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| quote: | Originally posted by emono
i like your criteria
perhaps, though
you should change 'effects' to 'creativity' and give it more points
also,
'sound quality' should be taken into consideration, when it comes to crackling and skipping;
however,
stick to 'any medium is accepted' when it comes to the actual quality of the recording/stream. you would leave some of us in disadvantage if you counted a 56k upload against us, going vs., i.e., 192kpbs.
on a more general note,
i think submitting tracklistings for each challenge might be a good idea. it gives us some perspective into the mixes. |
Thank you for your comments! I already have creativity included in the originality section. I don't label the categories excessively, but I really try to include everything that I can pick out that is judgable.
I do take crackles, hisses and pops in to consideration, because if you spin vinyl, you should damn well take care of it! If not, then use a prog. to eliminate that stuff during silence. This IS stuff that you can control if you clean your records; use vinyl cleaning kits to help increase the fidelity (like gruv glide). If you were to submit that kind of stuff professionally, it is a huge disadvantage, IMO. Sound quality is one of the criteria that I feel is important for Djs, so I judge it. Don't forget it is only 5 pts, and I do try to take everything possible into consideration (ie modem uploads). But I would certainly count against you if you uploaded something in 24kbps. How do you expect me to even tell if a transition is beat matched if I can't hear it accurately? I think that for modem users, stick to 128kbps and 30 minutes set times. Either that or find another format other than MP3 that takes up less space. I can play WMA and Ogg Vorbis too, or you can find another connection. hell, you can mail me a CD, plenty of people have done that before.
As far as tracklists, I don't want to see them as a judge or contestent. This way as we compete, we keep those tracks that are ours, ours. If we share tracklists, then there is no real advantage that a dj can have other than mixing skills, and that can get pretty tight sometimes. If people want to PM them or ask individiual tracks, then be my guest, but I don't think that we should be required to post our trackilists. I don't want every mix to be the same!
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