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I have been working on this cheeseball song about Presidential Candidate Senator Gravel for about two months and just finished it.

I think it’d be really fun to make a remix competition for it.  I could post the raw tracks on a site of my design for people to download and reuse.

Dan Connor - The Mike Gravel Song.mp3

Lyrics:

There’s a Senator I know of who’s got balls of steel.
So assertive it’s unheard of he’s got sex appeal, it’s Mike Gravel.
He’s Mike Gravel.

Kickin’ ass in Senate back in ‘71, exposed corruption in the white
house, tricky Dick was undone.
It’s Mike Gravel.
He’s Mike Gravel.

Single-handedly ended the draft.
He’s the master of the diplomatic crafts.
Oh, we gotta get him into the house.
Ain’t gonna settle for anybody else.

If you’re gonna feel it, you’d better believe it.
This guy’s the real deal.
When the Senate is lost and we consider the cost it’s too great.
Empower the people, we need action not feeble attempts to pander to the
crowd.
If you talk to you neighbors, you’ll find that we’re able to start
thinking out loud.

Big media ignores him cause he’s calling them out.
He’s got solutions so inclusive, huge political clout.
I wish this guy was still on NBC News but GE would rather double
aircraft carrier crews.

Mike’s more in-line with the American people who are tired of war, sick
of the feeling that we’re stuck in a recession, a hardcore regression of
the fundamental things that make America beautiful.

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Recorded and Mixed in Cubase 4 and a Focusrite Liquid Mix.  Mastered with Waves Linear EQ and L3 Multimaximizer.

Enjoy and have fun!

This post will focus on lossy audio data compression: the types, the pros and cons, and how to get the most out of the most popular format.

In the audio world you will no doubt run across some very paranoid people who believe that anything that touches your audio will degrade its quality and, in the realm of analog this is often true. One world-class, platinum-caliber mastering engineer that I worked with was convinced that transferring my 24-bit broadcast wav files from my hard drive to his would cause fidelity loss. So, in the interest of easing his concerns, we ran the entire session directly from my drive. Now that digital has firmly seated itself as the storage and transfer medium of choice, it’s important to know what steps do and do not influence the quality of our audio. When something does influence the quality of our audio, it’s important to know when and how. There are, in the most general terms, two kinds of compression: lossy and lossless. Lossy compression reduces the quality of the material while lossless compression can reproduce the original source material perfectly, as if it were never compressed at all. This post is going to focus on the lossy side of things. Tune in tomorrow for a crash course on lossless.

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