STG covers album: Out Now! Direct download!

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 3:18 pm

[quote="Zebra Airforce"][/quote]

Brilliant!

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:50 am

I have an idea for a cover. It'll take me a couple days, but I want to give it a try.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:58 am

I decided to keep working on it, and got it done...

It uses the ships from Radiant Silvergun, Raiden, DoDonPachi, and Layer Section to form the snowflake (along with bullets/bombs from their respective games), with the R-Typep ship canopies as light bulbs (it seemed natural). I also used the bomb from Tatsujin Oh for the background. I figured the text for the album could go in the four open sections. The original is at 300dpi, so if someone wanted to print it, it would come out nice. This is the shrunk version.

Thoughts?

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:35 am

rtw wrote:
The Coop wrote:Thoughts?
I like it

Two questions:
. The design with the glowing canopies locks it to a Christmas season
. Shouldn't there be some text like: STG COVERS 2008

rtw

Thanks. Regarding the title, I honestly don't know if STG Covers 2008 is going to be the title or not, so I didn't put it in.

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:36 am

I like it very much, the snowflakes tie it to the winter season and the
blue shades emphasize this as well. I feel the coloured lights are a bit too
much though but that might be my Scandinavian less is more attitude

edit:
I managed to delete my previous post in case you're wondering what The Coop is quoting

rtw

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:19 am

Alright, now you're just trying to mess with people

I just uploaded a new version (hit Ctrl+F5 to refresh your cache if it still looks like the previous wordless one). A few tweaks in spots, and the addition of what I'm going to go ahead and guess is the album's title. The font's not permanent if no one likes it (it's Atari Vector), but that's how I thought the lettering could be arranged... assuming the image is used of course.

Edit: Uploaded a second update. Found a black area where some of the background had been deleted somehow. Fixed that, and made the Raiden and DoDonPachi ships look uniformly shaded like the RS and LS ones... for symmetry's sake.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:13 am

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:19 am

The Coop wrote:What I'm going to go ahead and guess is the album's title. The font's not permanent if no one likes it (it's Atari Vector), but that's how I thought the lettering could be arranged... assuming the image is used of course.

Font looks nice. Would it be possible to make an image without the "light bulbs"
and then put the "STG Covers 2008" on top of the snowflake and then the compilation info at the bottom ?

Code: Select all

STG Covers 2008

Image of SnowFlake

A compilation of...

rtw

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:01 am

rtw wrote:
The Coop wrote:What I'm going to go ahead and guess is the album's title. The font's not permanent if no one likes it (it's Atari Vector), but that's how I thought the lettering could be arranged... assuming the image is used of course.
Font looks nice. Would it be possible to make an image without the "light bulbs"
and then put the "STG Covers 2008" on top of the snowflake and then the compilation info at the bottom ?
Code: Select all
STG Covers 2008

Image of SnowFlake

A compilation of...
rtw

Give me a couple days. I'll make that, plus a new version I had a goofy idea for.

Enhasa · Post by **Enhasa** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:31 am

That snowflake is unique and beautiful and also awesome.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:20 am

Enhasa- Thanks.

Alrighty, I'm done with the covers...

If you'd like to use one, just click on the image. You'll get the full 300dpi version for printing. I also uploaded the full-sized version of the first cover here

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:30 am

The Coop wrote:Alrighty, I'm done with the covers...

Fantastic effort, love the new one

Thank you ever so much for the effort!

Now how is it going with the mastering ? I have some webspace to fill

rtw

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:08 am

Those covers are awesome, Coop.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:26 am

Thanks you two

I'll be uploading my third and final remix for this album later tonight (assuming my ISP doesn't fight me like it did last time). I figure it should be up in about 17 hours.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:26 am

Well, got it done and uploaded...

http://thecoop.110mb.com/music/The_Coop ... ection.zip

I'm also gonna post a link to this...

http://thecoop.110mb.com/music/The_Coop ... he_End.zip

It's a remix I made back in 2004. If you're not interested in using it, that's fine. But I thought I'd offer it for use on the album.

themachinist · Post by **themachinist** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:41 am

Nice. I dig the one without lights.

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:58 am

themachinist wrote:Nice. I dig the one without lights.

