Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Joy to the World (3 variations)

Joy to the World (3 variations) edit

Joy to the World played on piano by User:Orthologist

Joy to the World as a congregational arrangement

Joy to the World sung by the United States Army Chorus, without accompaniment

Good quality performances of Joy to the World. They all add to the article and are of good EV. The chorus would probably be better with backing music, but alas I couldn't find any on the US Army Choir's website, TTT's been uploading some good files! :)

Nominate and support all. —James ^{(Talk • Contribs)} • 9:28pm • 11:28, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: None of these present the piece in both high enough quality, and the straight-forwards, standard arrangement (Is the Navy Band version in 7/8? It has the feel of a truncated rhythm.) needed for the encyclopedic value requirement, unfortunately. In particular, strong oppose #3. 1 is the best of these, but it's badly overmic'd. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:36, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support 1 & 3--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:21, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'm not that confident with Audacity, else I'd do some volume reduction. I had my volume bar set at 10 and even then it was quite dominating... —James ^{(Talk • Contribs)} • 9:55pm • 11:55, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- That, unfortunately, is a recording issue. Microphone was badly positioned, with too much amplification. Once that's been done, there's no way to undo it in post production. =/ Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:15, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, you wrote "Joy to the World sung by the United States Army Chorus, without music". You meant "without accompaniment", I believe. Without music would make this sound a lot like 4'33". Or possibly rap. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:18, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops :P Thanks for picking that up! How silly of me. —James ^{(Talk • Contribs)} • 5:58pm • 07:58, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Joy to the World.ogg (the piano version). This was a hard decision to come to. The US army chorus version has the technical quorum to pass but Adam's strong oppose based on EV issues was a strong deterrent against promoting it. Also, all voters agreed that this was the best or one of the best out of the whole group. Personally, I think that this may be on the table to be delisted some time in the future. --Guerillero | My Talk 05:41, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]