Tree City Sessions 2

A fan-made collaborative cover album.

TCS2 is a passion project to create a fan-made cover album, created by the online DGD community.

The initial idea was thought of by Michael Quintero. Shortly after the "admin bois" joined forces to make this album a reality.

Current admins: Michael Quintero, Jaron Churchwell, Lawrence Ames, Jackson Dart, & Hansel Romero.

The Group

Everything TCS2 lives here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/treecitysessions2/

The group is currently open, so you can add who you like, please don't abuse this.

What songs are going to be covered?

The track list for TCS2 will be decided by the community via a series of Facebook polls. Following the pattern of the original Tree City Sessions, we will be covering two songs per album, excluding "Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean". We will also be covering the two standalone songs, "Pussy Vultures" and "Summertime Gladness", making 16 songs total. We will not be covering the Bruno Mars cover "That's What I Like". We will also not be covering any songs that were on TCS1, as we'd like to give the other songs their chance to shine.

Current Tracklist

It's Safe to Say You Dig the Backseat

Open Your Eyes and Look North

Uneasy Hearts Weigh the Most

Rock Solid

Pussy Vultures

Summertime Gladness

How are you choosing roles & how do I submit?

Each instrumental and vocal role will be taken by a member of the community. We are currently holding an open audition for every role. We will also be taking submissions for artwork for the album. Submissions should be posted to the page and be either a link to audio or video (other than artwork obviously). Submissions aren't strict, they don't have to be DGD as such, but we'd like it to be somewhat similar so we can get a reasonable idea of your abilities. Submission posts need to be tagged with the relevant hashtags so we can find them easily! Please use only the following tags: #drums #bass #guitar #cleans #screams #rap #flute #sax #mix #artwork. NOTE: #vocals is not one of them.

Do I have to be true to the original?

Not necessarily. We know everyone can't sing as high as Tilian, so the covers will be open to creative interpretation. In your submission, if you want to change up the key to make it easier for you, that's cool. But if it's an octave lower than the original, try find a song that fits your range better.

Submission Deadline

All submissions must be posted by the end of August 18th.

We will cap the submission entries at midnight EST, so the end of the 18th/start of the 19th basically.

Recording Quality

Before you submit, please bear in mind: this is a studio project, and the end result needs to be good quality. If you pass the audition stage you will need to be able to record yourself to a studio standard. If you don't have the recording setup yourself, you'll need to find a way to record your parts to a sufficient level.

Who is going to produce and mix it?

Three of the admins work at studios for their day job, so the majority of the recording side will be overseen by them. We are also taking submissions for mixers too, so feel free to send us your work. We are all doing this for the love, so no-one is getting paid for their time.

After submissions and tracklist voting is done, then what?

This is where the fun begins. We'll go through every submission that we haven't checked out already and decide who the best contenders are to be on TCS2. We will contact all these people and discuss which songs which people would like to cover, timescales and recording. We will then delegate an admin per group of musicians and vocalists to make their song happen.

How will you deal with copyright & legal stuff?

Boi Hansel deals with that sort of thing all the time for his day job, so he has us covered if any licensing or similar stuff needs to be done.

Recording Specs

If you make it onto the album, we'll need to make sure everyone sends us recordings of the same standard. We require WAV or AIFF files (must not be MP3), the files must be 24-bit, 44.1kHz or better. We need the files RAW. If you track vocals will compression, that's fine, but anything else is a no-go. Leave any editing or tuning to us. We don't want any vocal stems that sound like T-pain from the start.