Singing Contest emblems and issues

[Spinor]

With the Disappearance of Abnegation we cannot have him kept as a judge. Libra, you are now backup host.

Updates:

• Me, Libra, and Drew(?) are the judges
• I am working on possible emblem designs. If you have a good one PLEASE PM a copy of it to me.
• The first post is almost ready
• The emblems will be Top 5 Finalist Emblem "Vocal Finalist" and the winner of the contest emblem "Singer Hero" Emblem
• The final songs are 'Eye of the Tiger' for guys and 'Since U Been Gone' for girls

First post:

Spoiler:

Welcome to PC's Get-together Singing Contest! Hosted by me, Libra, and Drew as the wonderful staff :D If you just want to reach the stars with your voice, tell the world your love of singing by singing, or are just bored, come one in and jump in! There are plenty of spaces and you might just be the winner! Get that damn microphone, connect it to your PC, and murder it with your beautiful voice!
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Rules

1. Cheating/Stealing (Claiming a voice is yours when it is not, getting someone else to sing for you,) is forbidden
2. Editing voice and song is 100% allowed as long as it is yours and it's not too distorted. If you seem to have trouble seeing the rule line, please contact me. Audacity is a strongly recommended program.
3. You must be a member of PC to participate.
4. You must legally own (have bought) the MP3 of the song you will sing along to
5. If you are going to sing with multiple people, please state so in your sign-up and with who.
6. You will be disqualified if you do not e-mail me your piece( [email protected] ) or to another judge by 2_

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Sign-up

Username, Song, Other(optional)
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Procedure

This procedure is not required, but recommended for when you record your voice.

1. Have ready headphones, microphone, and your sound recorder program
2. If you are not 100% familiar with the lyrics, have them ready written or on your screen
3. start to record, allow about 5 seconds of silence, start your music and start to sing to it. For tips on making sure you record right, use Google.
4. Once you finish MAKE SURE YOU SAVE AS MP3. Convert if necessary. Once again: Google
5. Open up Audacity or another sound editor. Import your song and your recording.
6. Select your voice, and select the first 5 seconds of silence. From the Effects menu, select Noise Removal. Keep you first 5 seconds selected, and go to noise removal again. Now this time select the rest of your voice clip. And this time you should be able to remove noise from Noise Removal. This will reduce the noise from your clip that is not your voice. This WILL be different depending on your program
7. Now change to your song. You have to remove the vocals. Please check how to in the support of your program. (Audacity 1.3.7+ has Vocal Remover)
8. Once the vocal removal is satisfactory, start matching your voice to the clip by moving, cutting and pasting. You're on your own here
9. After the whole thing is satisfactory. Save as MP3. You may need to download LAME if you are using Audacity. Also save as the editing file of your program just in case.
10. Finally, attach the final product to an e-mail, and send it to me at [email protected] with your username and song name, same thing as in your sign up. Please be patient as after that me and the judges will judge each voice individually. You will be PMed back your results when we are done

When you have your final mp3 send it to me([email protected]) or to Libra or Break. somehow.
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Judging

The judging parts will consist of these categories:

• Control: How well do you have power over your voice?
• Pitch: Does your voice match the musical notes and agree with the basis of music theory?
• Timing: Do you time well with the music?
• Volume: Is your loudness agreeing with the music?
• Technical: Did you harmonize with your sound editor to improve your voice or kill it?

Each of those categories will be rated by the TO system. What is the TO System? Well something more prefered than 1-10. Sue me.

• Outstanding
• Excellent
• Great
• Good
• OK
• Low
• Fail
• Troll

Please keep that system noted somewhere.
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Participants:

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Final Knockout:

Out of all the participants, The Final 5 will be chosen and awarded a "Vocal Finalist" Emblem. The Final 5 will then participate against each other by singing the World-Famous song for brutal hardness 'Eye of the Tiger'(We can make it "Since U Been Gone" if you are a girl). Finalist will be provided a special version of the song and will have to sing to it. The songs are hard to sing, so brace yourself. After brute judging, debate, and blood, the judges will declare the winner and the winner will be awarded the "Singer Hero" Emblem. (K, not really blood :P)
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[Her]

Having a decided finale song? >.>
Just doesn't seem right.

 

[Spinor]

<.<

Well...what else can it be?

...Actually, if we have female finalist we could have Womanizer as the final song :D

 

[Her]

Let them choose their own song.

 

[Taemin]

I'd say let them chose their own song.

Not to mention, Womanizer is rather difficult to sing. x_x