to still be too busy to get very involved on the next one as well. It sounds like you will have plenty of peeps anyway. If I can’t get involved, I’ll continue to experience it vicariously through the forum and try to bump up your rankings.
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I have a M Audio box that I can plug in to the laptop and then plug a mic in to that. Would that work? It came with pro tools, but I’ve never figured it out.
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That would work. You could record with pro tools and send in WAVs or MP3s.
I also have Garageband on my Ipad if that would be easier. I have always wanted to learn how to mix and record, but I’ve never had anyone to show me how to do it.
I went to listen again and give you all a bump.
For what it’s worth: I noticed at Kompoz, when I search for “netgrass” the only hit I get is for “Walking through the maples.” Maybe it takes time for their search engine to include a new artist?
thank Larry …I’ll be looking for the next collaboration and definitely try to make it on it …it does sound so awesome …im proud to know such fine pickers and singers …!!!
Stacey, all you need is a decent mic to get a good recording. You don’t need any elaborate software. Garageband would work fine. The most important thing is getting a good clean signal because background noise tends to build up as the tracks are layered on top of each other.
Mike, Kompoz and Soundclick both have copyright disclaimers. I’ve uploaded copyrighted songs before (and sometimes been asked to take them down by the host website), but since I’m not selling my recordings and I’m not recording current hit songs, I doubt any publishing houses would bother with me. I just thought, with so many good traditional songs to choose from, it might be the safer choice.
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I just thought, with so many good traditional songs to choose from, it might be the safer choice.
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That makes sense. On Kompoz, I was surprised I didn’t see 50 cover versions of whatever is popular today. Of course, I probably wouldn’t know whatever is popular if I saw it, but that’s a whole different topic.
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I think an original or public domain song would be best for copyright reasons.
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I agree with Mike. copy-write is meant to protect form others profiting from your work/invention/product without permission from you. I would however give credit to the composer in the description of the song.
netgrass is not on Kompoz it is on the other site.
I agree, that seems logical, Dave, but apparently that’s not enough. Here’s what Soundclick says about it:
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I don’t make money or sell songs. So I can post those, right?
Solution:
Short answer: no.
In regards to copyrights it doesn’t make a difference if you profit from your version. So please see the licensing issues thread to find what you need to do to post your cover songs or remixes.
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I think Youtube has worked out a blanket license, so most all songs are okay there. Soundclick doesn’t seem to police their site too closely and I’m not sure about Kompoz, but a site I used to use asked me to remove my recording of Pancho and Lefty.
I wanna hear your “Pancho and Lefty” as I have a sweet guitar break for that if you need one!
Oldhat
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Could not resist:
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netgrass is not on Kompoz it is on the other site.
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I guess that would explain that 
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I wanna hear your “Pancho and Lefty” as I have a sweet guitar break for that if you need one!
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Pancho and Lefty was the first song I did after I got my mixing software. I was pretty excited to try out all the new gadgets - drum tracks, violin pads, etc… They probably did me a favor asking me to remove it
Here’s a link to a nice list of traditional songs: http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/bluegrass-songbook/idxv13as.htm
I’ve been playing around with our Rider mix just as a learning exercise -mainly playing with the panning on the harmony singing. Panning wide certainly makes each part distinct, but it completely eliminates the illusion of the harmony being one voice. On the other end of the spectrum, stacking the voices on top on each other made them seem flat to me unless effects were added to beef up the presence. I know you like a tight pan, Dave, would you have used zero panning on the vocals? Anybody else have ideas about this?
Hey Larry,
Sorry to sound wishy washy, but it all comes down to what you want. My general preference is to spread and run a pretty wet (processed with reverb and several other effects) sound for backing vocals so that lead vocals still have center stage. If you were going for the “bunch of people playing around a couple of mics sound” that wouldn’t work well. I have an effects stack that I use often for backing vocals. It’s on the other computer, but if you are interested, I can look it up and let you know what I have got in the stack.