So do I

If we're going to release this by xmas we need to speed up, I have got the download page up but missing the correct track list and the remastered files.

I sugggest the latest release from The Coop "Reflections" is the last submission and the last track on the album so we can mellow down

rtw

joeboto · Post by **joeboto** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:42 am

@rtw : can you re-tag my flac files with proper format when the album is up?(like original artist, composer, etc etc)? thanks in advance

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:24 am

joeboto wrote:@rtw : can you re-tag my flac files with proper format when the album is up?(like original artist, composer, etc etc)? thanks in advance

It's eretsua which is doing the mastering, I'm just doing the hosting

rtw

Nate · Post by **Nate** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:03 pm

joeboto wrote:

@rtw : can you re-tag my flac files with proper format when the album is up?(like original artist, composer, etc etc)? thanks in advance

That goes for me as well, please...heh.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:57 pm

Just as a special note, there won't be any flac or wav files coming from me. I don't have the ability to upload 30+ MB files, as it would take roughly 9-10 hours to do so... for one file. It takes me about an hour to upload 3-4MB file thanks to my connection speed (sub-1kb/s upload), and given the fact that I get bumped off-line regularly, it's simply not doable. Not to mention, I can't tie up my PC's resources for that long (things chug a lot when uploading).

I should have mentioned this before, but it completely slipped my mind. So, sorry, but it's only MP3s from me.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:28 pm

Small update...

I realized that my remix "Reflections" had an extra letter. I wanted it to be "Reflection". So I edited the ID3v2 tags and whatnot, and reuploaded it.

http://thecoop.110mb.com/music/The_Coop ... ection.zip

glitch · Post by **glitch** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:43 pm

looks like this thread could use a bump again. -_-;;

The Coop wrote:

love that one.

but, just asking, is "Covered in Bullets" forgotten or rejected as title?

eretsua is still up for mastering this stuff by the way, but doesn't have the files yet.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:30 am

glitch wrote:
eretsua is still up for mastering this stuff by the way, but doesn't have the files yet.

I messaged him a while back about sending him the files, but my message is still in my outbox, meaning he either hasn't logged in for a while, or needs to delete his inbox D:

glitch · Post by **glitch** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:18 pm

MX7 wrote:
glitch wrote:
eretsua is still up for mastering this stuff by the way, but doesn't have the files yet.
I messaged him a while back about sending him the files, but my message is still in my outbox, meaning he either hasn't logged in for a while, or needs to delete his inbox D:

wut?
wait, i'll make him.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:53 pm

Awesome, cheers!

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:13 am

So, do you plan to burn the disc and set a little paypal shoppe for anyone who wants to show his appreciation and buy it physically? That'd be sweet!

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:33 am

Turrican wrote:So, do you plan to burn the disc and set a little paypal shoppe for anyone who wants to show his appreciation and buy it physically? That'd be sweet!

That would be a VERY bad idea. It doesn't matter how many disclaimers you would put on the site, to any company who owns the rights to the remixed music, you'd look as if you were selling the CDs for profit... something they would not look kindly upon, at all. Even if the money was used only to replace burned discs, it would still be money going to someone else's pocket, and you can bet a C&D (at least) would be the result.

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:03 am

What Coop said.

As an alternative, I could offer to make high-res artwork for a jewelbox inlay-card and a disc label. If you have a printer capable of doing so, you could print the latter on one of those whitened blank CD-Rs, thus assembling something close to a real CD yourself.

I'd need the parts of Coop's wonderful front cover (fonts, images) for that, but then I could whip up something quite quickly. (After all, designing the packages for CDs is what I do for a living at the moment.)

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:06 am

The Coop wrote:That would be a VERY bad idea. It doesn't matter how many disclaimers you would put on the site, to any company who owns the rights to the remixed music, you'd look as if you were selling the CDs for profit... something they would not look kindly upon, at all. Even if the money was used only to replace burned discs, it would still be money going to someone else's pocket, and you can bet a C&D (at least) would be the result.

Sorry for being so dense, but would you explain me the difference between the STG cover album and the countless other tribute cds that you can buy out there, like this one for example:

http://www.oneupstudios.com/ous_005.php