DJ/Music Question

Ricky B

Ricky B

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Anybody know where the radio stations and DJ's get there "radio edit" or "clean" versions of songs? Be awesome if I could find them online somewhere . . . not that I did or plan on downloading anything other then the legal way but I have a buddy that said back in the napster days he could download the "radio edit" versions of songs.

Need to get a decent playlist going for the events, just don't know where to find the "clean" versions of songs that everyone else plays.
 
Its been abotu 3 years since i was in radio, but we would get CDs of the songs that were edited. I do think the companies are letting you download the tracks now, but you need to have be a subrscriber to the service. And that is $$ for the one the station uses. You could get creative and make your own edits with software.
 
Yea I've been told about a few different programs that I could do it with, I just have a feeling its going to be extremely time consuming, was hoping there was somewhere to get all the pre-made versions and not break the bank, or even better not even have to go into the bank, I ain't doin on better than anyone else money wise right now . . .

If anybody has any particular programs they recommend let me know, just lookin for the quickest, easiest option.
 
Wal-mart. They do not sell explicit lyrics. itunes usually has both versions of any song also.
 
John B. said:
Wal-mart. They do not sell explicit lyrics. itunes usually has both versions of any song also.
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x2....and why would you want that?

"toes in the water....toes in the sand" it annoys the hell out of me when i hear that.
 
BigRedB2 said:
x2....and why would you want that?
"toes in the water....toes in the sand" it annoys the hell out of me when i hear that.
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They sell all of the gangsta rap CD's also, but they are the radio/clean versions.
 
BigRedB2 said:
x2....and why would you want that?
"toes in the water....toes in the sand" it annoys the hell out of me when i hear that.
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Cause I can't play explicit material in front of a crowd and expect anyone to come back next time except when I'm at a club or bar or something, I have to play family friendly stuff at these events.



btw, the way that audacity thing works pretty good but holy wow I could do this full time and hardly have a decent play list in three weeks . . . gotta be a better way


itunes has clean version of songs? . . . dangit that'll get real expensive quick, isn't it like a dollar per song?
 
jrraw23 said:
itunes has clean version of songs? . . . dangit that'll get real expensive quick, isn't it like a dollar per song?
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Yeah and some are $1.29 now. I think Rhapsody may be cheaper but I'm not sure. Your best bet may the compilation CD's that Target, Bestbuy, Wal-mart, etc have. They usually have country, pop and rap compilation CD's with most of the current hits on them.

You could get someone to burn thier music library to discs, then upload them to your computer. Oh, wait a minute, that's illegal. Forget I mentioned it.
 
Ricky i'm curious about something - i just don't know - are you "broadcasting" music for a crwod? Does that mean you should be paying royalties on it? I have no idea how that works, but I'd bet that the title company willgladly provide you with "the right" version in exchange for your payment, lol.
 
I don't think so on the royalties since I'm not making any money off the music, and about everyone plays it anywhere you go and I don't know of any of em paying royalties (course that doesn't mean they arn't supposed to)

I mean in all honesty I'm after a majority of rock - newer stuff, with a slight mix of older rock, little bit of country, and little bit of rap. Would really like to figure out where to get a hold of the scratch n sniff music (snsmix.com play sat nights on 106.5) cause that's perfect.

I'm looking to appeal to the younger/more aggressive/extreme/party crowd to be honest. If it just came out on the radio I wanna make sure I've got it kinda deal.

Ideally if i had someone to help me during the events I'd like to have just a generic play list and somebody at the soundboard to hit something real aggressive like disturbed or saliva when a competitor goes to make a pass or make there run or w/e. And then at night events make the play-list lean a little (not a lot) more towards rap.

Problem is if I'm announcing and walking around filming (yea haven't announced that yet but 4x4cross is about to be your NC extreme, straight up sick, wide open, off-road event DVD coverage series of the year) I can't do the DJ'ing and all that. My little bro helps me out a lot but he has no motivation to do any of this kinda stuff, he mainly does it cause he's my brother I can't really count on anyone else, plus I pretty much finance and fix everything on his truck in exchange for his help.



At the last few events I have been playing just the radio, which kinda sucks when commercials come on plus its not a good variety . . . . I wonder If i got some type of digital recording program on the computer and somehow got the radio hooked into it that would be a lot easier . . . . course that's probably illegal too and would still be moderately time consuming :shaking:
 
On another note anyone know the best way to record audio being sent in via a cordless mike? That's the only thing the camera crew doesn't have is something to record what I'm saying during the event to use to lay back into the vid later, just the pickup on the camera is all they have which normally works fine but I wanna make sure any driver/special interest interviews get recorded clearly . . . any ideas there?

The cordless is usually routed into a little switch board type thing that has the music and wired mic plugged in and runs into the self powered speakers.
 
Don't know if it's really appropriate for that use -- although I found a couple of reviews where folks were using it for that -- but I got my wife a Zoom H4n portable digital recorder for practicing her music. I'm really impressed by it, I got to play with it for the first time today recording a practice session she did with another musician. Small, light, durable, records to SD, runs on 2 AA's, 4 channel. Built-in mics, plus 2 (or 4) mike inputs where you could i/f the wireless.
 
If you bring your w/l mic into your mixing board and then ut to your speaker out, and then record off that line out you will get the w/l sound into the video...make sense?
 
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